Fiction

	Title	Editor rating (1-5)	Reader rating
	New Bridge to Lyndesfarne - Trevor Hopkins - Kevin is a talented but lonely forty-something who is commissioned to design a replacement bridge between our world and a magical parallel universe called Lyndesfarne. In Lyndesfarne, modern technology does not work, but a sophisticated society functions using pervasive magic. Accompanied...	3	4.5
	Short Stories - Bob Makransky - This collection of four short stories is taken from Bob Makransky's longer book entitled Magical Sampler. The first of the short stories, Acapulco Gold, relates two unfortunate dope smokers who are pursued by a vigilante sexagenarian intent on pursuing a citizen's arrest for dangerous driving. '...	3	1
	Harald - David Friedman - It’s the perfect storm for conquest. A dysfunctional kingdom reels under a weak monarch. A powerful order of warrior maidens turns to infighting after suddenly losing its charismatic leader. Worst of all, a disciplined and blooded imperial army stands ready to invade and dominate. If ever a...	3	4
	Ephraim's Echo - Teresa Perrin - Lurking in the depths of the caverns known as Ephraim’s Echo, a vampire exists. Generation upon generation, it preys upon the women who find themselves drawn to it: practical, unimaginative Katy who finds herself embroiled in an affair with a minister; Nora, wife and mother, who longs for...	3	3
	Murder at Summerset - Edward St Amant - “In spite of technological advances that allow life to survive on other planets, human being’s quest for power hasn’t changed over a century’s time.” An exhilarating mystery set in the 22nd century and centered on a series of murders in the small mining community of Summerset...	3	3
	El Nino - John Halladay - ‘History is written by the victors.’ Yet history is made – not by armies and governments – but by individuals who decide how events will be shaped. At the beginning of the 20th Century one family directed events through the most violent history that the planet has known. One...	3	3
	The American Book of the Dead - Henry Baum - Eugene Myers is working on a novel about the end of the world. Meanwhile, he discovers his daughter doing porn on-line and his marriage is coming to an end. When he begins dreaming about people who turn out to be real, he wonders if his novel is real as well. Eugene may just be the one to stop...	3	3
	Mad Gods - Volumes I & II - Athanasios - Kostadino Paleologos is a descendant of Byzantine emperors and lives with honour, duty and sacrifice. Every year he returns to Istanbul and sends trapped souls to their deserved rest. The final soul in this solemn task sends him on a quest to the mythic, ancient Library of Alexandria. There...	3	3
	The Witch's Daughter - Janaki Sooriyarachchi - Once upon a time, there lived a witch who was very mean and ugly. She was as ugly as a burnt plum pudding. She had only one daughter named Broccolina, who was no better than her mother. The witch wanted to train her daughter in witchcraft, to take after her. However much the mother tried,...	4	4.3
	Buhuki - Janaki Sooriyarachchi - Buhuki was a baby monkey. He was the only baby in the family. His mother and father loved him very much. When he was very young, he clung to his mother’s belly, as they traveled. When his mother jumped from tree to tree, he held on tight. Sometimes, he fell asleep along the way. As he grew older...	4	4.5