Alas, so much for monthly updates. After nearly six months of inactivity we are now posting the much-delayed content of Issue 2. Thank you to our contributors for their never-ending patience and we hope to resume regular publication now that the editor is no longer all over the place half the time.

Issue 3’s reading list focuses on ghost stories. To view the reading list and submit a review please go here.

“Wouldn’t you say it was worth it, to be really happy for a while, even if you knew it was going to end up sad ever after?”

If one were to think of a topic that would make a fun and lively children’s novel, Norse mythology would probably not be the first on your mind. The Volsungsaga is not particularly a happy tale to begin with and Wagner’s operatic treatment only added to its reputation as a serious, ponderous piece of work. Read the rest of this entry »

Jamie is a boy of about twelve who accidentally breaks a law of the universe. Luckily, this doesn’t end all of time and space, because these laws are more or less made up by monstrous games masters who play with worlds. It does fling Jamie into life as a “Homeward Bounder”, a soul who is made to journey across the worlds until reaching find home – but those games masters, known only as Them, don’t necessarily want them to get home. Read the rest of this entry »

Alex and Celicia are a brother and sister living in Edwardian England. Alex is ten years old and Cecilia slightly older. They discover Everard’s kingdom when Alex, who is a bit of a hot-head, storms away from an argument with the children of the noble family who used to own the Bay. Currently, the Bay and the Island — Everard’s Kingdom — are owned by Alex and Cecilia’s father, a strict man of humble origins who is determined that his children learn manners to match their status as landowners. Right away this sets up Alex’s main preoccupation, which simply put is class angst. Once in Everard’s Kingdom, Alex and Cecilia are enmeshed in a plot to overthrow Everard, which is lead by the villainous Duke of Towerwood (another man of humble origins). Read the rest of this entry »