Author Archives: Adam Randall

Four Doctors by Paul Cornell

After Clara Oswald discovers a photo of the Twelfth, Eleventh, and Tenth Doctors together, she takes steps to try and stop them from ever meeting, fearing that their coming together would be the catalyst of a terrible disaster. In the … Continue reading

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The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan

This is the second book in The Wheel of Time series and it picks up shortly after the end of the first one – and indeed, I think it captures much of the same charm and appeal as the first … Continue reading

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SkyView: Lord of the Wills by M. Sheehan

Gosh, this was a bizarre book (and not in a good way). In it, a guy named William Ward, a man set to take over his family’s large brewery business, discovers that his family has been at the heart of … Continue reading

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Doctor Who: The Highest Science by Gareth Roberts

The eleventh of the Doctor Who New Adventures novels is actually a fairly standard Doctor Who storyline. This is a little unusual for this line of books, which tended to try and experiment more and push the boundaries of what … Continue reading

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Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

The third book in the Little House series (the one that would lend its name to the 1970s TV adaptation and ultimately become the name that most people use to refer to the series as a whole), returns to the … Continue reading

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Top 10 Money-saving Tips Amidst the Cost of Living Crisis

The cost of living crisis is making things harder for all of us, so I decided I’d take the time to write a list of ten top pieces of advice for anybody who’s feeling the bite. These are ten easily … Continue reading

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On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers

I have always been drawn to adventures about pirates on the high seas, and so it was only a matter of time before I got around to reading On Stranger Tides (the book that inspired the fourth Pirates of the … Continue reading

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The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

This is the first novel in the multi-part Wheel of Time series. It’s set in a world where time is circular (a wheel) and all the people in the world are in a constant cycle of death and reincarnation, doomed … Continue reading

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Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

This is just the kind of fantasy that I love. Many people have probably heard of the popular anime adaptation of Howl’s Moving Castle, but it’s also a fantastic book, and I definitely recommend it as a different, but equally … Continue reading

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Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu

While Dracula is the big, well-known vampire novel of the latter nineteenth century (and indeed, one of my favourite books), it was actually preceded by Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla. For years, I’d meant to read it, but it was only … Continue reading

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