Books featured in SF Issue 55 Archives

A Cat’s Life

Sophie Masson on the works of Nicholas Stuart Gray

If you were a bookworm as a child, your memories are measured not only in family and school and public events, but also in the stories you read. You remember vividly the smell, the touch, the sight of certain books. You clearly recall picking them up from the shelf – an ordinary act – and then the extraordinary happening, as you open the book and fall straight into another world. For me, who loved fairytales and fantasy, who longed to go through the looking-glass, the wardrobe, into another world where anything might happen, it was also a blessed escape from the confusing, disturbing and tumultuous family dramas that dominated my childhood. In those stories of other worlds, I found pleasure and consolation, transformation and possibility.

1 Jun 2008

Books featured in SF Issue 55

I Was a Stranger (Plain Foxed Edition)

Lost in Translation

The Last Enemy (No. 39)

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag

A Red Herring Without Mustard

I Am Half-Sick of Shadows

Speaking from Among the Bones

The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches

As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust

Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew’d

Set of 8 Flavia de Luce Mysteries

Zeno’s Conscience

New Grub Street

Esther Waters

The Devils of Loudun

Kim

Plain Tales from the Hills

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