A word of warning:  The Future Eve is not a novelette that you’re going to find easily. Not in English anyway; from what I can tell, t...

--> Everybody ready for another trip to 19 th -Century Afghanistan? Thought not. Well, we’re going anyway. How good is Hart of Empi...

--> Desperate for another fix of Opium War-based derring-do after finishing Tai-Pan , I picked up River of Smoke after spying it during...

 I’ve never been interested in the Crimean war, much: a war fought by two relatively modern colonial powers, it lacks the all-important elem...

You are to imagine, ever-constant reader, that I type surrounded by towering columns of books, some mouldering, eldritch tomes (first ed...

The Storytrails gamebooks are to Fighting Fantasy what a French arthouse film is to a dumb Hollywood blockbuster: by comparison, ...

Forget your invasions, your battles and sieges: the most exciting theme to come out of the entire back-catalogue of Empire fiction is TR...