I'm currently reading Here Lies Arthur by Philip Reeve and after the dry, dull, plodding marathon of Deathly Hallows, it feels like a breath of fresh air. Not my favourite of Reeve's books - that honour still goes to Mortal Engines - but he's such a vibrant, colourful, vivid, poetic storyteller that, even though not a great deal has happened, I'm ( Read more... )

Whilst searching around for Mortal Engines stuff last night, I came across za_serials. It's an LJ dedicated to posting links for audio books. This would be interesting enough but to my utter delight (and totally unknown to me) my favourite book eVar!1!!, Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines has been made into an audio book and run as a serial on BBC Radio-7 ( ( Read more... )

I got my latest copy of SFX magazine yesterday and for the first time in ages it's a REALLY good issue. I mean it's usually good but I can't remember the last time I wanted to read pretty much every page. Lots of nice stuff in there including an interview with Philip Reeve, the genius behind the Mortal Engines books. In it he mentions his two new ( Read more... )