The Scar is the second instalment in China Miéville’s critically acclaimed Bas Lag series of novels.  Firmly establishing Miéville’s status as one of the most accomplished if also the most bizarre fantasy writers going around, or maybe even ever, The Scar is a pirate adventure, a picture of a culture’s triumphs and defeats, the struggles of...

A Game of Thrones, the first book in George R.R Martin’s epic fantasy A Song of Ice and Fire series, had been on my To Read list long before HBO adapted it into a TV series.  For one reason or another, I only just got around to reading it, having seen the entire first season of the show and eagerly anticipating the second.  So, it was from this...