Fantasy Gone Wrong

Author	Diana Wynne Jones
ISBN	0688163653

His father and uncles are enchanters, his mother a powerful sorceress, yet nothing seems magical about Christopher Chant except his dreams. Night after night, he climbs through the formless Place Between and visits marvelous lands he calls the Almost Anywheres. Then Christopher discovers that...

Author	Randall Munroe
ISBN	1473680336

How To is an instruction manual for taking everyday problems and using science and creative thinking to turn them into much bigger and more exciting problems. It teaches you how to cross a river by boiling it, outlines some of the many uses for lava around the home, and walks you through how to use experimental...

Author

Tade Thompson

Who was Molly Southbourne? What did she leave behind?

A burnt-out basement. A name stained in blood. Bodies that remember murder, one of them left alive. A set of rules that no longer apply.

Molly Southbourne is alive. If she wants to survive, she’ll need to run, hide, and be ready...

Author	Craig Shaw Gardner
ISBN	0441516629

Picked this up off a book swap shelf at a railway station, and now I understand why it was left there. Complete rubbish.

The blurbs on the back cover claim readers will "laugh down the walls" and that "the field needs more humorists of this calibre". No, it really doesn't. The attempted humour...

Author	Craig Shaw Gardner
ISBN	0441023142

I didn't read the first two volumes in the Ebenezum trilogy, but that doesn't impair the joy of reading this book in my opinion. It is actually the first fantasy book that I've read and I picked it up solely for the reason it mocks the genre. It is an enjoyable enough read and it made me chuckle a few times, but...