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BFS Online: Writing and Mental Health – Writing Grief, Sex & Violence

Grief, sex and violence are a part of the human experience, for good or for ill. As a writer, how

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BFS Online: Writing and Mental Health – Interview with Dave Jeffery

BFS Chair Shona Kinsella interviews bestselling author and mental health champion Dave

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Katie Bruce

Fantasycon is Education, Entertainment – and Trinkets from the Dealers

We’re entering the home straight: Fantasycon looms in the near-future! To get us ready, we

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Liam Hogan

Shrewsbury Gets Nerdy for SFF

Liam Hogan attended the first Fantasy & Sci-Fi Spotlight at Shrewsbury’s Nerdy Cafe and lived to

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Elaine Chiew

Imaginarium: Celebrating British and International ESEA Speculative Fiction

Elaine Chiew, founder of Lian Connect and Imaginarium – the debut festival, supported by the BFS,

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BFS Online: Writing and Mental Health – Writer’s Block

At one time or another, almost every writer stumbles over writer’s block. Is it caused by

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BFS Reviews

Medea by Rosie Hewlett

Medea is a prisoner in her father’s house, Aeetes, King of Colchis. Where once he reviled her

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The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi

The striking and seductive Indigo Maxwell-Casteñada is the secretive heroine of this beautifully

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The Tree of Ecstasy and Unbearable Sadness by Matt Ottley

The Tree of Ecstasy and Unbearable Sadness follows a boy through a journey with mental illness.

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The Dark Side of the Sky

THE DARK SIDE OF THE SKY by Francesco Dimitri. Titan Books. p/b. £9.99. Reviewed by Elloise

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The Fireborne Blade

Once the King’s favourite, Maddileh is now a knight disgraced, searching for an opportunity

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Burn the Negative

Okay, I’m hooked before we even start, as I have to admit I’m a sucker for horror

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