A Novel Ian Likes: The Grey Horse by R. A. MacAvoy

Anrai O Reachtaire, a horse trainer who lives in the small Irish town of Carraroe, finds a stray pony on the moors overlooking the town. He attempts to ride it home but what he doesn’t realise until too late is that the grey horse is Ruairi MacEibhir, one of the fairy folk – a puca, … Continue reading A Novel Ian Likes: The Grey Horse by R. A. MacAvoy →

The Great Discworld Retrospective No. 4: Mort

We met Death in the three previous Discworld novels. In The Colour Of Magic, he (for want of a better pronoun) had seemed a somewhat quixotic individual, prone to fits of random destruction, while in The Light Fantastic, he was more introspective and humanlike, going so far as to have a house and an adopted … Continue reading The Great Discworld Retrospective No. 4: Mort →

The Great Discworld Retrospective No. 3: Equal Rites

This one came as a bit of a shock. There were no ties to either of the previous books – save a surname shared by a character in this and in The Light Fantastic – and there were fewer jokes, although it was still very funny. The story was quite different, too: the world was … Continue reading The Great Discworld Retrospective No. 3: Equal Rites →

The Great Discworld Retrospective No. 2: The Light Fantastic

When we left Twoflower and Rincewind at the end of The Colour Of Magic, they were plummeting to their doom off the edge of the Discworld. As endings go, that one felt pretty final. After all, it’s hard to survive falling off the side of a flat planet into space. However, the solution is pretty … Continue reading The Great Discworld Retrospective No. 2: The Light Fantastic →