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
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A Novel Ian Likes: Beloved Exile by Parke Godwin
Arthur is dead. Betrayed in battle, his kingdom is on the verge of collapse. Guinevere, his queen, needs to escape from Camelot to safety. Unfortunately, disaster strikes, and she finds herself the captive – and then slave – of the invading Saxons… I grew up loving the legends of King Arthur. The idea of a … Continue reading A Novel Ian Likes: Beloved Exile by Parke Godwin
A Book Ian Likes: A Mirror For Princes by Tom de Haan
Reyhnard is living in a small village, doing some menial work to pay his rent, sharing a cottage with a girl his neighbours view as “simple”. He’s also writing his memoirs: an account of the time when he was a prince, the third son of King Basal of Brychmachrie. He’s also recounting the events that … Continue reading A Book Ian Likes: A Mirror For Princes by Tom de Haan
A Book Ian Likes: Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Adaptations of art into different mediums most often fall without trace into the collective memory, occasionally dragged out by a teacher trying to show their class that what they taught had some cultural currency once, when they clearly just aren’t engaging their students properly. More often than not, the adaptation is soon forgotten while the … Continue reading A Book Ian Likes: Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
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