Tough Travelling: Strongholds

The lovely (and apparently sweary) Laura M Hughes from Fantasy Faction has captured my imagination with this month's Tough Travelling theme, Strongholds. Now, I have always had a love for strongholds (castles); as nurtured by my father and grandfather. Living in a country with over six hundred of them, that's more per square mile than any other…

Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy by Decade

The Middle Shelf are looking to blog about the ten best sci-fi and fantasy books by decade since the 1960's. You can read their thread on their twitter page. UPDATE The list has been chosen! Discover what made it through on The Middle Shelf They requested our suggestions (five books per decade), and asked us…