Starchild and Witchfire
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This month's cover features an illustration by Victor Ambrus (see Authorgraph) for Gulliver's Travels, retold by James Riordan. It is published in July by Oxford University Press (0 19 279897 9, £9.95) and we are grateful to OUP for their help in using this picture
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Starchild and Witchfire
There never seems any shortage of fantasy, but David Henshall has a lovely style, mixing the plain and the incredible, and also allows humour to undercut the pomposity from which this genre suffers. he's not afraid of his imagination, creating localised snow in mid-summer in his opening pages yet also letting us feel the poverty and daily grind of the family's life. When it takes flight the story is grand and dramatic, but there's always a sense of the absurd and a knowledge of the way power corrupts. This is a writer to watch for.
