philip reeve

This is a bit difficult for me to review fairly; I do sometimes like YA but mostly not, so I figured I’d give this one a go as I’ve heard so much about it over the years along with the rather more recent film, albeit a rather unsuccessful one I believe. However, I sadly found it far too juvenile...

Philip Reeve of Mortal Engines fame has been re-reading LOTR and posting his thoughts on his blog in sections. He's reached the Scouring of the Shire, which promises to be very interesting. He's particularly good on landscape, I think...

Here is a link to the blog of Philip Reeve, author of (among other things) the Mortal Engines books. His articles are very good, and his thoughts on The Lord of the Rings and Blade Runner are very interesting. Well worth a look. https://philipreeveblog.blogspot.com/

Philip Reeve - he of the Mortal Engines series, author and generally good egg - got in touch and we did an interview. Actually, it's more a general chat about things of a vaguely steampunk nature, and whether Grace Darling and Charles Babbage would make a good crime-fighting team. Anyhow...

Has anyone here read The Hungry City Chronicles - Mortal Engines, Predator's Gold, and Infernal Devices - by Philip Reeve? I saw them in the book store today, very much attracted by the cool cover art more than anything, but they sound interesting and I was wondering what they are like. They did...

Anyone tried 'Mortal Engines' by Phillip Reeve? This is written to be a young person's story, but I loved the writing and the idea was fantastic. There's now a sequel called Predator's Gold, for which I'm waiting (not very patiently) to come into paperback. The story is post apocolyptic...

Excerpt from Mortal Engines. "It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried out bed of the old north sea. In happier times, London would have never bothered with such feeble prey. The great traction city had once...