The latest addition to my website is Alex Pheby‘s Mordew. This is a very original dark fantasy novel, part Dickens, part Peake, all Pheby. While it has some of the usual themes – good versus evil, rich versus poor, betrayal and dirty deeds – Pheby is a thoroughly original writer, telling his story well, both by using familiar and decidedly unfamiliar characters, scenes and events, and also keeping you guessing to the very end. Indeed, this is apparently the first book of a trilogy, so though we have an ending, we can be sure it will not be the final ending. If, like me, you tend to keep away from modern fantasy and find, Harry Potter, well, just a bit childish, this may well be the fantasy novel for you to read.