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Thomas Rigby

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Joined 2 years, 6 months ago

When I'm not building things for the internet, I take photos of stuff.

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HighFantasy
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Fantasy
YoungAdult
SwordAndSorcery
Dystopia
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Bridget Collins: The Silence Factory (2025, HarperCollins Publishers)

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Thomas Rigby started reading Silence Factory by Bridget Collins

The Silence Factory by Bridget Collins

In the Factory, the looms clatter all day. Cobwebs found in ancient Mediterranean glades are spun into a precious fabric …

Thomas Rigby reviewed The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown

Gareth Brown: The Book of Doors (2024, Transworld Publishers Limited)

If you could open a door to anywhere, where would you go?

In New York …

Brown's debut novel is an accomplishment

5 stars

Opening this book in a cosy, shabby-chic bookshop is a sneaky lawyer's trick designed to make me care and I'm annoyed it worked.

I can't stay mad for long though because I am in love with this world! A world where there are magic books — not spell books but the books themselves are the spells. Use the Book of Pain to impart excruciating agony, the Book of Illusion can conjure a facsimile of your every heart's desire, and the Book of Doors will take you anywhere in the world.

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Thomas Rigby finished reading The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown

The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown

If you could open a door to anywhere, where would you go?

In New York City, bookseller Cassie Andrews is …

Thomas Rigby wants to read The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

Robert Jackson Bennett: The Tainted Cup (Hardcover, 2024, Hodder & Stoughton)

The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

In an opulent mansion at the borders of the Empire, an Imperial officer lies dead – killed when a tree …

Thomas Rigby finished reading Feersum Endjinn by Iain M. Banks

Feersum Endjinn by Iain M. Banks, Iain Banks

Thomas Rigby wants to read A Sea of Unspoken Things by Adrienne Young

Adrienne Young: A Sea of Unspoken Things (Hardcover, 2025, Delacorte Books, an imprint of RandomHouse)

A Sea of Unspoken Things by Adrienne Young

Thomas Rigby wants to read Silence Factory by Bridget Collins

The Silence Factory by Bridget Collins

In the Factory, the looms clatter all day. Cobwebs found in ancient Mediterranean glades are spun into a precious fabric …

Thomas Rigby wants to read Bored Gay Werewolf by Tony Santorella

Tony Santorella: Bored Gay Werewolf (2023, Atlantic Books, Limited)

Bored Gay Werewolf by Tony Santorella

'Like a hairier Buffy The Vampire Slayer, a a big-hearted novel about finding your "pack" in unexpected places' Marie Claire, …

Thomas Rigby started reading The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown

The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown

If you could open a door to anywhere, where would you go?

In New York City, bookseller Cassie Andrews is …

Thomas Rigby reviewed Silverview by John le Carré

John le Carré: Silverview (Hardcover, 2021, Viking)

An agent of the British secret service gets jarred loose from his setting, and his …

If you’ve got a treff in Warsaw and there’s a faculty bus going, take it.

3 stars

Infested with interminable, impenetrable prose, Le Carré's final_finalv2 (posthumous) novel bears all the hallmarks of man who knows his craft too well.

thomasrigby.com/posts/book-review-silverview-john-lecarre/