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Chris I. Naylor

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Born
in The United Kingdom
Genre

Influences

Member Since
March 2018


My books are no longer available.

Average rating: 3.98 · 148 ratings · 33 reviews · 17 distinct works
Wizard's Brew

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1998 — 20 editions
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Wizards Behaving Badly

3.79 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2012 — 13 editions
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Fear of Dragons

4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions
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Trust Me, I'm a Wizard

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2012 — 13 editions
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Wizard through the Looking ...

4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2014 — 12 editions
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The Man who Stole the Future

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1996 — 6 editions
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Camelot Wizards books 1-4

4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014 — 8 editions
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Camelot Wizards books 1-3

4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions
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Two fatal errors in Anselm’...

2.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions
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6 Fantasy Books

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015 — 4 editions
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A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey
"This is a review for the BBC audio edition, in this collection LINK TO REVIEW

A Shilling for Candles is a comedy thriller written in 1936. It is the second of Josephine Tey's novels to feature Inspector Alan Grant.

A young man, Robert Tisdall, is takin" Read more of this review »
Josephine Tey by Josephine Tey
"Josephine Tey: The Daughter of Time & Other Mysteries: A BBC Radio Crime Collection contains both dramatisations and readings of five of Josephine Tey’s classic mystery novels. Confusingly, “The Daughter of Time” is not the first one; presumably it f" Read more of this review »
The Artful Dickens by John Mullan
"Why is Charles Dickens one of the favourite novelists in the English language, when he continually broke all the rules? As John Mullan says, at the same time his novels are criticised for being:

“sentimental, melodramatic, sermonising. His characters " Read more of this review »
Chris Naylor and 14 other people liked Bionic Jean's review of An Engineer's Story:
An Engineer's Story by Amelia B. Edwards
"An Engineer’s Story is by the author Amelia B. Edwards, who “has been acknowledged as one of the best Victorian writers of ghost stories” (according to the unnamed editor of an anthology I have, “The Big Book of the Masters of Horror, Weird and Super" Read more of this review »
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Tales of the Dying Earth by Jack Vance
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“Talents are like the fairies. If no-one believes in them, they die.”
Chris Naylor

“The grass on the other side of the hill may well be greener, but you should always check that there isn't something with teeth and claws crouching in it.”
Chris Naylor, Wizard's Brew
tags: humour

“A politician has an axe to grind
With which he aims to chop off half your mind.”
Chris Naylor

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