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Mark Reece

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Mark Reece is a widely published short story writer, whose work has been published in Orbis, Structo, Here Comes Everyone, Fire, The Delinquent, and Postscripts (PS Publishing), amongst other places. The Dreams of the Eternal City is his first novel. He currently lives in Staffordshire, in a flat filled with fine paintings (all copies).

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	The Dreams of the Eternal City 2.81 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Far Voyager: A Postcripts Anthology 32/33 by Nick Gevers (Editor), Michael Swanwick, Andrew Jury 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kitchen Sink Gothic 2 (short story collection Book 7) by David A. Riley (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Linden Riley (Editor), James Harper it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Review- Without Blood

Without Blood by Alessandro Baricco

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This short novel comprises of two parts. In the first half of the story, a man and his son are gunned down by a group who accuse him of committing war crimes. However, one of the killers decides to not tell the others that the man's daughter is also hiding in the house, allowing her to escape. The setting isn't made apparent but the cir Read more of this blog post »

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Mark Reece rated a book really liked it Without Blood by Alessandro Baricco	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This short novel comprises of two parts. In the first half of the story, a man and his son are gunned down by a group who accuse him of committing war crimes. However, one of the killers decides to not tell the others that the man's daughter is also ...more
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This short novel comprises of two parts. In the first half of the story, a man and his son are gunned down by a group who accuse him of committing war crimes. However, one of the killers decides to not tell the others that the man's daughter is also ...more
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Mark Reece rated a book liked it Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This short novel has two themes that don't cohere, although much of the descriptive writing was highly evocative, meaning that the story has a strong sense of place. At the start of the novel, a new vicar in an isolated village decides to replace the ...more
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Mark Reece rated a book it was amazing Acts of Worship: Seven Stories by Yukio Mishima	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The stories in this collection are beautiful and wide ranging, displaying a greater variety of topic and tone that is typical in Mishima's writing. Some of the stories have themes well known to Mishima's readers. For example, 'Sword' concerns the atte ...more
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Mark Reece rated a book it was amazing Silk by Alessandro Baricco	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This is a stylish and mesmerizing book. Written in a series of very short chapters, many less than a page long, it tells the story of Herve Joncour, who travels to Japan to buy silkworms to supply mills in a French town. The book is very short- proba ...more
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Mark Reece rated a book really liked it Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches, #5) by Terry Pratchett	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I liked the humour in this book more than in other novels of the Discworld series, as it relied more on the characterisation and plot rather than regular puns, which can sometimes be a weakness in Pratchett's writing. There were numerous memorable sc ...more
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Mark Reece rated a book really liked it Maurice by E.M. Forster	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I found this book very different from Forster's other works, not only in its subject matter but also in its narrower, phycological focus. The eponymous protagonist is an interesting subject, often described as mediocre, and is certainly not idealized ...more
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This review is for the 'After Martha' article that appeared in the 25 September 2025 issue. The article details the aftermath of the death of Martha Mills following a bike accident, and the efforts of her parents to understand the medical errors that ...more
Sep 24, 2025 10:17AM · like · see review
Mark Reece rated a book really liked it The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I liked this novel a little less than Mishima's other major works, as I thought the pacing was too slow at points, although it was often sumptuously beautiful and an interesting character study of a man unable to find a place in the world. The protago ...more
Sep 16, 2025 01:24PM · 1 like · like · see review
Mark Reece rated a book liked it Ghosts of Saltmarsh (Dungeons & Dragons, 5th Edition) by Wizards of the Coast	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I think that the adventures and world building background in this compilation were generally interesting and could form either a campaign, or a series of shorter adventures that could be slotted into other stories. However, they were were limited by ...more
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