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Dec 27, 2024 | 
fantasy-hive.co.uk | Jonathan Thornton
“Before her return, Wenna thought many times about what it would be like to see her family again and a few times, with half-guilty yearning, of how it would feel to see the land where she had grown up, but she had not considered how it would feel for the land to see her, and now she thought that was what she should really have been worried about. The bog looked eyelessly; it felt knowing.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
fantasy-hive.co.uk | Jonathan Thornton
“Is it true that all the fields used to be green?” The old man paused to pull a kerchief from the back pocket of his tunic and pass it over his neck and forehead. “There are books and films, boy. I can’t tell you anything they don’t.”“But they don’t tell me about emotions. Tell me what you remember, what it felt like out there. Please.” I was very impressed with Cristina Jurado’s Alphaland (2023), her first collection of short stories to be published in English.
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Dec 17, 2024 | 
fantasy-hive.co.uk | Jonathan Thornton
“Nobody loved Dengue Boy.
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Dec 13, 2024 | 
fantasy-hive.co.uk | Jonathan Thornton
Izumi Suzuki – Set My Heart On Fire (1983, translated by Helen O’Horan 2024)“I’m passionate, of course. Passion is something that occurs naturally. Yet when the time comes, I make it occur artificially. That seems different to ordinary enthusiasm. Distorted. There’s something forced and unnatural about it. I can cool it down at will. For me there’s little distance between loving and hating someone. You’d think I had extensive acting experience.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
russell-cooke.co.uk | Atif Rashid |Jonathan Thornton |Harriet Allsop |Louise Bonnici
Our real estate team is adept at dealing with the property side of corporate transactions. We have the necessary expertise and resources to assist with a range of corporate deals, from simple licences when a business is being purchased or sold to complex property issues during mergers or acquisitions.
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Jun 30, 2024 | 
russell-cooke.co.uk | Jonathan Thornton |John Gould |Harriet Allsop |Matthew Garrod
The appointments take effect from 1 July 2024. Jonathan Thornton previously served as Deputy Senior Partner for three years following six years as Managing Partner, working closely with former Senior Partner John Gould, who has stepped down from the Senior Partner role after leading Russell-Cooke for 35 years – during which time the firm has grown from revenues of £1.35m to a business generating almost £50m. John remains a partner in the firm.
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Apr 4, 2024 | 
fantasy-hive.co.uk | Jonathan Thornton
“Ine stares at her, his expression slack with disbelief. ‘The leader of the Wild Hunt? Æthel, you cannot be serious. The way Cadwy described her … she seems a force of nature to be feared, not consulted. All she wants is blood.’They have said similar of me, she thinks at him. That I give no quarter, that battle is all I know. But how can Æthel compare with the glorious figure on the horse, antlered helm and mane of hair cascading down her back, face tipped in triumph to the stars?
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
fantasy-hive.co.uk | Jonathan Thornton
“In our city, it is unwise to trust reality. I have been betrayed by reality, betrayed by my subconscious, shipwrecked from reality. Now every thought must be deceased from my mind before its birth.”Tlotlo Tsamaase is a Motswana writer who has established herself as one of the most exciting current voices in short speculative fiction. Her novella The Silence of the Wilting Skin (2020) is a surreal body horror nightmare quite unlike anything else I’d ever read before.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
russell-cooke.co.uk | John Gould |James Carroll |Jonathan Thornton
The appointments are for a three-year term, with effect from 1 February 2024. Practising at the firm since qualifying in 1988, Jonathan Thornton has been with Russell-Cooke for more than 35 years. He heads the firm’s corporate and commercial practice and previously served as Managing Partner between 2015 and 2021, before being elected to his first term as Deputy Senior partner. Family partner James Carroll has also been re-elected for a second term as Managing Partner.
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Jan 23, 2024 | 
reactormag.com | Keith DeCandido |Chris Lough |Jonathan Thornton
“Terra Prime”Written by Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens and André Bormanis and Manny CotoDirected by Marvin V. RushSeason 4, Episode 21Production episode 097Original air date: May 13, 2005Date: January 22, 2155Captain’s star log. After a summary of “Demons,” we get more of Paxton’s speechifying about the purity of humanity and the desire to get rid of alien influence. As an example of the horrible future that awaits them, he shows an image of the human/Vulcan hybrid baby.
