Reading: Love and Romanpunk

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Love and Romanpunk is a collection of four linked short stories by Australian writer Tansy Rayner Roberts (who I know as one of the hosts of the excellent Verity! podcast) combining an interesting feminist take on the women of the Julian Caesars (very different from I, Claudius's take) with a Buffy-esque eternal struggle against monsters and the forces of darkness and a cameo appearance by Mary Wollstonecraft's daughters. I thought it was great fun, and, entirely coincidentally, 'The Patrician', about a lifetime of meetings between a woman and an immortal dedicated to fighting evil, was similar enough to The Bone Clocks that it may have helped to exorcise the demons still lurking in my brain from that.