DARKER DAYS by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

DARKER DAYS Thomas Olde Heuvelt (oldeheuvelt.com) Translated by Lia Belt (smarttranslations.nl) Bantam Books (penguin.co.uk) £20 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop In the small town of Lock Haven, Washington you’ll find a secluded cul-de-sac called Bird Street. There are half a dozen houses on Bird Street, a handful of families who harbour a […]

KING SORROW by Joe Hill

KING SORROW Joe Hill (joehillfiction.com) Headline (headline.co.uk) £25 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop It’s 1989 and Arthur Oakes is in his third year at Rackham College, with his best friend Donovan “Van” McBride and Van’s twin sister, Donna, Allison Shiner and Colin Wren. His mother is incarcerated in Vermont’s House of Correction […]

THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT by Christopher Golden & Brian Keene

THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW ITNew Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand Edited byChristopher Golden (christophergolden.com)Brian Keene (briankeene.com) With an Introduction byStephen King (stephenking.com) Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) £25 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Almost 50 years after its first publication (and 35 since its re-release in a much […]

GOING HOME IN THE DARK by Dean Koontz

GOING HOME IN THE DARK Dean Koontz (deankoontz.com) Thomas & Mercer (amazon.com) £19.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Rebecca, Ernie, Bobby and Spencer have always been the “four amigos”, ever since bonding as outcasts, four nerdy teens against the rest of the school, the town, the world. When they grow, Rebecca, Bobby […]

NEVER FLINCH by Stephen King

NEVER FLINCH Stephen King (stephenking.com) Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) £25 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Welcome back to Buckeye City, Ohio, where the Chief of Detectives at the city’s Police Department has just received a disturbing letter from someone promising to kill thirteen innocent – and one guilty – people to atone […]

TO SAVE THE MAN by John Sayles

TO SAVE THE MAN John Sayles (johnsaylesblog.com) Melville House (mhpbooks.com) £25 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop In September 1890 Antoine LaMere – son of an Ojibwe mother and a French father – boards the eastbound train. His destination is Captain Richard Henry Pratt’s Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, a military-style academy whose […]

THE BOOKSELLER by Tim Sullivan

THE BOOKSELLER Tim Sullivan (timsullivan.co.uk) Head of Zeus (bloomsbury.com) £20 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Nonagenarian rare bookseller Torquil Squire returns from a book-buying trip to London to find his son, Ed, lying dead in the middle of his shop. When DS George Cross of the Avon and Somerset Police arrives on […]

PALISADE by Lou Gilmond

PALISADE Lou Gilmond (lougilmond.com) Fairlight Books (fairlightbooks.co.uk) £9.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Chief Whip Esme Kanha and back-bencher Harry Colbey are back, and this time they’re in Opposition. When a popular journalist dies in a road accident, Kanha finds herself in possession of a list of names; names of people from […]

ICE TOWN by Will Dean

ICE TOWN Will Dean Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) £20 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop When news reaches Gavrik that a Peter Hedberg, a young deaf man, has gone missing, Tuva Moodyson packs up and takes the nine hour drive to Sweden’s arctic north. She is chasing the story, but she also hopes […]

2 DUMB DINOS by Nathan Hamill & Eric Filipkowski

2 DUMB DINOS Nathan Hamill & Eric Filipkowski (instagram.com/2dumbdinos) Foreword by Mark Hamill Titan Comics (titan-comics.com) £13.99 ($16.99) Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop They’re dumb. They’re dinos. There’s two of them! Every once in a while, a book lands on my desk that defies all attempts at categorisation. This slim volume, collecting […]