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 […]
Read More THE BOOKSELLER by Tim SullivanPALISADE 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 […]
Read More PALISADE by Lou GilmondICE 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 […]
Read More ICE TOWN by Will Dean2 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 […]
Read More 2 DUMB DINOS by Nathan Hamill & Eric FilipkowskiTHE FOREST OF LOST SOULS Dean Koontz (deankoontz.com) Thomas & Mercer (amazonpublishing.amazon.com) £19.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Orphaned at the age of five, Vida was taken in and raised by her Uncle Ogden, in a remote cabin in the woods just outside the town of Kettleton. Not quite a hermit, Ogden […]
Read More THE FOREST OF LOST SOULS by Dean KoontzSERAPHIM Joshua Perry Melville House (mhpbooks.com) £16.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop When 16-year-old Robert Johnson confesses to the murder of a minor local celebrity, he finds himself in the care of Ben Alder and Boris Pasternak (really), public defenders who specialise in helping children. Ben is also defending one Robert McTell, […]
Read More SERAPHIM by Joshua PerryQUINT Robert Lautner (robert-lautner.com) The Borough Press (boroughpress.co.uk) £16.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop I started Quint around 2012. Yep. Seriously. It wasn’t in shape to be submitted until 2013 and I had just finished writing The Road to Reckoning which was due for publication in 2014, to be followed by The […]
Read More GUEST POST: Finding Quint by Robert LautnerQUINT Robert Lautner (robert-lautner.com) The Borough Press (boroughpress.co.uk) £16.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Before he fished for shark off Massachussetts’ Amity Island, Quint was a boat for hire on Florida’s Merritt Island, taking daytrippers and too-rich college boys out sea-fishing; before that, he was in the US Navy, stationed on the USS […]
Read More QUINT by Robert LautnerTHE BEACH HUT Leah Pitt Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) £9.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop In the summer of 1997, 15-year-old Matilda is killed in what seems to be a tragic accident, slipping on rocks on the Dorset beach where she holidays with her parents. Her best friend, Sophie, has been holidaying […]
Read More THE BEACH HUT by Leah PittTHE BOOKSELLER Tim Sullivan (timsullivan.co.uk) Aries (headofzeus.com) £22 COMING 16th JANUARY 2025 Pre-order from your favourite independent bookshop Here at Reader Dad we’re big fans of Tim Sullivan’s DS George Cross books, so we’re delighted to help his publisher, Aries, reveal the cover of the latest book in the series, where Sullivan turns his attention […]
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