RIVER GOD by Wilbur Smith

RIVER GOD Wilbur Smith (wilbursmithbooks.com) Zaffre (bonnierbooks.co.uk) £10.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Taita is a slave to the pharaoh’s grand vizier, Lord Intef, a man whom he fears greatly, and who is responsible for his castration. When Intef manages to manouvre his daughter, Lostris, into the king’s sphere of awareness, and […]

THE WOLF MILE by C. F. Barrington

THE WOLF MILE Book One of The Pantheon C. F. Barrington (cfbarrington.com) Ad Astra / Head of Zeus (headofzeus.com) £8.99 Buy a copy from your favourite bookshop. Tyler Maitland has been searching for his sister, Morgan, since she disappeared – seemingly into thin air – a year earlier. Lana Cameron has been searching for meaning […]

THE TREADSTONE RESURRECTION by Joshua Hood

ROBERT LUDLUM’S THE TREADSTONE RESURRECTION Joshua Hood Head of Zeus (headofzeus.com) £18.99 Adam Hayes is living and working as a carpenter in the wilds of the Pacific Northwest, his life far from perfect, but a far cry from his time in Treadstone, the top-secret CIA Black Ops programme that trained him, and many like him, […]

GOLDEN SON by Pierce Brown

GOLDEN SON Pierce Brown (pierce-brown.com) Hodder & Stoughton (www.hodder.co.uk) £16.99 Two years after his victory at the Institute, Darrow au Andromedus, the Red who now lives the life of a Gold, is on the cusp of repeating the trick at the Academy, and gaining command of a fleet of Gold vessels. It is a surprise […]

BARRICADE by Jon Wallace

BARRICADE Jon Wallace (thingaboutchickens.blogspot.co.uk) Gollancz (www.gollancz.co.uk) £14.99 In the near future, humans create the Ficials, an engineered race of post-humans who are designed – optimised – for specific tasks, and who are virtually indestructible. Under the central command of Control, the Ficials rise against their human creators, and begin a country-wide cull. Following a nuclear […]

TRAITOR’S BLADE by Sebastien de Castell

TRAITOR’S BLADE Sebastien de Castell (decastell.com) Jo Fletcher Books (www.jofletcherbooks.com) £20.00 The Greatcoats are the stuff of legend. Traveling Magisters, their job is to travel the country bringing the King’s justice to his subjects and ensuring his laws are upheld. Falcio val Mond, once the First Cantor of this elite group of men and women, […]

THE ABOMINABLE by Dan Simmons

THE ABOMINABLE Dan Simmons (dansimmons.com) Sphere (www.littlebrown.co.uk/Sphere) £18.99 George Leigh Mallory and his climbing partner Andrew Irvine disappeared on the North-East Ridge of Mount Everest in early June 1924. A couple of days later, another Englishman, Lord Percival Bromley – not officially part of Mallory’s expedition – disappeared from the same location along with a […]

THE JACKAL’S SHARE by Chris Morgan Jones

THE JACKAL’S SHARE Chris Morgan Jones (www.chrismorganjones.com) Mantle (www.panmacmillan.com) £16.99 Iranian billionaire Darius Qazai is heading for retirement. When an attempt to sell portions of his business result in a report linking him with art smuggling, he hires Ikertu Consulting to dig into his past and prove that he has nothing to hide. Assigned to […]

THE AYLESFORD SKULL by James P. Blaylock

THE AYLESFORD SKULL James P. Blaylock (www.jamespblaylock.com) Titan Books (titanbooks.com) £7.99 A girl is murdered in a cemetery in the quiet English town of Aylesford. She is found beside an open grave from which the skull appears to have been taken. The culprit is none other than Dr. Ignacio Narbondo; the Aylesford Skull – and […]

An Interview with SIMON TOYNE

Photograph © Toby Madden Name: SIMON TOYNE Author of: SANCTUS (2011) THE KEY (2012) On the web: http://www.simontoyne.net On Twitter: @sjtoyne Simon Toyne’s career began in television, where he was a successful screenwriter and producer for over fifteen years. In 2011 HarperCollins published his first novel, Sanctus, an edge-of-the-seat apocalyptic thriller which, despite the […]