HOLLY Stephen King (stephenking.com) Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) £25.00 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop When Bonnie Dahl disappears on an early summer evening, between work and home, leaving behind her bicycle and a short note (“I’VE HAD ENOUGH”), her mother Penny reaches out to the local private detective agency recommended by the […]
Read More HOLLY by Stephen KingFAIRY TALE Stephen King (stephenking.com) Illustrated by Gabriel Rodriguez (instagram.com) & Nicolas Delort (nicolasdelort.com) Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) £22.00 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Charlie Reade is seventeen years old when he answers a distressed bark and discovers his elderly neighbour, having fallen from a ladder and broken his leg. It’s love […]
Read More FAIRY TALE by Stephen KingGWENDY’S FINAL TASK Stephen King (stephenking.com) Richard Chizmar (richardchizmar.com) Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) Cemetery Dance (cemeterydance.com) £16.99 / $28.00 Buy a copy: UK hardcover Cemetery Dance Trade Edition When she was twelve years old, Gwendy Peterson met a stranger named Richard Farris in her home town of Castle Rock, Maine. Farris entrusted Gwendy with a […]
Read More GWENDY’S FINAL TASK by Stephen King and Richard ChizmarSLEEPING BEAUTIES Stephen King (stephenking.com) Owen King (owen-king.com) Hodder & Stoughton (www.hodder.co.uk) £20.00 What happens when all the women disappear from the world, leaving the men to their own devices? Stephen King, along with his son, Owen, attempt to answer this question in their new novel, Sleeping Beauties. It begins with older and infirm women: […]
Read More SLEEPING BEAUTIES by Stephen King & Owen KingTHE BAZAAR OF BAD DREAMS Stephen King (stephenking.com) Hodder & Stoughton (www.hodder.co.uk) £20.00 When people think of Stephen King, they most often think of the massive tomes that helped to make his name: The Stand, It, Needful Things. What we often forget is that King is as comfortable writing short fiction as he is writing […]
Read More THE BAZAAR OF BAD DREAMS by Stephen KingFINDERS KEEPERS Stephen King (stephenking.com) Hodder & Stoughton (www.hodder.co.uk) £20.00 “Shit don’t mean shit.” In 1978 reclusive American literary great John Rothstein is murdered in the remote New Hampshire farm where he has spent the past 16 years. His safe is emptied, not only of the cash that he keeps there, but also of 150 […]
Read More FINDERS KEEPERS by Stephen KingREVIVAL Stephen King (stephenking.com) Hodder & Stoughton (www.hodder.co.uk) £20.00 That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons, even death may die. Aficionados of the horror genre will instantly recognise this couplet as the work of H.P. Lovecraft, an excerpt from his fictional Book of the Dead, the Necronomicon. Referenced in Stephen […]
Read More REVIVAL by Stephen KingA brief update on the current state of play with the Big #CarrieAt40 Stephen King Vote. I have updated the novels section to allow readers to vote for Revival, which is almost upon us and which looks set to become an instant classic. I’m also setting a firm end date of 31 December 2014 for […]
Read More #CarrieAt40: The Stephen King Vote–UpdateJust when you thought all the #CarrieAt40 madness was over, it’s time to reveal the next phase. To celebrate Stephen King’s 40 years as a published author, we’ve created a survey to try and determine – according to his fans – which are his most important, enduring, or just plain entertaining works. The survey is […]
Read More #CarrieAt40: The Stephen King ChartMR MERCEDES Stephen King (stephenking.com) Hodder & Stoughton (www.hodder.co.uk) £20.00 On a foggy April morning, in an anonymous, recession-hit Midwestern city, Brady Hartfield ploughs a stolen Mercedes Benz into a group of people queued for a job fair, killing nine and injuring many more. Six months later, Detective William Hodges retires from the City Police […]
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