Competition – Win a Copy of SUN DAMAGE by Sabine Durrant

SUN DAMAGE Sabine Durrant Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) £16.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop To mark the release of Sabine Durrant’s latest novel, Sun Damage, we’re very pleased to be giving away a copy of the book thanks to the lovely folks at Hodder & Stoughton. To enter, leave a comment below […]

COMPETITION: Win a copy of EMPIRE OF WILD by Cherie Dimaline

EMPIRE OF WILD Cherie Dimaline (cheriedimaline.com) Weidenfeld & Nicolson (weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk) £14.99 Thanks to the lovely people at Weidenfeld & Nicolson, I have a copy of Cherie Dimaline’s Empire of Wild to give away. Let’s have some fun with it: at its heart, Empire of Wild is a werewolf story, relying on the stories and legends […]

Competition – Win a Copy of LOST YOU by Haylen Beck

LOST YOU Haylen Beck (www.haylenbeck.com) Harvill Secker (www.penguin.co.uk) £14.99 To mark the release of Haylen Beck’s excellent second novel, Lost You (Reader Dad review to follow later today), we’re very pleased to be giving away a copy of the book thanks to the lovely folks at Harvill Secker. To enter, leave a comment below before midnight […]

COMPETITION: WIN 1 of 5 copies of THE SILENCED by Stephen Lloyd Jones

THE SILENCED Stephen Llloyd Jones (www.stephenlloydjones.com) Headline (www.headline.co.uk) £7.99 To celebrate the launch of Stephen Lloyd Jones’ latest novel, The Silenced, those lovely people at Headline have given us 5 copies of the book to give away. To enter, simply leave a comment on this post before midnight on Sunday 22nd April 2018. Unfortunately, this […]

COMPETITION: Win a Copy of Jonathan Freedland’s THE 3RD WOMAN

THE THIRD WOMAN Jonathan Freedland (www.jonathanfreedland.com) HarperCollins (www.harpercollins.co.uk) £12.99 To celebrate the release on July 2nd of Jonathan Freedland’s exciting new thriller, The 3rd Woman, which I will be reviewing here soon, those lovely folks at HarperCollins Publishers have given us three copies of the novel to give away. It couldn’t be simpler to be […]

INFLUENCES: Literary Influences by OLIVER LANGMEAD & Competition

Name: OLIVER LANGMEAD Author of: DARK STAR (2015) Literary Influences, Contemporary & Classic Dark Star has a lot of influences, because it’s three things in one. It’s science fiction, it’s a detective story of the noir and hard-boiled brand, and it’s an epic in the classical sense. The best place to start is at […]

#GreatestGift–Giving the Gift of Reading for Christmas

‘Books are a uniquely portable magic.’ – Stephen King, On Writing When birthdays or Christmas roll around, there’s nothing I like more than the book-shaped parcels that are an inevitable purchase for someone who loves to read. In our family, they’re invariably accompanied by the joke that never gets old (really, Dad!) about how it’s […]

COMPETITION: Win a Copy of RED WINTER by Dan Smith #DanSmithBlogTour

It’s the final stop of the Dan Smith Blog Tour (and what a tour it’s been!) and to celebrate last week’s hardback publication of The Darkest Heart and paperback publication of Red Winter, those lovely people over at Orion have given us 10 copies of Red Winter to give away. You can enter in one […]

COMPETITION: Charles Cummings’ A COLDER WAR #MoleHunt

A COLDER WAR Charles Cummings (www.charlescumming.co.uk) HarperCollins (www.harpercollins.co.uk) £12.99 Those fine folks over at HarperCollins’ Killer Reads are running a mole hunt this week to celebrate the publication of Charles Cummings’ latest novel, A Colder War. To be in with a chance of winning a Kindle, all you have to do is visit each of […]

COMPETITION: Joanne M. Harris’s #AskLoki Blog Tour

THE GOSPEL OF LOKI Joanne M. Harris (joanne-harris.co.uk) Gollancz (www.gollancz.co.uk) £14.99 Celebrating the publication of Joanne M. Harris’s first epic adult fantasy novel, The Gospel of Loki (Feb 13 2014), comes Joanne M. Harris’s #AskLoki Blog Tour. Gollancz and a collection of the UKs leading websites are teaming up to share Loki’s opinions of his […]