An Interview with ANTONIN VARENNE

Name: ANTONIN VARENNE Author of: BED OF NAILS (2012) LOSER’S CORNER (2014) RETRIBUTION ROAD (2017) Antonin Varenne was awarded the Prix Michel Lebrun and the Grand Prix du Jury Sang d’encre for Bed of Nails, his first novel to be translated into English. His second, Loser’s Corner was awarded the Prix des Lecteurs […]

RETRIBUTION ROAD by Antonin Varenne

RETRIBUTION ROAD Antonin Varenne Translated by Sam Taylor (samtaylorwriter.wixsite.com/sam-taylor-writer) MacLehose Press (www.maclehosepress.com) £18.99 Sergeant Arthur Bowman is a fifteen-year veteran of the East India Company’s private army when he and his team are taken prisoner in Burma in 1852. Six months of torture leave him mentally and physically scarred when he is released along with […]

An Interview with SIMON BECKETT

Name: SIMON BECKETT Author of: THE CHEMISTRY OF DEATH (2006) WRITTEN IN BONE (2007) WHISPERS OF THE DEAD (2009) THE CALLING OF THE GRAVE (2010) THE RESTLESS DEAD (2017) On the web: http://www.simonbeckett.com On Twitter: @BeckettSimon To celebrate the release of Simon Beckett’s fifth Dr David Hunter novel, The Restless Dead, […]

GUEST POST: World Building in the RELICS Universe by Tim Lebbon

Name: TIM LEBBON Author of: COLDBROOK (2012) THE HUNT (2015) RELICS (2017) On the web: http://www.timlebbon.net On Twitter: @timlebbon I love world building. A few years ago I wrote a series of fantasy novels for Bantam in the USA, and also a couple for Orbit in the UK. Four of these––the Noreela novels––all […]

RELICS by Tim Lebbon

RELICS Tim Lebbon (www.timlebbon.net) Titan Books (titanbooks.com) £7.99 Angela Gough’s life is happy and normal until the day her boyfriend, Vince, leaves for work and doesn’t come back. Mysterious notes through the door, which may be in his handwriting tell her to stay away, not to look for him, but Angela isn’t about to let […]

GUEST POST–PARALLEL LINES: On Heroes by ADAM SHAW

Name: STEVEN SAVILE Author of: PARALLEL LINES (2017) On the web: http://www.stevensavile.com On Twitter: @StevenSavile Steven Savile’s latest novel, PARALLEL LINES, is published in the UK on 14th March by Titan Books. To celebrate the launch, Reader Dad is very pleased to welcome the book’s protagonist, Adam Shaw, to talk about heroes. I find heroes […]

INFLUENCES: Finding My Own Voice by MATT WESOLOWSKI

Name: MATT WESOLOWSKI Author of: SIX STORIES (2017) On Twitter: ConcreteKraken It’s taken me years to find my own voice. I’ve spent the majority of my writing life mimicking; from a bargain-bin Enid Blyton when I was a kid, a teenage cut-price James Herbert to a snide Stephen King or else 50% off all Lovecraft, […]

RAGDOLL by Daniel Cole

RAGDOLL Daniel Cole Trapeze (www.orionbooks.co.uk) £12.99 One body, six victims, body parts sewn together and strung from the ceiling of a London flat like a puppet. Immediately christened the Ragdoll Killer by the press, it is up to Detective Sergeant William Fawkes and his team at New Scotland Yard to identify the constituent parts. When […]

SPOOK STREET by Mick Herron

SPOOK STREET Mick Herron (www.mickherron.com) John Murray (www.johnmurray.co.uk) £14.99 When the Berlin Wall fell, David Cartwright was one step away from First Desk, the pinnacle of the British Intelligence Services. Now suffering the onset of dementia, the “Old Bastard”, as he is affectionately known by his grandson, River, may be in danger of revealing secrets […]

SNATCH by Gregory McDonald

SNATCH Gregory McDonald (www.gregorymcdonald.com) Hard Case Crime (www.hardcasecrime.com) £7.99 Two eight-year-old boys from very different backgrounds. Two sets of less-than-competent kidnappers. In the hands of Gregory McDonald, almost anything could happen. Like many people of my generation, my first exposure to the work of Gregory McDonald was the wonderful 1985 film Fletch, in which Chevy […]