THE BALLAD OF PERILOUS GRAVES by Alex Jennings

THE BALLAD OF PERILOUS GRAVES Alex Jennings (alexjennings.net) Orbit (orbit-books.co.uk) £8.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Perilous “Perry” Graves is a ten-year-old boy who lives off Jackson Avenue in the west of Nola with his extended family. School is out for summer and Perry wants nothing more than to spend it adventuring […]

MOTHERBRIDGE: SEEDS OF CHANGE by George Mann & Aleta Vidal

MOTHERBRIDGE: SEEDS OF CHANGE George Mann (georgemann.net) Aleta Vidal (behance.net/aletavidal) Dark Horse Comics (darkhorse.com) £16.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Utopia has failed and mankind has retreated to walled enclaves, leaving the remains of the Motherbridge, and the mythical creatures that it spawned, to fend for themselves in the world outside. In […]

EQUINOX by David Towsey

EQUINOX David Towsey (davidtowsey.blogspot.com) Ad Astra / Head of Zeus (headofzeus.com) £18.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Christophor Morden is a King’s Special Inspector, who specialises in cases where witchcraft is suspected. Early one evening, Christophor is summoned to the city’s St Leonars prison, where he finds a young man who has […]

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 […]

GWENDY’S FINAL TASK by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar

GWENDY’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 […]

An Extract from THE HAND OF THE SUN KING by J. T. Greathouse

THE HAND OF THE SUN KING J. T. Greathouse (jtgreathouse.com) Gollancz (gollancz.co.uk) £16.99 Buy a copy from your local independent bookshop Grandmother led me up the steps to the altar at the temple’s heart. She unbound her hair and let its thick reddish-brown curls, tinted grey at the temples, flow freely over her shoulders. Like […]

An Excerpt from ASHES OF THE SUN by Django Wexler

ASHES OF THE SUN Django Wexler (https://djangowexler.com/) Head of Zeus (https://headofzeus.com/home) £20.00 Prologue Gyre and Maya were playing ghouls and heroes. Gyre had to be the ghoul, of course. Maya would never tolerate being anything less than a hero. Summer was in full flower, and the sun was alone in a pale blue sky, with […]

INFLUENCES: What Inspired WIDOW’S WELCOME by D.K. Fields

WIDOW’S WELCOME D.K. Fields (dkfields.blogspot.com) Head of Zeus (headofzeus.com) £8.99 What inspired Widow’s Welcome? In short: “Mi dispiace, il mio italiano non va bene”. This became a mantra for us when travelling in Italy – “I’m sorry, my Italian is not good”. Whether Kath was trying to order peach ice cream but kept saying ‘fish’, […]

An Extract From THE BLACK HAWKS by David Wragg

THE BLACK HAWKS David Wragg (www.davewragg.com) HarperVoyager (harpervoyagerbooks.co.uk) £8.99 ‘Kitchen’s closed.’ A hard-faced woman in a smock barred the doorway. ‘Closed? Nonsense, my jewel,’ Heali replied. ‘How could the kitchen be closed in a festival week? We’re but days from the feast!’ The woman’s eyes narrowed. She had a jaw like quarried stone and […]

THE SPIDER DANCE by Nick Setchfield

THE SPIDER DANCE Nick Setchfield (www.nicksetchfield.com) Titan Books (titanbooks.com) £7.99 Christopher Winter, no longer working for British Intelligence, finds himself recruited by London’s gangland. But you’re never really “out” of the security services, as Winter discovers when he is summoned by his old boss. Tasked with getting Alessandra Moltini out of Budapest, Winter quickly realises […]