RED COUNTRY Joe Abercrombie (www.joeabercrombie.com) Gollancz (www.gollancz.co.uk) £16.99 When Shy South returns home from town to find her farm burned, her friend hanging from a tree and her young brother and sister missing, she sets out to find the man responsible, her cowardly old stepfather Lamb in tow. It doesn’t take long to find that […]
Read More RED COUNTRY by Joe AbercrombieName: JOANNE REAY Author of: LO’LIFE: ROMEO SPIKES (2012) Joanne Reay is a British scriptwriter and producer. Her debut novel, Romeo Spikes, is the first part of the Lo’Life series, and is available now from Titan Books. Thanks for taking the time to speak to us, Joanne. I’d like to start by looking at the […]
Read More An Interview with JOANNE REAYPhotograph © Dan Stack Name: DANIEL POLANSKY Author of: THE STRAIGHT RAZOR CURE (2011) TOMORROW, THE KILLING (2012) On the web: http://www.danielpolansky.com On Twitter: @danielpolansky Daniel Polansky’s first novel, The Straight Razor Cure was published in 2011, its mix of fantasy and Chandleresque hardboiled private detective appealing to a broad range of readers. His […]
Read More An Interview with DANIEL POLANSKYTOMORROW, THE KILLING (LOW TOWN 2) Daniel Polansky (www.danielpolansky.com) Hodder & Stoughton (www.hodder.co.uk) £18.99 Earlier this year, I read, reviewed and fairly raved about Daniel Polansky’s debut novel, The Straight Razor Cure. Picking up three years after the events of that first book, Polansky’s second novel – and the second volume of the Low Town […]
Read More LOW TOWN: TOMORROW, THE KILLING by Daniel PolanskyName: MYKE COLE Author of: CONTROL POINT (SHADOW OPS 1) (2012) On the web: mykecole.com On Twitter: @MykeCole I’m very pleased to introduce our first guest post here at Reader Dad. Myke Cole, author of Control Point, the first book in the Shadow Ops series, has very kindly written an essay about the origins of […]
Read More GUEST POST: On the Origins of SHADOW OPS by MYKE COLECONTROL POINT (SHADOW OPS: Book One) Myke Cole (mykecole.com) Headline (www.headline.co.uk) £7.99 In the aftermath of the Great Reawakening, the world is a different place. Magic has returned, and people across the globe are turning up Latent, Manifesting in any one of a handful of schools of magic. Those who Manifest in the legal schools […]
Read More CONTROL POINT by Myke ColeALIF THE UNSEEN G. Willow Wilson (www.gwillowwilson.com) Corvus Books (corvus-books.co.uk) £12.99 Released: 1st September 2012 Get your pen and paper, it said. I will tell you the final story. It comes with a warning. “What’s that?” When you hear it, you will become someone else. From time to time I’ll start reading a book and […]
Read More ALIF THE UNSEEN by G. Willow WilsonTHE STRAIGHT RAZOR CURE (LOW TOWN 1) Daniel Polansky (www.danielpolansky.com) Hodder (hodder.co.uk) £7.99 Warden is a drug dealer and hard man on the streets of Low Town. Ex-soldier, ex-lawman, it is only his past that keeps him above suspicion when he stumbles upon the body of a young girl. When a second body is found, […]
Read More LOW TOWN: THE STRAIGHT RAZOR CURE by Daniel PolanskyTURBULENCE Samit Basu (samitbasu.com) Titan Books (titanbooks.com) £7.99 On a British Airways flight from London to Delhi, each of the passengers has a vivid dream. In this dream they see the person they want to be, the ideal them. When the plane lands, the passengers discover that the dreams were a precursor to reality – […]
Read More TURBULENCE by Samit BasuTHE WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE Stephen King (www.stephenking.com) [See here for information on The Dark Tower] Hodder (hodder.co.uk) £19.99 Released: 24th April I have mentioned before my love for the work of Stephen King, so it’s difficult to describe how excited I was to find his latest novel – a Dark Tower novel, no less […]
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