DARKER DAYS by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

DARKER DAYS Thomas Olde Heuvelt (oldeheuvelt.com) Translated by Lia Belt (smarttranslations.nl) Bantam Books (penguin.co.uk) £20 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop In the small town of Lock Haven, Washington you’ll find a secluded cul-de-sac called Bird Street. There are half a dozen houses on Bird Street, a handful of families who harbour a […]

KING SORROW by Joe Hill

KING SORROW Joe Hill (joehillfiction.com) Headline (headline.co.uk) £25 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop It’s 1989 and Arthur Oakes is in his third year at Rackham College, with his best friend Donovan “Van” McBride and Van’s twin sister, Donna, Allison Shiner and Colin Wren. His mother is incarcerated in Vermont’s House of Correction […]

THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT by Christopher Golden & Brian Keene

THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW ITNew Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand Edited byChristopher Golden (christophergolden.com)Brian Keene (briankeene.com) With an Introduction byStephen King (stephenking.com) Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) £25 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Almost 50 years after its first publication (and 35 since its re-release in a much […]

GOING HOME IN THE DARK by Dean Koontz

GOING HOME IN THE DARK Dean Koontz (deankoontz.com) Thomas & Mercer (amazon.com) £19.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Rebecca, Ernie, Bobby and Spencer have always been the “four amigos”, ever since bonding as outcasts, four nerdy teens against the rest of the school, the town, the world. When they grow, Rebecca, Bobby […]

THE FOREST OF LOST SOULS by Dean Koontz

THE FOREST OF LOST SOULS Dean Koontz (deankoontz.com) Thomas & Mercer (amazonpublishing.amazon.com) £19.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Orphaned at the age of five, Vida was taken in and raised by her Uncle Ogden, in a remote cabin in the woods just outside the town of Kettleton. Not quite a hermit, Ogden […]

QUINT by Robert Lautner

QUINT Robert Lautner (robert-lautner.com) The Borough Press (boroughpress.co.uk) £16.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Before he fished for shark off Massachussetts’ Amity Island, Quint was a boat for hire on Florida’s Merritt Island, taking daytrippers and too-rich college boys out sea-fishing; before that, he was in the US Navy, stationed on the USS […]

SMOKE KINGS by Jahmal Mayfield

SMOKE KINGS Jahmal Mayfield (jahmalmayfield.com) Melville House (mhpbooks.com) £16.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Following the racially-motivated murder of one of their number, a small group of New Jersey friends decide to take the law into their own hands. But rather than seek revenge on the boys who killed their friend, they […]

THE BAD WEATHER FRIEND by Dean Koontz

THE BAD WEATHER FRIEND Dean Koontz(deankoontz.com) Thomas & Mercer (apub.com) £19.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Benny Catspaw is a nice guy. Just a genuinely nice guy, who can’t imagine being rude or unfriendly to anyone. Even when his life starts to fall apart, Benny can’t believe that it’s anything other than […]

THE CARTOON LIFE AND LOVES OF A STUPID MAN by Marc Joan

THE CARTOON LIFE AND LOVES OF A STUPID MAN Marc Joan (marc-joan.com) Deixis Press (deixis.press) £13.50 Philippe Favrier is a Frenchman living in Geneva with his beautiful wife, Marilyne. Philippe owns a comic book shop – La Market Jaune – and is heir to a pharmaceutical fortune. Marilyne is a heart surgeon who works, to […]

HOLLY by Stephen King

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 […]