THE WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE by Stephen King

THE 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 […]

PURE by Julianna Baggott

PURE Julianna Baggott (www.juliannabaggott.com) Headline Books (www.headline.co.uk) £14.99 As a fan of post-apocalyptic fiction, I am always excited to see what new worlds can spring forth from the minds of writers whose contemplations all start at the same point: what if the world as we know it ended? In Pure, Julianna Baggott gives us a […]

SORRY by Zoran Drvenkar

SORRY Zoran Drvenkar (www.drvenkar.de) Translated by Shaun Whiteside Blue Door (www.harpercollins.co.uk/…/blue-door) £12.99 I will admit that when I saw the cover of Zoran Drvenkar’s Sorry – the first of the German author’s novels to be translated into English – my first thought was that it was a novel aimed at a young adult audience. What […]

TRIESTE by Daša Drndić

TRIESTE Daša Drndić Translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac Maclehose Press (maclehosepress.com) £20.00 BEHIND EVERY NAME THERE IS A STORY These words, on an otherwise blank page, some 140 pages into Daša Drndić’s Trieste, and the forty-four pages that follow which contain the names of “about 9000 Jews who were deported from Italy or killed in Italy […]

11.22.63 by Stephen King

11.22.63 Stephen King (www.stephenking.com) Hodder & Stoughton (www.hodder.co.uk) £19.99 It’s a daunting thing, sitting down to write a review of a full-length Stephen King novel, for someone who hangs on every word the man has ever written. The problem is that remaining objective – reviewing the work at a remove, as it were – is […]

THE CLUMSY GHOST by Alastair Jessiman et al

THE CLUMSY GHOST AND OTHER SPOOKY TALES Alastair Jessiman, Anna Britten, David Blake, Roy McMillan, Edward Ferrie, Margaret Ferrie, David Angus Read by Sean Barrett, Harry Somerville, Anne-Marie Piazza, Roy McMillan, Thomas Eyre Naxos Audiobooks (www.naxosaudiobooks.com) £10.00 (Available as a CD audiobook or digital download) I have, for a long time, been a fan of […]

BLACK LIGHT by Patrick Melton, Marcus Dunstan & Stephen Romano

BLACK LIGHT Patrick Melton, Marcus Dunstan & Stephen Romano Mulholland Books (www.mulhollandbooks.co.uk) £12.99 Released: 13th October When we first meet Buck Carlsbad, at the opening of Black Light, he is hard at work, taking down a mark – a ghost that has latched onto a living person. Buck has a gift, which he calls “The […]

ANNO DRACULA by Kim Newman

ANNO DRACULA Kim Newman (www.johnnyalucard.com) Titan Books (titanbooks.com) £7.99 Is there a more interesting and populated place and time in recent history than London in the twilight years of the nineteenth century? Peopled by a huge cast of people real and fictional, it is a location and period ripe with opportunity and ideas for any […]

MILE 81 by Stephen King

MILE 81 Stephen King (www.stephenking.com) Hodder & Stoughton (www.hodder.co.uk) £1.99 (Available as an ebook) Before I let you know what I thought of Stephen King’s latest work, the short story/novelette Mile 81, I feel it’s only fair to talk a bit about Stephen King, and what you’re letting yourself in for should you wish to […]

OUTPOST by Adam Baker

OUTPOST Adam Baker Hodder & Stoughton (www.hodder.co.uk) £12.99 I’ve mentioned before on this blog how much I enjoy post-apocalyptic fiction. There is an abundance of zombie fiction on the go these days, and it’s one of the sub-genres of horror where people aren’t afraid to experiment and play with the tropes, which keeps it somewhat […]