STALLO by Stefan Spjut

STALLO Stefan Spjut Translated by Susan Beard Faber & Faber (www.faber.co.uk) £14.99 In the summer of 1978 young Marcus Brodin disappears from the cabin he is sharing with his mother in the remote woods of central Sweden. His mother claims he was taken by a giant, but her reliance on prescription drugs makes her an […]

EXTRACT From STEEPLE by Jon Wallace & COMPETITION

STEEPLE Jon Wallace (jonwallace.co) Gollancz (www.gollancz.co.uk) £16.99 Today marks the publication of Steeple, the second book set in Jon Wallace’s post-apocalyptic world that we first saw in Barricade. To celebrate, we have a wonderful extract from the book, as well as a competition to win a paperback copy of Barricade. I drain my cup of […]

SEVENEVES by Neal Stephenson

SEVENEVES Neal Stephenson (www.nealstephenson.com) The Borough Press (www.boroughpress.co.uk) £20.00 The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason. It was waxing, only one day short of full. The time was 05:03:12 UTC. Later it would be designated A+0.0.0, or simply Zero. An unknown Agent has split the moon into seven pieces, which remain […]

FINDERS KEEPERS by Stephen King

FINDERS KEEPERS Stephen King (stephenking.com) Hodder & Stoughton (www.hodder.co.uk) £20.00 “Shit don’t mean shit.” In 1978 reclusive American literary great John Rothstein is murdered in the remote New Hampshire farm where he has spent the past 16 years. His safe is emptied, not only of the cash that he keeps there, but also of 150 […]

The TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (re)read Challenge

Follow the conversation On Facebook On Twitter On Instagram On Tumblr On 14th July, Penguin Random House will publish Go Set a Watchman, the recently discovered novel by Harper Lee. Go Set a Watchman is set during the mid-1950s and features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some twenty years later. With […]

FALL OF MAN IN WILMSLOW by David Lagercrantz

FALL OF MAN IN WILMSLOW David Lagercrantz (www.davidlagercrantz.se) Translated by George Goulding MacLehose Press (maclehosepress.com) £18.99 On a wet morning in early June 1954, Detective Constable Leonard Corell finds himself investigating the death of a mathematician in the sleepy Cheshire town of Wilmslow. Preliminary investigation points towards suicide, the man having died after eating a […]

ALL INVOLVED by Ryan Gattis

ALL INVOLVED Ryan Gattis (ryangattis.com) Picador (www.picador.com) £12.99 At the end of April 1992 Los Angeles burned for six days as large sections of the population rioted, following the acquittal of LAPD officers who were on trial for the brutal beating of a black man named Rodney King. As law enforcement and other emergency services […]

#DayOfTheGirl–Happy Birthday Lisbeth Salander

I don’t remember exactly what it was about the cover of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo that stopped me in my tracks, but I remember the first time I saw it, face-out in the New Titles section of my local Waterstones (or Waterstone’s, as it was back in 2008). It’s a striking […]

DRY BONES IN THE VALLEY by Tom Bouman

DRY BONES IN THE VALLEY Tom Bouman (www.drybonesinthevalley.com) Faber & Faber (www.faber.co.uk) £7.99 Henry Farrell is the law in the small northern Pennsylvania rural township of Wild Thyme. On a routine visit to Aub Dunigan, Henry finds a partially dismembered body on a remote part of the old man’s land. When the township’s bad boy, […]

NORMAL by Graeme Cameron

NORMAL Graeme Cameron (www.graeme-cameron.com) Harlequin Mira (www.mirabooks.co.uk) £7.99 Erica has been abducted by the man who killed and dismembered her best friend, and is now living in a cage in his basement. Her abductor is a seemingly ordinary man with a penchant for murdering pretty young women. But things aren’t going as planned: at the […]