STATION ELEVEN by Emily St. John Mandel

STATION ELEVEN Emily St. John Mandel (www.emilymandel.com) Picador (www.picador.com) £12.99 Within days of the first case, the Georgia Flu sweeps across the surface of the globe, infecting billions and killing them within hours. For those that are left, the world is a strange new place, and as resources dwindle or go stale, the world becomes […]

GUEST POST: On Research by PHILIP KERR

Name: Philip Kerr Author of: FIELD GREY (2010) PRAGUE FATALE (2011) A MAN WITHOUT BREATH (2013) PRAYER (2013) RESEARCH (2014) On the web: http://www.philipkerr.org July saw the publication of Philip Kerr’s latest standalone novel, Research, a thriller that takes more than a passing poke at the British publishing industry (we’ll have […]

THE HOUSE ON THE HILL by Kevin Sampson

THE HOUSE ON THE HILL Kevin Sampson Jonathan Cape (www.randomhouse.co.uk/about-us/about-us/…/jonathan-cape) £14.99 Still on extended leave following the Rozaki case, DCI Billy McCartney is surprised when a girl barely out of her teens turns up on his doorstep and claims to be the daughter of Moroccan drug magnate Hassan El Glaoui. The girl’s appearance, and cry […]

GUEST POST: INFLUENCES–5 Books by KEVIN SAMPSON

Name: KEVIN SAMPSON Author of: THE KILLING POOL (2013) THE HOUSE ON THE HILL (2014) On Twitter: @ksampsonwriter To celebrate the launch of Kevin Sampson’s latest novel, THE HOUSE ON THE HILL, the second book in the DCI Billy McCartney series (which will be reviewed here tomorrow), I asked him to talk about the […]

THE FIRST STONE by Elliott Hall

THE FIRST STONE Elliott Hall (elliott-hall.co.uk) John Murray (www.johnmurray.co.uk) £7.99 Elliott Hall’s 2009 debut novel, and the first in his Felix Strange trilogy, The First Stone, is the subject of the latest Hodderscape Review Project. Don’t forget to check out the thoughts of my fellow reviewers, to which you’ll find links on the Hodderscape website. […]

THE DARKEST HEART by Dan Smith

THE DARKEST HEART Dan Smith (www.dansmithsbooks.com) Orion Books (www.orionbooks.co.uk) £12.99 Having fled the slums of Rio de Janeiro as a much younger man, Zico now lives in a small town on the banks of Brazil’s Araguaia River. Here, Zico finds friendship and love and decides that Piratinga is the perfect place to settle down. Zico […]

#CarrieAt40: The Stephen King Chart

Just when you thought all the #CarrieAt40 madness was over, it’s time to reveal the next phase. To celebrate Stephen King’s 40 years as a published author, we’ve created a survey to try and determine – according to his fans – which are his most important, enduring, or just plain entertaining works. The survey is […]

THE PROFESSIONALS by Owen Laukkanen

THE PROFESSIONALS Owen Laukkanen (owenlaukkanen.com) Corvus (atlantic-books.co.uk) £7.99 In the beginning, the whole thing had been Marie’s idea. It had started as a joke, some throwaway line spouted off one rainy night in Seattle, the gang holed up at Sawyer’s place bitching about the job market over cheap beer and pizza, scholarships almost gone and […]

COMPETITION: Win a Copy of RED WINTER by Dan Smith #DanSmithBlogTour

It’s the final stop of the Dan Smith Blog Tour (and what a tour it’s been!) and to celebrate last week’s hardback publication of The Darkest Heart and paperback publication of Red Winter, those lovely people over at Orion have given us 10 copies of Red Winter to give away. You can enter in one […]

NO HARM CAN COME TO A GOOD MAN by James Smythe

NO HARM CAN COME TO A GOOD MAN James Smythe (james-smythe.com) The Borough Press (www.boroughpress.co.uk) £16.99 Laurence Walker is a good man whose dream of running for President of the United States looks set to come true. Laurence has some skeletons in his closet – the death of his son and a period of torture […]