THE POINT Gerard Brennan (www.gerardbrennan.co.uk) Pulp Press (www.pulppress.co.uk) £7.99 Coming, as I do, from the wilds of West Belfast, I have an aversion to the Norn Irish accent on film and television; for me, there’s something distinctly cringe-worthy about it, a fact that is probably best exemplified every time Liam Neeson opens his mouth (who […]
Read More THE POINT by Gerard BrennanTHE HOUSE OF SILK Anthony Horowitz (anthonyhorowitz.com) Orion (www.orionbooks.co.uk) £18.99 Released: 1st November Anthony Horowitz is, perhaps, best known by a certain generation of young boys as the man behind the popular Alex Rider series of books. It is, I think, less well-known that he is also the man behind some of the most popular […]
Read More THE HOUSE OF SILK by Anthony HorowitzREAMDE Neal Stephenson (www.nealstephenson.com) Atlantic Books (www.atlantic-books.co.uk) £18.99 I first became acquainted with the work of Neal Stephenson when, in 1999, I discovered his massive novel, Cryptonomicon, in the “New Books” section of my local Waterstone’s. The blurb appealed to the nerd in me, and my internal masochist fancied the challenge of reading such a […]
Read More REAMDE by Neal StephensonBLACK 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 […]
Read More BLACK LIGHT by Patrick Melton, Marcus Dunstan & Stephen RomanoTHE AUSCHWITZ VIOLIN Maria Ãngels Anglada Translated by Martha Tennent Corsair/Constable & Robinson (www.constablerobinson.com) £9.99 For a long time, I have been fascinated by the events of the Holocaust, by the stories of the individuals, on both sides of the metaphorical fence, who were caught up in those terrible events. I can trace this fascination […]
Read More THE AUSCHWITZ VIOLIN by Maria Ãngels AngladaKILLED AT THE WHIM OF A HAT Colin Cotterill (www.colincotterill.com) Quercus (www.quercusbooks.co.uk) £7.99 “Free societies are hopeful societies. And free societies will be allies against these hateful few who have no conscience, who kill at the whim of a hat.” As Colin Cotterill’s latest novel – the first in a series featuring crime reporter Jimm […]
Read More KILLED AT THE WHIM OF A HAT by Colin CotterillANNO 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 […]
Read More ANNO DRACULA by Kim NewmanMILE 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 […]
Read More MILE 81 by Stephen KingTHE SISTERS BROTHERS Patrick deWitt (patrickdewitt.net) Granta (www.grantabooks.co.uk) £12.99 The Western genre has come a long way from its sunny heights back in the golden days of Hollywood, when John Wayne ruled supreme and you could differentiate the good guys from the bad guys purely based on the colour of their hats. These days, there […]
Read More THE SISTERS BROTHERS by Patrick deWittSNAPSHOT Craig Robertson Simon & Schuster (www.simonandschuster.co.uk) £12.99 Glasgow, present day, and someone – a man with a high-powered rifle and a scope to match – is taking out the rulers of the city’s underbelly: drug dealers, murderers, extortionists. As the body count grows and war breaks out amongst the various underground factions, the Strathclyde […]
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