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 […]

FATHOMFOLK by Eliza Chan

FATHOMFOLK Eliza Chan (elizachan.co.uk) Orbit (www.orbitbooks.net) £18.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop The city of Tiankawi is a city of many facets. Partially-flooded, the parts above water are a testament to human ingenuity, with the humans living in shining towers far above the surface of the polluted water. Closer to the surface, […]

THE COPPER PROMISE by Jen Williams

THE COPPER PROMISE Jen Williams (sennydreadful.co.uk) Headline (www.headline.co.uk) £13.99 For the fifth title in the Hodderscape Review Project, we move into the realms of fantasy with the debut novel from Jen Williams, The Copper Promise, released this month by Headline. Don’t forget to check in to the Review Project site to find out what my […]

RED COUNTRY by Joe Abercrombie

RED COUNTRY Joe Abercrombie (www.joeabercrombie.com) Gollancz (www.gollancz.co.uk) £16.99 When Shy South returns home from town to find her farm burned, her friend hanging from a tree and her young brother and sister missing, she sets out to find the man responsible, her cowardly old stepfather Lamb in tow. It doesn’t take long to find that […]