THE HAND OF THE SUN KING J. T. Greathouse (jtgreathouse.com) Gollancz (gollancz.co.uk) £16.99 Buy a copy from your local independent bookshop Grandmother led me up the steps to the altar at the temple’s heart. She unbound her hair and let its thick reddish-brown curls, tinted grey at the temples, flow freely over her shoulders. Like […]
Read More An Extract from THE HAND OF THE SUN KING by J. T. GreathouseTHE DYING SQUAD Adam Simcox Gollancz (gollancz.co.uk) £16.99 Winter hated Lincolnshire. It sprinkled frost on its fields, squatted on the remains of its abandoned crops and draped everything in a sea of compacted fog, almost as if it were embarrassed by the place. The flatness of its Arctic landscape had always made Joe think of […]
Read More An Extract from THE DYING SQUAD by Adam SimcoxTHE MINDERS John Marrs (www.johnmarrsauthor.com) Del Rey (www.penguin.co.uk) £7.99 PART ONE ** CONFIDENTIAL ** TOP SECRET: UK EYES ONLY, CLASSIFIED ‘A’ THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS MAJESTY’S GOVERNMENT MINUTES OF JOINT CYBER-ESPIONAGE / INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE ASSESSMENT MEETING 11.6 ‘THE ALTERNATIVE APPROACH TO STORAGE OF CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS’ ** Please note […]
Read More An Excerpt from THE MINDERS by John MarrsRULE BRITANNIA Alec Marsh Accent Press (www.headline.co.uk) £8.99 CHAPTER ONE London, December 1936 A fog of tobacco all but concealed the strutting satyrs, winged cherubs, and nude dancing nymphs that adorned the low ceiling of the Granville Club’s Long Bar. The cloud floated over a noisy, bobbing, gas-lit landscape of gentlemen patrons, lounging […]
Read More An Extract From RULE BRITANNIA by Alec MarshTHE DAUGHTER IN LAW Nina Manning (www.ninamanningauthor.com) Boldwood Books (www.boldwoodbooks.com) Annie My favourite room is the spare bedroom at the front of the house. It gets all the light in the morning and looks so inviting. I’ve done it up like a picture I saw in a lifestyle magazine: a checked throw across the […]
Read More An Extract from THE DAUGHTER IN LAW by Nina ManningSALVATION Peter F. Hamilton Pan Macmillan (www.panmacmillan.com) £20.00 Earth Calling Drifting through interstellar space, three light-years out from the star 31 Aquilae, the Neána abode cluster picked up a series of short, faint electromagnetic pulses that lasted intermittently for eighteen years. The early signatures were familiar to the Neána, and faintly worrying: nuclear fission detonations, […]
Read More EXTRACT: SALVATION by Peter F. HamiltonTIME TO WIN Harry Brett (www.henrysutton.co.uk/harry-brett) Corsair (www.littlebrown.co.uk) £16.99 There was a time when the sound of rain was comforting, calming. Now it pissed her off. It was autumn already, she remembered. September 1. It was not her favourite month. She let the patter swirl around her head for another few minutes, realising she was […]
Read More Extract: TIME TO WIN by Harry BrettSTEEPLE 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 […]
Read More EXTRACT From STEEPLE by Jon Wallace & COMPETITIONWORDS OF RADIANCE (The Stormlight Archive Book Two) Brandon Sanderson (brandonsanderson.com) Gollancz (www.gollancz.co.uk) £20.00 Today on Reader Dad, we’re very pleased to present an exclusive extract from Brandon Sanderson’s new novel, Words of Radiance. Below you will find Part 1, Chapter 1 of the novel, following on from yesterday’s extract at Sci Fi Now. Alternatively, […]
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