An Extract from THE HAND OF THE SUN KING by J. T. Greathouse

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 […]

An Extract from THE DYING SQUAD by Adam Simcox

THE 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 […]

INSCAPE by Louise Carey

INSCAPE Louise Carey(louise-carey.com) Gollancz (gollancz.co.uk) £14.99 In the future, London is run by giant corporations. Less like a city and more like a series of campuses, everyone who lives in the city is affiliated with one “Corp” or other, while those who live outside in the Unaffiliated Zone are seen as outcasts at best, dangerous […]

THE GOD GAME by Danny Tobey

THE GOD GAME Danny Tobey (www.facebook.com/dannytobeybooks) Gollancz (www.gollancz.co.uk) £16.99 Charlie and his friends are high-school misfits. Nerds and losers, the group of five friends call themselves the Vindicators, and spend most of their free time in the school’s Tech Lab, coding and building robots. Charlie, once a star student, has let his work suffer following […]

EMPIRE OF SILENCE by Christopher Ruocchio

EMPIRE OF SILENCE (SUN EATER BOOK 1) Christopher Ruocchio Gollancz (www.gollancz.co.uk) £16.99 Hadrian Marlowe, eldest son of the ruler of the planet Delos, is little more than an embarrassment to his father. A wannabe scholiast, he is far from the strong son who could rule with an iron fist in the event that Lord Alastair […]

THE BELLES by Dhonielle Clayton

THE BELLES Dhonielle Clayton (www.dhonielleclayton.com) Gollancz (www.gollancz.co.uk) £10.99 The people of Orléans are born with grey skin and red eyes, cursed – according to legend – by the God of Sky to eventual madness. In every generation a group of Belles are born, young women who have the power to change how people look and […]

In Conversation with JOE HILL

Name: Joe Hill Author of: HEART-SHAPED BOX (2007) HORNS (2010) NOS4R2 (2013) THE FIREMAN (2016) STRANGE WEATHER (2017) On the web: http://www.joehillfiction.com On Twitter: @joe_hill Something a little bit different today on Reader Dad. On 10th November 2017, Joe Hill visited Belfast as the final stop on his Strange Weather tour. […]

The 2016 Round-Up

Another year coming to an end (and one many of us will be very happy to see the back of), which means its time for me to do a quick round-up and list my favourite books of the year. I’m late getting this out this year, so if you’re looking to buy any of these […]

THE FIREMAN by Joe Hill

THE FIREMAN Joe Hill (www.joehillfiction.com) Gollancz (www.gollancz.co.uk) £20.00 Harper Grayson is working as a school nurse when the world ends. Draco Incendia Trychophyton, better known as Dragonscale, is a spore that infects that vast majority of people with whom it comes into contact – the symptoms are a beautiful tattoo-like patterning of the skin and […]

13 MINUTES by Sarah Pinborough

13 MINUTES Sarah Pinborough (sarahpinborough.com) Gollancz (www.gollancz.co.uk) £16.99 When the body of sixteen-year-old Natasha Howland is pulled from the freezing river, it takes paramedics thirteen minutes to revive her. Natasha is part of the popular crowd a school, a beauty queen and leader of “the Barbies”, a trio of blonde ice queens for whom status […]