THE BOY WITH THE PORCELAIN BLADE by Den Patrick

THE BOY WITH THE PORCELAIN BLADE Den Patrick (www.denpatrick.com) Gollancz (www.gollancz.co.uk) £20.00 On the weather-beaten island of Landfall stands the sprawling Demesne – four great Houses built around a central Keep which houses the reclusive, and reputedly mad, King. Lucien ‘Sinistra’ di Fontein is Orfano, a disfigured foundling taken in by the nobility of Demesne […]

Extract: WORDS OF RADIANCE by Brandon Sanderson

WORDS 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, […]

The 2013 Round-Up

And so, once more, to the end of the year and the requisite retrospective of my reading habits over the past twelve months here at Reader Dad. Regular visitors and Twitter followers will know that 2013 has been a year full of ups and downs (more downs, unfortunately, than ups) for me, what with five […]

DOCTOR WHO at 50: An Excerpt from BEHIND THE SOFA

BEHIND THE SOFA Edited by Steve Berry Gollancz (www.gollancz.co.uk) £9.99 All author royalties are donated to Alzheimer’s Research UK. Saturday 23rd November 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of the world’s longest-running science fiction drama, Doctor Who. As a long-time fan, I thought it would be nice to mark the occasion in some way and, thanks […]

NOS4R2 by Joe Hill

NOS4R2 Joe Hill (joehillfiction.com) Gollancz (www.gollancz.co.uk) £18.99 Released: 30th May 2013 The Brat was nine years old the first time she rode over the covered bridge that crossed the distance between Lost and Found. Nine-year-old Victoria “Vic” McQueen’s new bicycle brings with it an uncanny new ability: when she rides it across the condemned structure […]

Hospital Reading Round-up, or: A Letter of Apology

Dear Reader, I hope you will forgive this break from the usual straightforward literary(?) criticism for this personal note to explain the relative quiet at Reader Dad of late, and to apologise to authors, publishers, publicists and potential readers for the lack of reviews written and published on the site since mid-February. Anyone who follows […]

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 […]