COMPETITION: Win a Copy of THE SILENT WIFE by A.S.A. Harrison

Thanks to those lovely people at Headline, we are celebrating the recent release of A.S.A. Harrison’s debut novel, The Silent Wife, by giving away a copy to one lucky Reader Dad visitor. This competition is open to UK visitors only. To be in with a chance of winning a copy of this brilliant novel, […]

GUEST POST: Falling Between the Genre Cracks by MYKE COLE

Name: MYKE COLE Author of: CONTROL POINT (SHADOW OPS 1) (2012) FORTRESS FRONTIER (SHADOW OPS 2) (2013) On the web: mykecole.com On Twitter: @MykeCole To celebrate the publication of his second novel, and the second book in his Shadow Ops series, Fortress Frontier, I am very pleased to welcome Myke Cole back to Reader […]

CONTROL POINT by Myke Cole

CONTROL POINT (SHADOW OPS: Book One) Myke Cole (mykecole.com) Headline (www.headline.co.uk) £7.99 In the aftermath of the Great Reawakening, the world is a different place. Magic has returned, and people across the globe are turning up Latent, Manifesting in any one of a handful of schools of magic. Those who Manifest in the legal schools […]

PURE by Julianna Baggott

PURE Julianna Baggott (www.juliannabaggott.com) Headline Books (www.headline.co.uk) £14.99 As a fan of post-apocalyptic fiction, I am always excited to see what new worlds can spring forth from the minds of writers whose contemplations all start at the same point: what if the world as we know it ended? In Pure, Julianna Baggott gives us a […]

The 2011 Round-Up

As the end of the year approaches, I have decided to break from the straightforward review posts that have populated Reader Dad to date, to do a brief round-up of the year’s reading, including my Top 10 of 2011 and my Most Disappointing of 2011. THE ROUND-UP If you have checked out my newly-added Reading […]