DARKER DAYS by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

DARKER DAYS Thomas Olde Heuvelt (oldeheuvelt.com) Translated by Lia Belt (smarttranslations.nl) Bantam Books (penguin.co.uk) £20 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop In the small town of Lock Haven, Washington you’ll find a secluded cul-de-sac called Bird Street. There are half a dozen houses on Bird Street, a handful of families who harbour a […]

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 […]

THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT by Christopher Golden & Brian Keene

THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW ITNew Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand Edited byChristopher Golden (christophergolden.com)Brian Keene (briankeene.com) With an Introduction byStephen King (stephenking.com) Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) £25 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Almost 50 years after its first publication (and 35 since its re-release in a much […]

GOING HOME IN THE DARK by Dean Koontz

GOING HOME IN THE DARK Dean Koontz (deankoontz.com) Thomas & Mercer (amazon.com) £19.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Rebecca, Ernie, Bobby and Spencer have always been the “four amigos”, ever since bonding as outcasts, four nerdy teens against the rest of the school, the town, the world. When they grow, Rebecca, Bobby […]

NEVER FLINCH by Stephen King

NEVER FLINCH Stephen King (stephenking.com) Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) £25 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Welcome back to Buckeye City, Ohio, where the Chief of Detectives at the city’s Police Department has just received a disturbing letter from someone promising to kill thirteen innocent – and one guilty – people to atone […]

THE LAST STORM by Tim Lebbon

THE LAST STORM Tim Lebbon (timlebbon.net) Titan Books (titanbooks.com) £8.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Jesse is a Rainmaker, like his mother before him, and on back through the generations as far as the family can remember. In an America ravaged by climate change with large swathes known as the Desert, Jesse […]

ECHO by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

ECHO Thomas Olde Heuvelt Translated by Moshe Gilula (moshegilula.com) Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) £16.99 Nick Grevers has a passion for climbing mountains. It’s a passion his boyfriend doesn’t share, so Nick climbs with other people while Sam Avery stays home and worries. While descending a long-planned summit, Nick and his partner spy a mountain in […]

IMAGINARY FRIEND by Stephen Chbosky

IMAGINARY FRIEND Stephen Chbosky Orion Books (www.orionbooks.co.uk) £20.00 Kate Reese’s life has been a series of bad decisions since her husband took his own life in the bath several years before. When her latest boyfriend hits her, Kate packs up her few possessions, and her seven-year-old son, and flees eastward in the middle of the […]

YOU SHOULD HAVE LEFT by Daniel Kehlmann

YOU SHOULD HAVE LEFT Daniel Kehlmann (www.kehlmann.com) Translated by Ross Benjamin (www.rossmbenjamin.com) Riverrun (www.quercusbooks.co.uk) £10.00 A writer heads to the hills, retreating to a snow-bound chalet, with his wife and four-year-old daughter to try and write a sequel to his breakthrough film. While the solitude should allow them to enjoy each other as family, the […]

INFLUENCES: Finding My Own Voice by MATT WESOLOWSKI

Name: MATT WESOLOWSKI Author of: SIX STORIES (2017) On Twitter: ConcreteKraken It’s taken me years to find my own voice. I’ve spent the majority of my writing life mimicking; from a bargain-bin Enid Blyton when I was a kid, a teenage cut-price James Herbert to a snide Stephen King or else 50% off all Lovecraft, […]