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 […]

2 DUMB DINOS by Nathan Hamill & Eric Filipkowski

2 DUMB DINOS Nathan Hamill & Eric Filipkowski (instagram.com/2dumbdinos) Foreword by Mark Hamill Titan Comics (titan-comics.com) £13.99 ($16.99) Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop They’re dumb. They’re dinos. There’s two of them! Every once in a while, a book lands on my desk that defies all attempts at categorisation. This slim volume, collecting […]

STONEMOUTH by Iain Banks

STONEMOUTH Iain Banks (www.iain-banks.net) Little Brown (www.littlebrown.co.uk) £18.99 I didn’t have to read too far into Iain Banks’ latest novel, Stonemouth, to realise that I’ve been more than a little unfair to him over the course of the past few years. As a younger man, I read The Crow Road, having enjoyed the BBC television […]

THE POINT by Gerard Brennan

THE POINT Gerard Brennan (www.gerardbrennan.co.uk) Pulp Press (www.pulppress.co.uk) £7.99 Coming, as I do, from the wilds of West Belfast, I have an aversion to the Norn Irish accent on film and television; for me, there’s something distinctly cringe-worthy about it, a fact that is probably best exemplified every time Liam Neeson opens his mouth (who […]

KILLED AT THE WHIM OF A HAT by Colin Cotterill

KILLED AT THE WHIM OF A HAT Colin Cotterill (www.colincotterill.com) Quercus (www.quercusbooks.co.uk) £7.99 “Free societies are hopeful societies. And free societies will be allies against these hateful few who have no conscience, who kill at the whim of a hat.” As Colin Cotterill’s latest novel – the first in a series featuring crime reporter Jimm […]