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 […]

HOLLY by Stephen King

HOLLY Stephen King (stephenking.com) Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) £25.00 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop When Bonnie Dahl disappears on an early summer evening, between work and home, leaving behind her bicycle and a short note (“I’VE HAD ENOUGH”), her mother Penny reaches out to the local private detective agency recommended by the […]

THE CURATOR by Owen King

THE CURATOR Owen King (owen-king.com) Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) £20.00 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop In an unnamed city in a world not unlike our own, revolution has ousted the people who have been in charge for generations. Dora, a young maid at the university, walks out of her job with one […]

THE DRIFT by C. J. Tudor

THE DRIFT CJ Tudor Michael Joseph (penguin.co.uk) £14.99 A bus, crashed in the wilderness, leaving a handful of survivors to fight their way out of their snowy tomb. A cable car, broken down within sight of its destination, the passengers suspended hundreds of metres above the snowy landscape with a murderer in their midst. And […]

FAIRY TALE by Stephen King

FAIRY TALE Stephen King (stephenking.com) Illustrated by Gabriel Rodriguez (instagram.com) & Nicolas Delort (nicolasdelort.com) Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) £22.00 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Charlie Reade is seventeen years old when he answers a distressed bark and discovers his elderly neighbour, having fallen from a ladder and broken his leg. It’s love […]

GWENDY’S FINAL TASK by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar

GWENDY’S FINAL TASK Stephen King (stephenking.com) Richard Chizmar (richardchizmar.com) Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) Cemetery Dance (cemeterydance.com) £16.99 / $28.00 Buy a copy: UK hardcover Cemetery Dance Trade Edition When she was twelve years old, Gwendy Peterson met a stranger named Richard Farris in her home town of Castle Rock, Maine. Farris entrusted Gwendy with a […]

The 2021 Round-up – Part 1

Happy New Year! Now that 2021 is well and truly in the can, and I’ve started reading books due to be published in 2022, I think it’s safe to present the list of books that stood out for me over the past twelve months. I read 102 books in 2021 and, after much agonising and […]

RAGE by Richard Bachman

RAGE Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman (stephenking.com) Currently unavailable Today is the day that Charles Everett Decker is going to “get it on.” Charlie, as he’s known by those around him, arrives at his early-morning algebra class with his father’s pistol and a pocketful of ammunition. After shooting dead his teacher, he takes his […]