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 […]
Read More HOLLY by Stephen KingTHE 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 […]
Read More THE CURATOR by Owen KingTHE 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 […]
Read More THE DRIFT by C. J. TudorFAIRY 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 […]
Read More FAIRY TALE by Stephen KingGWENDY’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 […]
Read More GWENDY’S FINAL TASK by Stephen King and Richard ChizmarHappy 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 […]
Read More The 2021 Round-up – Part 1RAGE 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 […]
Read More RAGE by Richard BachmanLATER Stephen King (stephenking.com) Hard Case Crime (hardcasecrime.com) £8.99 Looking back on it, I sometimes think my life was like a Dickens novel, only with swearing. From a young age Jamie Conklin has been able to see dead people. Sometimes it’s difficult to tell, because they don’t look like anyone’s conventional idea of a ghost, […]
Read More LATER by Stephen KingTHE LAST THING TO BURN Will Dean Hodder & Stoughton (https://www.hodder.co.uk/) £12.99 Leonard – Lenn to those that know him – lives in the small farmhouse on Fen Farm in which he was born, and in which he has lived his whole life; first with his mother, Jane; then with his first wife, also called […]
Read More THE LAST THING TO BURN by Will DeanIF IT BLEEDS Stephen King (stephenking.com) Hodder & Stoughton (www.hodder.co.uk) £20 We are living through strange – nay, unprecedented – times, and it has been said more than once that 2020 feels like we’re living through a Stephen King novel. As fans of post-apocalyptic fiction, we’ve lived through this scenario, through the escapism provided by […]
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