Now here’s an interesting concept. Hammer Films (the producer of so many 1950-70s horror movies) have joined up with publishers Random House to form Hammer Books, a new imprint which will specialise in all things ghostly and shocking. I have had an affection for the horror genre since being an avid teen reader of the [...]
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In Far North, we read of a world in which the inevitable results of consumerism, global warming and the environmental exploitation of poorer nations has come full cycle. The disaster has long been and gone. Before the disaster, numbers of the concerned emigrated to Siberia, a blank canvas of a land, where environmentalists, Quakers and [...] In The Hunger Trace Edward Hogan has produced a characteristically English novel set among the hills of Derbyshire. Hogan’s elegant prose makes the English county of Derbyshire a main feature of the book with its remote villages and sodden countryside. He has an obvious love of his home county and writes eloquently of its rugged [...] I’ve always enjoyed Peter James series of police procedural novels set in Brighton. Peter has a close relationship with the Sussex Police, even to the extent of sponsoring a police car. He has been able to go out with them on their investigations and his books have an air of authenticity about them. His latest [...] I write a lot of reviews and while I only usually only write about books I enjoy, sometimes I have the pleasure of writing about something really special. Andrew Miller’s Pure is in this category of “five-star plus”, a book which I hope will be nominated for a prize, being both literary and readable [...] I’ve read countless books and its not often I come across one which is so unlike any I have read before. Pub Walks in Underhill Country, Nat Segnit’s first novel, is unique, both in style and content and kept me engrossed for a couple of days last week. At first glance the book looks [...] A sinister government establishment, The Facility, has been opened in the Cornish countryside, the purpose of which is to receive a category of detainees who need to be isolated from the mass of the population for fear of contamination. The facility is staffed by Prison Service staff, assisted by a tough and unfeeling team [...] Although I am an admirer of Alan Furst’s wonderful books about 1930′s and 40′s spies (such as the recent Spies of the Balkans), I somehow missed Philip Kerr’s series about his Berlin detective Bernie Gunther. I spotted his latest book Field Grey while browsing in a local bookshop (now sadly closing down) and its story [...] In Anatomy of Ghosts, Andrew Taylor has created a thoroughly entertaining read which was a nice change from some of the more serious books I’ve been reading lately. Its 1786, and Jerusalem College, Cambridge is experiencing some troubled times – a ghost has been prowling the grounds and a couple of drownings have occurred. In [...] |
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