Seeing as a couple of people said ‘why not’ to my recent suggestion about including some book p0rn here’s a few shots of books that have arrived over the last few weeks.
I’m going to let them speak for themselves apart from saying I hope that there are one or two that take your fancy and thanks to the publishers for sending them. If there any that you’d like to see move up the review pile let me know and I’ll see what I can do!
I had The Writers Tale signed by Russell T Davies. It was well worth the ungainly jumping over a barrier…
Finally, if I had to choose one book I was amazed and humbled to have arrive it was Just After Sunset. Stephen King is one of my favourite short story writers. Make that writers full stop.
Last Colony, Prador Moon and Temporal Void are all great reads, although I think I’d be going for Just After Sunset myself. I’ve got an old and tatty copy of Nightmares and Dreamscapes that I always come back to to get a good short story
I’ve promised myself that I will have a review of Just After Sunset up on the day of release on the 12th November so it’s going to be sooner rather than later.
I loved ‘Mist’, a great short story that doesn’t end quite the way I was hoping. No happy ending for me!
Great idea to include actual photos of the books. Sometimes the look of a book can make the difference between whether I buy or not – and its not just the cover, its the size and shape and wotnot.
I just got a book today (‘Show Me the Sky’) that looks a bit like a video, its in a slip case – Canongate seem to do a lot of quirky things with their books. I’ve had a couple of ones with blackened pages lately (‘The End of Mr Y’ which might be your cup of tea? and ‘The Gargoyle’ which I haven’t read yet). I think its a good idea when things stand out, but it could cross the line into annoying and gimmicky.
Hi Jem,
Really sorry for the delay in replying. I thought I had!
For something that should focus on the quality of text alone the packaging makes a hell of a lot of difference.
Has The End of Mr Y got a lot of sex in it or am I confusing it with the similar book that a purple cover by Penguin?
I’ve fancied The Gargoyle but isn’t rather short and dumpy as book?