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Green Review: Florence & Giles by John Harding (blue door)

Title: Florence & Giles
Author: John Harding
Pages: 272
Genre: Gothic Horror
Standalone/Series: Standalone
Release: 4 Mar 2010
Publisher: Blue Door
Synopsis
In a remote and crumbling New England mansion, 12-year-old orphan Florence is neglected by her guardian uncle and banned from reading. Left to her own devices she devours books in secret and talks to herself – and narrates this, her story [...]

Green Review: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)

Title: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms: Book One of the Inheritance Trilogy
Author: N.K. Jemisin
Pages: 448
Genre: Fantasy
Standalone/Series: Series but easily read as a stand-alone.
Release: Out Now in Paperbackk
Publisher: Orbit
Synopsis
Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky – a palace [...]

Green Review: Horns by Joe Hill (Gollancz)

Title: Horns
Author: Joe Hill
Pages: 448
Genre: Horror/Supernatural
Standalone/Series: Standalone
Release: 16 March in Hardback
Publisher: Victor Gollancz
Synopsis
Ignatius Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He woke up the next morning with one hell of a hangover, a raging headache . . . and a pair of horns growing from his temples.
Once, Ig lived the life of the [...]

Green Review: Killer by Dave Zeltserman (Serpent’s Tail)

Title: Killer
Author: Dave Zeltserman
Pages: 214
Genre: Crime
Standalone/Series: Standalone
Release: Out Now in Paperback
Publisher: Serpent’s Tail
Synopsis
Leonard March walks free from jail after fourteen years, served after turning state’s witness against Mafia boss Salvatore Lombard. But it was only after Leonard was sentenced that the public learned that he was a Mob (Lombard’s) hitman with eighteen deaths to his [...]

Green Review: Hell’s Belles by Paul Magrs

 

Title: Hell’s Bells Author: Paul Magrs Pages: 439 Genre: Comedic Gothic Urban Fantasy Standalone/Series: Series Book 4 of the Effie & Brenda Mysteries Release: Out Now in Hardback/Trade Paperback Publisher: headline review
Synopsis
Whitby attracts some [...]

Green Review: Turn Coat by Jim Butcher (Orbit)

Title: Turn Coat
Author: Jim Butcher
Pages: 437(hb) 544 (pb)
Genre: Noir, Urban Fantasy, Crime
Standalone/Series: Series – The Dresden Files Book 11
Release: Out Now in Hardback – 4 March in Paperback
Publisher: Orbit
Synopsis
When a man who has in the past been trying to kill you turns up at your door asking for help what do you do? If you’re [...]

Green Review: Small Favour by Jim Butcher (Orbit)

Title: Small Favour Author: Jim Butcher Pages: 437(hb) Genre: Noir, Urban Fantasy, Crime Standalone/Series: Series – The Dresden Files Book 10 Release: Out Now in Paperback Publisher: Orbit
Synopsis
The [...]

Green Review: White Night by Jim Butcher (Orbit)

Book Info
Title: White Night Author: Jim Butcher Pages: 454 Genre: Noir, Urban Fantasy, Crime Standalone/Series: Series – The Dresden Files Book 9 Release: Out Now in paperback Publisher: Orbit
Synopsis
Harry Dresden is called in to investigate what first [...]

Green Review: Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett (Doubleday)

Book Info
Title: Unseen Academicals Author: Terry Pratchett Pages: 400 Genre: Comic Fantasy Standalone/Series: Standalone but book 37 of the Discworld Release: Out Now in Hardback Publisher: Doubleday

Synopsis
Terry Pratchett reinvents football [...]