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 [...]
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Green Review: Florence & Giles by John Harding (blue door)
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 [...]
Amber Review: The Bookman by Lavie Tidhar (Angry Robot Books)
Title: The Bookman
Author: Lavie Tidhar
Pages: 395 plus extract from Camera Obscura
Genre: Streampunk
Standalone/Series: Series
Release: Out Now in Paperback UK and October 2010 US
Publisher: Angry Robot Books
Synopsis
When his beloved is killed in a terrorist atrocity committed by the sinister Bookman, young poet Orphan becomes enmeshed in a web of secrets and lies. His quest to uncover the [...]
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 [...]
Red Review: Hyddenworld: Spring by William Horwood (Macmillian)
Title: Hyddenworld: Spring
Author: William Horwood
Pages: 325
Genre: Fantasy
Standalone/Series: Series
Release: 5 Feb 2010
Publisher: Macmillan
Synopsis
William Horwood introduces to the hyddenworld – a place that is veiled from our own. There are crossing over places it seems but the hydden stay hidden from humans but there are occasions where the hydden and human worlds meet and this is the [...]
Review Delayed – Hyddenworld: Spring
I’m afraid this weeks planned review has been delayed. I’ll explain all when it’s up. Hopefully it’ll be this weekend
Green Review: Seeds of Earth by Michael Cobley (Orbit)
Title: Seeds of Earth
Author: Michael Cobley
Pages: 656
Genre: Science Fiction
Standalone/Series: Series – Humanity’s Fire
Release: Out 21st Jan 2010 in Paperback
Publisher: Orbit
Synopsis
The first intelligent race to encounter humanity is called the Swarm. They are merciless, relentless and unstoppable. With little chance of halting the savage invasion we send three ships from Earth in the hope [...]
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 [...]
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