http://nextread.co.uk Reading mainly sci-fi, fantasy and crime plus other books that take my fancy. Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:22:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well it doesn't look like I'm going to get my July Books round up done until Saturday :( And there are so many good books to mention and I've got the rest of my expanding RSS feed to go through. July hasn't been the most productive month on the blog. In ... http://nextread.co.uk/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28rss%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fnextread.co.uk%2F2008%2F07%2F31%2Fupdate-july-and-other-stuff%2F&seed_title=Update%3A+July+and+other+stuff. This is just a quick post to see if I can post from my new iphone and I can!! http://nextread.co.uk/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28rss%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fnextread.co.uk%2F2008%2F07%2F29%2Fiphone%2F&seed_title=Iphone Here we so again. I can’t believe it’s been three weeks since the last one. I’ve been slowly reading The Hundred Towered City by …. and Superpowers by . Apart from that not too much book related stuff going on. I’ve had some lovely looking review copies that I need ... http://nextread.co.uk/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28rss%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fnextread.co.uk%2F2008%2F07%2F27%2Flinks-to-other-places-27-july-edition-part-1%2F&seed_title=Links+to+other+places+%26%238211%3B+27+July+Edition+Part+1 Title: Looking for Mr Piggy-Wig Author: Andy Secombe Publisher: Macmillan Published: 18 July 2008 Review Copy Synopsis It's twenty years after the 'New' Battle of Britain, and rationing is still in force. Our hero, Jack Lindsay, is a private investigator of the old school If he has a weakness, apart from a fondness ... http://nextread.co.uk/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28rss%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fnextread.co.uk%2F2008%2F07%2F17%2Freview-looking-for-mr-piggy-wig-by-andy-secombe%2F&seed_title=Review%3A+Looking+for+Mr+Piggy-Wig+by+Andy+Secombe Title: Kethani Author: Eric Brown Publisher: Solaris Published: 6 May 2008 Review Copy Synopsis It takes an alien race to show us what humanitiy truly is. This is the irony faced by a group of friends whose lives are changed forever when the mysterious alien race known as the Kethani come to Earth bearing a ... http://nextread.co.uk/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28rss%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fnextread.co.uk%2F2008%2F07%2F12%2Freview-kethani-by-eric-brown-solaris%2F&seed_title=Review%3A+Kethani+by+Eric+Brown+%28Solaris%29 Here we go again as I try and catch up with RSS feeds and things that I think you might find interesting. Future Classics Torque Control point me at a review of the Future Classics books. Shamefully I have the set minus Fairly Land and have yet to get past the first ... http://nextread.co.uk/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28rss%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fnextread.co.uk%2F2008%2F07%2F06%2Fround-up-links-to-other-places-than-here-6th-july-edition%2F&seed_title=Round-Up%3A+Links+to+other+places+than+here+6th+July+Edition Title: Trading in Danger Author: Elizabeth Moon Publisher: Orbit Published: 6 Nov 2003 Review Copy Description Ky Vatta is kicked out of the military academy for what should have been a small act of kindness. For the daughter of a rich trading family it should mean nothing but disgrace. Instead she is offered a captaincy ... http://nextread.co.uk/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28rss%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fnextread.co.uk%2F2008%2F07%2F05%2Freview-trading-in-danger-by-elizabeth-moon-orbit%2F&seed_title=Review%3A+Trading+in+Danger+by+Elizabeth+Moon+%28Orbit%29 I know it is July but I’m beginning to like doing round-ups at the end of the month rather than before. One good thing is that you should be able to buy them now. Another is that I can add links and comments from other places. Also I’m able to ... http://nextread.co.uk/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28rss%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fnextread.co.uk%2F2008%2F07%2F03%2Fjune-book-list%2F&seed_title=June+Book+List Title: Lost Boys Author: James Miller Publisher: Little, Brown Published: 3 July 2008 Review Copy Synopsis At an English Boys Private School children are going missing, they are dreaming and then disappearing but no one knows where they've gone. Analyse/Comments/Thoughts I wasn't expecting to like Lost Boys, coming of age stories aren't really my thing. I was expecting ... http://nextread.co.uk/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28rss%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fnextread.co.uk%2F2008%2F06%2F29%2Fdebut-review-lost-boys-by-james-miller-little-brown%2F&seed_title=Debut+Review%3A+Lost+Boys+by+James+Miller+%28Little%2C+Brown%29 Today has been a day of lists. Like the list of books for June that I'm still sorting out. If the Fantasy Book Critic is anything to go by it could be quite mammoth so have I feeling that I might have to be quite brutal and cut out one ... http://nextread.co.uk/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28rss%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fnextread.co.uk%2F2008%2F06%2F28%2Flists%2F&seed_title=Lists