Title: The Burning Man Author: Mark Chadbourn Publisher: Gollancz Published: 17 April 2008 Review Copy The Burning Man brings the Brothers and Sisters of Dragons closer to the end of the world. And after eight books (three in Age of Misrule, three in The Dark Age and this is the second in The Kingdom of [...]
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Review: The Hounds of Avalon by Mark Chadbourn
Title: The Houds of Avalon Author: Mark Chadbourn Publisher: Gollancz Published: 08 June 2006 Price: £6.99 There are some writers who build whole new worlds and some who raise questions about the world we are already in. Mark Chadbourn has created his own brand of urban fantasy by building a story around the myth and [...]
Review: Dead Men’s Boots by Mike Carey (Orbit)
Title: Dead Men’s Boots Author: Mike Carey Publisher: Orbit Published: 06 September 2007 Price: £7.99 Review Copy Felix Castor, exorcist, doesn’t like funerals and at the start of Dead Men’s Boots that’s exactly where he is when a lawyer turns up to exhume the deceased (a former exorcist and someone Castor avoided before he died) [...]
Film Review: Stardust
If there is a film to restore your faith in the movies it has to be Stardust.A boy makes a promise to cross The Wall and bring back a falling star – but he isn’t the only one looking for it and the star isn’t exactly a chunk of rock. Stardust is a modern fairy [...]
Debut Review: HeartSick by Chelsea Cain
Title: HeartSick Author: Chelsea Cain Publisher: Macmillan Published: 3 August 2007 Price: £10.00 Review Copy I said in a recent review that plotting takes practice and I want to know where Chelsea Cain took her lessons. Heart Sick is more than a catch-the-killer detective story. It plays with your mind. What would happen if the [...]
Review: Already Dead by Charlie Huston
Title: Already Dead Author: Charlie Huston Publisher: Orbit Published: Price: £6.99 Review Copy There are writers you slip into and writers you have to work at and Charlie Huston is as smooth as warm butter. I was hooked from the opening line, ‘I smell them before I see them’. That’s how we’re introduced to the [...]
Debut Review: The Good Thief’s Guide to Amerstdam by Chris Ewan
Title: The Good Thief’s Guide to Amsterdam Author: Chris Ewan Publisher: Long Barn Books Published: 2007 Price: 12.99 Bookshelf I’ve been meaning to get my hands on this book for quite some time. Any book that can survive the fire of Susan Hill has got to be good, right? Yes, definitely. Is it a big [...]
Debut Review: Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips
Title: Gods Behaving Badly Author: Marie Philips Publisher: Jonathon Cape Published in Hardback: 02 August 2007 Price: 12.99 Review Copy I hardly know where to start with this stunning debut so let’s start with the illustration. The dust jacket, endpapers and the first few pages all contain wonderful illustrations by Suzanne Dean. They really set [...]
