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 for garibaldi [...]
Posts Tagged ‘9/10’
Review: Un Lun Dun by China Miéville
Title: Un Lun Dun Author: China Miéville Publisher: Pan Published: 5 Feb 2007 Price: £6.99 Review Copy I wasn’t sure what to expect when I started reading Un Lun Dun. All I knew about Miéville was that he was an imaginative and political writer who could be categorised as writing in the New Weird tradition [...]
Review: Jack of Ravens by Mark Chadbourn
Title: Jack of Ravens Author: Mark Chadbourn Publisher: Gollancz Published: 6 December 2007 Price: £7.99 Review Copy Jack of Ravens continues Mark Chadbourn’s exploration of myth, archetypes and human nature. He does a lot more besides that but these are the backbone of the cycles of books that started with World’s End. Jack of Ravens [...]
Review: No Dominion by Charlie Huston
Title: No Dominion Author: Charlie Huston Publisher: Orbit Published: 5 Jul 07 Price: £6.99 Review Copy You gotta feel sorry for Joe Pitt. He can’t seem to help finding himself in serious trouble. Out of blood and out of cash and being behind on the rent Pitt needs a job. Though being a Vampyre and [...]
