30 years is a long time in publishing. It’s a long time by anyone standards especially mine as The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is only a few months younger than me. And unlike me The Hitchhiker’s Guide can be considered to be maturing well.
It’s an ordinary Thursday lunchtime and Arthur Dent is [...]
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H2G2 Review: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (Pan)
H2G2 Week: Introduction to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
It’s almost one week to go until it’s the 30th anniversary of publication of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy novel by Douglas Adams. And I hope you’re excited? You are right?
What do you mean you’ve never heard of it? Sheesh call yourself a sci-fi fan and you mean to tell me that you’ve never [...]
Promo: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Something big is happening.
On 12 October 1979 the most remarkable book ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor (and Earth) was made available to humanity – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Pan Macmillan is celebrating thirty years of planet-hopping comic genius with the publication of special editions of Douglas [...]
Promo: Kill Her Again by Robert Gregory Browne (Pan Books)
Kill Her Again by Robert Gregory BrownePublished by Pan Books on 1st May 2009
FBI agent Anna McBride has reached a crisis point in her life. Disgraced and demoted after leading a disastrous operation in South San Francisco, she finds herself reassigned to one of the Bureau’s Southern California satellite offices, stuck with a partner who’s [...]
May Release Selected Highlights
Ok, so may is almost over but the good news is that you should be able to buy any of the books listed. All expect one are British releases though a lot of them have had or are having an American release. It’s a mix of new releases and paperback releases. I’ve cut it down [...]
Febuary Releases
Well we are into the second month of 2008 and it’s that time again. So here are some books that I like the look of that are appearing on the UK shelves this month either as brand new releases or paperback re-releases plus some books that I think that for some other reason are [...]
January Releases
Well as this is my first official post over at my new blog I thought I’d start with books that are appearing on the UK shelves in January either as brand new releases or paperback re-releases or for some other reason to make them worth mentioning.
Starting with a collection of tales by a master of [...]
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Still Reading
Well I’m 2/5s of the way through Vellum by Hal Duncan and almost 1/2 way through Debatable Space by Philip Palmer. And taking a leaf out of Tia’s book I thought while you wait for a review I’ll give a progress report.
Both are very different books but I’m enjoying both so far. Out of [...]