Category: Book Reviews
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Despatches – by Lee Murray – Book Review
Daily Star war correspondent Cassius Smythe is off to the Dardanelles to report on the Allied campaign. That is, if only the War Office will let him tell the truth. But after months in the trenches at Anzac Cove, Smythe learns that it isn’t just the Ottoman who wish to claim back the land, and…
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Twisted Branches – by Rachel Knightley – Book Review
Twisted Branches is a dark domestic noir on familial love, poisoned loyalty and how we knowingly and unknowingly mess up – and light up – each other’s lives. Artist and matriarch Effie clings to the house five generations of her family called home. But are its ghosts haunting her or is she summoning them? With…
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The Gateway in Apartment 8 – by Chisto Healy – Book Review
Sarah, an Asian-American college student moves into Sunnycrest Apartments because it’s a rare, affordable place. Strange things show up in her closet that don’t belong to her. Stranger still, they seem to come from the past. With the help of her psychiatrist, the girl she’s dating, and the quirky gay boy she met at a…
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Roads Less Travelled – Vol. 2 – by Rhys Hughes and Susan York – Book Review
Welcome to Volume 2 of Roads Less Travelled. This time around we’ve got the amazing, unusual, gloriously inventive Rhys Hughes, with a story that has been many years in the making. In addition, there’s a marvellously conceived and executed grand-guignol of a story from rising star Susan York. I’ve interviewed both authors, and their comments and…
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Architecture – by Paul Flewitt – Book Review
The homeless are being taken from the streets of the city; when she wakes in the morning to find herself painted red it sends Gabriel Travente on a journey to discover herself… There are ceremonies and rites which occur at various times in the world’s history, and they have the power to change the course…
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Through the Surface – by Juliet Rose – Book Review
Two tragedies, a few months apart and multiple states away from each other, leaves four people dead with one fighting for their life. As a result, this uproots the lives of teenagers Ledger Elliot and Iris Brubaker, who know nothing of each other. Fifteen years later, their paths cross when Iris moves to the small…
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Festival – by Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon – Book Review
New York Times bestselling horror writers Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon create a music festival to die for in this illustrated novel with artwork by Peter Bergting! The Valhalla music festival commemorates a long-ago Viking slaughter, but when strange things start to happen it seems the massacre may be far from over. When festival-goers begin to…
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The Weird Tales Boys – by Stephen Jones – Book Review
When the history of fantasy and horror fiction is being discussed, the pulp magazine Weird Tales is inevitably mentioned. Originally selling for just twenty-five cents on news-stands, and printed on low-grade ‘pulp’ paper, Weird Tales was the first magazine devoted exclusively to weird and fantastic fiction. The three most important and influential writers to have their work published in…
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Tooth & Claw – by Dave Jeffery – Book Review
There’s no place quite like Cofton Grange. Set in twelve-hundred acres of hills and woodland, it is a playground for the wealthy where, for the right price, every desire is made a reality.Tonight is special; a group of hunters have bought into the most exclusive contest, the opportunity to track and kill a fantastic and…
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South of Heaven – by Erin Louis – Book Review
Kat, a lapsed Catholic and promiscuous stripper, never thought she would get into Heaven. Even as she stands there at the Pearly Gates, she naturally expects to be sent directly to Hell. She picks a fight with St. Peter just for fun, but rules are rules, and Kat makes it into Heaven on a minor…
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