The R-Patz Factz is – as the name suggests – a book of facts about the actor Robert Pattinson, he of Twilight, Harry Potter and Cosmopolis fame. The thing is, none of these ‘facts’ are actually true (as far as we know). This is because the book is in fact a work of parody, and […]
Chris Priestley (pictured above at a book festival last year) is the extremely talented author of the Tales of Terror series (Uncle Montague’s Tales of Terror, Tales of Terror from the Black Ship, and Tales of Terror from the Tunnel’s Mouth – plus the very rare The Teacher’s Tales of Terror for World Book Day […]
Mister Creecher by Chris Priestley (Bloomsbury, PB, £6.99, out now) It is always an enjoyable thing to see a talented writer challenging himself with an ambitious project. Here we have an exceedingly talented writer doing just such a thing with Mister Creecher, his latest novel. It would have been very easy for the author to produce […]
The British national tradition of Christmas ghost stories is something of which I was uttely ignorant until one December a couple of years ago, when a friend introduced me to the work of M. R. James. Widely regarded as being one of the finest writers of ghost stories in the English language, James would hold […]
Peter Wright is the author of Ribbon of Wildness: Discovering the Watershed of Scotland, published by Luath Press, £14.99, out now. What is the Watershed of Scotland? Well imagine you are a raindrop about to land on Scotland – your destiny dear raindrop, is that by bog, burn and river, you will end up […]
In October I had the opportunity to interview author Joanne Harris. Most of us will know her name due to the Chocolat movie. Of late she has broken into the Young Adult market with her Norse mythology fantasy title, Runemarks (out now, £7.99, published by Corgi). The sequel to that book, Runelight, was released in […]