WyrmeWeald: Bloodhoney by Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell (Doubleday, HB, £14.99 – OUT NOW) The second book in this trilogy, and the follow-up to 2010’s WyrmeWeald: Returner’s Wealth, Bloodhoney is, in short, an astounding achievement. When you consider that the market for this series is the lucrative Young Adult / Teen sector, it is […]
Dan Abnett is an author whose name is synonymous with Science-Fiction and future war – be it 2000AD, Gaunt’s Ghosts, the Horus Heresy, Eisenhorn, Ravenor, Doctor Who, Torchwood… And he keeps going. His most recent book is Know No Fear (out now from the Black Library in paperback, £7.99), the nineteenth book in the ongoing […]
Discworld: Anhk-Morpork – the Board Game (available from most book shops, price varies) “Welcome to Ankh-Morpork, the largest, smelliest, and most ‘interesting’ city on Discworld. The city’s patrician, Lord Vetinari, has disappeared, and the citizens are calling out for firm leadership. Will one of the noble families take control of the city, or will the people welcome the […]
Guy Pearce as the enigmatic Peter Weyland. What exactly is he up to? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUxdAWrsag8 and www.weylandindustries.com With the Summer blockbuster season fast approaching, the latest piece of Hollywood viral marketing to light up the blogs and social networks of the great webtropolis is this 3-minute video, which acts as a teaser of […]
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 […]