I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett (Doubleday, PB, £6.99, out now) Tiffany Aching’s fourth outing presents the intrepid young witch with her most sinister challenge yet; to see off the malicious spirit of a long-dead witch hunter, simply known as the Cunning Man. He ghosts through the populace of Tiffany’s homeland of the Chalk, […]
Norwood by Charles Portis (published by Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd, out now, £8.99) This is the debut novel from Portis, most famous for True Grit, the book that inspired two movies. Norwood was released in 1966, and featured the laconic lead, Norwood Pratt, a wandering drifter with no aim. It’s a classic tale of […]
The Search For WondLa by Tony DiTerlizzi (Simon & Schuster, PB, due out September 2011, £6.99) This is one of the most original books I’ve read in some time. You may know of Tony DiTerlizzi as being one of the co-creators, and illustrator, of The Spiderwick Chronicles. I’m a fan of that series but I […]
Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis (U.S. import, published by HarperCollins, approx £7.99) Warren Ellis is one of the most talented and prolific graphic novelists of our age, but unfortunately outside the comic reading community he is an unknown. His work – until 2010’s RED adaptation, starring Bruce Willis – has largely been ignored with […]
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi (Orbit, £7.99, out now) Bio-punk is an emergent subgenre in sci-fi, swapping the cyber in cyberpunk for genetics. Debut author Bacigalupi does a fantastic job of world building here, as well as bringing to life a set of very real, and flawed, characters all trying to survive in a […]
WyrmeWeald: Bloodhoney by Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell (Published by Doubleday, released February 2012) I discovered this announcement just this minute (August 17th, 11.12pm) and I am excited. I’ve been waiting for the announcement of the second Wyrmeweald book since I finished the first, Returner’s Wealth (see my review). I simply cannot wait. This has […]