Warhammer 40K: Dark Vengeance Boxed set, Games Workshop, approx. retail £65 It is quite standard now that when a new edition of the Warhammer 40, 000 rulebook comes out, as it did this summer, that there will be a new boxed set following soon after. And here we have it: Dark Vengeance, out now […]
Axe Cop It all started with two brothers messing around one day; they came up with idea of a cop who fights crime, with, you guessed it it, his axe. Oh, sorry, I should also mention; the two brothers are called Ethan and Malachai Nicolle. Ethan was twenty-nine when all this started, and Malachai […]
Manhattan In Reverse by Peter F. Hamilton (published by MacMillan, out now, £7.99) Peter F. Hamilton doesn’t write much short fiction, but this collection begs the question “why not?”. Although he is famous for his giant tome-like novels, he clearly has talent for short stories too. From the initial, century spanning ‘Watching Trees Grow’ to the […]
Chris Priestley at the Edinburgh International Book Festival Sunday 26th August, 5 til 6pm When this man speaks, you listen. Chris Priestley returned to the Edinburgh International Book Festival for the second year running, and was pleasingly enough in a bigger venue more suited to him (the RBS Corner Theatre, instead of the smaller, […]
Sunday 26th August, 5pm til 6pm, RBS Corner Theatre, EIBF, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh For those of you out there paying attention, Chris Priestley is one of the finest literary horror writers of recent times. It just so happens his books are sold in the teen/YA section of bookstores. Some attempt by his publisher, Bloomsbury, has […]
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2012 Closing Night Gala Film / European premiere of Disney Pixar’s Brave The glitz and the glamour of the Edinburgh Film Festival 2012 came to an end on the weekend of the 30th June. Taking place at the Festival theatre in Edinburgh city centre, the European premiere of Disney Pixar’s Brave […]