I had a conversation with a bookseller recently about debut novels. We were surrounded by piles of Nick Harkaway’s second (amazing) novel, Angelmaker, and talking about how different it is to The Gone-Away World, his (amazing) debut. T...
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Hugh Cook's The Wizards and the Warriors (1987) has one of those timelessly awful late-1980s covers, and a generic cover quote - saying it'd be perfect for fans of David Eddings. In
hindsight, someone in marketing really dropped the ball...
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After wrapping up Batman: The Long Halloween and Dark Victory, the award-winning team of Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale tacked on a final mini-series, this one featuring DC's legendary femme fatale. Catwoman: When in Rome fills in a few gaps in ...
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This is part of a series of reviews, my attempt to cover all nine finalists for the David Gemmell Legend Award before the winner is announced at the end of October. I'll be approaching these books in a slightly templated fashion: plot su...
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Richard S. Prather's The Peddler - a funny one. This is Hard Case Crime #27. I'm looking ahead and plugging the gaps in the collection as I meander through my (ostensibly) weekly reviews, and this was one I'm missing. T...
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I'm way behind on writing reviews - a combination of life, SPFBO reading, sekrit projects and watching Ariana Grande and Chris Martin sing "Don't Look Back In Anger" on continuous loop. But whilst we all wait for me to get my act togethe...
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Each month(ish) I'm revisiting one of the big comic book crossovers of the last few decades. For my broad rules on what counts for consideration, see here.
The DC Universe in the late 1980s was… odd. The crisis had been and gone, result...
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