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THE COMPELLED (illustrated novella) by Adam Roberts and François Schuiten
A mysterious change has occurred in humanity. Nobody knows how, why or exactly when this change came about, but disparate, seemingly unconnected people have become afflicted with the uncontrollable desire to take objects and move them to other places, where the objects gather and begin to form increasingly alien, monolithic structures that appear to have […]
One Man's Opinion: THE STRANGERS IN THE HOUSE by GEORGES SIMENON
An odd one this. Not so much a whodunnit as a doesn'treallymatterwhodunnit. What's impressive about that is the lack of a need to know bears little impact upon the amount of pleasure I derived from the book. In an impressive, though deteriorating, house in the middle of town, lawyer Hector Loursat has withdrawn from the outer […]
One Man's Opinion: LIGHT AT THE END by HENRY G M JONES
It's funny, given that one of the best stories I think I've written is Drawn In (a short novel about soul collection), that I often struggle with books and films where things slip into the supernatural. Or at least I think I do. I suppose it's down to the way it's handled by the author or […]
One Man's Opinion: THE APRIL DEAD by ALAN PARKS
The first of my summer holiday reads this year was The April Dead by Alan Parks. It's the fourth in the Harry McCoy series and it's another stunner in my humble opinion. Things kick off with an explosion in a flat where the dead body of a bomb maker is found and there's evidence of a […]
Dig This Hole: The Complete Flipbook from NeoText
Moundsville State Prison was rotten to the core. The guards were almost as crooked as the cons. Gangs ruled the jail, and Davie Ingram ruled the gangs. But this time Davie's crew picked the wrong man to shake down. He's a man who won't take kindly to seeing a video of his brother being stomped […]
One Man's Opinion: THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT by WALTER TEVIS
'Sometimes, her head reeling, she would feel in the depth of her stomach an anger as intense as the pain of a burst abscess in the jaw- a toothache so potent that nothing but drink could alleviate it. Sometimes the drink had to be forced against a rejection of it by her body, but she […]
One Man's Opinion: HE WHO HESITATES by ED McBAIN
Something of a novelty in 87th Precinct terms, the police are merely part of the backdrop rather than driving cases forward. Roger Broome's a big man. His visit to the city has been successful and he's sold all of the bowls and furniture he brought in from home. His mother's pleased with the result and he's […]
One Man's Opinion: HOLE by GERRY BROWN (illustrated by EDUARDO RISSO)
Here's a turn up for the books, me reading a one-man-fighting-machine-against-the-odds thriller, something I've tended to avoid for quite a few years now. Without understanding quite why, it's a genre I avoid as it doesn't really engage me beyond the page-turning energy of trying to find out what's going to happen next (the edge of […]
One Man's Opinion: AX by ED McBAIN
'Uptown, in a slum basement, one cop missed death by four inches and another cop missed staying alive by four inches.'When there's a reading slump here in the Bird house, I can usually rely on Ed McBain and the fighting 87th to shake me out of it. Ax certainly helped in that respect, watering barren […]
BLOOD SENTENCE
BLOOD SENTENCE "Accomplished writing from one of the best authors in the UK." M.W. Craven, Sunday Times Bestselling author of the CWA Gold Dagger Washington Poe seriesThree bodies, one suspect. That suspect is you…When the unidentified corpse of an apparent suicide victim is found hanging above a complex pattern of forty photographs of children, Detective Inspector Jonah Pennance of the […]

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Month: September 2016

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