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Last week we posted about Ursula K. Le Guin’s titles in the SF Masterworks series and ended with the news that we were delighted to welcome a new addition: The Left Hand of Darkness. But […]

When you’re experiencing any kind of mental health crisis – or simply living with a chronic mental illness – one of the first things to be affected is, inevitably, your sleep. You sleep too much, […]

Nathan Hawke burst onto the fantasy scene in 2013 with the publication of his first trilogy – three fast-paced, hard-hitting novels about Gallow, an honest man trying to do good in a world where no-one […]

So I’ve never really got into the Star Trek thing.  But I saw the last re-vamped film and had to admire the way in which things blew up, people growled and tortured souls battled each […]

Last week saw the release of Star Trek ‘we couldn’t come up with a decent title for this film’. I went to see it on the weekend and here’s some brief thoughts (with no spoilers […]

Katy Rose Pool was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. After graduating from UC Berkeley with a degree in history, Katy spent a few years building websites by day and dreaming up prophecies by […]

Chapter 1   Working from home     I am trying to teach my mother that saying sorry is different to being sorry. The sort of lesson you might give to a three- year-old, only […]

The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith 2 How long must we fight? for I cannot stay, Nor will not stay! I have business. Francis Beaumont and Philip Massinger, The Little French Lawyer    The Tube was […]

In one of the poems of his later life, Thomas Hardy mused upon the devastation caused by the First World War, and called it ‘A Time of the Breaking of Nations’. Like the revolutions of […]

Dive into a magical tale of family, ambition and love, set in Gilded age New York and London. In 1692, Bridget Bishop was hanged as a witch. Two hundred years later, her legacy lives on […]

IAN LOOKS BACK ON THE LAST TWELVE MONTHS AND SHARES SOME OF HIS FAVOURITE BOOKS, FILMS AND RECORDS   I know, I know: I never call, I never write…   I’ve been very remiss this […]

The Devil’s Blade is available to pre-order now. Get it here.   Act One Scene One The Chorus of the Diaboliques   The torchlight is yet distant as she steps from the coach. The carriage […]

Chapter One   Route 149 Caldwell, New York Behind the wheel of her ten-year-old car, Jo Early bit into the Slim Jim and chewed like it was her last meal. She hated the fake-smoke taste […]

REAL TIME WRITING   ‘What I usually get first is a theme – which comes from something I’m interested in or some question that’s been bugging me’ Ian Rankin   Ian Rankin has written the […]

We are thrilled to reveal some incredible novels that are now available to read in the UK. Whether it’s the time-slipping life story of one woman who doesn’t know at what age she’ll wake up […]