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![]() ![]() ![]() I love being there more than the real London’ ‘Ben Aaronovitch has created a wonderful world full of mystery, magic and fantastic characters. And, far worse, he might even have to come to terms with the malevolent supernatural killer and agent of chaos known as Mr Punch… To save his beloved city Peter’s going to need help from his former best friend and colleague – Lesley May – who brutally betrayed him and everything he thought she believed in. A plan that has its roots in London’s two thousand bloody years of history, and could literally bring the city to its knees. Peter Grant, Detective Constable and apprentice wizard, now plays a key role in an unprecedented joint operation to bring Chorley to justice.īut even as the unwieldy might of the Metropolitan Police bears down on its foe, Peter uncovers clues that Chorley, far from being finished, is executing the final stages of a long-term plan. ![]() Martin Chorley – aka the Faceless Man – wanted for multiple counts of murder, fraud and crimes against humanity, has been unmasked and is on the run. Book 7 in the Rivers of London series, from Sunday Times Number One bestselling author Ben Aaronovitch. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fans of great horror comics do not want to miss out on this deeply unsettling collection. I'm all in!' -JEFF LEMIRE (GIDEON FALLS, Sweet Tooth) 'JEREMY HAUN is an expert craftsman at building short horror stories that dig under your skin and wriggle around there. JEREMY HAUN always delivers and this is no exception. It’s Spider-Man fever in this week’s Marvel Rundown as the crew reviews two huge wall-crawling issues. Features an introduction by Shirley Jackson Award winning horror author NATHAN BALLINGRUD! Select praise for HAUNTHOLOGY: 'HAUNTHOLOGY somehow manages to be deeply personal and deeply creepy and cool. Whether exploring a claustrophobic old house full of nefarious entities or the heavy thoughts one has during the pending end of the world, this very personal project was written and drawn entirely during the COVID lockdowns. ![]() ![]() From creatures of the night to even more terrifying creatures of the day, HAUNTHOLOGY is an anxiety-inducing collection of 28 short stories and vignettes from the mind of JEREMY HAUN, the writer and artist behind THE BEAUTY, THE REALM, The Red Mother, The Approach and other nightmarish mindscapes. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Acquired from the sale of Gallico's library.?With the unclipped dust wrapper. Uncle Paul refers to American novelist Paul Gallico, best remembered for?The Snow Goose and?The Poseidon Adventure. Perhaps you would remind her that Uncle Paul's new book is called 'Love, Let Me Not Hunger.' // I hope you will enjoy this novel by Jenifer Wayne," dated 1963. Please tell Mummy that the postcard was franked "towards a world free from hunger". This is splendid news and I hope to have more postcards from you during the summer. The letter reads: "I was very pleased to have your postcard from Egypt letting me know that you came first in class once again. Following the story of Louis, Japhet, and Rose, with much drama and laughter in the life of what seems like an ordinary family.?Loosely inserted in this volume, a letter signed by Charles Pick, managing director of William Heinemann, addressed to Baroness Ludmila von Falz-Fein. ![]() This is one of her three volumes featuring the same group of three children, together with the?Sprout series and?The Day the Ceiling Fell Down. ![]() ![]() The very scarce first edition of this volume by Jenifer Wayne, British author of children's literature. The very scarce first edition of this novel by Jenifer Wayne, with a letter signed by the managing director of William Heinemann addressed to actress Ludmila von Falz-Fein. ![]() ![]() And without a sister to carry on the conversation, I just kept going. Giving her a backstory, what she had done today, where she was going now, who she was talking to. I started this habit of narrating the doll’s life. And boys just don’t play well with dolls. I loved dolls–they seemed so interesting!–but playing by yourself, they’re sort of boring. Primarily, I wanted someone to play Barbies and American Girls with. ![]() My brothers tended to pair off–two of them, one of me–and I wanted someone to pair off with. When I was a kid, I always wanted a sister. ![]() Sounds amazing! And now, from AC on this week’s theme of knowing when to pack it in: Only the Hood and his band know the truth: the agile thief posing as a whip of a boy is actually a fearless young woman with a secret past. ![]() Her debut young adult novel Scarlet, a retelling of the Robin Hood legend, released on Valentine’s Day, 2012 from Bloomsbury/Walker.Ībout Scarlet: Posing as one of Robin Hood’s thieves to avoid the wrath of the evil Thief Taker Lord Gisbourne, Scarlet has kept her identity secret from all of Nottinghamshire. Freelance writer, wrapper, hotel concierge, retail flunkie, telemarketer, non-profit board member and personal shopper are just the beginning of the list, but young adult novelist is without a doubt her favorite hat to wear. ![]() AC Gaughen has been a lot of things in her life. ![]() ![]() Moorcock’s most famous fantasy creation was Elric of Melniboné, an albino warrior conceived as a kind of ‘anti-Conan’ – indeed, an antihero more generally. Moorcock wrote a number of popular fantasy trilogies like this, churning out many of their constituent novels in as little as three days, among them two enjoyable trilogies about Corum Jhaelen Irsei, a prince inhabiting a world based on Cornish mythology, and including my favourite feline in all of fiction, the little winged black-and-white cat belonging to Corum’s companion, Jhary-a-Conel. ![]() And many of Moorcock’s early novels, written rapidly in the 1960s and early 1970s, were high fantasy trilogies which loosely followed the triple-decker publishing model set by The Lord of the Rings in the 1950s (owing to paper shortages after the Second World War, oddly enough: this was the only reason this long novel was initially published in three volumes, reverting to the Victorian model of chopping up a Dickens novel into three chunks for Mudie’s circulating libraries). Moorcock is often – somewhat lazily – labelled ‘the anti-Tolkien’, but of course it was the cult-like popularity of Tolkien’s work in the 1960s counterculture that helped pave the way for the fantasy boom. ![]() Indeed, it was Michael Moorcock who wrote the most famous denunciation of The Lord of the Rings in his essay, ‘ Epic Pooh’. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee December 5, 2022.Stellar Instinct by Jonathan Nevair December 10, 2022.Titan Hoppers by Rob J. Hayes December 15, 2022. ![]() Read it for some mystery and a promise for more fun to come. Raven is a good new story arc in the Teen Titan story. There’s also a great scene of homophobia smack down that I particularly loved! The typical high school drama took on more serious effects as the depth of the consequences are alarming. It’s a unique way of experiencing Raven’s condition. Drawn mostly in black, white, and greys, but splashed with color when emotion is ‘heard’ by Raven or experienced by the characters. Everyone is hiding something and there are many who will try to manipulate Raven’s slipped memory.Īfter the first trip, there were many things I enjoyed about this one. Her journey to discovery is clouded with others who know much more than Rachel does. Rachel is an empath and has a special way of influencing others, but there’s also an evil voice in her head. She slowly is realizing that she is different than everyone else. Rachel has a new foster sister in Max and a new high school. A car accident with her foster mother sends Rachel Roth from Atlanta to her foster mother’s sister in New Orleans. It took me a little time to get over the amnesia opening plot device. ![]() ![]() ![]() I hope I can do my admittedly meager part in changing that. Sadly, Lawhead is criminally underrated as an author. I devoured that series in the 4th grade and it played a massive role in sparking my love affair with reading. His first series, The Dragon King Trilogy, opened my eyes to the world of fantasy in a way no books before it had been able to do. He has shaped the imaginations of thousands of readers, mine included. Stephen Lawhead has been writing spiritually-saturated historical fiction, fantasy, and science fiction for over 40 years. We’re going to stick with my original impulse for the title and you are just going to have to accept that this list will include more than five books. ![]() Lawhead Books You Should Read”, but that sounds too daunting and it’s not as catchy. So, to be perfectly accurate, this should probably be called something else, like “A Bunch of Stephen R. Lawhead Books You Should Read” but I’m going to include some series as well. I’m going to be completely honest with you upfront. ![]() ![]() Shame, as I like the Crusaders, but almost no one has had any success with them. ![]() The writers on these stories can't even keep track of their own rules and so heroes gain new powers for a single story with no explaination and it never happens again.Ĭreate an internal logic and stick with it for god's sake! If the writer can't bother to keep track of this stuff and care, why should we. I love old silver age comics and am able to suspend my disbelief because I understand how those worlds work and just go with it. ![]() As the marvel universe was taking off in the 60's, Archie comics dusted off their old super heroes with idea of cashing in and instead gave us this bunch of stories.įlat characterization, weird adventures that make silver age Superman stories look like the discovery channel and attempts at humor and hip slang that are painful to read. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Audible chose Awaken the Darkness as Dianne Duvall is the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author of the acclaimed Immortal Guardians series, the exciting new Aldebarian Alliance series, and The Gifted Ones series. It was also a Barnes and Noble Top 5 Indie Favorite Pick. AudioFile Magazine chose The Segonian (Aldebarian Alliance Book 2) as one of the Best Audiobooks of 2021 and awarded it the AudioFile Earphones Award for Exceptional Audio. She is known for writing stories full of action that keeps readers flipping pages well past their bedtimes, strong heroes who adore strong heroines, lovable secondary characters, swoon-worthy romance, and humor that readers frequently complain makes them laugh out loud at inappropriate moments. Dianne Duvall is the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author of the acclaimed Immortal Guardians series, the exciting new Aldebarian Alliance series, and The Gifted Ones series. ![]() |