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I feel awfully late picking up on this, but there’s a new Joe Abercrombie book in the works called The Heroes. It won’t be out until January 2011, so expect lots of teaser material until then from Joe and his publishers Orion Books. Here’s a bit to be going on with: Firstly a sneak preview [...]

With the excellent Sherlock BBC series getting such a good audience at present, anything Sherlock Holmes related is bound to be popular. I see that Titan Books are releasing another in their series of Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series in October 2010, titled The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Dr Jekyll and Mr Holmes Here’s [...]

These are my top 5 “Straight” Historical Novels. That means there’s no alternate version of history or any fantasy element to them. I might do a couple more favourite lists to cover alternate history and historical fantasy another time. They do of course feature characters that are fictional in some cases rather than historical. 1. [...]

Pitched as “Pride and Prejudice and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell” this debut novel called Shades of Milk and Honey sounds intriguing. I’m not sure about the movie promo technique of trying to compare it to other books though. The Jane Austen allusion would actually put me off a bit, whereas I’m very interested in the [...]

Although George R. R. Martin‘s A Song of Ice and Fire series are fantasy fiction, and therefore anything goes, there is no denying that it is set within a fairly strong medieval setting. The Knights, titled Ser rather Sir, ride warhorses, joust with lances, feast in castle halls etc. I think one of the strengths [...]

I have noticed while reading A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin, that there are lot of viewpoint characters in this book. This owes something to the complexity of the plot and the diaspora of the Stark family perhaps, but I think it’s also a conscious technique by Martin to keep the reader [...]

A couple of days ago I started reading the second volume of  A Song of Ice and Fire series by George RR Martin, A Clash of Kings. I read the first book, A Game of Thrones, a couple of years ago and really enjoyed it, but I hadn’t had time to pick up the second [...]

Just spotted this competition to win a proof copy of Kraken on the Macmillan website – well I click on quite a cool video ad clip to find it actually! Only for UK residents I’m afraid!

A new novel by dark fantasy, new weird writer China Mieville is due out in May of this year. Called Kraken the book has something to do with squid worshippers and the Natural History Museum!

I hadn’t heard about this before, but there is to be a new book in the Gormenghast series published in 2011. The book was written by Mervyn’s widow Maeve Gilmore and is based on his notes. According to the Bookseller the manuscript was recently unearthed from a box in the attic of Peake’s granddaughter’s home. [...]