Oath of Fealty

Bella Pagan - March 15th, 2010

Elizabeth Moon’s writing has enriched the genre for many years and in her latest book, Oath of Fealty, her magic is clearly alive and well. I’ve read many of her books, and amongst them I’ve particularly enjoyed her Vatta’s…

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THE WAR OF THE DWARVES

Anna Gregson - March 8th, 2010

Following Celine Kiernan’s post below on translation into the German language, it seems appropriate to make a quick mention about one of our own titles in translation released this month: The War of the Dwarves (UK/ US/ ANZ), from international…

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C is for Cobley

Darren Nash - January 21st, 2010

C is for Cobley. Michael Cobley’s Seeds of Earth, the opening volume of his Humanity’s Fire series, was published last year to great acclaim and a very gratifying response from the reading public, whose voracious demands sent it…

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B is also for Bennett

Darren Nash - January 21st, 2010

B is also for Bennett. Robert Jackson Bennett, whose remarkable debut, Mr Shivers, is published this month in the UK, US and Australia. Robert’s US editor,…

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B is for Bakker

Darren Nash - January 20th, 2010

B is for Bakker, the author of the groundbreaking Prince of Nothing trilogy, who now returns to the world of Earwa with the first book of The Aspect-Emperor, The Judging…

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A is for Abraham

Darren Nash - January 20th, 2010

It seems appropriate to begin the New Year with an ABC (for those of us who celebrated the Yule so . . . enthusiastically, that they’ve managed to mislay, for the moment, the neurons that deal with such matters). And…

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Get an extract of Pamela Freeman’s FULL CIRCLE, HERE

Bella Pagan - January 19th, 2010

As Darren said in his round-up, the fantastic final volume of Pamela Freeman’s beautifully written Castings Trilogy is now here.  Full Circle (UK I ANZ I US) is a tremendous read, set in a troubled land…

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An Extract from Charlie Huston’s My Dead Body

Darren Nash - January 16th, 2010

In case you hadn’t noticed, vampires are very much the In Thing at the moment, pretty comfortably dominating the worlds of literature, television and movies. Yes, indeed - with a twinkle in the eye and a disturbingly pointy smile, the debonair…

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Available now, your extract of Ian Irvine’s THE DESTINY OF THE DEAD

Bella Pagan - January 14th, 2010

Ian Irvine has been impressing with his latest mighty trilogy, as you can see from SFX’s review for The Destiny of the Dead, the fabulous conclusion to The Song of the Tears books:

‘Thanks to Irvine’s light prose and insane sense…

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An extract from BEYOND THE WALL OF TIME

Anna Gregson - January 13th, 2010

There’s more extracty goodness coming up for you right HERE, in the form of a chapter 1 excerpt from Beyond the Wall of Time (UK/US), the stunning conclusion to Russell Kirkpatrick’s Broken Man trilogy.

See our previous post…

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