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“The Last Day” by Andrew Hunter Murray (2020)
“Two thirty a.m., and no signal yet.” Look, I half made myself a promise a while ago to stop reading dystopian stories while the world still feels like one, but if I did I’d be wiping out many great...
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“The First Church On The Moon” by J. M. R. Higgs (2013)
“Jennifer Hammerpot, the Agnostic Bishop of Southwark, looked at the moon buggy with suspicion.” If you ask me, and there’s surely a reason people don’t, it’s been far too long since any of us stepped...
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“Falling Dark” by Tom Lloyd (2021)
“A level tone lost in the dark.” There’s no telling what we’ll find out in the darkest corners of the universe when (or if) humanity ever gets there. Tom Lloyd, however, has an idea, and it’s not...
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“Anthracite” by Matt Thomas (2021)
“The sound of samba drifting up from Aberdare’s Latin Quarter filled the bar with its contagious rhythm.” The trick sometimes to getting a new book out there is to spot a gap in the market. For...
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“Five Minds” by Guy Morpuss (2021)
“What to call it?” The human population is due to hit eight billion in around a month’s time. That’s November 2022, for those of you in the future, already dealing with this. This rapid growth is one...
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“Tender Is The Flesh” by Agustina Bazterrica (2017)
“Carcass.” My small, barely-remarked-upon, first novel was about a cannibal, but done in a way that complemented the gore with silliness. It was a comedy with a horrific cannibal at its heart. To me, I...
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“After Dark” by Jayne Cowie (2022)
“When I was a young woman at the police training academy, I learned two important things.” You’d think after reading a dystopian horror and having to immediately go into a Wodehouse, I’d have learnt to...
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“The Question Mark” by Muriel Jaeger (1926)
“I called for a hero – one who should be typical of the England of 1925…” It’s always interesting when authors try and predict the future. A lot of the time they miss the mark entirely – anything from...
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“Black Lake Manor” by Guy Morpuss (2022)
“Maquina, chief of the Mowachaht, watched impassively as the Pride of Whitby broke her back.” Whether it’s by TARDIS, DeLorean, or magical remote control, we all fancy the idea of time travel at least...
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“Red Side Story” by Jasper Fforde (2024)
“My name is Eddie Russett, but only for another two hours and nine minutes.” Thirteen years we’ve been waiting, so time to see if it was worth it. I was very, very lucky to be able to read an advanced...
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