September 2023 – Everything Is Better With Dragons

Review: Divide – The Relationship Crisis Between Town & Country, by Anna Jones

Publication date Thursday,
September 14, 2023
Price £10.99
EAN\ISBN-13 9780857839732

Description

This book is a call to action. It warns that unless we learn to accept and respect our social, cultural and political differences as town and country people, we are never going to solve the chronic problems in our food system and environment.

As we stare down the barrel of climate change, only farmers – who manage two thirds of the UK’s landscape – working together with conservation groups can create a healthier food system and bring back nature in diverse abundance. But this fledgling progress is hindered and hamstrung by simplistic debates that still stoke conflict between conservative rural communities and the liberal green movement.

Each chapter, from Family and Politics to Animal Welfare and the Environment, explores a different aspect of the urban/rural disconnect, weaving case studies and research with Anna’s personal stories of growing up on a small, upland farm. There is a simple theme and a strong message running throughout the book – a plea to respect our differences, recognise each other’s strengths and work together to heal the land.

Audiobook Review: Cover The Bones, by Rachel Amphlett

*Cover the Bones (Detective Mark Turpin series, book 5*
Imprint:                      Saxon Publishing
Publication date:       18 September 2023
Availability:               Worldwide
ISBN eBook:             978-1-915231-56-7
ISBN paperback:      978-1-915231-54-3
ISBN large print:       978-1-915231-55-0
Audiobook:                978-1-915231-57-4

Book details

When archaeologists discover a skeleton in secluded woodland, the body is first thought to be related to an ancient Saxon settlement.

Then the torn and rotten remains of another woman’s bones are uncovered, her injuries bearing the markings of abuse and a violent death.

Detective Mark Turpin is tasked with finding their killer, except the forensic evidence is perplexing and the victims’ bodies are proving impossible to identify. When a third victim is discovered only metres from the first, Mark and his team realise they’re running out of time to find out whoever is responsible.

Are the brutal murders the only evidence in a case gone cold, or does a serial killer lurk in the shadows, stalking their next victim?

Cover the Bones is the fifth book in the Detective Mark Turpin series from USA Today bestselling author Rachel Amphlett.

Review: A Sword of Bronze and Ashes, by Anna Smith Spark

● Genre – **Fiction > Fantasy**
● ISBN hardcover – **978-1-78758-840-0**
● ISBN paperback – **978-1-78758-839-4**
● ISBN ebook – **978-1-78758-841-7**
● Pricing [USD] **$26.95 (HC) / $16.95 (PB) / $4.99 (EB)**
● Pricing [GBP] **£20 (HC) / £9.95 (PB) / £6.95 (EB)**
● Releases **September 12 2023**
● Published by **Flame Tree Press**
● Distributed by **Simon & Schuster (US),**
**Hachette Book Group (UK)**

Blurb

A Sword of Bronze and Ashes combines the fierce beauty of Celtic myth with grimdark battle violence. It’s a lyrical, folk horror high fantasy.

Kanda has a good life until shadows from her past return threatening everything she loves. And Kanda, like any parent, has things in her past she does not want her children to know. Red war is coming: pursued by an ancient evil, Kanda must call upon all her strength to protect her family. But how can she keep her children safe, if they want to stand as warriors beside her when the light fades and darkness rises?

Review: Promise, by Christi Nogle

Promise collects Christi Nogle’s best futuristic stories ranging from plausible tech-based science fiction to science fantasy stories about aliens in our midst: chameleonic foils hover in the skies, you can order a headset to speak and dream with your dog, and your devices sometimes connect not just to the web but to the underworld.

These tales will recall the stories of Ray Bradbury, television programs such as Black Mirror and The Twilight Zone, and novels such as Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin or Under the Skin by Michel Faber.

They are often strange and dreadful but veer towards themes of hope, potential, promise.

Blog tour calendar: Cover the Bones, by Rachel Amphlett

British Fantasy Awards 2023

This evening I attended the British Fantasy Awards. I’m at FantasyCon 2023 in Birmingham. Allen Stroud compered the Awards.

Blog tour calendar: Divide, by Anna Jones

Review: If I Were Invisible, by Lily Lawson, Illustrated by Gustyawan

If I were Invisible

Think of all the things we could get away with if nobody could see us! But how long would the fun last, if we had to do it all alone?

Purchase Link – https://mybook.to/IfIwereInvisible

Review: 42 – The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams, Edited by Kevin Jon Davies

HARDBACK
978-1-80018-268-4
320 pages
303 × 216 mm
24 August 2023
£30 / $36.95 / C$54.99 /
€32.49

A full-colour compendium of hundreds of never-before-published artefacts
from Adams’ archive, including diary entries, notes and musings, letters,
photographs, scripts, poems and more.

– Authorised by the estate of Douglas Adams, it includes personal
memorabilia from his family.
– Features a foreword from Stephen Fry and letters written after Adams’
death from friends and fans: Neil Gaiman, Margo Buchanan, Dirk Maggs,
Robbie Stamp, Arvind David.

When Douglas Adams died in 2001, he left behind 60 boxes full of notebooks, letters, scripts, jokes, speeches and even poems. In 42, compiled by Douglas’s long-time collaborator Kevin Jon Davies, hundreds of these personal artefacts appear in print for the very first time.
Douglas was as much a thinker as he was a writer, and his artefacts reveal how his deep fascination with technology led to ideas which were far ahead of their time: a convention speech envisioning the modern smartphone, with all the information in the world living at our fingertips; sheets of notes predicting the advent of electronic books; journal entries from his forays into home computing – it is a matter of legend that Douglas bought the very first Mac in the UK; musings on how the internet would disrupt the CD-Rom industry, among others.

42 also features archival material charting Douglas’s school days through
Cambridge, Footlights, collaborations with Graham Chapman, and early
scribbles from the development of Doctor Who, Hitchhiker’s and Dirk Gently. Alongside details of his most celebrated works are projects that never came to fruition, including the pilot for radio programme They’ll Never Play That on the Radio and a space-inspired theme park ride.
Douglas’s personal papers prove that the greatest ideas come from the fleeting thoughts that collide in our own imagination, and offer a captivating insight into the mind of one of the twentieth century’s greatest thinkers and most enduring storytellers.

Review: Defeating SAD, by Norman E. Rosenthal, M.D.

Title: Defeating SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder)
Subtitle: A Guide to Health and Happiness Through All Seasons
Author: Norman E. Rosenthal M.D.
Trim Size: 6×9 • Page Count: 238 • Pub Date: 8/15/2023 • Self-Help / Emotions
Trade Paperback: 978-1-7225-0630-8
Price: $24.95 US, $32.99 Can., £17.99 UK, €21.99 EU
ePub: 978-1-7225-2762-4 Audio book: 978-1-7225-5094-3

Blurb

In his landmark new book, Defeating SAD, Dr. Norman E. Rosenthal, who first described Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and is
the foremost authority on the subject, offers an up-to-date guide to
overcoming the miseries that millions experience with the changing
seasons.
In his lively style, Rosenthal offers advice on how to identify, treat
and overcome both winter and summer varieties of seasonal affective
disorder, as well as the less severe, yet bothersome, winter blues.
Having pioneered the use of bright light therapy for SAD and
relying on his decades of experience treating SAD patients, Rosenthal offers strategies and techniques for defeating the condition,
including cognitive-behavioral approaches, diet and exercise advice,
medication, and meditation.
Dr. Norman Rosenthal is the author of Poetry Rx released last year to
rave reviews including:

The New York Times The Well Book List of 8 Favorite Books in
2021 for Healthy Living
The subject of a New York Times op ed by Jane Brody