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Grimdark Magazine Novella Cover Reveal: The Anguished Earth, by Richard Swan
Another prequal from the Empire of the Wolf! I’m very much looking forward to this novella and adding a hardback edition to my collection, eventually. Waiting on the ARC at the moment.
Book Description
It is winter in the Empire of the Wolf, and the town of Eisbrück burns with plague.
Whilst physicians struggle to contain the pox, the atmosphere thickens with recrimination and rumour: talk of inauspicious constellations, and a demonic witch filling the streets with bodies and black magick. Amongst the chaos, Sir Konrad Vonvalt must recover a dangerous fugitive—a child murderer who has escaped from Blackmarsh Insane Asylum.
But with winter’s bite closing and plague spreading like wildfire, finding the killer may be the least of his problems…
And now, the cover…
Continue reading “Grimdark Magazine Novella Cover Reveal: The Anguished Earth, by Richard Swan”Review: The Driftborn, by Simon Bullock
Age Category: Adult
Number of Pages: 480 Pages
Publication Date: July 28, 2026 (digital edition) May 26, 2026 (hardcover edition)
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/252725186-the-driftborn
Storygraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/ff1dc076-433f-409f-9cbb-b3857e9998c8
Amazon: https://a.co/d/0aZs34GH (Canada) https://a.co/d/0iyRG1df (USA) https://amzn.eu/d/04mwepeF (UK)
Blurb
A forgotten wreck. A forbidden map. A gate that should never have been opened. On the salvage moon of Veyra’s Fall, Kade Renn only wants one thing: a working air filter for his sick sister, Lira.
Instead, he finds a buried courier ship older than the official history books. Inside it is a dying Driftborn pilot, a forbidden star map, and a message from Kade’s mother, Elian, who supposedly died nine years ago.
The Directorate says the gates saved civilisation. It says the Driftborn are criminals, free-route smugglers and a threat to every recognised human world.
The Directorate is lying.
Forced to flee with Lira, their strange scrap-mech Nix, and a half-illegal ship called The Moth, Kade is pulled into a hidden war over the true origin of the gates. The deeper they travel beyond authorised space, the more dangerous the truth becomes.
The first crossing was not what humanity was taught.
The gates were not built by us.
And something has been waiting for us to understand what we woke.
For readers who enjoy grounded space opera, ancient alien mysteries, damaged ships, found family, dry humour and human stakes beneath the scale of the stars.
The Driftborn is a tense, character-driven science fiction novel about control, memory, survival and the danger of mistaking every door for an invitation.
Continue reading “Review: The Driftborn, by Simon Bullock”Review: A Fugitive’s History of the Known Universe, by Nadia Afifi
Fiction: FICTION / Science Fiction /
Genetic Engineering
Product format: Hardback
iSBN: 978-1-78758-948-3
Pages: 288 pp
Description
Hardcover with sprayed edges. In the sequel to A Rebel’s History of Mars, Azad and his fellow time-traveling historians must contend with the consequences of the dark secrets they’ve exposed…
After exposing the dark origins of his world on the distant planet of Nabatea, Azad is a fugitive, hunted across the galaxy by the fearsome Vitruvian Authorities. But to lead a passive society into revolution, Azad and his crew must enlist the unlikely help of a space pirate with an agenda all her own. Their adventures once again draw them into the past, into the early days of settlement on Nabatea, where a death continues to haunt the fledgling community and a mother must contend with her son’s monstrous vision for their new home.
Continue reading “Review: A Fugitive’s History of the Known Universe, by Nadia Afifi”Book Review: Artificial Wisdom, by Thomas R. Weaver
Book Description
The year is 2050. In the teeth of a climate catastrophe, the world is left with a drastic solution: one global leader to steer it through the coming apocalypse.
The final two candidates are ex-US President Lockwood, and Solomon, the world’s first political artificial intelligence. As whispers of a global conspiracy emerge, investigative journalist Marcus Tully find himself at the centre of it – when Solomon’s creator turns up murdered.
Overnight, one investigation becomes two, and it’s not just the result of the election that’s at stake but the future of the species. Suddenly humanity must make an impossible choice – between salvation, or freedom.
Continue reading “Book Review: Artificial Wisdom, by Thomas R. Weaver”Blog Tour Calendar: Artificial Wisdom, by Thomas R. Weaver
Cover Reveal! Fortune’s Wake, by C.L. Clark
Due to be published by Grim Dark Magazine in August, this novella by C.L. Clark sounds like it’ll be a very good read. I’ve reviewed one GdM novella and there’s another on my currently reading pile, so I’m really looking forward to getting my ARC of this book.
Book Description
Kill the beast.
Earn some coin.
Get the girl.
Or at least, that’s how it was supposed to go. Kova of Stormwatch made a promise when she left her mother and sweetheart weeping on the shore back home: she’d earn her fortune slaying the beasts that haunt the woods and the horrors that lurk in the shadows, or she would die trying. But to do that, she needs an apprenticeship with a master monster hunter. The best of the best: Sayre Boarbane.
Pity that Sayre works alone.
When Sayre drags Kova home by the ear, they’re both in for a rude awakening. Kova’s mother? Missing. Kova’s lover? Taking long walks on the beach with a stranger.
And all those monsters Kova wanted to slay? They’re back in Stormwatch, dragging villagers into the ocean.
Continue reading “Cover Reveal! Fortune’s Wake, by C.L. Clark”Review: Fresh Start, by Johnny Wortham
Fiction: FICTION / Science Fiction /
General
Product format: Hardback
ISBN: 978-1-78758-963-6
Pages: 336 pp
Description
A ship, a gun, and a nice teal robe to find one killer on a planet of
criminals: will Qays Mendoza get the answers he is looking for?
Qays Mendoza get the answers he is looking for?
On the edges of mankind’s domain there is a penal planet called Fresh Start
where a sentence is at best exile to five generations, but more likely death
in its harsh unforgiving wastes. It is to this planet the empire sends the
worst of the worst and it is on this planet that Qays Mendoza searches for
his old captain.
The galactic empire is falling, civilization contracts. Fresh Start is
abandoned. Without oversight, the planet is wild, without guards; the
Oubliette, the supermax prison on the supermax planet, lies open, and the
Butcher of Raznak, a killer worse than the one Qays seeks, is on the loose.
With the help of a street waif called Patience, Qays seeks answers. His soul
is stained with guilt and his spirit broken by complicity. Religion did not
have the answer; duty did not explain it. Birthright and station were not
enough. His answers lie somewhere on Fresh Start.
Review: The Death of Shame, by Ambrose Parry
Publication date: 04/06/2026
Price: £9.99
Description
When you are a prisoner of your secrets, the death of shame is the only path to liberty.
Annabel Banks was promised work as a maid with a prestigious Edinburgh
family. But on her first day, she’s nowhere to be found. Concerned relatives
contact Sarah Fisher to help. Sarah might know her way around the city – its
light sides and dark – but soon she’ll discover the plight of dozens of girls
ensnared in its many brothels: lured, abused and left ruined in the eyes of the world.
Meanwhile, a prominent society figure throws himself from the Scott
Monument. Will Raven is asked to establish whether the death was suicide
or if someone else was involved.
Drawing upon real historical events, The Death of Shame takes the Raven and Fisher series into a treacherous labyrinth of shame and the pitfalls of a culture obsessed with moral purity.
Continue reading “Review: The Death of Shame, by Ambrose Parry”Audiobook Review: Witch Hunt, by B.D. Spargo
Narrator: Aubrey Parsons
Release date: 27-03-26
Language: English
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hrs
Publisher: Howfen Press
Murder, witchcraft, and a race against time – welcome to Pendle Hill.
A young woman is found brutally murdered and mutilated at the foot of Pendle Hill and the local police are in no doubt who the killer is. Newly released from a psychiatric unit, Will Perkins has delusions that the victim is a witch. When DCI Liam Doyle and his team are brought in to investigate, the suspect is already in custody and the case apparently wrapped up. Except for one key detail – evidence.
Is it really possible the origins to this murder lie in Pendle’s infamous past?
Recently returned to work, DS Anna Morgan is battling her own demons. The physical wounds from her last case have healed, but the psychological trauma still haunts her. When another body turns up the investigation is blown wide open and Doyle has to face up to the horrifying possibility that he could have prevented this killing.
Can Doyle overcome his own doubts and track down the killer before they strike again? Will Morgan be able to conquer her fear before it destroys her?
Set in and around Lancashire’s legendary Pendle Hill, Witch Hunt is a gripping British crime thriller with dark humour and a nail-biting climax. This fast-paced novel, the second in the series featuring DCI Doyle and DS Morgan, will have readers on the edge of their seats.
Purchase Links
UK Links:
https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0GV51STB8
USA Links:
https://www.audible.com/pd/B0GV5659QN
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