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Review: All That Is in the Earth, by Andrew Knighton 3rd February 2026978-1-915556-67-7£8.99 Description Luna Novell #24 When Clifford crash lands on the planet of Abaddon, he might as well be dead: a terrible plague and a strict quarantine mean that no one leaves Abaddon alive. Clifford isn’t the only dead man walking. Corporate mercenaries and desperate survivors are looking for ways to live in a hostile world. Constantly on the run from flesh-hungry monsters, there’s no chance to escape or to build something more.

Review: All That Is in the Earth, by Andrew Knighton

3rd February 2026978-1-915556-67-7£8.99 Description Luna Novell #24 When Clifford crash lands on the planet of Abaddon, he might as well be dead: a terrible plague and a strict quarantine mean that no one leaves Abaddon alive. Clifford isn’t the…

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Sorry I've been MIA for weeks, my brain has been elsewhere. I'm struggling to read again and can just about focus on my crochet. I'm working on it but it means books NOT part of a blog tour will get reviewed when they get reviewed. Sorry to the authors and publishers who sent me stuff on spec.

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Review: The Dead Man’s Empire, by W.P. Wiles Release Date: 2025-09-23Formats: Ebook, PaperbackEBook ISBN: 23rd September 2025 | 9781915998293 | epub | £4.99/$6.99/$7.99Paperback ISBN: 23rd September 2025 | 9781915998286 | Trade paperback | £9.99/$18.99/$24.99 Book Description Two in the eye of the storm. Two in touch with the end. Syzenne. A princess? Or a mere bargaining chip in a contest between two powers? Duna. A teenage girl dragged into a war by a fanatical priest?

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Blog tour calendar: The Dead Man’s Empire, by W.P. Wiles

Blog tour calendar: The Dead Man’s Empire, by W.P. Wiles

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Cover Reveal: Stop Dead, by Katrín Júlíusdóttir Pub date: 21 May 2026ISBN 13: 978-1-916788-96-1EPUB: 978-1-916788-97-8Price: £9.99 Buy Link: THE BOOK Icelandic detective-in-training Sigurdís is studying criminal psychology in the US, but her plans are thrown into disarray when she discovers that her boss and mentor, Garðar, has been fired from Reykjavík CID over his investigation into Sigurdís’s father’s death. Returning to Iceland to deal with the fallout, Sigurdís finds herself pulled into a disturbing case: controversial TV personality Olga Einars has been stabbed to death during the Reykjavík Marathon.

Cover Reveal: Stop Dead, by Katrín Júlíusdóttir

Pub date: 21 May 2026ISBN 13: 978-1-916788-96-1EPUB: 978-1-916788-97-8Price: £9.99 Buy Link: THE BOOK Icelandic detective-in-training Sigurdís is studying criminal psychology in the US, but her plans are thrown into disarray when she discovers that…

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Review: Shake Out The Ghosts, by Al Hess About the book A brutal assault nine months ago left eccentric portrait artist Micah with facial scars and PTSD. He’s struggled to leave his apartment ever since, and he can’t let anyone in. Then his only sanctuary is disrupted by signs of a haunting. Between the 80s synth pop and motivation messages scrawled on his bathroom mirror, Micah finds himself more charmed than frightened by who he believes to be Cosmo, the deceased previous resident of his apartment.

Review: Shake Out The Ghosts, by Al Hess

About the book A brutal assault nine months ago left eccentric portrait artist Micah with facial scars and PTSD. He’s struggled to leave his apartment ever since, and he can’t let anyone in. Then his only sanctuary is disrupted by signs of a haunting.…

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Blog tour calendar: Shake out the ghosts, by Al Hess

Blog tour calendar: Shake out the ghosts, by Al Hess

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Cover Reveal: Under the Blazing Sun, by Jenny Lund Madsen PUBLICATION DATE: 21 MAY 2026HARDBACK ORIGINAL | £ 16. 99 | ORENDA BOOKS Book Description Hannah is miserable. Her love life is in ruins, her contract demands a sequel to her bestselling crime debut – and she’s out of ideas. After a mortifying TV interview, her agent ships her off to a sun-drenched Sicilian villa with a simple order: finish the book.

Cover Reveal: Under the Blazing Sun, by Jenny Lund Madsen

PUBLICATION DATE: 21 MAY 2026HARDBACK ORIGINAL | £ 16. 99 | ORENDA BOOKS Book Description Hannah is miserable. Her love life is in ruins, her contract demands a sequel to her bestselling crime debut – and she’s out of ideas. After a…

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Cover Reveal: The Bone Mother, by Suzy Aspley PUBLICATION DATE: 7th MAY 2026PAPERBACK ORIGINAL | £ 9. 99 | ORENDA BOOKS Get your copy here: Description Martha Strangeways has settled into a quiet life in Strathbran, after the horrific events that traumatised the village a year earlier. But all this isturned upside down when her friend at Glasgow CID, DI Derek Summers,calls on her to help with a disturbing case: a human ear, with an unusual Celtic earring, has been found next to a railway line in the Highlands.

Cover Reveal: The Bone Mother, by Suzy Aspley

PUBLICATION DATE: 7th MAY 2026PAPERBACK ORIGINAL | £ 9. 99 | ORENDA BOOKS Get your copy here: Description Martha Strangeways has settled into a quiet life in Strathbran, after the horrific events that traumatised the village a year earlier. But all…

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Review: Ember and Steel, by Donna Morgan Published Date - 2026-03-09ISBN - 9781919396910Page Count - 425Publisher - Godrevy PublishingLanguage - English Author Website Description The gods are gone. Magic is lost. Vengeance is nigh. There is death in the north; entire settlements slaughtered in the night by unknown hands. But dead things do not rest. Mages and scholars from across Breitho search for answers, to no avail.

Review: Ember and Steel, by Donna Morgan

Published Date - 2026-03-09ISBN - 9781919396910Page Count - 425Publisher - Godrevy PublishingLanguage - English Author Website Description The gods are gone. Magic is lost. Vengeance is nigh. There is death in the north; entire settlements slaughtered in…

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Extract Post: Sharks, by Simone Buchholz PUBLICATION DATE: 26th FEBRUARY 2026PAPERBACK ORIGINAL | £ 9. 99 | ORENDA BOOKS In Wilhelmsburg, Hamburg’s so-called ‘problem area’, an American couple is found brutally murdered in a derelict house. Prosecutor Chastity Riley is assigned the case and quickly finds herself waist-deep in a murky tangle of city planners, shady investors and vanishing officials. The gentrification machine is rolling on, and someone is sending a very clear message.

Extract Post: Sharks, by Simone Buchholz

PUBLICATION DATE: 26th FEBRUARY 2026PAPERBACK ORIGINAL | £ 9. 99 | ORENDA BOOKS In Wilhelmsburg, Hamburg’s so-called ‘problem area’, an American couple is found brutally murdered in a derelict house. Prosecutor Chastity Riley is assigned the case and…

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Review: Sentient, by Michael Nayak Publisher: Angry Robot Publication date: 24th February 2026 ISBN: 978-1-915998-44-6 Format: Paperback Price: £9.99 Book Description Extinction Horizon meets Contagion in this sequel to 2025’s sci-fi thriller Symbiote, where the biological threat has escaped the South Pole and is now wreaking havoc upon Antarctica. The survivors of the South Pole massacre will find that getting off the Antarctic continent may cost them their lives…

Review: Sentient, by Michael Nayak

Publisher: Angry Robot Publication date: 24th February 2026 ISBN: 978-1-915998-44-6 Format: Paperback Price: £9.99 Book Description Extinction Horizon meets Contagion in this sequel to 2025’s sci-fi thriller Symbiote, where the biological threat has escaped the…

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Review: Nine Goblins, by T. Kingfisher Book Description No one knows exactly how the Goblin War began, but folks will tell you that goblins are stinking, slinking, filthy, sheep-stealing, henhouse-raiding, obnoxious, rude, and violent. Goblins would actually agree with all this, and might throw in “cowardly” and “lazy” too for good measure. But goblins don't go around killing people for fun, no matter what the propaganda posters say.

Review: Nine Goblins, by T. Kingfisher

Book Description No one knows exactly how the Goblin War began, but folks will tell you that goblins are stinking, slinking, filthy, sheep-stealing, henhouse-raiding, obnoxious, rude, and violent. Goblins would actually agree with all this, and might throw in…

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Review: Mushroom Blues, by Adrian M Gibson Book Description ENTER THE FUNGALVERSE. Blade Runner, True Detective, and District 9 meld with the weird worlds of Jeff VanderMeer, Philip K. Dick, and China Miéville in Adrian M. Gibson’s award-winning fungalpunk noir debut, now with a foreword from acclaimed author Nicholas Eames and six pieces of original interior artwork. Two years after a devastating defeat in the decade-long Spore War, the island nation of Hōppon and its capital city of Neo Kinoko are occupied by invading Coprinian forces.

Review: Mushroom Blues, by Adrian M Gibson

Book Description ENTER THE FUNGALVERSE. Blade Runner, True Detective, and District 9 meld with the weird worlds of Jeff VanderMeer, Philip K. Dick, and China Miéville in Adrian M. Gibson’s award-winning fungalpunk noir debut, now with a foreword from…

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Blog Tour Calendar: Sentient, by Michael Nayak

Blog Tour Calendar: Sentient, by Michael Nayak

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Blog tour calendar: Sharks, by Simone Buchholz

Blog tour calendar: Sharks, by Simone Buchholz

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Extract: Tombstoning, by Doug Johnstone PUBLICATION DATE: 12th FEBRUARY 2026PAPERBACK ORIGINAL | £ 9. 99 | ORENDA BOOKS Your best mate just fell off a cliff in mysterious circumstances. Youwere the last person to see him alive. What do you do? If you're David Lindsay from Arbroath, you leg it – and don’t goback. Not for fifteen years. Then Nicola Cruickshank – yes, that Nicola, the girl you always…

Extract: Tombstoning, by Doug Johnstone

PUBLICATION DATE: 12th FEBRUARY 2026PAPERBACK ORIGINAL | £ 9. 99 | ORENDA BOOKS Your best mate just fell off a cliff in mysterious circumstances. Youwere the last person to see him alive. What do you do? If you're David Lindsay from Arbroath, you leg it –…

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Review: Path to Power, by Charlotte Goodwin PATH TO POWERThe Stolen Throne Trilogy, Book 1 A queen without a throne, a sorcerer without magic, a usurper bent on genocide... Emma thought she was just an ordinary woman. She had no idea that she’d been abducted by aliens to save her life; until they returned her memories. The Zargons watch, they study, they don’t interfere, until one of them did.

Review: Path to Power, by Charlotte Goodwin

PATH TO POWERThe Stolen Throne Trilogy, Book 1 A queen without a throne, a sorcerer without magic, a usurper bent on genocide... Emma thought she was just an ordinary woman. She had no idea that she’d been abducted by aliens to save her life; until they…

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Blog tour calendar: Tombstoning, by Doug Johnstone

Blog tour calendar: Tombstoning, by Doug Johnstone

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Review: The Night Ship, by Alex Woodroe Genre – horror > supernatural● ISBN hardback – 978-1-78758-918-6● ISBN ebook – 978-1-78758-919-3● Pricing $26.95 (HB) / $4.99 (EB)● Pricing £20 (HB) / £4.95 (EB)● Releases January 20 2026● Published by Flame Tree Press● Distributed by Hachette UK / Simon & Schuster US SYNOPSIS Driving a logging truck through the Romanian mountains, smuggler Rosi and her crew come across a radio signal that hints at impending doom.

Review: The Night Ship, by Alex Woodroe

Genre – horror > supernatural● ISBN hardback – 978-1-78758-918-6● ISBN ebook – 978-1-78758-919-3● Pricing $26.95 (HB) / $4.99 (EB)● Pricing £20 (HB) / £4.95 (EB)● Releases January 20 2026● Published by Flame Tree Press● Distributed by Hachette UK / Simon &…

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Review: Lives of Bitter Rain, by Adrian Tchaikovsky Format: 126 pages, HardcoverPublished: October 14, 2025 by Head of Zeus -- an AdAstra BookISBN 9781035911448Format: Audible AudioPublished: October 14, 2025 by Head of Zeus -- an AdAstra Book City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring ‘Perfection’ and ‘Correctness’ to an imperfect world. But before these ruthless Tyrant Philosophers send in their legions, they despatch Outreach – the rain before the storm.

Review: Lives of Bitter Rain, by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Format: 126 pages, HardcoverPublished: October 14, 2025 by Head of Zeus -- an AdAstra BookISBN 9781035911448Format: Audible AudioPublished: October 14, 2025 by Head of Zeus -- an AdAstra Book City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have…

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Review: Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die, by Greer Stothers ISBN: 9781835413807Format: PaperbackPages: 384Published:3 Feb 2026 (US)3 Feb 2026 (UK) Description In Which Many Dangerous and Homosexual Things Happen. All his life, Sir Cameron has stayed as far away from danger as possible. He is quite frankly too handsome to die a pointless death in battle. But then the Church hands down a prophecy to his fellow knights: the only way to defeat their nemesis, the mad sorcerer Merulo, is to kill Sir Cameron.

Review: Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die, by Greer Stothers

ISBN: 9781835413807Format: PaperbackPages: 384Published:3 Feb 2026 (US)3 Feb 2026 (UK) Description In Which Many Dangerous and Homosexual Things Happen. All his life, Sir Cameron has stayed as far away from danger as possible. He is…

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Review: The Hope, by Paul E Hardisty PUBLICATION DATE: 29 JANUARY 2026PAPERBACK ORIGINAL | £ 9. 99 | ORENDA BOOKS The year is 2082. Climate collapse, famine and war have left the world in ruins. In the shadow of the Alpha-Omega regime – descendants of the super-rich architects of disaster – sixteen year-old Boo Ashworth and her uncle risk everything to save what’s left of human knowledge, hiding the last surviving books in a secret library beneath the streets of Hobart.

Review: The Hope, by Paul E Hardisty

PUBLICATION DATE: 29 JANUARY 2026PAPERBACK ORIGINAL | £ 9. 99 | ORENDA BOOKS The year is 2082. Climate collapse, famine and war have left the world in ruins. In the shadow of the Alpha-Omega regime – descendants of the super-rich architects of disaster –…

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Review: Ballad of the Bone Road, by A.C. Wise ISBN: 9781835413784Format: PaperbackPages: 320Published: 27th Jan 2026 Description Port Astor is a city of ghosts. Once home to the beautiful, brutal courts of the fae, forty years ago they vanished without explanation – and Port Astor decided to forget. Brix and Bellefeather are paranormal investigators, working to keep Port Astor’s wraiths and spectres from consuming the city. Both have hauntings of their own: Belle shares her body with a demon, Belizial; Brix has trapped the soul of his dead fiancée in the world of the living, unwilling to let her go.

Review: Ballad of the Bone Road, by A.C. Wise

ISBN: 9781835413784Format: PaperbackPages: 320Published: 27th Jan 2026 Description Port Astor is a city of ghosts. Once home to the beautiful, brutal courts of the fae, forty years ago they vanished without explanation – and Port Astor decided to…

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Blog Tour Calendar: The Night Ship, by Alex Woodroe 26 Jan @pasiklydevertime @fatguyreading 27 Jan @jo_scho_reads @bookwormwhitlock86 28 Jan @alittlemixofvix @_clairereviews_ 29 Jan @zoeforeverreading16 @wildwritinglife 30 Jan @nadz_sargent 02 Feb @runalongwomble 03 Feb @gemmasbookshelf @betterdragons.bsky.social 04 Feb @susiesbookbubble 05 Feb @bookshelf_wonders 06 Feb @ramblingmads @pause_theframe

Blog Tour Calendar: The Night Ship, by Alex Woodroe

26 Jan @pasiklydevertime @fatguyreading 27 Jan @jo_scho_reads @bookwormwhitlock86 28 Jan @alittlemixofvix @_clairereviews_ 29 Jan @zoeforeverreading16 @wildwritinglife 30 Jan @nadz_sargent 02 Feb @runalongwomble 03 Feb @gemmasbookshelf…

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Review: Healing In (Re)Verse, by B.S. Casey Release date: 28 January 2026Kindle eBookPaperbackHardback later in 2026Page count: 40Self-Published Blurb A short, mixed style poetry collection about not dying just yet - exploringchronic illness, depression, trauma and finding moments of joy and love ina painful world. Inspired by the authors own experiences with disability,trauma, healing and then healing again, this collection captures the strange…

Review: Healing In (Re)Verse, by B.S. Casey

Release date: 28 January 2026Kindle eBookPaperbackHardback later in 2026Page count: 40Self-Published Blurb A short, mixed style poetry collection about not dying just yet - exploringchronic illness, depression, trauma and finding moments of joy and love…

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Blog tour calendar: The Hope, by Paul E Hardisty

Blog tour calendar: The Hope, by Paul E Hardisty

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Review: The Girl in the Tower, by Harrison Murphy The paperback is 283 pages. Genre is sci-fi, cli-fi and dystopian. Blurb: When the past lies buried beneath the waves, and the present hides behind a veneer, what power do we have over the future? As high-flying energy magnate, Parsley Ringland, prepares for maternity leave, tragedy strikes. She passes out after a health complication and wakes up elsewhere. In the tower that sustained the life she had once known.

Review: The Girl in the Tower, by Harrison Murphy

The paperback is 283 pages. Genre is sci-fi, cli-fi and dystopian. Blurb: When the past lies buried beneath the waves, and the present hides behind a veneer, what power do we have over the future? As high-flying energy magnate, Parsley Ringland,…

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Blog tour calendar: The Girl in the Tower, by Harrison Murphy

Blog tour calendar: The Girl in the Tower, by Harrison Murphy

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