Win A Copy Of Dying Star – Samsun Lobe
Book Competition – In an exclusive Ashbooks competition, 10 copies of Dying Star, the epic fantasy novel by Samsun Lobe, are up for grabs.
Read More...Out Of Shadows By Jason Wallace
Book Review – A coming-of-age story of an English boy, Robert Jacklin, in a new Zimbabwe (1983), who makes some choices as he enters a hard boarding school with some even harder peers.
Read More...Author Keith Hoare
Book News – A Lancashire author is assisting a charity that supports victims of human trafficking – by donating a cut from the sales of his latest novels.
Read More...The Green Bronze Mirror
Book News – An author is enjoying the last laugh after discovering her first novel has become a bestseller – 40 years after it was first published.
Lynne Ellison wrote “The Green Bronze Mirror” as a “bookish” 14-year-old, secretly penning chapters from the back of the classroom while she should have been studying.
Paul Harris, Grow Up!
Paul Harris founded the first Rotary Club in Chicago in 1905. Just twenty years later, it had become an international service organization, dedicated to helping others through grassroots projects. Today, Rotary International© has over one million members worldwide and is a leading player in the battle to eradicate polio worldwide.
Read More...Young Writer and Illustrator Awards 2010
The Little Tiger Press Young Writer and Illustrator Awards are designed to promote a new generation of creativity by inspiring children to try their hand and writing their own stories and creating their own illustrations.
Read More...Love and Nausea, by David Wilson
The epitome of the expression “don’t judge a book by its cover”. Despite looking like a trashy romance novel, Love and Nausea is a fantastic combination of a funny and clever novel and a critique on liberal philosophies and the middle class way of life. Robert is in a heart breaking but hilarious position as he struggles to force together his liberal philosophies and conservative upbringing, resulting in a perpetual state of agony that is, ironically, exactly what he was seeking all along.
Read More...Vellum, by Hal Duncan
I would compare Vellum to the attention-seeking middle child of His Dark Materials and The Da Vinci Code; without Pullman’s mighty narrative or Brown’s ability to merge reality, mythology and fiction, Duncan’s creation simply screams “Look at me! See how different I am!” before denying that it even values your opinion. Without a doubt it’s an impressive read but, at the heart of it, it’s sheer snobbery in book form.
Read More...White Wolf, by David Gemmell
David Gemmell was, in my humble opinion, one of the masters of the fantasy genre. Although the last series he wrote before he died, Troy, is probably his most famous, the Drenai series is certainly his most acclaimed with true fans of the genre. It is a joy then that White Wolf was written as a return to the Drenai, featuring Gemmell’s most renowned character, Druss the Legend, along with a new addition – the mighty Olek Skilgannon.
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