Recent books:
Banks Surface Matter. Fantastic book, I love his books, and I’ve read all of them, but Surface Matter blew me away, his imagination and storytelling never ceases to amaze me.
Joe Abercrombie Blade books. Seen them on the shelves, but never got around to buying them, and there’s only so much space, then they turned up on iBooks so I indulged. Read the first, bought all the rest and read them one after the other. Bloody, violent, profane, and just the most amazing fun. Hardly a single likeable character anywhere, any moral compass has not only lost it’s glass and needle but the whole compass Rose. Now reading The Heroes, which promises to be just as much fun.
Kate Griffin The Neon Court. Just finished this one, started reading the ebook on the train up to London to meet the author on the day it was published. This is the third in her adult Urban Magic series, the others are A Madness Of Angels and The Midnight Mayor. I can’t recommend these highly enough, Kate’s a superb writer, and a lovely person too, not at all phased by my dumping eleven of her books on the table to be signed. And she’s only 25. She writes teen/young adult fantasy under her real name of Catherine Webb, and all those books are really worth reading, very adult in the concepts and writing, the first book she wrote, Mirror Dreams, is very influenced by Roger Zelazney’s Amber books. She wrote it when she was 14! She also manages to hold down a job as a theatre lighting designer and technician, RADA graduated, and has been working with Danny Boyle on the lighting for Frankenstein. Talented? I should think so. I’m not her agent, btw, but I love her books so much I try to spread the word every chance I get.