Books tagged with: northern england

  • Dagger of the MindBob Shaw
    Dagger of the Mind
    by Bob Shaw
    Science Fiction

    Dagger of the Mind is a speculative fiction book by Bob Shaw. Dagger of the Mind, is a strange book. It takes off normally (well..) enough, Redpath is an epileptic living in a small english town. To make a buck, he participates in a series of experiments involving a new drug Compound 183. The book s...

  • Frankenstein.comHylton H Smith
    Frankenstein.com
    by Hylton H Smith
    Science Fiction

    Frankenstein.com follows the sleuth DCI Jack Renton who we were first introduced to earlier this year in Resident Fear . Another murderer is on the loose in the northeast of England and this time it's a much more macabre, chilling murder scene that the detectives are drawn to. A horrific picture tha...

  • Nemesis ex nihiloWilliam Pascoe
    Nemesis ex nihilo
    by William Pascoe
    Science Fiction

    Nemesis ex nihilo is an apocalyptic science fiction novel and is the first in a two part series (dilogy), written by William Pascoe. Barry Edwards is a fairly average guy who is working on his PhD in astrophysics at the University of Longminster, England. In 1995, while still working on his PhD he m...

  • New Model ArmyAdam Roberts
    New Model Army
    by Adam Roberts
    Science Fiction

    New Model Army is a science fiction novel by Adam Roberts. Pantegral is a giant, a democratic gestalt entity whose thoughts are populated from the thousands of minds that make up a New Model Army, it's intelligence is born from the almost limitless knowledge available on the internet. Stalking throu...

  • Resident FearHylton H Smith
    Resident Fear
    by Hylton H Smith
    Science Fiction

    It's the year 2018 and Britain has been expelled from the European Union. Over in the Northeast of the country the body of a wealthy Industrialist is found, draped at the base of the iconic sculpture - The Angel of the North. D.C.I. Jack Renton soon begins to understand that this isn't a simple murd...

  • Running BlackP Todoroff
    Running Black
    by P Todoroff
    Science Fiction

    Running Black is a science fiction novel, the debut of Patrick Todoroff. For the last eight years, the North Korean mercenary Tam Song has headed up Eshu International, a private security team that takes any job for the right price, no questions asked. Based in the Belfast Metro Zone, they're repute...

  • The Man Who Never WasHylton H Smith
    The Man Who Never Was
    by Hylton H Smith
    Science Fiction

    The Man Who Never Was begins in 1986 with the discovery of human bones during the demolition of the old Coke works in Derwenthaugh. The find also includes a strange artefact, one that suggests that the death of the bones owner goes back to 1945 and a set of strange circumstances. The author has rele...

  • Pretty Little Dead ThingsGary McMahon
    Pretty Little Dead Things
    by Gary McMahon
    Fantasy

    Pretty Little Dead Things is a urban horror novel by the author Gary McMahon. Thomas Usher used to be a fairly normal guy, a family man with a wife and child, all this changed when a tragic accident took his family away from him. He began to see the dead, and they him, all the lost and lonely souls...

  • Spooks: A New DarknessJoseph Delaney
    Spooks: A New Darkness
    by Joseph Delaney
    Fantasy

    I remember reading the very first Spooks book a number of years ago and really enjoying it. Never having been sent any to review until since I've had little opportunity to read any others in the now quite size-able series (13 volumes at the time of writing). It's clear I should have read more Delane...

  • Viking DeadToby Venables
    Viking Dead
    by Toby Venables
    Fantasy

    Viking Dead is a dark fantasy novel by Toby Venables, part of the "Tomb of the Dead" collection published by Abaddon Books. Bjolf, son of Earling is the captain and leader of the Viking raiding ship "Raven" who after reluctantly fleeing from a raid gone wrong find themselves sailing into very strang...

  • The VeilJerry Ibbotson
    The Veil
    by Jerry Ibbotson
    Horror

    Something isn't quite right in the little Yorkshire village of Henchcombe, a thick mist sweeps down off the moor with an unnatural regularity and when it does strange things walk the streets. In the dead of night the villagers are confronted by their bitter regrets, lost loves and betrayal - re-livi...

  • Unmarked GravesShaun Hutson
    Unmarked Graves
    by Shaun Hutson
    Horror

    Review by Arron Clegg. Shaun Hutson. For fans of horror he is the master of all that is gory in the world of horror novels and has been for some time now. His roots however give more than a passing nod to a compatriot of his Mr. Herbert. Unmarked Graves shows exactly what Shaun does well. He takes y...

  • The Bastard WonderlandLee Harrison
    The Bastard Wonderland
    by Lee Harrison
    Fantasy

    The Bastard Wonderland is something of a suprise. The debut of Lee Harrison, it describes a complex alternative world where a war wages between the North and the South. It's this tiresome war that is thrust upon northern lad Warboys and his father as they are strong-armed into a foolhardy campaign....

  • The WolfLeo Carew
    The Wolf
    by Leo Carew
    Fantasy

    The Wolf is the debut of Leo Carew, a graduate of Cambridge University with a degree in Biological Anthropology, specialising in the Palaeolithic. The authors knowledge and perspective colours the story, providing a rich and detailed backdrop of an alternative world that somewhat resembles the Vikin...

  • The SilencedStephen Lloyd Jones
    The Silenced
    by Stephen Lloyd Jones
    Science Fiction

    Mallory Grace had been successfully hiding out in London for some time until she met Obadiah in a seemingly random encounter. Now she's just had to kill someone and if she wants to survive the next few hours she'll probably have to kill again. To survive the night she'll need a miracle. Obadiah Maci...

  • ShelterDave Hutchinson
    Shelter
    by Dave Hutchinson
    Science Fiction

    Hutchinson's writing has, at times, turned out to be worryingly prophetic - he wrote about the break-up of the European Union while Brexit was just a twinkle in David Cameron's eye, in his astounding Fractured Europe series. This time he's writing about life in rural England after an apocalypse. Wor...

  • The Bad NeighbourDavid Tallerman
    The Bad Neighbour
    by David Tallerman
    Horror

    Ollie Clay is a supply teacher who inherits fifty thousand pounds and spends it on a house. It turns out the house is next door to a neo Nazi called Chas Walker. Walker’s anti-social behaviour contributes to Clay’s life spiralling downhill, until he tries to take matters into his own hands and force...

  • Police at the Station and They Don't Look FriendlyAdrian McKinty
    General Fiction

    There are times in history that don’t seem very funny and if you lived through them you would find it hard to laugh. The 1970/80s in Northern Ireland may just be one such era as sectarian violence means that you are always wary of your surroundings. This is exemplified for Detective Inspector Sean D...

  • SpiderAzma Dar
    Spider
    by Azma Dar
    General Fiction

    There are at least two sides to every truth and somewhere in the middle is what happened. All relationships contain lies, they oil the machinery of compromise, but for a better relationship you want to keep them to little white lies. Things can quickly spiral out of control if you start to hide the...

  • The Way Up Is DeathDan Hanks
    The Way Up Is Death
    by Dan Hanks
    Science Fiction

    When I imagine the aliens coming, I always imagine that they would pick somewhere amazing to land their ship. Probably America as all the movies have trained my brain to think that way. The place I do not jump straight to is Manchester, or at least the hills around the city. I know those hills well...