Step right up! Step right up! Talk “the Talk” @Titan Books to Win Money-Can’t-Buy Prizes Best-selling author Stephen King returns with a breathtaking tale of love – and loss – set in a 1970′s North Carolina amusement park. Celebrating the release of this bittersweet coming-of-age novel, Titan Books and Hard Case Crime are...
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Title: The Aylesford Skull Author: James P. Blaylock Publisher: Titan Books Published: 25 January 2013 Genre: Steampunk Rating: 8/10 It is the summer of 1883 and Professor Langdon St. Ives – brilliant but eccentric scientist and explorer – is at home in Aylesford with his family. However, a few miles to the north a steam launch has been taken...
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Title: Lord Kelvin’s Machine Author: James P. Blaylock Publisher: Titan Books Published: 22 March 2013 Genre: Steampunk Rating: 7/10 Within the magical gears of Lord Kelvin’s incredible machine lies the secret of time. The deadly Dr. Ignacio Narbondo would murder to possess it and scientist and explorer Professor Langdon St. Ives would do anything to use it. For the doctor...
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Title: Homunculus Author: James P. Blaylock Publisher: Titan Books Published: 22 February 2013 Genre: Steampunk Rating: 9/10 It is the late 19th century and a mysterious airship orbits through the foggy skies. Its terrible secrets are sought by many, including the Royal Society, a fraudulent evangelist, a fiendish vivisectionist, an evil millionaire and an assorted group led by the scientist...
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As soon as the Sherlock Holmes bug has bitten you, there’s no turning back. From Sir Arthur Conan Doyle‘s original stories, all the way through to the ‘pastiches’ and fan-fiction of the modern era… once the bug bites, you can’t get enough and you will devour any new adventures – be it natural or...
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Before you read The Wind Whales of Ishmael by Philip Jose Farmer, it’s probably best to dust off your copy of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, in order to understand where this book is coming from. The protagonist, Ishmael, is the lone survivor of the Pequod and as he floats adrift Ishmael finds himself falling out of our...
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Alder, Somerset, a small town in Britain has always had weird things happening. From sights of the archangel Gabriel on the hill, to stray bombs falling on that same spot. There are supposedly leylines – supernatural veins in the earth – crossing the town, so that could very well explain the supernatural phenomena, but...
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Set in 1939, Richard and Frances Myles are preparing for their annual European summer vacation. However, they are unexpectedly visited at Oxford College by Peter Galt, an old friend, who requests a favour… Their mission is to go to Paris and meet a man at a specific place who will give them details for...
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After a mysterious schooner runs aground in an English harbour with no human passengers – only the dead captain, drained of blood and a black dog that jumped off of the boat – a series of bizarre nocturnal crimes takes place in London. It can only be the work of Count Dracula, and only...
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Mark Salisbury presents the reader with a coffee table book filled with fantastic pictures of none other than Tim Burton‘s Dark Shadows, a film that stars big Hollywood names such as, Johnny Depp, Michelle Pheiffer, Helena Bonham Carter and Cloe Grace Moretz. This film, which is a remake of a popular TV show...
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