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Review: Come Away, Death by Gladys Mitchell (1937) 26 Aug 2013 | 10:31 pm
Sir Rudri Hopkinson, an eccentric amateur archaeologist, is determined to recreate ancient rituals at the temple of Eleusis in Greece in the hope of summoning the goddess Demeter. He gathers togeth...
Review: When Last I Died by Gladys Mitchell 25 Aug 2013 | 04:02 pm
When Mrs Bradley’s grandson finds an old diary in her rented cottage it attracts the interest of this most unconventional of detectives, for the book’s now deceased owner was once suspected of the mur...
Extract from ‘The Glass Republic’ by Tom Pollock 9 Aug 2013 | 02:10 pm
Here’s a first for GavReads – I’m pleased to be hosting an extract of The Glass Republic by Tom Pollock. I was lucky enough to have a chat to Tom for The Readers podcast, where I talked to him about J...
SFM Review: Blood Music by Greg Bear 30 Jul 2013 | 12:40 am
Should we read older SF? Gollancz seems to think so. Their SF Masterworks line has, for the last 14 years, highlighted SF classics and kept them in print. This series of posts is here to try to do two...
Personal Post: Sort of Taking a Break 28 Jul 2013 | 04:50 pm
Time is fleeting… madness takes its toll… I’m sure you already know this but I’m a book addict. I read them, I blog books, I chat about them (mostly on twitter), I co-host a podcast, which also has a...
Feature: New Things in Charles Stross’s Laundry Series 12 Jul 2013 | 11:02 pm
I love The Laundry series by Charles Stross so catching up with news around it today has been really exciting. Firstly, The Atrocity Archives and The Jennifer Morgue have re-released with updated cov...
Guest Post: PLASTIC OR PAPER? By Peter Liney (The Detainee) 6 Jul 2013 | 07:23 pm
I know that just about everything that can be said about the digital reading experience as opposed to the printed one has been, but, hey, I’m a late developer. I’ve read quite a few books digitally re...
EXCITING BREAKING NEWS: RAISING STEAM Out before Christmas 6 Jul 2013 | 06:54 pm
**EXCITING BREAKING NEWS** We’re delighted to confirm that a brand new Discworld novel is heading your way and will available before Christmas! RAISING STEAM – the 40th book in the Discworld series ...
New Releases: My Choice of 13 Novels Coming in the Next Six Months 2 Jul 2013 | 01:26 pm
Twice a year Simon and I choose 13 books that are coming out over the next six months and dedicate a whole episode of The Readers Podcast to tell everyone about them and why we’re curious about readin...
Me Elsewhere: Guest Post The Art of Social Reading on OneChapterMore 26 Jun 2013 | 06:05 pm
Max aka One Chapter More was nice enough to ask me to write him a guest post to celebrate the relaunch of his blog. The phrase ‘social reading’ has been on my mind for a while so I thought now was a ...
