Hello and welcome to the fourth annual celebration of all things Titan, where I will be looking forward, and backwards, and possibly doing myself an injury whilst trying to both at once! I have quite the collection of e-books, audiobooks and paperbacks to deep dive into, all available via good bookshops or apps such as Kindle Unlimited or Audible Plus. Not having a great deal of manoeuvre in my book budget, I am forever grateful to the wonderful team at Titan who send me proofs , otherwise I have bought them myself second hand, or had them as gifts etc-hey, who doesn’t want books as a Valentin ..read more

About the book… Sealed is a gripping modern fable on motherhood, a terrifying portrait of ordinary people under threat from their own bodies Heavily pregnant Alice and her partner Pete are done with the city. Alice is haunted by rumors of a skin-sealing epidemic starting to infect the urban population. She hopes their new remote mountain house will offer safety, a place to forget the nightmares and start their family. But the mountains and their people hold a different kind of danger. With their relationship under intolerable pressure, violence erupts and Alice is faced with the unthinkab ..read more

About the book… “Cat, this is Finn. He’s going to be your tutor.” Finn looks and acts human, though he has no desire to be. He was programmed to assist his owners, and performs his duties to perfection. A billion-dollar construct, his primary task is now to tutor Cat. As she grows into a beautiful young woman, Finn is her guardian, her constant companion…and more. But when the government grants rights to the ever-increasing robot population, however, Finn struggles to find his place in the world, and in Cat’s heart. Published in 2013 by Angry Robot Books, ‘The Mad Scientist’s Daughter’ is avai ..read more

About the book… Struck by famine and drought, large swathes of North America are now known as the Desert. Set against this mythic and vast backdrop, The Last Storm is a timely story of a family of Rainmakers whose rare and arcane gift has become a curse. Jesse stopped rainmaking the moment his abilities became deadly, bringing down not just rain but scorpions, strange snakes and spiders. He thought he could help a land suffering from climate catastrophe, but he was wrong. When his daughter Ash inherited the tainted gift carried down the family bloodline, Jesse did his best to stop her. His at ..read more

About the book… When the collapsing began, in a system where scarcity was a commodity, there was always a need for the unemployed, the homeless and the hungry. When most people could no longer afford consumer goods, there were riots. The rulers called it an attack on democracy. The riots were met with militarised, armoured police. With falling tax revenues, companies took over financing the police, so the police increasingly functioned as capitalism’s own Praetorian Guard; sometimes supporting rival business leaders, sometimes bringing about their demise, and all the while living standards fel ..read more

In a short break between #Spooktober posts, I am so grateful to the ever wonderful Milly Reid at Quercus Books, for inviting me to be a part of the blog blast for C.J Carey’s ‘Queen High’ which is out today !   I read and loved her previous novel, ‘Widowland’, my thoughts can be found here Here is the synopsis… June, 1955 The Leader has been dead for two years. His assassination, on British soil, provoked violent retribution and intensified repression of British citizens, particularly women. Now, more than ever, the Protectorate is a place of surveillance and isolation – a land of s ..read more

About the book… “Forget a good night’s sleep. Aurora is epic, but personal and poignant, horrifying and darkly funny, and flat-out suspenseful.”–Linwood Barclay, New York Times bestselling author of Find You First From the author of Cold Storage comes a riveting, eerily plausible thriller, told with the menace and flair of Under the Dome or Project Hail Mary, in which a worldwide cataclysm plays out in the lives of one complicated Midwestern family. In Aurora, Illinois, Aubrey Wheeler is just trying to get by after her semi-criminal ex-husband split, lea ..read more

Happy New Year and thank you everyone who took the time to read , share and comment on any of my blog posts this Yuletide, I really appreciated each and every one of you! Hopefully you were able to take the chance to check out the fantastic back catalogue that Angry Robot Books  has studded like jewels throughout its publishing history. From science fiction, to fantasy, horror to supernatural urban fantasies, there is something for everyone, and what they have coming up in 2022, is super exciting! Here are just a few choice offerings that are incoming, enjoy!   ‘Obsidian’ by Sa ..read more

Dystopian debut about a tech company that deletes unwanted memories, the consequences for those forced to contend with what they tried to forget, and the dissenting doctor who seeks to protect her patients from further harm. What if you once had a painful memory removed? And what if you were offered the chance to get it back? Tell Me an Ending follows four characters grappling with the question of what to remember—and what they hoped to forget forever. Finn, an Irish architect living in the Arizona desert, begins to suspect his charming wife of having an affair. Mei, a troubled grad school dr ..read more

About the book… In an alternate Britain, an immersive theatre like no other unravels a mystery from beyond the grave. Perfect for fans of Black Mirror. In a Britain akin to this one, Vincent Rice falls off a ladder, literally at Petra Orff’s feet. They introduce themselves, and he offers to take her to Metamuse, an alternative theatre experience like no other that he won tickets to in a competition he doesn’t remember entering. Vincent has a complex sense of home, and immigrant Petra senses a kindred spirit in him. As time goes on, inexplicable occurrences pile on top of one another, conn ..read more