HeyJaredLife as a Bone-White Haze, with Ben Jeapes
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Read in September: Foul-mouthed old biddies, sloppy slobby spooks, and what could possibly go wrong with plotting treason (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowShareThe Pretender, by Jo HarkinLondon Rules, by Mick HerronThe Murder at World’s End, by Ross MontgomeryHope After Church Hurt: How to Heal, Reengage and Rediscov
Chickens come home to roost (opens the original)
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It’s Book Quote Wednesday and the word is TREAT. Today I’m reading from my space opera novel PHOENICIA’S WORLDs. Which - you heard it here first - is now officially out of print, and which I intend to relaunch soon in a fully updated edition. But for the moment, my antihero Quin’s career is on the rise, and he is not only making friends and enemies in equal measure, but he is hatching chickens that one day will come home to roost in a big way. But all that lies in the future.Vector’s review said
Return to the natives (opens the original)
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I would give this novel a different title if I republished it. I know more now about whacky conspiracy theories than I did in the innocent early days of the century. The point was to have … well, not quite aliens, but not quite humans either, treating sixteenth century England (and indeed Europe) in much the same way as the then Europeans treated the native peoples of what they liked to call the New World. Also, I was getting tired of reading alternate histories in which the American Civil War t
In which chickens come home to roost (opens the original)
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It’s Book Quote Wednesday and the word is TREE. Today I’m reading from my collection JEAPES JAPES and the short story “The Fireworker”, which is my sole foray to date into the world of swords and sorcery. Conman Cegario and his reluctant sidekick Shan are working their way from village to village, until fate catches up with them.Many years ago an anthology was announced called Villains, which would present heroic fantasy as it really would be if it actually happened – decidedly unheroic with gri
Wake-up call with added violence (opens the original)
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