The heir to Martina Cole’s crown with a story of murder, the underworld, violence and treachery. It’s 1983 and Stephanie Crouch’s life is dull. She is desperate to escape the run-down, pokey council house she shares with her overbearing family, but at fourteen years old she has nowhere to go.

The Demon King still lives, stronger than ever, devouring souls in search of immortality. Against him stands the scholar Taron, a newly-minted warrior of Lemuria, and Willow, a woman of unearthly loveliness, born of mist…Taron must pass through the waterfall of molten gold that shields the secret portal to his beloved land. His brilliant mind and the speaking sword called CrystalFire are his weapons against evil

After several unsuccessful and hair-raising efforts to bag a Tiger on the battlefields of Tunisia, Doug and his team put their lives on the line in a terrifying, close-hand shoot-out with the five-man crew of a Tiger, capturing the tank intact. The morale boost to the Allies was such that both Churchill and King George VI flew to Tunis to examine the Tiger first hand.

I was a princess from Earth and he was a rogue spaceman from a mythical world. He saved my life three times. I rescued him from a fate worse than death. We fell madly in love. We married and lived happily ever after. Ever after comes with an expiration date these days. We’d been married less than year when Kit got shot in the head.

Her first novel for adults is due in September, but More from guardian.co.uk on JK isn’t ready to leave behind the world of her most famous creation. The author has confirmed she is hard at work on her long-promised encyclopedia of the Harry Potter world.

And look what I spotted whilst trawling thru the net. It would seem to be official athough your author had no luck first thing this morning. Still. Senior Citizens often have to queue….   Pottermore, The Harry Potter Official Website, Is Finally Open To Muggles   The official Harry Potter website Pottermore finally opened up [...]

  Its the weekend so I have the time to look for jems amongst the news. “First Book” always catches my eye at least within the main niches I support. Available here      Nocturnal Origins is the first book in the Nocturnal Lives series. When I was shopping it around to agents and publishers, [...]

  And again from the Guardian an excellent review of the books surrounding the Titanic anniversary. I myself get a little fed up with the amount of coverage given. Certainly within televison programming. Cheap TV. Still that does not count where the newspapers are concerned. There is still a chance for us. Comment away and [...]

  Something borrowed something blue… I think we've had the blue so here is a short borrowed. Follow the links for more info on the shorts described below. Review Authors info in the Bio So, on to the stories… Summary of Story #1: No Earthly Ship – This is a simple sci-fi adventure/romance. The action [...]

A writer who attempts in the nineteenth century to rehabilitate the ancient legends of the were-wolf and the vampire has set himself a formidable task. Most of the delightful old supersitions of the past have an unhappy way of appearing limp and sickly in the glare of a later day, and in such a story as Dracula by Bram Stoker (Archibald Constable and Co, Svo, pp 390, 6s.), the reader must reluctantly acknowledge that the region of horrors has shifted its ground.