Waiting On Wednesday #141 - Fellside

Waiting On Wednesday, where we put the spotlight on upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating, is hosted by Jill at Breaking The Spine.

This week's choice is -

Fellside - M R Carey

ISBN - 9780316300285

Publisher - Orbit

Release date - April 5 2016

Find - Goodreads

The highly anticipated new thriller from the acclaimed author of The Girl With All the Gifts.
 
Jess Moulson is convicted of a murder she can't remember committing.

Nothing is quite clear from the drug-fuelled night when a blaze set in her apartment killed the little boy upstairs. But when the media brands Jess a child killer, she starts to believe it herself.

Now she's on her way to Fellside, the biggest, most formidable women's prison in Europe, standing in the bleak Yorkshire moors.

But Jess won't be alone in her prison cell. Lurking in the shadows is an unexpected visitor . . . the ghost of the ten-year-old boy she killed. He says he needs her help - and he won't take no for an answer.

FELLSIDE is a powerful, thought-provoking and heart-wrenching new standalone novel by M. R. Carey.

Uh, yes please! Absolutely love The Girl With All The Gifts but this sounds like it's going to be a fantastic and unexpected ghost story.

Bookmarked... #9

The return of the (mostly) weekly post letting you all know what I'm reading and have lined up for the week! It's my own version of Sheila at Book Journey's It's Monday What Are You Reading and I have her permission to rename it for my own nefarious reasons :)

Over recent weeks my reading has been somewhat eclectic, I've read everything from chicklit through to crime and onto romance. When I'm in a slump I find I read better if I don't plan what I'm reading and just go with what ever takes my fancy. I'm hoping though, now that things are starting to settle down, that I can back into at least semi-planning what's up next. Maybe in the new year?

Read

A Little Princess

In A Dark Dark Wood

Girl On A Train

Skulduggery Pleasant: The Faceless ones

Currently Reading

Skulduggery Pleasant: Dark Days

Wishing For Tomorrow

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Book Haul #116, Or How To Get Over A Life Slump...

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly event hosted on Tynga's Reviews where we can share what new books we've picked up this past week be they bought, borrowed or downloaded. There are also lots of other 'book haul' memes out there for you to choose from!

So... Hi! My name's Fi and I'm a very bad blogger. Actually I've been bad at everything recently and rather than write the same thing all over again see here for my heartfelt apology about being MIA. Moving on to the book side of things it would seem not having the energy or patience to do anything extends to buying books and, to a lesser extent, requesting review books! I have only bought three books since my last book haul post in September! One of those was my pre-order of The Vanishing Throne which I ordered on May 9 2014 and if I'm honest forgot all about...

Bought

The Boy Who Drew The Future

Harry Potter Illustrated Edition

The Vanishing Throne

Review

Beside Myself

The Book Of Storms

The Darkest Secret

Demon Road

Every Heart A Doorway

The Haunting

 

Crossed + One Hundred

Lawless & The Devil Of Euston Square

Lungdon

The Masked City

This Raging Light

Rebel Of The Sands

13 Minutes

Dead Ringers

Down Station

Unintended Hiatus!

A short & sweet post to apologize for the unintended and unexpected blog hiatus! I've had a bit of a life slump, no desire to do anything except read and go to bed a lot earlier than I normally do. It was partly caused by some of the meds I'm on which have now been adjusted and I'm starting to feel a lot more with it. Hopefully this means I can get back to blogging soon, maybe even this weekend!

Thanks for sticking with me :)

Edited To Add

Of course, the one thing I should have mentioned is that my trusty Kindle Fire gave up the ghost at the end of November to add insult to injury! And it's only just under 3 years old... That means I'm currently Kindle-less until one of three things happens, Christmas, birthday or I save enough to buy a replacement. I'm thinking probably birthday so that could potentially mean no Kindle until the end of January. The good thing about this though is that it should (theoretically) give me plenty of time to read some of the physical copies I own and maybe hit a challenge target!

November New Release Giveaway!

Welcome to the November New Release Giveaway Hop, hosted by It Starts At Midnight and Librarian Lavender! The hop runs from today through to midnight on November 30 2015. Up for grabs is any new release this month up to the value of $22 from the Book Depository as long as they deliver to your country - find the list of countries here. 

All you have to do is choose any new release published in November and fill out the rafflecopter!

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Check out the linky below for all more blogs taking part, thanks for entering and good luck!

Waiting On Wednesday #140 - The Custodian Of Marvels

Waiting On Wednesday, where we put the spotlight on upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating, is hosted by Jill at Breaking The Spine.

This week's choice is -

The Custodian Of Marvels (Fall Of The Gas-Lit Empire #3) - Rod Duncan

ISBN - 9780857665010

Publisher - Angry Robot

Release date - February 4 2016

Find - Goodreads | Book Depository 

*Proceed with caution if you have not read the first two books in the trilogy*


You’d have to be mad to steal from the feared International Patent Office. But that’s what Elizabeth Barnabus is about to try. A one-time enemy from the circus has persuaded her to attempt a heist that will be the ultimate conjuring trick.

Hidden in the vaults of the Patent Court in London lie secrets that could shake the very pillars of the Gas-Lit Empire. All that stands in Elizabeth’s way are the agents of the Patent Office, a Duke’s private army and the mysterious Custodian of Marvels.

Rod Duncan returns with the climactic volume of the Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire, the breathtaking alternate history series that began with the Philip K Dick Award-nominated The Bullet-Catcher’s Daughter.

One of my favorite series from Angry Robot! And look at that cover! Nothing to say except I can't wait to read it.

Waiting On Wednesday #139 - Medusa's Web

Waiting On Wednesday, where we put the spotlight on upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating, is hosted by Jill at Breaking The Spine.

This week's choice is -

Medusa's Web - Tim Powers

ISBN - 9780062262455

Publisher - William Morrow

Release date - January 19 2016

Find - Goodreads 

From the award-winning author of Hide Me Among the Graves, Last Call, Declare, and Three Days to Never, a phantasmagoric, thrilling, mind-bending tale of speculative fiction in which one man must uncover occult secrets of 1920s Hollywood to save his family.

In the wake of their Aunt Amity’s suicide, Scott and Madeline Madden are summoned to Caveat, the eerie, decaying mansion in the Hollywood hills in which they were raised. But their decadent and reclusive cousins, the malicious wheelchair-bound Claimayne and his sister, Ariel, do not welcome Scott and Madeline’s return to the childhood home they once shared. While Scott desperately wants to go back to their shabby South-of-Sunset lives, he cannot pry his sister away from this haunted “House of Usher in the Hollywood Hills” that is a conduit for the supernatural.

Decorated by bits salvaged from old hotels and movie sets, Caveat hides a dark family secret that stretches back to the golden days of Rudolph Valentino and the silent film stars. A collection of hypnotic eight-limbed abstract images inked on paper allows the Maddens to briefly fragment and flatten time - to transport themselves into the past and future in visions that are both puzzling and terrifying. Though their cousins know little about these ancient “spiders” which provoke unpredictable temporal dislocations, Ariel and Claimayne have been using for years - an addiction that has brought Claimayne to the brink of selfish destruction.

As Madeline falls more completely under Caveat’s spell, Scott discovers that to protect her, he must use the perilous spiders himself. But will he unravel the mystery of the Madden family’s past and finally free them. . . or be pulled deeper into their deadly web?

I'm a huge fan of Tim Powers, The Anubis Gates and The Drawing of the Dark are just two of his books that I love. Medusa's Web sounds delightfully creepy and it's a shame it's not out until January as it would be a perfect Halloween read. It is out a couple of days before my birthday though so an excellent excuse to buy a copy!