Mark Alder

You may have heard of the Hundred Years War. You may think you know about what those times were like. Lots of mud, territorial aggression and religious beliefs. But what if the outmoded superstitions of an uneducated populace were actually true? What if God *would* send an angel to fight by your side, as long […]

Alfred Hitchcock once said that ‘Drama is life with the dull bits cut out’, and this week we can promise you all the drama, none of the dull stuff. We have Adam Roberts’ latest, a Hitchcockian murder mystery that’s more about the how than the who. A crime book from the legendary David Gemmell that […]

This week we’re delighted to bring you the next chapter in our book of the month Son of the Morning. If you missed our last  posts you can catch up with prologue and chapter one here and chapter two here.  Return to Mark Adler’s glorious world of angels and devils. Click here to read Son of the Morning […]

This week we’re delighted to bring you the next chapter in our book of the month Son of the Morning. If you missed our post last week you can catch up with prologue and chapter one here. Things are heating up as the war on earth begins to spill over into Heaven and Hell. Return to Mark […]

Our book of the month for April is the mighty Son of the Morning by Mark Alder. The best way to introduce it is via an edited letter from Simon,our Associate Publisher for Gollancz, which he penned to our Geeks earlier in the year (who you’ll be hearing more from later in the month) to bring them to this epic read. The first chapter is below, and we’re be serializing it throughout the month with a giveaway to come.

The events of the Hundred Years War would make for an extraordinary novel even if you wrote them as a straight novel. The characters were larger than life, the politicking every bit as devious as anything George RR Martin could imagine and the battles every bit as brutal. Add into the mix the angels and […]

It’s day five of our Geekmas giveaway and we’re adding five fierce proofs to our bundle. With 2014 quickly approaching we’ve got some incredibly exciting titles to share with you. And what better way to share them then to add them to our bundle. Over the first five months of 2014 we’ve got the gospel […]

We’ll be talking about Son of the Morning by Mark Alder (M.D. Lachlan) a lot more later in the year. But the book is fresh in my mind now so I thought I’d pass on a little of the excitement I felt when reading it. Mark Alder is the pen-name of M.D. Lachlan. M.D. Lachlan […]