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Chris Beckett launch party
By Becci
27 Jan 2012 - 12:57

Last night we corvids were celebrating Chris Beckett's Dark Eden with a launch party at Heffers bookshop in his home town of Cambridge. A wonderful night was had by all and many copies of the book signed by Chris.

The book has been very well recieved in both the press and on the blogosphere with everyone from the Guardian to A.N Wilson singing its praises. This morning we awake to find an incredible Daily Mail review 'Human plight and alien planet are both superbly evoked in a captivating and haunting book'

This adds to

'A classic theme, beautifully told' Sunday Telegraph

'A superior piece of theologically nuanced science fiction...

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2012 - A fresh start and exciting times ahead for Corvus...
By Becci
12 Jan 2012 - 13:29

We're all a bit of a flutter here in the crow's nest as our new editorial teamates have arrived!

As of this week, Sara O'Keeffe is our new Editorial Director - and she's already made her first acquisition! (More on that soon...) She's joined by Maddie West as Editor, and they're abuzz with ideas of how to take our wonderful books to the next level. I for one can't wait!

 

January brings us more good news with great reviews for Chris Beckett's new novel Dark Eden - 'Dazzlingly inventive, superbly well written and packed with ideas' from none other than A.N Wilson in this week's Reader's Digest. It...

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What to look forward to, in 2012 from Corvus
By Becci
20 Dec 2011 - 11:29

Where to start? You've all seen the catalogue, but here's some picks to look forward to in spring, and something to suit everyone's tastes.

 

January - Karl Marlantes' WHAT IT IS LIKE TO GO TO WAR

 

‘Karl Marlantes has written a staggeringly beautiful book on combat - what it feels like, what the consequences are and above all, what society must do to understand it. In my eyes he has become the preeminent literary voice on war of our generation. He is a natural storyteller and a deeply profound thinker who not only illuminates war for civilians, but also offers a...

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The Killing Way blog tour
By Becci
20 Dec 2011 - 10:24
In November we corvids were delighted to launch Anthony Hays in the UK with the first in his series, THE KILLING WAY. Many thanks to those who took part in our biggest ever blog tour, here are some highlights and what they thought of the book;
 
‘The Killing Way is well written, cleverly plotted, and a thoroughly entertaining read… I was engrossed from start to finish. It demonstrates that a talented author can ensure an old-fashioned mystery can succeed, even in a world of CSI and procedural investigations.’
 
‘This is a murder mystery novel, pure and simple… and extremely well executed.’...
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'Give yourself to The Weird!'
By Becci
20 Dec 2011 - 10:37

Rave reviews for The Weird this winter;

‘An anthology of writing so powerful it will leave your reality utterly shredded… Give yourself to the weird! Hurl your puny mortal body through the portal the VanderMeers have opened for you, join your lord the Miéville on the other side, give your heart and soul to the saints that stand at his feet, to the mad prophets that have prepared you for his coming. Open the pages of the new gospel of The Weird.’Guardian.co.uk

The definitive collection of weird fiction...

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'A masterpiece about oceanography, piracy, the container shipping industry, airships, India, weather and toxic waste'
By Nic
29 Nov 2011 - 10:02

Need we say more?

From Tom Morton's pick of the year in The Sunday Herald.

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THE WEIRD: 'So many delights'
By Nic
28 Nov 2011 - 16:51

Stuart Kelly and The Scotsman have been discovering THE WEIRD.

And they like it:

‘Incredible... a tremendous experience... What is truly ingenious in this volume is they way the editors have tessellated works of indisputable literary genius with stories from the pulp tradition. To move from Franz Kafka’s In The Penal Colony to William Sansom’s The Long Sheet, and to realise their almost subliminal connections, is an unlikely and thrilling jolt...There are so many delights in this that any...

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Be afraid...
By Nic
17 Oct 2011 - 12:42

With the nights drawing in, we're delighted to announce that Phil Rickman's past has returned to haunt him. For the first time ever, two early Rickman classics (his first two novels no less) are available in ebook format.

Before Merrily Watkins arrived in 1999, Phil Rickman wrote five supernatural thrillers that explored the darker side of rural life, a world where folklore and legend haunt the present. No horror...

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Phil Rickman: 'National Treasure'
By Nic
23 Sep 2011 - 09:33

'For my money, Rickman is a national treasure, the true successor to Dennis Wheatley as a superb storyteller who makes the supernatural all too believable...Spine-tingling, and yet suffused with compassion and charm, this is Rickman at his very best and proves just how compelling and original a writer he is. It’s time for a Merrily television series, surely.'

From Geoffrey Wansell's thriller reviews in The Daily Mail

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And Here's Why You Should be Reading Margie Orford
By Nic
21 Sep 2011 - 15:52

'South African cop Riedwaan Faizal is the sort of smouldering hero who will make readers of all ages want to be policemen when they grow up. But his habitual springbok-in-a-china-shop approach makes him prime suspect when his little daughter disappears just as his ex-wife plans to take her to live abroad. With child murder as its subject, this is bleak at times, but Orford plots so brilliantly that to stop reading is as harrowing as to carry on.'

From Jake Kerridge's Telegraph crime reviews.

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