By Marty Mulrooney
Four and Twenty Blackbirds is a supernatural thriller written by award-winning author Cherie Priest. It tells the story of Eden Moore, an orphan watched over by three dead women as a gunman continually tries to hunt her down. Full of Southern flavour and African black magic, Titan Books have recently published Priest’s debut novel – originally released in 2005 in the US – as a paperback original for the very first time in the UK.
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By Marty Mulrooney
Goliath is a graphic novel by Scottish cartoonist and illustrator Tom Gauld. Published by Drawn & Quarterly, it retells the famous biblical story of David and Goliath from the point of view of Goliath of Grath himself, a gentle giant who actually prefers doing paperwork to fighting.
By Marty Mulrooney
ICO: Castle in the Mist is a novel written by Miyuki Miyabe, one of Japan’s most popular and best-selling authors. Inspired by the cult video game Ico (an award-winning PlayStation 2 game released in 2001/2002, now remastered in HD for PlayStation 3), the story was originally printed between May 2002 to May 2003 as instalments in Shūkan Gendai, a Japanese weekly current affairs magazine. It was recently translated into English by Viz Media and released in North America on the 16th of August 2011, before being distributed in the UK by Simon & Schuster from the 15th of September 2011.
By Marty Mulrooney
Uncharted: The Fourth Labyrinth by Christopher Golden is the official tie-in novel of the award-winning Uncharted video game series on PlayStation 3. In this standalone tale, adventurer and thief Nathan Drake is called to New York City by his mentor Victor Sullivan, whose friend, a world-famous archaeologist, has been found murdered in Manhattan. Together, they will unravel a complex mystery that will see them travelling to both Egypt and Greece, before uncovering the secrets of the deadly fourth labyrinth…
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