Books, Friday Favourites, Television
Friday Favourites: things we read and watched in April
By Hodderscape Team
From vampires to time travellers, the best things we read and watched in April!
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POSTED ON: April 29, 2016
FILED UNDER: Books, Friday Favourites, Television
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POSTED ON: April 28, 2016
FILED UNDER: Books, Fun Stuff
TAGS: Matthew Blakstad, SockpuppetCover Reveal: Fallen Angel, by Matthew Blakstad
By Anne Perry
On 19 May, Hodder will publish Matthew Blakstad’s debut novel Sockpuppet, which you’re going to love. it’s Neal Stephenson meets The Thick of It, and it’s amazing. But Sockpuppet might not be quite the beginning of the story…
Today we’re thrilled to reveal the cover of Fallen Angel, the stand-alone, novella-length prequel to Sockpuppet. Modems, early internet hoaxes and Geocities… it’s all here.
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POSTED ON: April 28, 2016
FILED UNDER: Books, Fun Stuff, News
TAGS: Nnedi Okorafor, Way Down Dark; The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet; The Book of Phoenix, becky chambers, jp smytheCONGRATULATIONS TO OUR THREE CLARKE AWARD SHORTLISTED TITLES
By Anne Perry
We are incredibly proud to announce that three Hodder titles have been shortlisted for this year’s Arthur C. Clarke Award. As the shortlist is only six books, that’s a pretty good showing!
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POSTED ON: April 26, 2016
FILED UNDER: Books
TAGS:Fiction’s wickedest witches
By Pat Black
Thomas Olde Heuvelt’s Hex has put a bit of abracadabra into the witchcraft canon. Although they’re prevalent in fairy tales, witches tend to take a back seat to vampires and ghosts when it comes to villainy in classic literature. There are some notable exceptions, however…
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POSTED ON: April 22, 2016
FILED UNDER: Friday Favourites
TAGS:Friday Favourites: Games
By Sharan Matharu
Games are pretty cool, right? You get to be the hero or the villain, you get to run around and do amazing things that you probably can’t do in real life (I can barely get up to make myself a cup o’ tea let alone scale buildings) and you get to experien …
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POSTED ON: April 21, 2016
FILED UNDER: Books, Film
TAGS: Charlotte Bronte, Jasper FfordeHappy 200th Birthday, Charlotte Bronte!
By Anne Perry
Brontë hipsters will claim that the actual best Brontë novel is The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Brontë. Contrarians like to argue that the best Charlotte Brontë novel is not the most famous, Jane Eyre, but instead Villette or even Shirley. And today – Charlotte Brontë’s two hundredth birthday, is not the day for us to argue. (Or maybe it is! But not here on Hodderscape!) Instead, today is all about celebrating Charlotte Brontë, one of the most superb novelists of the English language (and a Hodderscape favourite).
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POSTED ON: April 19, 2016
FILED UNDER: Books
TAGS: Jasper FfordeShakespeare’s most fantastical plays
By Fleur Clarke
This year marks 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. I like to think that if Shakespeare had been around today he’d have been first in line to read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and be able to quote liberally from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. This may be going a bit far, but Shakespeare’s plays are packed with fantastical elements. Witches, ghosts, fairies, people who wear a lot of black, his plays have them all.
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POSTED ON: April 15, 2016
FILED UNDER: Books, Friday Favourites
TAGS:Friday Favourites: books set in London
By Hodderscape Team
The Houses of Parliament. Buckingham Palace. Diagon Alley. London has so many iconic sites, some of them you can visit… some of them you can find in books. Here are our favourite fictional Londons.
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10 comics fantasy readers will love
By Kaitlin Gray
You may look in a comic shop, see the latest Game of Thrones graphic novel and say to yourself, ‘that can’t possibly be as good as the books’. When we talk about fantasy we have certain expectations like a complex plotline and a stack of pages to read through, so how can fantasy possibly work in picture-form?
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POSTED ON: April 12, 2016
FILED UNDER: Books
TAGS: Fantasy, Guy Gavriel KayChildren of Earth and Sky: An Origin Story
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By Guy Gavriel Kay
Guy Gavriel Kay tells us about the origins of his new novel Children of Earth and Sky, a sweeping fantasy epic inspired by Adriatic pirates, the city of Dubrovnik and the conflicts and dramas of Renaissance Europe.
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