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The Violent Century – Limited Edition
The limited edition of The Violent Century is now available for pre-orders. It is limited to just 200 signed copies, with original artwork by Pedro Marques unique to this edition. It will be launched...
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Publication Day!
The Violent Century is officially published today! There’s a review in today’s Metro, saying: It’s the X-Men as written by John le Carré, a shadowy alternate history in which cynical Cold War...
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Wanted in Italy
…that is, the Italian edition of Osama is now out! It’s published by Gargoyle and also available on Amazon Italy. I’m looking forward to seeing it!
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The British Newspapers on The Violent Century
The reviews keep coming in for The Violent Century, and they’re pretty good! “A stunning masterpiece” – The Independent “Tidhar synthesises the geeky and the political in a vision of world events that...
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On Farts & Supermen
My favourite moment in The Violent Century comes late in the book, but early chronologically. Fogg, Oblivion and their classmates on the Farm are made to exercise outside. It’s a sunny day in 1936:...
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Closing Doors
As a child I tried to step between the drops Now I close doors softly Like a stranger who had wandered in, lost Into his own home And does not want to wake its occupier. – “Closing Doors”, First...
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2013: The Short Stories
I had 20 short stories published this year (21 if I count “Buried Eyes”, which appeared in 2012 in audio only). They include 5 ”Central Station” stories, 3 ”Continuity” stories (all of which are pure...
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What Lot’s Wife Saw
What Lot’s Wife Saw by Ioanna Bourazopoulou, translated from the Greek by Yiannis Panas (Black & White Publishing, 2013). In 1952, Horace Gold suggested I write a robot novel. I demurred, saying I...
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Osama on the German 10 Best Crime Novels 2013
Delighted to find out today that Osama is on the list of the ten best crime novels of 2013 (besten Kriminalromane 2013) as selected by Zeit, after being on the KrimiZEIT-Bestenliste the past year. The...
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Camera Obscura released in Japan
The second volume of the Bookman Histories, Camera Obscura, has just come out in Japan from Hayakawa. I don’t know who the cover artist is but those covers are just amazing. My next two books in Japan...
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2013 In Review
I’m not sure if it’s vain doing this sort of post, or sort of useful if only to me as a way of marking some sort of progress. That’s a lot of qualifiers. It’s been a long year. Anyway. Publishing On...
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Reading in 2013
Ah, 2013. The year I stopped reading paper books and started reading on my… phone. Welcome to the future! I read 32 books in total. (I should add that I read an awful lot of first-second-third chapters...
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Wolf’s Law
It is a truth universally acknowledged that once a detective acquires two concurrent cases, they must be related.
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Wanted in Italy
…that is, the Italian edition of Osama is now out! It’s published by Gargoyle and also available on Amazon Italy. I’m looking forward to seeing it!
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Cloud Permutations in audio
Audible are bringing out 3 of my novellas this month in audiobook format, and first up is Cloud Permutations - Really a short novel, this is the closest I’ve come to young adult science fiction, I...
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Gorel & The Pot-Bellied God in Audio
So, short on the heels of the audiobook edition of Cloud Permutations, Audible have released my 2012 British Fantasy Award winning novella, Gorel & The Pot-Bellied God. There is only one truth...
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New in Audio: Jesus & The Eightfold Path
My third novella this month to be given the audiobook treatment – it’s Jesus & The Eightfold Path! Three Wise Men came from the East for the infant Jesus in The New Testament. Three brave...
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The Great Game published in Japan
The Great Game is now out from Hayakawa in Japan, the third and concluding volume of The Bookman Histories. Cool cover!
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The Violent Century out in paperback!
The Violent Century is out in paperback today across the UK! You can pick a pb up from Amazon or in a Waterstones shop near you. “A stunning masterpiece” – The Independent “A sophisticated, moving and...
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Osama in Europe
Osama was out last year in several European countries, and subsequently I found out that: In Germany, my translator, Juliane Gräbener-Müller, is nominated for the Kurd Lasswitz Prize, in the Best...
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