Books read in 2017

[image error]Maybe it’s because I am in a couple of book groups requiring me to read at least two books monthly, plus what the members call ‘side reads’ along the lines of if-you-enjoyed-that-you’ll-like-this’ I have quite a long list here. In fact I’ve started more than I finished and forgotten some I enjoyed, but hadn’t written review notes. Long though this list is, the 2018 reads will outdo it because of my role as a judge in the current FicFun writing competition. For that I will read the equivalent of at least 20 novellas / novels by the end of May.


These are in no particular order – even of chronological reading. Nor do I say if I enjoyed them though books I couldn’t really finish because of the writing style or content don’t make this list at all.


If I had to pick a favourite author of 2017 it would be Claire North.


Crater’s Edge by Lucy Andrews


The Martian Job by Jaine Fenn


Descent by Ken MacLeod


Rotherweird by Andrew Caldecott


The Sudden Appearance of Hope by Claire North


The End of the Day by Claire North


The Roar of Lions by Mark Iles


The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain


Finding Alison Deirdre Eustace


Gone Gods by Frances Gow


Dreamsnake by Vonda McIntyre


The Power Naomi Anderson


The Boldest Measures by Charlie Flowers


About Grace Anthony Doerr


Guardian Angels Dr Bob Rich


Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky


American Gods by Neil Gaiman


Tamed by Douglas R Brown


The Lady of the Forest by Kevin Carman


The Codex by Helen McCabe


The Tourist by Robert Dickinson


The Christ Killer New York by Brandon S.S. Bourne


Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough


Anthologies


The Horror Zine Magazine Summer 2017 Ed Jeani Rector


Stories of Your Life anthology by Ted Chiang (Arrival film story within)


Book of Tricks: Six Cruel and Unusual Short Stories by B.C.Bamber


SFerics 2017 ed Rosie Oliver


Twisted Tales IX ed J Richard Jacobs


Crooked Tales ed Mark Fine, Anita Kovacevic etc


Poetry


Unmaking Atoms Magdelena Ball


Pomegranate Heart by Miriam Calleja


Making Cocoa For Kingsley Amis by Wendy Cope


Non Fiction


Write Well Publish Right by Lucinda Moebius


Memory of Water by Emmi Itaranta


Time Was (Memoir) Howard Waldman


Oxygen – A 4 billion year history by Donal Canfield


Cycling Philosophy for Everyone Ed Fritz Allhoff


The Winding Stair: Francis Bacon bio (not the artist) Daphne Du Maurier


NELDER NEWS


FICFUN


I can recommend this new venture. It is a web-based writing and showcasing site that has already run one successful competition. I am the next honorary judge for the suspense category. If you are hard at work with #NaNoWriMo or just finishing off a novel or long story of at least 10k words and want to know what to do with it, why not enter it for


http://www.ficfun.com/act/fictioncontest


Free to enter, huge prizes


worth a look


tweets @FicFun


XAGHRA’S REVENGE  released this summer. Pirates abducted 5000 people off the tiny Mediterranean island near Malta in 1551. Nearly 500yrs passed until their spirits enacted revenge with my authorial help. http://myBook.to/Xaghra 


I am to do a signing of Xaghra’s Revenge at the Preluna Hotel, Sliema in April 2018. I stayed at this hotel when I did the research and even wrote some chapters there.


 


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