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The author of the Book of Cross supernatural thriller series (The Mona Lisa Sacrifice, The Dead Hamlets, The Apocalypse Ark) as well as the books Has the World Ended Yet?, The Warhol Gang and Please.

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	Please 3.69 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Warhol Gang 3.75 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Has the World Ended Yet? Tales to Astonish 3.92 avg rating — 36 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mona Lisa Sacrifice (The Book of Cross) 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Has the World Ended Yet? 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Deja Yu Makes the Pain Go Away: A Story 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wonder Lands War (Book of Cross) 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beat the Geeks: A Story 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I'd Never Been Shot for Real Before 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #444 by Peter Darbyshire (Goodreads Author), Scott H. Andrews (Editor), Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The world needs urban fantasy now more than ever

The rise of fantasy fiction and particularly romantasy may have its roots in escapism from the absurdity of the real world, but what about urban fantasy? Is there still a place for it in our literary landscape? Or is the real world beyond redemption?

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Peter Darbyshire wrote a new blog post The world needs urban fantasy now more than ever The rise of fantasy fiction and particularly romantasy may have its roots in escapism from the absurdity of the real world, but what about urban fanta Read more of this blog post »
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Peter Darbyshire and 3 other people liked Corey's review of The Wonder Lands War (Book of Cross): "A hardboiled urban fantasy that joyfully fuses literary, religious, and mythological genres. This fourth entry in Darbyshire’s BOOK OF CROSS series finds the immortal Cross—a thief resurrected in Christ’s body—teaming up with the Faerie Queen Morgana" Read more of this review »
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Peter Darbyshire and 1 other person liked Gillian Burnett's review of The Wonder Lands War (Book of Cross): "Reading The Wonder Lands War seriously disrupted my sleep patterns for a couple of weeks, which is about the highest compliment I can pay a book. This fourth instalment in the series by Peter Darbyshire is a rollicking, chaotic, funny escape into a w" Read more of this review »
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Peter Darbyshire rated a book it was amazing Ink & Sigil (Ink & Sigil, #1) by Kevin Hearne (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The first in a parallel series to Kevin Hearne’s Iron Druid tales, Ink and Sigil follows Al MacBharris, a sort of magician in Glasgow. Al uses sigils and other arcane tricks to try to keep the realms of supernatural beings such as hobgoblins and faer ...more
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Peter Darbyshire rated a book it was amazing Cherry by Nico Walker	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Jesus' Son meets Catch-22. Jesus' Son meets Catch-22. ...more
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Peter Darbyshire rated a book it was amazing The Devils (The Devils, #1) by Joe Abercrombie	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The Devils may be Joe Abercrombie’s best novel yet, and that’s saying something given his backlist of contemporary fantasy classics. The Devils isn’t set in Abercrombie’s usual fantasy realms but instead takes place in an alternate history where Europ ...more
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Peter Darbyshire rated a book it was amazing Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad (Austin Kleon) by Austin Kleon (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Keep Going by Austin Kleon is a slim little book but it’s one of my most highlighted books after only one read. Billing itself as a primer on “ways to stay creative in good times and bad,” Keep Going is an informal yet deeply insightful series of med ...more
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Peter Darbyshire rated a book it was amazing Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham, #2) by Benjamin Stevenson (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Author Ernest Cunningham joins a writers fest on a cross-country train in Australia in the hopes of finding inspiration to follow his debut novel, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone. You can probably see where this is going right away and, yes, ...more
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Peter Darbyshire rated a book it was amazing Ocean Drive by Sam Wiebe (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Hard-boiled British Columbia. That’s what best describes Sam Wiebe’s Ocean Drive, a dirty thriller set in the idyllic community of White Rock on BC’s West Coast. Only this paradise by the water has a seamy underside of sex, drugs and murder. Lots of m ...more
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Peter Darbyshire rated a book it was amazing The Malevolent Eight (The Malevolent Seven, #2) by Sebastien de Castell (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Deranged mercenary war mages, scheming celestials, diabolical internals, dark magic, black humour and vampire kangaroos. Enough said.
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