The weather is perfectly hot and sunny in London (shocking!) and for those of you not watching, the golf, the cricket or eagerly awaiting the start of the new football season, it’s the perfect time to sit in the park, drink Pimms and read a good book or three! Voyager has a great line-up for alternative summer reads…smart, sexy and – oh yes, plenty of magic and sci-fi too.
The Downside Ghosts trilogy
Plenty of you have picked up Unholy Ghosts already (our book of the month for May) and are well acquainted with Stacia Kane’s fierce ghost-banishing, butt-kicking, wickedly-tattooed heroine Chess. This addictive series has already made a fan out of True Blood’s Charlaine Harris and if you love your urban fantasy dark, sexy and modern then you’ll love these books. The follow-ups are just as awesome as the first and Unholy Magic comes out in July with the third, City of Ghosts, to follow in August. I also think they happen to have some of the sexiest covers around…
Buy Unholy Magic on Amazon (Book 2)
Buy Unholy Ghosts on Amazon (Book 1)
Pre-order City of Ghosts on Amazon (Book 3)
Visit Stacia’s official site
Cory Doctorow
And speaking of amazing covers, check out these highly original new designs for Cory Doctorow’s fantastic standalone titles Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Eastern Standard Tribe and Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, all of which are coming out in July.
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a brilliantly funny and bizarre novel, and it’s being published in the UK for the first time. It follows the story of Alan – whose father is a mountain, his mother is awashing machine and among his brothers are a set of Russian nesting dolls and Davey – who is plotting revenge against them all.
Read an extract of Cory Doctorow’s Someone Come to Town, Someone Leaves Town
Buy a copy on Amazon
Eastern Standard Tribe is the story of Art, an up-and-coming interface designer who has just designed the most counterintuitive, user-hostile piece of software ever pushed forth into the world. Why? Art is a member of Eastern Standard Tribe. In a world of 24-hr communication, the only thing that hasn’t changed is the needfor sleep. Tribes have grown up around timezones – less than family but more than nations. Art is working to humiliate the Greenwich Mean Tribe to the benefit of his own people. But in a world without boundaries, nothing can be taken for granted – not happiness, not money, certainly not love.
Read an extract of Cory Doctorow’s Standard Eastern Tribe
Buy a copy on Amazon
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is Cory’s stellar debut novel about Jules, a young man barely a century old. He’s lived long enough to see the cure for death and the end of scarcity, to learn ten languages andcompose three symphonies … and to realize his boyhood dream of living in Disney World, where everything is preserved as itwas in the 20th century. He’s a bit put out when he is murdered (only his fourth death though, so that’s okay) and the group responsible takes over Disney with the idea to bring it fully up-to-date with modern technology: an attack on the artistic purity of Disney World itself. For Jules, this means war.
Read an extract of Cory Doctorow’s Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
Buy a copy on Amazon
So what are you waiting for… get out in the sun and start reading!
