Previews, Reviews, and Collection Development
This fall, basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar tossed something different through the hoop: Mycroft Holmes, an acclaimed mystery starring Sherlock Holmes’s crafty brother. Fiction might have been a first for Abdul-Jabbar but not for his publisher, Titan Books, long noted for its licensed products and graphic novels. In the past half-dozen years, however, Titan has been […]
The past has a way of rushing back in like the sea, as British police detective Jan Reyna discovers in Chris Ould’s absorbing new mystery, The Blood Strand. Reyna has returned to his birthplace after learning that his father was found unconscious in a deserted spot, a shotgun by his side and blood that’s not […]
Akers, Tim. The Pagan Night. (The Hallowed War, Bk. 1.) Titan. Jan. 2016. 592p. ISBN 9781783297375. $14.95. ebk. ISBN 9781783297399. FANTASY/EPIC Nearly ten years in the making, this epic fantasy by the North Carolina–born son of a theologian puts us in a Braveheart world ruled ruthlessly by the Church. But gheists still roam the land, […]
Lion Fiction offers Christian fiction of a different sort, aiming to reach both religious and secular readers by relying on narrative thrust, believable characters, and boundary-crossing context to create an imaginative awareness of spiritual truths without battering-ram preachment. “We’re trying to offer spirituality in fiction form but without an agenda, because most books on the Christian faith have something to sell, and that compromises the integrity of the novel,” explains publisher Tony Collins, also publisher of Lion Hudson’s Monarch imprint,
Pam Rhodes is among BBC’s hymn-based Songs of Praise most recognizable and enduring presenters, a job she juggles with that of busy novelist. Her new trilogy, “The Dunbridge Chronicles,” features the very human fumbling and gradual maturing of Neil Fisher, the fresh-from-training new curate of St. Stephen’s church.
Albert, Edoardo. Edwin: High King of Britain: The Northumbrian Thrones, Bk. 1. Apr. 2014. 320p. ISBN 9781782640332. pap. $14.99. HISTORICAL Journalist Albert, who coauthored Northumbria: The Lost Kingdom with archaeologist Paul Gething, debuts as a fiction writer with a historical novel set in seventh-century Northumbria, where Christianity had its start in England. The deposed king, […]
