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Online StoreSinclair McKay, of the Daily Telegraph, reviews the latest fantasy fiction including Toll of Hounds by Steven Erikson, the eighth instalment of the Malazan Book Of The Fallen. Storm Born by Richelle Mead is also reviewed.
Fantasy author Steven Erikson will be doing an atypical book tour in the UK during the month of July, 2008. He will be promoting Toll the Hounds, the eighth book in his fantasy series, The Malazan Book of the Fallen.
Tuesday 1st July: LEEDS / YORK
12.30-1.30pm - Waterstone’s Leeds, 93-97 Albion Street, Leeds LS1 5JS
Signing session
For further information telephone: 0113 244 4588
6.30pm - Waterstone’s York, 28-29 High Ousegate, York, YO1 8RX.
Talk, Q&A, Signing
This is a ticketed event only. Tickets £1 (redeemable against purchase of book on the night) and can be obtained from the sales desk at Waterstone’s York. For further information telephone: 01904 628470
Wednesday 2nd July: NOTTINGHAM / BIRMINGHAM
12.30-1.30pm Waterstone’s Nottingham, 1/5 Bridlesmith Gate, Nottingham NG1 2GR.
Signing session
For further information telephone: 0115 948 4499
6.30pm - Waterstone’s Birmingham
24-26 High Street, Birmingham B4 7SL.
Talk, Q&A, Signing
This is a ticketed event only. Tickets £3 (redeemable against purchase of book on the night) and can be obtained from the sales desk at Waterstone’s Birmingham. For further information telephone: 0121 633 4353
Thursday 3rd July: DERBY / MANCHESTER
12.30-1.30pm - Waterstone’s Derby, 78-80 St Peter’s Street, Derby DE1 1SR.
Signing session
For further information telephone: 01332 296997
7.00pm - Waterstone’s Manchester, 91 Deansgate, Manchester M3 2BW.
Talk, Q&A, Signing
This is a ticketed event only. Tickets £3 (redeemable against purchase of book on the night) and can be obtained from the sales desk at Waterstone’s Manchester. For further information telephone: 0161 837 3000
Saturday 5th July: LONDON
1.00-2.00pm Forbidden Planet, London, 179 Shaftesbury Ave, London WC2H 8JR.
Signing session
For further information telephone: 020 7803 1823
Monday 9th July: ABERDEEN
7.00pm - Waterstone’s Aberdeen, 3-7 Union Bridge Aberdeen AB11 6BG.
Talk, Q&A, Signing
This is a ticketed event only. Tickets £3 (to include complimentary refreshment from Costa Coffee) and can be obtained from the sales desk at Waterstone’s Aberdeen. For further information telephone: 01224 592 440
Tuesday 8th July: GLASGOW
6.30pm - Waterstone’s Glasgow Argyle Street, 174-176 Argyle Street, Glasgow G2 8BT.
Talk, Q&A, Signing
This is a ticketed event only. Tickets £3 (£2 redeemable against purchase of book on the night) and can be obtained from the sales desk at Waterstone’s Glasgow. For further information telephone 0141 248 4814
Wednesday 9th July: MILTON KEYNES
6.30pm - Waterstone’s Milton Keynes, 72 Midsummer Place, Milton Keynes, Bucks MK9 3GA.
Talk, Q&A, Signing
This is a ticketed event only. Tickets £3 (£2 redeemable against purchase of book on the night) and can be obtained from the sales desk at Waterstone’s Milton Keynes. For further information telephone: 01908 395 384
Thursday 10th July: CAMBRIDGE
6.30pm - Borders Books Music & Cafe, 12-13 Market St, Cambridge, CB2 3PA.
Talk, Q&A, Signing
This is a ticketed event only. Tickets are free and can be obtained from the sales desk at Borders Cambridge or by calling 01223 306188 to reserve your ticket.
Fantasy writer Steven Erikson will be signing Toll The Hounds at the Forbidden Planet Megastore, 179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8JR, on Saturday, the 5th of July 2008 between 1pm and 2pm.
Steven Erikson is Canadian by birth but presently lives in Surrey. An archaeologist and anthropologist, Toll the Hounds is the eighth book in his Malazan Book Of The Fallen.
Toll Of Hounds: It is summer in the city of Darujhistan and the heat is oppressive, but for the small round man in the faded red waistcoat, discomfiture is not just because of the sun. All is not well. Dire portents plague his nights and the hunters become the hunted.
Ian Cameron Esslemont’s debut "Night of Knives" will be released in the UK on the 5th May 2008. The novel will be set in the same world as Steven Erikson’s Malazan Books of the Fallen, Esslemont is the co-creator of this world.
Esslemont is, like Erikson, a Canadian and there is a second book in the pipeline called Return of the Crimson Guard and this will be published in August 2008.
Here is a snippet from the Transworld UK press release
It gave the Empire its name, but the tiny island and city of Malaz is now a sleepy, seedy back-water port. However, tonight things are a little different. Tonight its residents are bustling about, barring doors and shuttering windows. Because tonight a once-in-a-generation Shadow Moon is due and threatens the good citizens of Malaz with demon hounds and other, darker, beings…
Steven Erikson biography, bibliography, interviews, latest news and book reviews
Joe Abercrombie’s second book in his fantasy trilogy The First Law is a real cracker.
http://www.fantasybookreview.co.uk/Joe-Abercrombie/Before-They-Are-Hanged.html
This book has been awarded 8.9 / 10 and has entered the top #100 at #6 alongside Steven Erikson’s Memories of Ice and Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea Quartet … not too bad a book then from the Lancaster lad.
I have finished the book and am readying myself to write the review but I’m finding it quite difficult to put the reading of the book into words. It is a short book when compared to Steven Erikson, George RR Martin or Robin Hobb put more than long enough to get the story across.
It is more thought-provoking than action packed and the book is still with me a few days after completion which is always a good sign. I will try and put all these feelings into the review but a nice thing about The Other Wind is that it was a fitting end to the Earthsea saga and left me wanting to re-read the rest of the series.
So far there are very few fantasy books that I have given up on midway through. Once I have bought a book and invested time in reading through at least some of it I carry on either through wanting to get my money worth or in the faint hope that things might improve towards the end.
The only book so far that I have thrown down in disgust is Robert Jordan’s New Spring: A Wheel of Time Prequel. From reviews that I have read on Mr Jordan his work seems to be a mixed bag. The impression I get is of an other who wrote a couple of good books and is now milking it for everything that can get out of it. If New Spring is anything to go by then I’m afraid I can not argue with these sentiments.
A very poor book, avoid if possible and read some Hobb or Erikson instead.
The review of Steven Erikson’s Deadhouse Gates has been added to and a couple of descriptive chapters help get the authors style across to those who read the review.
http://www.fantasybookreview.co.uk/Steven-Erikson/Deadhouse-Gates.html
I have read, enjoyed and then reviewed the third book in Steven Erikson’s fantasy epic A Tale of the Malazan Book of The Fallen.
This is another wonderful book and has taken pride of place at #5 in the top 100 fantasy books. Read the full review by following this link http://www.fantasybookreview.co.uk/Steven-Erikson/Memories-Of-Ice.html
According to MalazanWorld.com Toll of the Hounds will be available sometime in 2008