Free (Kindle DRM-free) Berserk by Tim Lebbon [Horror Award-Nominee Author]

[ATDrake]

Firefox on the netbook, as it turns out, has this nasty habit of eating windows to the taskbar so that I can no longer access them even though they still exist, taking everything I had open in them until I force quit/reload and maybe get to use the Restore Session function.

In any case, a light dip into the slushpile today as I've got 15 minutes.

Today's not-quite-sfnal not-really-backlist treat is a horror novel by multiple award nominee/winner, whose other books I've bought at Fictionwise (okay, only one of them, but it said it was a British Fantasy Award finalist or somesuch).

Berserk by Bram Stoker & British Fantasy Award-winner Tim Lebbon (ISFDB, Wikipedia) was originally small-pressed by Necessary Evil in 2005 and picked up by Dorchester/Leisure in 2006, now republished courtesy of Books of the Dead Press which is run by a Canadian, IIRC.

Free without DRM for who knows how long @ Amazon main UK DE ES FR IT

Description
From New York Times Bestselling author Tim Lebbon, comes BERSERK!

The army had said it was a training accident. But why had the coffin they sent home been sealed? On a dark night, in a deserted field, Tom begins to unearth the mass grave where he hopes - and fears - that he will find his son's remains. He finds instead madness: corpses in chains and dead bodies that still move and grasp and clutch. And one little girl, dead and rotting, who promises to help Tom find what he's looking for, if only he will free her.

Preliminaries for the rest of what I spotted before the browser lockup/crash. I'm not looking further right now, as I have 5 minutes left:

Brian John offers the 1st in his 2006 Greencroft (apparently a division of Corgi) literary fiction drama which quotes blurb praise from UK newspapers: On Angel Mountain (The Angel Mountain Saga)

Onyx-published Jeff Shelby offers a collection of shorts involving his published detective characters: Out of Time

Shirley Kennedy offers a 2001-Signet historical romance: Lady Flora's Fantasy and a 1997-Fawcett published one: Lady Semple's Secret

Zebra-published Doreen Owens Malek returns with a romantic suspense she say was first printed in 1985: Devil's Deception

Ken McClure returns with a 1993 Simon & Schuster medical thriller: Crisis

Award-winning South African expat playwright Ian Fraser returns with some kind of fantasy-esque speculative quirky literary fiction experimental novel he says is Umberto Eco-like: Arabella Abides

Previously-included Scott William Carter, who has a YA novel from the Big 6 which I'm not going to look up again, offers a set of four quirky shorts: Strange Romance

This looks educational, and it's Relevant To My Interests. No idea how good it actually is, but the blurb does make it sound like someone who knows what they're doing spent time doing it: Minoan Linear A: The Clay Tablets of Hagia Triada

Backlist repeats from John Matthews, J. Carson Black, fellow MR member author Alexandra Solokoff, Iain Rowan via Infinity Plus. Established author repeats from Simon Worrall, Robert W. Walker. Repeats from small-pressed/newbie-with-promising-manuscript-award-finalists Theresa/T.R. Ragan, Roseanne McDowell, Alex Carrick.

Happy reading, if indeed you manage to spot something you think you might like.

[Dr. Drib]

Got one or two. Or three.

Thanks!



Don

[Blue Tyson]

The Linear A book does look pretty interesting. Thanks!

[ATDrake]

Feature still free, updates go here:

David Kessler offers his 2010 Avon-published legal mystery/thriller: No Way Out (an Alex Sedaka thriller) (may be geo-restricted, not available to Canadians)

Harper-published crime writer & foreign correspondent Matt Rees offers a short story which the cover says was a CWA Dagger Winner: The Sweetest Things

David C. Cook-published Christian fiction author Renee Riva offers some kind of heartwarming small-town maybe-romance tale which is not KDP Select, but playing pricing catch-up with Smashwords: Farley's Five and Dime

Barry S. Wildorf offers a 2011 Whiskey Creek Press-published mystery/thriller: Burning Questions [Part 1 of the 1970's Trilogy]

Judy Powell offers a 2006 Lyons-paperbacked contemporary romance: Hot Summer (The HOT CARIBBEAN LOVE Series)

Joshua Graham, who has a novel for pre-order from Howard, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, returns with another novella in his mystery/thriller series and repeats some earlier ones: Linkage for the lot

New American Library-published Jessica Barksdale Inclan returns with "a novel for readers" about a college teaching assistant whose life implodes, thereby sending her on one of those quirky journeys of self-discovery while writing her dissertation about the works of John Irving: The Bear Strategy

Bantam-published Steve Gannon offers a cop vs serial killer thriller: Kane (A Kane Novel)

John D. Lee claims such an extensive set of multimedia credits on his website that I'd normally think he was doing elaborate performance art, but they're backed up in part by the fact that he really did write a 1976 Bantam thriller which was apparently optioned for a film. He offers a self-pub-looking romance novel written as Joy Beverlin, which involves early aviation and I'm a sucker for biplanes, so: Whisper on the Wind

Ian McDonald, not to be confused with the award-winning sf writer, offers his interesting-looking illustrated memoir of life as a colonial British administrator in Tanzania, with an introduction by Sir David Bannerman, OBE, who is head of Clan Bannerman of Scotland (Wikipedia entry): Banff. Buha. and Bahati.

Transgender porn star Meghan Chavalier returns with an omnibus edition of her industry memoirs, guide for transitioning transsexuals, and some kind of thing which is either a New Age manifesto or a magical realism novel, maybe both: Meghan Chavalier Triple Play

Another life guide you may find useful and educational is the following (I do not vouch for the usability of its contents): Drinkable History: Easy Recipes for 3000 Year Old Hard Cider, 1500 Year Old Mead, and 1000 Year Old Ale

And if that doesn't work out, you may find this one even more useful and educational: How to Swear Like a Pro

Or if your preferred self-medication is sheer unadulterated crack, "Mitzi Magee (Vampire Poodle Mysteries)" looks like it'll fit the bill: Linkage for the lot

Backlist/published short story repeats from previously title-featured C. Dale Brittain, Vicki Hinze, Iain Rowan writing as I.F. Rowan, Robert W. Walker, Ann Whitaker. Established author repeats from Crista McHugh, James D. Best, Daniel Pyle, fellow MR member author Scott Nicholson, Gerrie Ferris Finger, Amber D. Sistla.

Happy reading, if you manage to spot something you think you might like, or learn some useful and interesting life skills which may be profanely vocabulary-expanding.

[koland]

The write-up on Vampire Poodle Mysteries is pretty good - appears that it will be a hilarious series.