Angela Carter’s novel Heroes and Villains was published in 1969; my paperback copy was published in 1981. We’re in post-apocalypse territ...

Philip José Farmer’s 1957 debut novel The Green Odyssey is a classic space opera of the period. Astronaut Alan Green (‘Greed conquered more...

The character Fantômas by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre is a twentieth century literary phenomenon. Published in 1911 it spawned thirt...

G K Chesterton’s novel The Man Who Was Thursday , subtitled ‘A Nightmare’ was published in 1908. It’s a strange beast, part thriller and par...

Robert Holdstock’s followed his science fiction novel Eye Among the Blind (which I read in 1982) with Earthwind which was published a ye...

E.V. Thompson’s novel No Less Than the Journey was published in 2008. To all intents and purposes it’s a western The epigraph is ‘I belie...

Susan Kay’s second book, Phantom , was published in 1990 and reprinted twice in 1991. It’s the tragic retelling of Erik, the Phantom of the ...

Clive Cussler’s novel The Chase is the first in his Isaac Bell historical series. Published in 2007, it is mainly set in 1906. The prologue...

  J.B. Priestley’s 1966 novel Salt is Leaving was first published as a Pan paperback original and attained a second printing in the same ye...

The novel A Place in the Hills is Michelle Paver’s second book, published in 2001.Though 523 pages, it’s a quick read. It’s a time-slip nov...

John le Carré’s novel Single & Single was published in 1999 and deals with the world of finance after the fall of the Berlin Wall and t...

Eric Ambler’s second thriller Uncommon Danger was published in 1937 (though my Fontana paperback shows the copyright as 1941...).   The s...