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You all remember Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Seth Graeme-Smith’s incredibly successful zombie/drama. Of course it’s now in production for the movie adaptation, starring Natalie Portman. Graeme-Smith’s latest effort sounds even more interesting. Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter is the first President’s diary of his efforts to cleanse the promised land of the undead scourge within. [...]
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It must have been written in the stars. I arrived at my local comic book shop, Sub City Comics in Dublin, at lunch time today to buy The Walking Dead Trade Paper Back No.11. It came out earlier this month, but I had not been able to get my hands on it. I was a [...]
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It has been a mixed year for literature. In the current climate, most of the big publishers have chosen to play it safe; releasing new titles from established authors which they know will sell. New novels by Grisham, King and Brown surfaced and they’re all fine if you like that sort of thing. As someone [...]
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Internet memes were once the sole reserve of acned teenagers in darkened bedrooms. But today, in a post-Rick-Roll world, viral humour is now in the mainstream. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the publishing world, with any self-respecting blog and webcomic now having at least one book to its name. While anything considered [...]
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Jonathan Littell’s novel The Kindly Ones has won The Literary Review’s 2009 award for bad sex in fiction.
The prize celebrates the year’s most cringeworthy literary sex scenes. This year’s shortlist included Philip Roth, Amoz Oz and Nick Cave. Read the excerpts in question here.
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After reading and watching the incredible ‘Let the Right One in‘, I was absolutely gutted that John Ajvide Lindqvist didn’t have more material for me to sink my teeth into.
Enter ‘Handling the Undead’ which was released, very quietly, earlier this month.
It’s another take on the Zombie fable, but in a way that only Lindqvist could make [...]
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