Three Recommendations for Early in the New Year
While we’d be more than happy if you spent all of your hard earned cash here at SubPress, there are a few recent books not published by us we’d like to bring to your attention. One of our favorite fantasy writers, K. J. Parker, has a brand new novel out. The Folding Knife (Amazon / BN / Powells) tells the story of Basso the Great, a series of immoral choices and moral consequences. It’s an epic novel spread over 400+ pages, with the grittiness and ground level detail one has come to expect from Parker. If you enjoyed her The Engineer Trilogy or The Company, you won’t find The Folding Knife a disappointment.
If you haven’t picked up a copy of Joe Hill’s new novel, Horns (Amazon / BN / Powells), then you’re behind the cool-kid curve. Be warned, as good as his debut, Heart-Shaped Box was, Horns represents a huge step forward in complexity and ambition. It’s also one unsparing, uncompromising mother of a read. Finally, don’t forget that our friends at PS Publishing will soon be releasing a limited edition of Horns, illustrated by Vincent Chong. (We’re unlikely to be carrying this edition, so please order direct from PS.)
Finally, one of our finest purveyors of short fiction offers up some of his strongest work in Wild Child and Other Stories (Amazon / BN / Powells). T. Coraghessan Boyle’s been playing tricks with words and baby boomer concerns for a few decades now, and his latest collection is no different. If you find Wild Child to your liking, you may also want to check out his hugely impressive T.C. Boyle Stories, or the more focused If the River Was Whiskey, the latter being on the very short list of my two or three favorite collections.