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Blog Tour Review - The House on Blood Street by Josh Hanson

 Blog Tour Review - The House on Blood Street by Josh Hanson Jack and Avery’s new home on Calliope Street is a fixer-upper’s dream.  The lurid collage of pornographic clippings on the basement wall seems  like a quirky (and campy) feature. But once the  house awakens, what seemed harmless becomes as horrifying as the blood  seeping from the carpet. The house is alive. It is intelligent. And it  demands homage. The House on Blood Street is a very weird and pretty darned creepy horror story. It is beautifully written. Throughout, the language, the imagery and the sense of tension and threat are all exquisite. The presentation is stunning too, a glorious, shiny hardback with lovely sprayed edges, everything about it evoking the horror movies it riffs off of. There's a poetry to the language, and it is full of references to poets, myths and songs, that give it a depth and power. I love the characters too. The relationship between Jack and Avery feels very real,...
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Pax Cover Reveal and Excerpt





Pax Cover Reveal and Excerpt

Hi folks,

Today I've got something very exciting to share with you. I'm thrilled to be asked to do the cover reveal for Pax and the Missing Head, the first book in the exciting new London Falling series of sci-fi upper middle grade books by David Barker. It's illustrated by Bruna Oliveira Marini and looks fab!

But there's more! Want to read the opening page too? Well, you can find it below.



And I'll have more to share on this book later in the year, when the blog tour comes around, so keep watching! Pax and the Missing Head is out on 19th October.


Those pre-order links are: Bookshop.org, Amazon UK, Amazon US, Waterstones


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