Review: The Knife of Never Letting Go

The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness My rating: 4 of 5 stars The Knife of Never Letting Go. The cover is a clue to what this book is going to be like. The typography wouldn’t look out-of-place on a horror movie and looks like it was written with the tip of a knife, […]

Book Review: A Kingdom Besieged

A Kingdom Besieged by Raymond E. Feist My rating: 4 of 5 stars With Kingdom Besieged, we are returned to Midkemia and back to where the saga began; Crydee. Though this is a new trilogy (?) it picks up threads from the previous Midkemian volumes and makes full use of their history and lore. The […]

www.trollking.co.uk

The armchair detectives amongst you will have noticed that the blog is now carrying the website address. There is a perfectly good explanantion for that, which I don’t want to bore you with, but here it is in three words “Microsoft” “Got” “Greedy”. Well, that’s the main reason. The other reason is that whilst the […]

Book Review: Teddy Jacob’s Wicked Hunger

Wicked Hungry by Teddy Jacobs My rating: 2 of 5 stars Wicked Hungry is about a boy (Stanley) coming to terms with a sport’s injury that has taken away his ability to compete as a runner. The need to run gets worse as full moon draws near and a terrible gnawing hunger that his vegan […]

What’s in a Name?

The people who know me best, know that my real name isn’t Noor A Jahangir. Relax, I ain’t about to reveal my secret identity just yet. That doesn’t happen until at least season 3 of my life story. But one of my sister’s suggested that the story about how I came by the pseudonym was […]

Book Review: Catching Fire (Hunger Games #2)

4 out of 5 With the Hunger Games movie coming out soon and my recently developed fascination with archery, I thought it was high time to review the sequel to the brilliant original by Suzanne Collins. Oh, I should say at this point that if you are thinking of reading the original book, which is […]

Kindle Bestseller!!!

It was World Book Day yesterday and as a way of contributing to this worthy cause, I offered my book, The Changeling King, as a free download for the day on Kindle. I was blown away by the response! By the Grace of God, 398 copies of the book were downloaded, the majority of […]

World Book Day Giveaway

“World Book Day is a celebration! It’s a celebration of authors, illustrators, books and (most importantly) it’s a celebration of reading. In fact, it’s the biggest celebration of its kind, designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading, and marked in over 100 countries all over the world.” (http://www.worldbookday.com/about/) This is really my first […]

The New Blurb

You all know that I’m getting set to launch the print edition of The Changeling King, rocking the Paul Davies cover art. Being a bit of a tinkerer, I’ve redrafted the blurb (the bit on the back of the book) and thought I’d share it with you. As always, your comments are most welcome. So […]

Paul Davies: Fantasy Artist

My regular readers and supporters will recognise the name Paul Davies as the artist behind the awesome new book cover for The Changeling King. I thought my followers and fans of fantasy fiction may like to know more about this rising star in fantasy art. Paul, let’s start with an obvious question, who is your […]