An utterly compelling read, its tone reminiscent of a classic fable in parts, A Monster Calls is one of those rare books that you wished you’d never read, so you could read it all over again. It tells the story of a young boy battling far bigger fears than the most gruesome and terrifying of all monsters – the reality of his…
Month: January 2017
#RISE: EP7: EATING DAD
They want me out there. Think that they can lure me to them. Dad always warned me about two for one deals. My heart is breaking as they take a bite from his shoulder. The flesh tears. He smiles through it all and then he’s gone. I just watched my dad get eaten. Part of…
Word of the Year: 2016
Every year, per annum in fact, Oxford Dictionaries come up with a ‘Word of the Year.’ I’m not sure if the adjudication panel hold a reality-style word-off series of auditions or not, but the word of the year for 2016 is an adjective and is… POST-TRUTH ‘relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts…
#RISE EP6: ‘J’
24 hours is all I have. Happy Birthday, Anderson. Not heard from the others for a few hours now. No contact. It’s like Crowley and his hackers have stopped the feed. Broken our connection. Whilst I can still get word out, I will. Thought I’d get a message back before now, but sad to say…
Goodreads: My Year in Books 2016
To balance your writing and reading is essential for any writer. It can be a real challenge, with too much of one and not enough of the other leading to a – in the style, if not the words of Dr Emmett Brown – a Transverse Imbalance in the artists Flux-Capacitor! So I settle on 40 books a…
Tom Harris Writes 