Jon Courtenay Grimwood

A new novel by JCG is always
an event... The Times

Shouldn't just send you off to someone else's site but I'm going to. Del Larkin Smith's wordpunk  piece on what software and hardware writers use is interesting, not just because it lists my slightly weird collection of laptops and software. www.wordpunk.co.uk/ I find writing software fascinating. So much so that trawling the interweb looking for new examples gets in the way of...

Okay, here we go... The same image but red title type rather than the US silver, different lettering for the author's name, and no glowing eyes or slight suggestion of blood around the mouth of the figure. Interesting to compare the US cover below with the UK version

Here it is... The US cover for The Fallen Blade 'In the depths of night, customs officers board a galley in a harbor and overpower its guards.  In the hold they find oil and silver, and a naked boy chained to the bulkhead.  Stunningly beautiful but half-starved, the boy has no name. The officers break the boy's chains to rescue him, but he escapes. Venice is at the...

With Stalin being friendly, Zinoviev on leave and the Politburo hedging their bets, Trotsky has to be careful. It’s October 1923 and the scheming, rivalry and machinations to take over from the dying Lenin are at their height. Trotsky is favourite; although he has his enemies, Zinoviev among them. Trotsky’s mistake is to go duck shooting. ...

Written in 1993 at a kitchen table in Tottenham, North London, neoAddix was eventually published by New English Library, part of Hodder, in January 1997 (having spent over a year gathering dust at Gollancz, then in the middle of being swallowed by Cassell). Marketed by NEL as a 'cyber noir ultra-shocker', described by Maxim as featuring a 'plutonium-density plot' & categorised...