March 2016
The Rift is
throwing up a storm of weather fronts which is causing a headache for everyone,
but come a little closer to the website this month and find a host of info
worth checking into further.
First up,
Nathan Sussex. If you’re a fan of the
soaps, then you may have seen Nathan on Hollyoaks, Emmerdale and Da Vinci’s
Demons recently. He was also in a short film funded by the BFI, with a tiny role in a
film called The Lighthouse (2015): Dogs of Annwn. Which you can find out more
here - http://dogsofannwn.com/projects/lighthouse/
The film is
developed in collaboration with Ffilm Cymru Wales, the BFI and BBC Films and is
part of the Cinematic Wales scheme. It is co-written and directed by Chris
Crow, produced by David Lloyd and stars Michael Jibson and Mark Lewis Jones. It’s
based on the infamous Smalls Island Incident of 1801.
Ian Edginton is currently writing an Adam
West Batman cross over with Steed & Mrs Peel story – Batman 66 meets
Avengers, for DC. He’s also writing a new series of Scarlet Traces for 2000AD.
The series is the sequel to HG Wells’ War of the World that he’d adapted and
wrote two follow on series that were published by Dark Horse. Now with the
reprinting by 2000AD, there are plans to have more stories set in that world.
The artwork as before on the Scarlet Traces are by Disraeli who also
illustrated the Torchwood story ‘The Rift War’.
Guy Adams
With a Torchwood
audio story to end the current run of Torchwood Series 1 on Big Finish, Guy has
been busy writing a few books that are out this month.
GOLDTIGER is Antonio Barreti and Louis
Shaeffer’s iconic 60s comic strip that never was…until now! It’s a great read,
and if you’re a comic book fan, then you will enjoy the illustrations and story
within. Here is the blurb that’s attached to the book, priced at £19.99 on
Amazon. You can pre-order a copy that’s released 10th March, it’s
well worth the price.
An obscure Italian artist and a
down-to-earth British writer, worlds apart in both taste and ideology, came
together to create a rival to Modesty Blaise that has lived in infamy. The duo’s
adventures of Lily Gold and Jack Tiger were ultimately deemed too sensational
for the nation’s newspaper pages and the strip was cancelled before it even
ran. This enthralling book presents 'The Poseidon Complex', the complete
serial, lifting the lid on comics most unsung creation and includes letters,
scripts, interviews and sketches all documenting the creation of the strip and
the outlandish lives of its creators. It also presents 'Goldtiger 2000',
offered to (but refused by) 2000 AD for its launch in 1977 and details Barreti's
continued refusal to let his ground-breaking ideas die, even if nobody wanted
to publish them.
Here’s the link
you’ll need to purchase it.
Alexandra Benedict is new to the Whoniverse, but you
should know that her audio story ‘Victorian Age’ kicks off the second series of
Torchwood Big Finish audios this month. It’s all about Captain Jack and Queen Victoria, who is played by
Rowena Cooper. It’s not a full Torchwood cast but hey, come on, Victorian
Torchwood, hands up all those who have wanted to hear/read more of these kinds
of stories? I for one, can’t wait to hear this.
We also have an
interview with Alexandra after the episode airs, so be sure to look out for
that next issue!
Alexandra is an
author and her novels, especially her Jonathan Dark series looks very
appealing, and I can see that I’m going to be extremely busy buying a series of
novels by my favourite writers this year. Might need a bigger bookshelf to
accommodate them all, in fact, might need a bigger cupboard!!!
Jonathan Dark or
the Evidence of Ghosts is a supernatural crime story. It’s the second novel in
the series of Detective Inspector Dark stories, and one that is ticking the
boxes of reviewers on Amazon. It’s certainly a series of novels I fancy getting
my teeth into.
Despite Amazon
stating that the paperback version of this novel isn’t out till 29th
December, it is available to purchase now.
Maria
King knows a secret London. Born blind, she knows the city by sound and touch
and smell. But surgery has restored her sight - only for her to find she
doesn't want it.
Jonathan
Dark sees the shadowy side of the city. A DI with the Metropolitan Police, he
is haunted by his failure to save a woman from the hands of a stalker. Now it
seems the killer has set his sights on Maria, and is leaving her messages in
the most gruesome of ways.
Tracing
the source of these messages leads Maria and Jonathan to a London they never
knew. Finding the truth will mean seeing a side to the city where life and
death is a game played by the powerful, where everyone is lost but nothing is
missing, and where all the answers are hiding, if only they listen to the
whispers on the streets.
Shot
through with love and loss, ghosts and grief, A K Benedict weaves a compelling
mystery that will leave you looking over your shoulder and asking what lurks in
the dark.
Sarah Pinborough’s new novel 13 Minutes which is released
tomorrow (2nd March) has already picked up a five star rating on
Amazon and has certainly piqued my interest to add this novel along with
several others by Sarah to my reading list for this year alone. As it would
seem, Sarah’s interest in stories that involve life as well as death, come as
no surprise to me after finishing the Torchwood novel, Long Time Dead – check out
our review of that this month.
Below is the
link for 13 Minutes on Amazon, and below that is the blurb from the book.
I
was dead for 13 minutes.
I
don't remember how I ended up in the icy water but I do know this - it wasn't
an accident and I wasn't suicidal.
They
say you should keep your friends close and your enemies closer, but when you're
a teenage girl, it's hard to tell them apart. My friends love me, I'm sure of
it. But that doesn't mean they didn't try to kill me. Does it?
13
MINUTES by Sarah Pinborough is a gripping psychological thriller about people,
fears, manuiplation and the power of the truth. A stunning read, it questions
our relationships - and what we really know about the people closest to us . .
.
We hope this
warms the cockles on these blustery cold wintry mornings.
See you next
month!
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