News Round-up Week Ending 15 May

Stephen Graham Jones

Portman to star in Annihilation? Oscar winning actress Natalie Portman is due to star in the big screen adaptation of Jeff Vandermeer’s novel Annihilation, the first book in his Southern Reach Trilogy. The contract is yet to be signed but  the wheels are clearly turning, whereas Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton are also heavily linked …

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The Cutting Room: IT

IT It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real… They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of …

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Look Out For… Day Four by Sarah Lotz and The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker

Look Out For… Day Four by Sarah Lotz “A work of claustrophobic, nautical terror.” The trip of their dreams becomes the holiday of their nightmares: Day Four is Sarah Lotz’s extraordinary, unmissable follow-up to the book that made headlines around the world, The Three–perfect for fans of The Shining Girls, The Passage and Lost. Four …

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Tales from the Word Mine: On Reading

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Philip K Dick

In the course of my job, I read a lot of books. That’s because, essentially, that’s what my job is. As a writer, it’s essential that you read as widely as possible, but it’s also an essential part of being an editor. And here, I’m not just talking about the books you may be working …

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