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News Round-up Week Ending 15 May

May 15, 2015
2 mins to read

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

May 14, 2015
3 mins to read

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

May 12, 2015
4 mins to read

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

May 12, 2015
6 mins to read

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 …