Book Launch: “Worldshaker” by Richard Harland

Worldshaker
by Richard Harland

You want steampunk? Worldshaker is the steamiest and punkiest!

The gothic-industrial world of Queen Victoria the Second divided off from our reality when Napoleon’s plan (historical fact!) to dig a tunnel under the English Channel actually came true. Then followed the Invasion of Britain, the Fifty Years War, the Age of Imperialism…

Now steel juggernauts as big as mountains roll across seas and continents. On the juggernaut called Worldshaker, young Col is top of the pile, ready to become the next Supreme Commander. Meanwhile the Filthies plan violent revolution, trapped in the hellish conditions of Below, among the engines and boilers. When a Filthy girl escapes and tries to hide in Col’s bedroom, his smug, elitist beliefs are in for a huge shock.

Meet the strange Dickensian characters of Worldshaker high society, characters like Ebnolia Porpentine, Mr Bartrim Gibber, Sephaltina Turbot, baby Antrobus and Sir Wisley Squellingham.

Check out the juggernaut, the alternative history of the world, the real history of steampunk and much much more in the WORLDSHAKER pages at www.richardharland.net.

Is this the novel that Richard Harland was born to write? (He never did look like he was totally here.) US publisher Simon & Schuster seem to think so, because they’ve contracted the novel for an advance that’s bigger than all the advances of Richard’s previous fourteen novels added together.

In Australia, Worldshaker is published by Allen & Unwin at $17.99.

(Launching Saturday, 6th of June at 5:30 pm)

Book Launch: “The Whorl and the Pallin” by Ian Nichols

The Whorl and the Pallin
by Ian Nichols

Tom could see the truth, and it set him apart, because he wasn’t fooled by the illusions that others believed in. That wasn’t what made him a hero, but it was what made him the one person the Empire needed to save it. His courage and his talent combined to set him on a perilous path to the Forest Palliner, to get there before the Whorl Sorcerers could steal its blood and warp it to their own ends. He would find love and death, and learn that heroism has its cost, and that no war, even one for all the right reasons, is without victims.

(Launching Saturday, 6th of June at 12:30 pm)

Book Launch: “Horn” by Peter M. Ball

Horn

There’s a dead girl in a dumpster and a unicorn on the loose – and no-one knows how bad that combination can get better than Miriam Aster. What starts as a consulting job for city homicide quickly becomes a tangled knot of unexpected questions, and working out the link between the dead girl and the unicorn will draw Aster back into the world of the exiled fey she thought she’d left behind ten years ago. All in all, Miriam Aster isn’t happy. The last time she worked a case like this it cost her a badge, a partner, and her life.

This time things are going to get much, much worse.

(Launching Sunday, 7th of June at 5pm).