Enjoying this very much, thus far. I can certainly see the Shardlake influence.
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Musician & lapsed fiction writer. I grew up on a healthy diet of visionary, experimental and new wave fiction - Moorcock, Carter, Peake, Sinclair, Burroughs, Joyce, Ballard etc (most of which has heavily influenced my music). Nowadays my reading tastes float freely between literary, fantasy, philosophy and (nowadays quite a bit of) nature writing.
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Maxwell Volume rated The Scour: 3 stars

The Scour by Richard Swan (Empire of the Wolf, #0.5)
A HAUNTED LIGHTHOUSE
A JUSTICE ACCUSED OF MURDER
AND A SINGLE QUESTION
What is The Scour?
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Maxwell Volume rated The Master and Margarita: 5 stars

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The battle of competing translations, a new publishing phenomenon which began with One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, …
Maxwell Volume commented on The Scour by Richard Swan (Empire of the Wolf, #0.5)
Maxwell Volume rated A Different Kingdom: 4 stars

A Different Kingdom by Paul Kearney (Different Kingdoms, #1)
A different kingdom of wolves, woods and stranger, darker, creatures lies in wait for Michael Fay in the woods at …
Maxwell Volume rated Gardens of the Moon: 4 stars

Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #1)
Vast legions of gods, mages, humans, dragons and all manner of creatures play out the fate of the Malazan Empire …
Maxwell Volume rated Mistborn: The Final Empire: 3 stars

Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson (The Mistborn Saga, #1)
What if the whole world were a dead, blasted wasteland?
Mistborn For a thousand years the ash fell and …
Maxwell Volume rated The Riddle of the Wren: 2 stars

The Riddle of the Wren by Charles de Lint
Minda, who is trapped inside a dark nightmare, makes a journey to another world to confront Ildran the Dream-master and …
Maxwell Volume rated The Riddle of the Wren: 3 stars

The Riddle of the Wren by Charles de Lint
Minda, who is trapped inside a dark nightmare, makes a journey to another world to confront Ildran the Dream-master and …
Maxwell Volume rated The Bellwether Revivals: 4 stars

The Bellwether Revivals by Benjamin Wood
A sophisticated debut novel about the hypnotic influence of love, the beguiling allure of money and the haunting power of …
Maxwell Volume rated Old Soul: 3 stars

Old Soul by Susan Barker
The woman never goes by the same name. She never stays in the same place too long. She never ages. …
Maxwell Volume rated The Will of the Many: 4 stars

The Will of the Many by James Islington (Hierarchy)
At the elite Catenan Academy, a young fugitive uncovers layered mysteries and world-changing secrets in this new fantasy series by …
Maxwell Volume commented on Service by John Tottenham
I'd be very surprised if this book isn't my favourite book of the year - even though it was the first book I read this year.
I'd be very surprised if this book isn't my favourite book of the year - even though it was the first book I read this year.
Maxwell Volume rated Service: 5 stars

Service by John Tottenham
A darkly comic novel set on the lower slopes of the Los Angeles literary world.
I stepped out to …
Maxwell Volume started reading Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #1)
It's been over ten years since I started reading Malazan and I rather fancy starting the whole damn thing from the beginning. Here we go!
It's been over ten years since I started reading Malazan and I rather fancy starting the whole damn thing from the beginning. Here we go!