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The 3rd volume of Duncan MacMaster's hugely popular Kirby Baxter series is published on FRIDAY 26th FEBRUARY 2021 and to whet your appetite we're posting this exclusive extract.   Chapter One: A Hazy Shade Of Winter “Any idea why the lights went out?” Molly asked. The blackout had only lasted about a minute, and when the lights came back on, it was like the Atlantic Comics Company Christmas Party had just reappeared out of the darkness as if by magic. It didn’t take long for the music and dancing to start again. The rumours of something going on across the...

I wrote this the day Bowie died in 2016. Quite a few of you have been asking for the link this weekend so I've decided to move it away from the obscure tumblr url it was hiding on and give it new home here on the main Fahrenheit blog - seems to make sense, pretty sure if there had been no Bowie in my life, there would have been no Fahrenheit Press.  Kooks A little 7 year old boy from an irish catholic council house in Glasgow was lying in front of a massive valve powered cabinet tv one night...

“Well, I think we're the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world.." - Joey Ramone Formed in 1974, the Ramones were one of the quintessential punk bands. Fast, loud, and in your face, they captured the anger and ennui of a generation.  Teenagers for decades have identified with the themes in their quick, sparse lyrics and driving music. Ramones wrote anthems for the disaffected. We want fiction that reflects that. What we're looking for: Pick a song title (seriously, the Ramones have 13 studio albums of original material to pick from). Use the song as an outline or use...

Fahrenheit author Tina Jackson talks about Crime Fiction and the joy of being Other and how those two things combine in her debut novel The Beloved Children which is published this Friday (4th Dec)     I never thought I’d write a crime novel. It’s not that I’m not fascinated by crime – who isn’t, when it’s what happens when human beings find themselves in extreme circumstances? From The Moonstone on, I have a deep love for books that explore what unfolds when bad things happen to bad people. But I didn’t think I’d got the chops to write a conventional crime...

Fahrenheit author Jackie Swift tells us a little about herself and introduces us to Lola Jones - the star of her debut novel - we know you're going to fall in love with Lola, everyone in The Bunker is smitten and we're already looking forward to sharing more of her adventures with you.   Lola Jones came to me fully formed one Easter many years ago. Her voice was compelling and strong and I wrote like a demon for several days and got 15,000 words down in a glorious flow of words that I really liked. I played with it,...