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When a proper old skool noir guy like Jim Thomsen notices one of the books on your list you damn sure better sit up and take notice. This review he's written of Slow Bear by Anthony Neil Smith is as detailed as it is thoughtful and we knew after we read it that we wanted to bring it to the widest possible audience so we asked Jim if he'd let us re-publish it here and thankfully he agreed. It's a great review but it doesn't shirk away from some of the difficult issues facing fiction authors today and we think...

London 1949. Speedway fever runs high. Its stars are the working class heroes of a Blitz-torn city emerging from the ravages of war. With cash in their wallets and hoards of adoring fans, these dirt-track chancers enjoy a life of speed, celebrity and sex. But as Bermondsey Bullets defend their league title, they are rocked by the death of star rider Des Fenton in a mid-race smash. It's the start of a new and dangerous chapter for stadium security boss Reg Calloway, as he's dragged into the dark side of life at the track, with echoes of his own troubled...

We think you'll enjoy this exclusive extract from SLOW BEAR the new novel from Noir legend Anthony Neil Smith. The buzz around this book is really building, here's what people are saying, "More happens in the first two chapters of Slow Bear than in some literary novelist's entire output.Thrills, spills. Twists, turns. Heart, soul. As good as it gets." - Mark Ramsden, author of Mistress Murder, Radical Desire and Dread: The Art of Serial Killing "Anthony Neil Smith mixes dark humor, menace, mayhem and a washed-out, one-armed hero in a noirish tale that never stops to take a breath." -...

After the huge success of #Fahrenbruary in 2019 a lot of you have been asking if it's going to be repeated in 2020. The brains behind last year's jaw-droppingly awesome celebration of all things Fahrenheit Mart (@laughinggravy71), Matt (@thatmattkeyes) and I have had a chat and - despite it being hugely tempting to rinse and repeat -  the three of us agreed we should 'pull a Glastonbury' and have a fallow year in 2020 before returning with another stupendous #Fahrenbruary in 2021.  All the bloggers put so much of themselves into #Fahrenbruary last year and we felt entirely humbled by the...

2020? How the hell did that happen? We’re living in the ACTUAL FUTURE people and (despite all the reasons the world is throwing at us not to be) we’re heading into 2020 feeling massively optimistic and excited. 2020 looks set to be the most interesting year in Fahrenheit’s history and today we’re gonna explain why. Before we get started on revealing our plans for the next year though we want to explain our thinking and to do that we have to indulge in some #RealTalk so grab yourself a coffee and settle down, this is could take a while. The...