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IAN AYRIS

"I didn't ask any questions. Everything I wanted to know was written in tortured phrases across the desolation of her face."

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Ian Ayris

Mar 11
2 min

SLOW BEAR by Anthony Neil Smith - a review

Let’s begin with the startling front cover. It took me a while, to be honest, to notice how incredibly clever it is. Two growling bears and a set of razor-sh...

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Ian Ayris

Nov 14, 2019
2 min

A Tale of Three Covers

With the publication of Everybody Hurts, the John Sissons Trilogy is now complete. Just as I wrote the first in the trilogy – Abide With Me – a chapter at a ...

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Ian Ayris

Oct 22, 2019
1 min

Dead is Better by Jo Perry - a review

The Review Charlie, Charlie’s dead. He’s sort of floating, looking down at himself from the ceiling at his body laying there on the operating table, his ches...

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Ian Ayris

Aug 20, 2019
3 min

Death of a Diva by Derek Farrell

The Blurb Danny Bird is having a very bad day. In the space of just a few hours he lost his job, his partner and his home. Ever the optimist, Danny throws h...

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Ian Ayris

Jul 17, 2019
2 min

Know Me From Smoke by Matt Phillips

THE BLURB Stella Radney, longtime lounge singer, still has a bullet lodged in her hip from the night when a rain of gunshots killed her husband. That was twe...

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Ian Ayris

Apr 26, 2019
2 min

Review - A Citizen of Nowhere by Seth Lynch

Blurb Paris. 1930. Salazar is an English detective haunted by his experiences of the Great War, who wiles away the days playing chess and taking on as litt...

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Ian Ayris

Apr 17, 2019
2 min

Review - Kill Me Quick by Paul D. Brazill

Blurb We’re all lying in the gutter, but some of us are staring at the spaces between the stars... Seatown may not have a lot going for it – apart from the ...

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Ian Ayris

Apr 15, 2019
1 min

A very special announcement . . .

I have just signed a contract with the brilliant FAHRENEHIT PRESS. FAHRENHEIT will be re-launching Abide With Me and April skies soon, and later in the year w...

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Ian Ayris

Apr 11, 2019
2 min

Review - Saigon Dark by Elka Ray

Review Lily is a single mum, living in Vietnam. She has two children – Dunc and little Evie, and a repeated dream about her ex-husband throwing her from the ...

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Ian Ayris

Apr 8, 2019
1 min

Classic Review: The Widows of Broome by Arthur Upfield

Arthur Upfield was an Australian novelist of the first half of the twentieth century, his central character - a detective from the CIB (Central Investigati...

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Ian Ayris

Apr 7, 2019
2 min

Resurrected Review - Apostle Rising by Richard Godwin

I first read Apostle Rising when it was first released in 2011, having come to know Richard Godwin through his eminently disturbing short stories. If you lo...

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Ian Ayris

Mar 31, 2019
2 min

Resurrected Review - Broken Dreams by Nick Quantrill

Originally published in 2010 by Caffeine Nights, Broken Dreams was relaunched by Fahrenheit Press in October 2018. The first of Quantrill's novels featuring ...

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Ian Ayris

Mar 25, 2019
1 min

A new short story

ELLIOT Elliot James Johnson doesn’t have much. He has a ball, he has a bag to put the ball in when he takes it to the park. And he has hope. He is five years...

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Ian Ayris

Mar 20, 2019
1 min

EVERYBODY HURTS

After three years, I have finally completed the final instalment of the John Sissons trilogy. With the changing situation at the publisher of the first two b...

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