Grave Empire (Book One of The Great Silence) by Richard Swan #joyce

Grave Empire (Book One of The Great Silence) by Richard Swan #joyceBlood once turned the wheels of empire. Now it is money. A new age of exploration and innovation has dawned, and the Empire of the Wolf stands to take its place as the foremost power in the known world. Glory and riches await. But dark days are coming. A mysterious plague has broken out in the pagan kingdoms to the north, while in the south, the Empire's proxy war in the lands of the wolfmen is weeks away from total collapse. Worse still is the

But you can only avoid reality for so long

Doing a work placement in London over the course of three sticky summer months

reproduce and thrive

relentlessly determined

phones a friend and muses on the relationship between the short story and a nymph

Listening to cassette tapes his father made

By buying a copy of this book

What he doesn’t realise is that included in the pastoral scene is a mutant sheep with a star on its back

which is a stupid question – they’re ‘Nick and Charlie’ for God’s sake

Do you know a grubber from a yorker

Queer follows William Lee's hopeless pursuit of desire from bar to bar in the American expatriate scene

What was the great stink