Stealing Speed
One for motorbike racing enthusiasts, this is a dramatisation of the East German racing team that brought new technology and race-winning speed to the sport in the years following World War II
Andy Shaw
The Sandman Volume 5: A Game of You
Morpheus takes a back seat as dreams invade reality in the fifth volume of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman
The Sandman Volume 4: Season of Mists
It’s back to the long-form story in this collection of The Sandman comics by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman Volume 3: Dream Country
After a fairly involved storyline running through several issues, Gaiman takes a bit of a breather and has a little fun with four short stories
Fearscape: Volume 1
Henry Henry is a failing writer who steals the manuscript of a successful author, only to find himself mistakenly pushed into the role of a mythical champion in a parallel fantasy world
Counterfeit Girl
Peter Milligan and Rufus Dayglo extrapolate identity theft, so it’s not limited to computers and the internet, but available to anyone who’d rather be someone else
The Sandman Volume 2: The Doll’s House
Volume 2 of a classic series, where Neil Gaiman really starts to find his groove
Breakneck
What starts as a revenge thriller twists into a race to save a city from certain destruction in this latest pulp drama from Hard Case Crime
Horizontal Collaboration
Being on opposite sides in a war doesn’t always stop people from falling in love, as Navie and Carole Maurel describe in this beautiful book set in occupied France during World War II
The Silent Invasion: Red Shadows
A paranoid tale set in fifties America, when your next-door neighbour was probably a closet communist and UFOs seemed to herald an invasion from outer space