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Mr Angus McQuarrie (what a good name, Mr McQuarrie), writes to tell me about a new novel for the younger of heart Steampunk fans – a tale of two orphan children, worlds apart, who are caught up in a terrible series of events involving an evil that was thought vanquished so long ago. Entitled The Court of the Air (Amazon.co.uk) by Stephen Hunt, it does not hide it’s Steampunk theming but revels in it!  There are airships and poorhouses, mechanical men and merchant uncles – it sounds fantastic!  (It’s on my list of books to read, most certainly.)

At the official site, www.TheCourtOfTheAir.com, there’s two chapters free to download, and a flash version of the ‘trailer’ (can you have a trailer for a book?) also.  The flash version is of course much sharper than the compressed YouTube version above.  Nice little hook though – I mean, mechanical men and airships!  I’m not sure it can get much better than that.