The Mountains of Instead

Championing fiction as an escape from pandemics, politics and bad TV.

MOI Welcomes Alexia Casale to talk Bone Dragons, Bone-inspired writing and future Ghosts!

Evie's shattered ribs prompt her to finally tell her adoptive parents the secrets that she carries from her early life, but as the physical scars heal and all she is left with is bone fragment in a jar, she realises that her journey is far from over.  Her bone fragment is carefully whittled int…
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Lenore Appelhans takes it to the next Level at Edinburgh Book Fest (Interview)

Lenore Appelhans, author of the weird and wonderful Level 2 will be known to lots of you through her excellent book blog Presenting Lenore. Articulate, thoughtful and quick to help those new to the book blogging scene (as she did with Splendibird three years ago when these here mountains were more.…
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Author Interview: Neil Arksey, author of Intelligent Life

Following our review of Intelligent Life, I'm delighted to host an interview with the author, Neil Arksey.  If you read yesterday's review you will be in no doubt that Neil is super busy right now discovering the Higgs partical etc. but has luckily (for us, for you) been able to take some t…
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Author Interview - Ransom Riggs

I recently had the pleasure of reading and reviewing the fantastic Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children - a book that single handedly ended a scarily extended reading slump with its originality and eerie storytelling. I am sure that many who have read it have wondered at its genesis and,…
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Interview with Patrick Ness and extract of A Monster Calls.

Today, I am exceedingly excited to welcome Patrick Ness to The Mountains of Instead as part of a blog tour organised by Walker Books. As regular readers will know, I'm a huge fan of his YA trilogy Chaos Walking and was keen to read his latest book, A Monster Calls. I can confirm that it is ex…
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Q & A with Julie Kagawa, author of The Iron King

Over the past few months, I've had the enjoyable task of reading and reviewing The Iron Fey series by Julie Kagawa. One of the most fun, thrilling and original Fey based tales out there, The Iron King (first book in the series) is now available in the UK.  In order to celebrate this long awaite…
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Interview With Cat Clarke (Entangled Blog Tour)

I recently was lucky enough to read and review debut title Entangled by Cat Clarke (review here).  Publishers Quercus also invited me to be part of the Entangled blog tour. The Mountains of Instead is the first stop on the tour and I was lucky enough to interview Cat about her new project:
Firstly, …
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