Steve Berry is made Champion of Alzheimer’s Research UK
Steve Berry, author of Behind the Sofa, has been made a Champion of Alzheimer’s Research UK, the UK’s leading dementia research charity. The recognition follows his exceptional support as a fundraiser...
View ArticleGollancz Returns to Westeros with Inside HBO’s Game of Thrones: Seasons 3 & 4
Gollancz Returns to Westeros with Inside HBO’s Game of Thrones: Seasons 3 & 4 ——— Visually Stunning Book Takes Fans Behind the Scenes of the Hit Series The award-winning hit HBO® show Game of...
View ArticleThe Three Musketeers
I’ve always adored The Three Musketeers. As a book, an animation (Muskehounds are already ready . . .), a film (the Disney bratpack version has a special place in my heart, because it’s wonderful). . ....
View ArticleRedshirts TV series optioned by FX
We are thrilled to share the news that Hugo Awards winning novel Redshirts, by John Scalzi, is going to be adapted for television by the FX channel! You can read the full announcement here but the...
View ArticleGuest blog: TV of 2014
It’s the return of our guest blogger, Adam Whitehead today, who blogs over on The Wertzone on all things SF and fantasy. Last week we shared a post on films, which you can catch-up with here, and today...
View ArticleGollancz and the SF Gateway republish ‘The King in Yellow’, inspired by HBO’s...
If you’re on Twitter as much as Gollancz tends to be, you’ve probably noticed all of the excitement there’s been about HBO’s new series TRUE DETECTIVE. Starring Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey,...
View ArticleA Guest Post from Tom Abba on The King in Yellow
Gollancz is delighted to welcome guest blogger, Tom Abba to the blog. Tom Abba is a specialist in narrative theory and practice, working within interactive media, and across film and television. Today,...
View ArticleGo Inside HBO’s Game of Thrones!
Today is the publication day for Inside HBO’s Game of Thrones II the second official companion book, following the hugely successful Inside HBO’s Game of Thrones. Inside HBO’s Game of Thrones II gives...
View ArticleCalling all Game of Thrones fans!
We are delighted to be able to share a post with you from the extras of HBO’s Game of Thrones. All this week we will be adding new voices and new reviews of Inside Game of Thrones Volume II from the...
View ArticleWelcome to Midnight, Texas
It’s finally here! The first trailer for NBC’s Midnight, Texas series, based on Charlaine Harris’ incredible bestselling trilogy. From Charlaine Harris, the bestselling author who created Sookie...
View ArticleA very Happy Publication Day for Dr Who fans
Gollancz is thrilled to be publishing two very different but equally excellent Doctor Who related books today, just in time for the 50th anniversary of the show. Both have been published before in...
View ArticleHappy Publication day to Charlaine Harris
We're delighted that Charlaine Harris' After Dead is out in shops today - there can't be a more fitting day than Halloween, right? You can find out what happens to the residents of Bon Temps after...
View ArticleBehind the Event: A look at the Behind the Sofa Signing.
Last night Gollancz was overjoyed to host, at Forbidden Planet London, a signing for our collection of celebrity memories of Doctor Who, Behind The Sofa. We’ve already shared a few extracts over the...
View ArticleBehind the Sofa with Simon Spanton
As you can imagine, certain members of the Gollancz team are very excitable about the 50th Anniversary celebrations for Doctor Who, not least because we’ve published a book about it. Behind the Sofa...
View ArticleMidnight, Texas returns with Season 2
The day has finally arrived! SYFY’s fantastic series Midnight, Texas – from Charliane Harris, the mind behind the hit TV series True Blood – returns today with its second season. From Charlaine Harris,...
View ArticleTHE ADVENTURES OF SIR LANCELOT, 1956
So I was watching Merlin the other week – specifically, series one (Yes, I know I’m very far behind. I only just finished Battlestar Galactica. Don’t hate me). And there was one episode in particular –...
View ArticleFriday Reads: Remembrance of the Daleks
I bought all the fondly remembered Target novelisations of Doctor Who stories as an 80s kid. I couldn’t afford to buy the videos till much later so the books were cheap and cheerful reminders of...
View ArticleInside HBO's Game of Thrones Trailer
We're sure you're all as excited as we are for the release of Inside HBO's Game of Thrones on 27th September. A remarkable exclusive insight into HBO's hugely successful Game of Thrones series, based...
View ArticleGeorge R.R. Martin and How I Learned to Love The Big Bang Theory
This Wednesday we’re kicking off the first of our weekly What We’re Watching Wednesday promotions. Wherein, once a week a member of Team Gollancz will share with you a TV show or film we can’t stop...
View ArticleWhy I hate The Big Bang Theory
It’s the second of our new weekly feature, What We’re Watching Wednesday. Our launch peice last week on The Big Bang Theory sparked some debate around the office, and we thought it only fair to show...
View Article10 reasons why Community is better than The Big Bang Theory
We just can’t let it go! The great Big Bang Theory debate rolls on. This week’s What We’re Watching Wednesday is conclusive* evidence that Community is better than The Big Bang Theory. 1. The...
View ArticleWhat we're reading and watching over Christmas
You’ve heard a little bit about what we’ve been reading and watching over the last few weeks here at Gollancz HQ (not whilst IN the office, obviously, we’re far too busy for that…), so I’m sure you’re...
View ArticleWhat We’re Watching Wednesday: Arrow
It was clear from the moment I saw the trailer for this superhero adaptation that I would have to watch it. I’ve not read the original series it’s based on so I can’t comment on how well it has been...
View ArticleWhat We’re Watching Wednesday: Utopia
This January has seen Channel 4 up their game with some great new shows to fill those hour long slots left empty by Fresh Meat and Homeland. Utopia is absolutely no exception, and is what we’ve been...
View ArticleWhat We’re Watching Wednesday: Luther
As is usual in the on-going, slow-motion, train wreck of my cultural appreciation I missed the first series of Luther when it was broadcast in 2010 and caught up with it at the end of last year on DVD....
View ArticleThe Westeros Wagon and Inside HBO’s Game of Thrones
To celebrate the release of Game of Thrones Season 2 HBO UK sent the Westeros Wagon around London. When we found out the Westeros Wagon would be around the corner from our offices . . . Team Gollancz...
View ArticleWhat We’re Watching Wednesday: Girls
This isn’t so much a ‘what we’re watching’ as a ‘what we were watching recently’ post. Last month the HBO show Girls finished its second season, and will be returning for a third season next year....
View ArticleKnightmare: A Guest Post by Tony Lee Williams
In the Summer of 1998, instead of playing football with my twelve year old friends, I was having a Knightmare. Successfully passing the audition process, we arrive at the reception of Anglia Studios...
View ArticleWhat We’re Watching: The Americans
These days, watching TV is a lot like running a triage. With more TV dramas than ever before, we only have the time to let the best ones through, giving each drama a few episodes apiece before deciding...
View ArticleSuperhero Week: The Wonder of Lynda Carter
Anyone who either knows me, or has seen my tweets, can’t help but notice I am something of a Wonder Woman fan. And it’s all because of Lynda Carter. The former Miss America first slipped into the...
View ArticleWhat We’re Watching: The Returned
I started watching The Returned when my excitable Francophile housemate realised that Scandicrime was out and it was all about our French neighbours (well, according to the Guardian, at least). I...
View ArticleThe Kingkiller Chronicles have been optioned for TV adaptation!
Some fantastic news for the day! The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss have been optioned for a TV adaptation by New Regency Productions and 20th Century Fox Television. Eric Heisserer (of...
View ArticleRe-Watching Star Trek: The Next Generation
Space: the final frontier . . . These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise . . . Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds . . . To seek out new life and new civilisations . . . To...
View ArticleThe new Doctor Who
So I had a lovely day on Sunday, as it was my daughter’s 2nd birthday party. When I say lovely, I mean tiring. But we managed to detach the last child from someone else’s present, and the last adult...
View ArticleThe Burqa Joins The League of Cape and Cowl
The excellent Mahvesh Murad runs a book review show on Pakistani radio (indeed the ONLY book review show on Pakistani radio). This is of course A GOOD THING. But it’s A GOOD THING that I would never...
View ArticleWhat We’re Watching: The Almighty Johnsons Season 3
This is a series you really, really can’t miss. Because it’s wonderful. The Norse gods have been exiled from their homeland and are living in New Zealand. Each of them comes into their god-aspect on...
View ArticleClassic Guides to Doctor Who, Star Trek and join the SFGateway!
Gollancz and the SF Gateway are delighted to announce the eBook return of a series of classic unauthorised guides to genre TV by the authorial team of Paul Cornell, Martin Day and Keith Topping. The...
View ArticleBehind the Sofa: Memories of Doctor Who
On October 31st, Gollancz will be thrilled to publish an expanded edition of Behind the Sofa, a collection of celebrity memories of Doctor Who. Put together by Steve Berry to benefit Alzheimer’s...
View ArticleBehind the Sofa: Ben Aaronovitch
At the end of this month, we're going to be publishing an expanded edition of Behind the Sofa, a collection of celebrity memories of Doctor Who. All the royalties will go to Alzheimer’s Research UK, as...
View ArticleBehind the Sofa: Scott Lynch
Now, we’ve tried to keep it pretty quiet, and not make a fuss, but you may have heard a rumour that Scott Lynch has a new book out. We can confirm that this is true – The Republic of Thieves is out now...
View ArticleGollancz Signings this Autumn
Gollancz are running some exciting events this autumn, so we thought it only fair to share a round-up with you. Lots of chances to meet some of your favourite authors and get one (or many) books signed...
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