Hardy’s BooksBrave soul, you have elected to join us for the Extended Cut of our Sci-Fi & Fantasy Collection video. That means nothing cut out. One long hour of staring at our books, becoming progressively worn down by our company. If you're here, you're really a mega-fan.
Skip ahead: 00:00 Intro 00:30 A 02:50 B 04:39 C 06:36 D 06:40 E 08:20 F 09:26 G 10:10 H 15:09 I 15:34 J 16:57 K 18:58 L 21:32 M 24:41 N 24:59 P 45:11 R 50:03 S 52:50 T 58:15 V 58:28 W 01:01:18 Y 01:01:35 Outro
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Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
Extended Cut: Our Massive Sci-Fi & Fantasy Book CollectionHardy’s Books2024-02-16 | Brave soul, you have elected to join us for the Extended Cut of our Sci-Fi & Fantasy Collection video. That means nothing cut out. One long hour of staring at our books, becoming progressively worn down by our company. If you're here, you're really a mega-fan.
Skip ahead: 00:00 Intro 00:30 A 02:50 B 04:39 C 06:36 D 06:40 E 08:20 F 09:26 G 10:10 H 15:09 I 15:34 J 16:57 K 18:58 L 21:32 M 24:41 N 24:59 P 45:11 R 50:03 S 52:50 T 58:15 V 58:28 W 01:01:18 Y 01:01:35 Outro
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Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
📚 Our bookshop: hardysbooks.co.uk 📷 Instagram: instagram.com/hardysbooks 🎶 TikTok: tiktok.com/@hardysbooks 🎧 Tome Raiders (our podcast): tomeraiders.co.ukWhy YOU should read Monk & Robot (Becky Chambers)Hardy’s Books2024-10-13 | In which Ross and Laura (but mostly Ross) discuss why you should read two fantastic little books by Becky Chambers called the Monk & Robot duology. These two books (A Psalm for the Wild-Built and A Prayer for the Crown-Shy) imagine a future for humanity that lends a spark of hope to a genre which so often leans into darkness and dystopia. Often described as "hopepunk" and "cosy sci-fi", we explain why we love these books so much and why we think you will to.
Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
📚 Our bookshop: hardysbooks.co.uk 📷 Instagram: instagram.com/hardysbooks 🎶 TikTok: tiktok.com/@hardysbooks 🎧 Tome Raiders (our podcast): tomeraiders.co.ukInterview: The Books That Made... Stephen Aryan (E03)Hardy’s Books2024-10-04 | In a bar in Glasgow, three nerds sit frantically untangling a giant ball of yarn. A tall dark stranger approaches them. That stranger, known to one of them, is Stephen Aryan, author of The Age of Darkness trilogy, The Nightingale & The Falcon series, Quest for Heroes series, and the newly released novella, New York Minute.
From this auspicious first meeting to now, your beloved nerds have fostered a friendship with Stephen that has resulted in this: the latest in our The Books That Made Me series, in which Stephen takes us through eight books that were formative through his life and journey to becoming the author he is today.
Expect laughs, birdsong, cats and more!
📚 Get New York Minute, Stephen's latest novella, on Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/5uNbKLL
Stephen’s Choices ==============
► 1. A book from when you were coming of age A Wizard of Earthsea (Ursula Le Guin)
► 2. A book you wish you had read sooner Empire of Silence (Christopher Ruoccho)
► 3. A book you wish you had written Dune (Frank Herbert)
► 4. A book that taught you something important about storytelling Savage Season (Joe R Lansdale)
► 5. A book that give you The Feels The Green Mile (Stephen King)
► 6. A book that inspires you to write Assassin's Apprentice (Robin Hobb)
► 7. A book that, were money no object, you would like to own a signed first edition of Legend (David Gemmell)
► 8. A lesser-known book that you love and think deserves more readers The Reapers are the Angels (Alden Bell)
► Song from the playlist of New York Minute Clubbed to Death (Rob Dougan)
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Other links: 💻 Stephen's website: stephen-aryan.com ▶️ Subscribe to Stephen on YouTube: @StephenAryan44
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Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
📚 Our bookshop: hardysbooks.co.uk 📷 Instagram: instagram.com/hardysbooks 🎶 TikTok: tiktok.com/@hardysbooks 🎧 Tome Raiders (our podcast): tomeraiders.co.ukOur Most Beautiful Books | Special Editions, Gorgeous End Papers, Illustrations & Other SurprisesHardy’s Books2024-09-29 | As rare book collectors, we are extremely proud of our books. Over the years we've acquired some absolute stunners—from special editions and first editions, to examples of the most beautiful cover art and end paper designs. We're like bookish jackdaws, if you will. We see beautiful books, and we have to have them and hoard them. So when @mildrumpus tagged us in a video which gave us the opportunity to show off our books, well. It would be rude not to, really, wouldn't it?
Prompts:
A book you bought primarily or completely because of the cover A book you want to buy that has a beautiful cover Your favorite series design A book with a beautiful dust jacket, or something unexpected under the jacket Naked hardback: A gorgeous book with no dust jacket A beautiful paperback A nonfiction book with a lovely cover A book with great end papers Spine: A book that looks just as good spine-out as it does face-out
Tag some folks @ladymairreads @RaeLovesToRead @SamHarrison2099 @the_fools_tale
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Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
📚 Our bookshop: hardysbooks.co.uk 📷 Instagram: instagram.com/hardysbooks 🎶 TikTok: tiktok.com/@hardysbooks 🎧 Tome Raiders (our podcast): tomeraiders.co.ukCelebrating ONE YEAR on BookTube! (With friends @MattsFantasyBookReviews @the_fools_tale and more)Hardy’s Books2024-09-20 | We’ve been on BookTube for one whole year! We published our first video on September 24th 2023, and what a year it’s been. To celebrate, we wanted to highlight some of the most wonderful moments we’ve had over the past 12 months, the incredible friends we’ve made, the authors and publishers we’ve met, the places we’ve travelled and the things we’ve learnt. There’s been a bit of chatter in the BookTube community of late about “The Dark Side of BookTube”, and we wanted to use our anniversary to encourage new creators, and to counter with some levity and some light.
Humungous thanks to our friends that kindly contributed clips to this video, and for generally being A+ pals for the past year. Lots of love to you all, and we’re looking forward to another year of chaos with you.
Content warning: Balloons. (But all the balloons survive the video.)
00:00 Introduction 01:45 Are you glad you started the channel? 03:22 Have you struggled with anything over the last year? 04:34 Have you found it scary putting yourself on the internet? 06:15 What changes would you make if you did this all again? 07:27 What are you most proud of? 08:42 What surprised you the most? 10:50 What changes are you going to make in the future? 12:06 THERE ARE BIG THINGS COMING. 12:45 How has BookTube affected your life? 16:15 Our friends tell us about their favourite books of the last year 37:20 Outro
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Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
📚 Our bookshop: hardysbooks.co.uk 📷 Instagram: instagram.com/hardysbooks 🎶 TikTok: tiktok.com/@hardysbooks 🎧 Tome Raiders (our podcast): tomeraiders.co.ukWhy YOU should read Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Community Readalong)Hardy’s Books2024-09-12 | Spooky season is upon us, and so is the 20th Anniversary of the release of Ross’s favourite book: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke.
If you like your books magical, atmospheric, stylised, and with a smattering of silly, this book may become your favourite too. Join us for our first community readalong where we'll be guiding you through the ins and outs of this monster tome.
Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
📚 Our bookshop: hardysbooks.co.uk 📷 Instagram: instagram.com/hardysbooks 🎶 TikTok: tiktok.com/@hardysbooks 🎧 Tome Raiders (our podcast): tomeraiders.co.ukChristopher Buehlman wrote a plague horror book (and its SO GOOD)Hardy’s Books2024-09-06 | Christopher Buehlman is one of the hottest names in fantasy right now, having recently released The Daughters’ War, a prequel to The Blacktongue Thief. This video is not about those books. This video is about the Medieval religious folk horror he wrote back in 2012 and that everyone forgot about.
Let me tell you about Between Two Fires . . .
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Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
00:00 Vibey intro 00:43 Building the shelves 02:01 1 – Ben Aaronovitch 02:31 2 – Joe Abercrombie, Stephen Aryan 03:38 3 – Robert Jackson Bennett, Ray Bradbury, Christopher Buehlman, Octavia E Butler 05:12 4 – Ted Chiang, Susanna Clarke 07:18 5 – Eoin Colfer, Amal El-Mohtar, James S A Corey 08:08 6 – Philip K Dick, Steven Erikson 09:16 7 – Jennifer Delaney, Raymond E Feist 10:10 8 – John Gwynne, Frank Herbert 11:25 9 – Robin Hobb (1) 12:53 10 – Robin Hobb (2) 14:30 11 – Robin Hobb (3) 15:29 12 – Stark Holborn, S L Huang, James Islington, Simon Jimenez, Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson 17:13 13 – Robert Jordan (1) 17:57 14 – Robert Jordan (2), Guy Gavriel Kay, Stephen King, R F Kuang (1), Thomas D Lee 19:22 15 – Fonda Lee, Ursula Le Guin, C S Lewis, Elizabeth Lim 21:10 16 – Scott Lynch, Emily St John Mandel, George R R Martin (1) 23:10 17 – George R R Martin (2) 24:10 18 – Jeff Noon & Steve Beard, Taran Matharu, Robert McCammon, Walter M Miller, Erin Morgenstern, George R R Martin (3), Gourav Mouhanty 25:48 19 – Naomi Novik, Nnedi Okorafor, Rogba Payne, Mervyn Peake, Mary Doria Russell 27:14 20 – Kim Stanley Robinson, Patrick Rothfuss, Christopher Ruocchio 28:57 21 – Brandon Sanderson 30:10 22 – Andrzej Sapkowski, Wole Talabi, Adrian Tchaikovsky 31:43 23 – J R R Tolkien (1) 33:49 24 – J R R Tolkien (2) 34:51 25 – J R R Tolkien (3), M L Wang, Andrew Watson 35:55 26 – Brent Weeks, Mary Shelley, John Wyndham, H G Wells 37:16 27 – Tad Williams, Martha Wells, Chris Wooding, Neon Yang, Stephen R Jones 40:00 28 – Terry Pratchett (1) 41:28 29 – Terry Pratchett (2) 42:38 30 – Terry Pratchett (3) 43:01 31 – Terry Pratchett (4) 45:21 32 – Margaret Atwood, Kaveh Akbar, Nikkitha Bakshani, Shusaku Endo 47:12 33 – Susan Hill, Sadie Jones, Jack Kerouac, Rebecca F Kuang (2) 49:33 34 – Jackie Morris, Carson McCullers, Max Porter, George Orwell, Salman Rushdie 51:29 35 – Carlos Ruis Zafon, Eiji Yoshikawa, John Steinbeck (1), Jack R Williams 53:06 36 – John Steinbeck (2), Rosemary Sutcliff, Ernest Hemingway, Aldous Huxley 54:42 The long awaited outro
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Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
📚 Our bookshop: hardysbooks.co.uk 📷 Instagram: instagram.com/hardysbooks 🎶 TikTok: tiktok.com/@hardysbooks 🎧 Tome Raiders (our podcast): tomeraiders.co.ukLeviathan Wakes (Book Club Spoiler Review) by James SA CoreyHardy’s Books2024-08-23 | Leviathan Wakes is the first book of The Expanse by James SA Corey and has been adapted into a TV show. Leviathan Wakes is also the name of my s3x tape.
This week, we're setting sail on the good ship The Expanse, hanging out with not-a-car Holden and edgelord Miller as we zoom around the solar system dodging dodgy DNA, Mormon ships, and nefarious shadow organisations.
THIS IS A SPOILER REVIEW. THIS VIDEO CONTAINS SPOILERS.
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Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
📚 Our bookshop: hardysbooks.co.uk 📷 Instagram: instagram.com/hardysbooks 🎶 TikTok: tiktok.com/@hardysbooks 🎧 Tome Raiders (our podcast): tomeraiders.co.ukOur WorldCon Book Haul is excessive (Please send help)Hardy’s Books2024-08-18 | If you're coming from our latest video, welcome. We accidentally bought too many books at WorldCon and now we have a money and bookshelf capacity problem.
Featured in this video are authors such as Joe Abercrombie, Christopher Buehlman, Scott Lynch, Jennifer Delaney, Octavia Butler, George R R Martin, and many, many, MANY more.
Special thanks to @GollanczBooks and @AngryRobotBooks for the ARCs!
Andrew Watson's channel (author of Harbinger of Justice):@the_fools_tale
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Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
Having had a great year of book festivals already, we thought we were ready to top it all off with Glasgow WorldCon 2024. Little did we know just how amazing and full on it would turn out to be.
Did we manage to meet George R R Martin? Well, you'll just have to tune in to find out… (okay it's in the teaser, but try to act surprised.)
Much love to our friends, established and new: @ladymairreads @CamsCampbellReads @the_fools_tale @veldonreads @GollanczBooks @libraryofaviking @PetrikLeo @StephenAryan44 and many more!
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Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
📚 Our bookshop: hardysbooks.co.uk 📷 Instagram: instagram.com/hardysbooks 🎶 TikTok: tiktok.com/@hardysbooks 🎧 Tome Raiders (our podcast): tomeraiders.co.ukIn defence of reading for pleasure (A Rant)Hardy’s Books2024-08-09 | It's time for another discussion video! Join us today to discover why you might be better off quitting your current read, and why you shouldn't listen to the gatekeepers and elitists of the reading world.
We mentioned our friend @CamsCampbellReads in this vid! Check out his channel, it’s superb ❤️
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Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
📚 Our bookshop: hardysbooks.co.uk 📷 Instagram: instagram.com/hardysbooks 🎶 TikTok: tiktok.com/@hardysbooks 🎧 Tome Raiders (our podcast): tomeraiders.co.ukInterview: The Books That Made... Joanne Harris (E02)Hardy’s Books2024-07-26 | Joanne Harris is the author of over 30 books (accounts differ!) including the remarkable bestseller Chocolat. Her latest book, The Moonlight Market, is a return to the fantasy genre: a fairy-tale taking place in and around Kings Cross in London.
When we started this show we hoped that one day we would have the opportunity to bring our questions to some of the biggest authors in the SFF space. Little did we know we would get the opportunity as soon as episode 2.
We asked Joanne to choose books from a number of prompts, forming the eight books that were foundational in her author journey and made her into the writer she is today.
This was one of those wonderful life-affirming conversations with a truly extraordinary woman, and we are so grateful to Joanne for her time.
Thumbnail photography courtesy of Kyte Photography
Joanne’s Choices ==============
► 1. A book from when you were a small child The Eagle Of The Ninth (Rosemary Sutcliff)
► 2. A book you wish you had written Something Wicked This Way Comes (Ray Bradbury)
► 3. A book from when you were coming of age Gormenghast (Mervyn Peake)
► 4. A book you wish you could read for the first time all over again We Have Always Lived In The Castle (Shirley Jackson)
► 5. A book that taught you something important about storytelling The Princess Bride (William Goldman)
► 6. A book that makes you think Pieces Of Light (Charles Fernyhough)
► 7. A book that has helped you when you were in a bad place A Psalm For The Wild Built (Becky Chambers)
► 8. A book that inspires you to write Nights At The Circus (Angela Carter)
► Album Go listen to her episode of Desert Island Discs ;)
► Luxury item Her shed
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Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
📚 Our bookshop: hardysbooks.co.uk 📷 Instagram: instagram.com/hardysbooks 🎶 TikTok: tiktok.com/@hardysbooks 🎧 Tome Raiders (our podcast): tomeraiders.co.uk16 Great Books to Break Your Reading SLUMP (Your SLUMPBUSTERS)Hardy’s Books2024-07-19 | It happens to all of us. A few weeks go by and you realise you haven't picked up a book. Sometimes weeks turn into months. Why is that? How can you break out of it? What books work better than others?
Today, we're running down your picks for books that bust a slump like no other.
Bookmarks: 00:00 Intro 00:33 Why are you in a slump? 01:54 General advice for busting slumps 03:09 Cosy, Comedy, Short Novellas 07:17 Epic, Escapism, Big Books 10:17 Fast-paced, Engrossing Thrillers 14:22 Emotionally Devastating, Dark, Sad Novels 17:45 Book we forgot 18:09 Outro
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Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
Skip ahead: 00:00 Introduction 01:50 The Dance Of Shadows by Rogba Payne 02:25 The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham 04:40 Saturn Run by John Sandford and Ctein 06:13 The Song Of Achilles by Madeleine Miller 07:38 A Song For Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay 08:49 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 11:21 Boy’s Life by Robert McCammon 12:50 Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel 14:19 The Haunting Of Alaizabel Cray by Chris Wooding 16:04 Kafka On The Shore by Haruki Murakami 18:04 Piranesi by Susanna Clarke 20:38 Outro
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Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
📚 Our bookshop: hardysbooks.co.uk 📷 Instagram: instagram.com/hardysbooks 🎶 TikTok: tiktok.com/@hardysbooks 🎧 Tome Raiders (our podcast): tomeraiders.co.ukBest books of Q2 and what were looking forward to (Our TBRs!)Hardy’s Books2024-07-06 | We're halfway through 2024 and it's been a great year of reading so far! Tune into today's episode to find out what we've enjoyed in Q2, what we're currently reading, and what's coming up in our TBRs (To Boldly Read) for the rest of 2024. Some hefty chonkers, and we don't mean the cat.
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Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
📚 Our bookshop: hardysbooks.co.uk 📷 Instagram: instagram.com/hardysbooks 🎶 TikTok: tiktok.com/@hardysbooks 🎧 Tome Raiders (our podcast): tomeraiders.co.ukInterview: The Books That Made… Andrew Watson (E01)Hardy’s Books2024-06-21 | NEW SHOW! Welcome to the first episode in a series we're calling THE BOOKS THAT MADE ME. We're delighted to have a very special guest, author of the Shadowbinders Trilogy and new novella Silence Is Silver—it's the one, the only, Andrew Watson (@the_fools_tale)!
In this show, we're asking authors to pick the eight books that made them the author they are today. It's a little bit Desert Island Discs, but totally not that, because we don't want to be sued.
Get SILENCE IS SILVER absolutely free by subscribing to Andrew's newsletter: subscribepage.io/qJa55L
Andrew's Choices ==============
► 1. A book that inspires you to write Mistborn (Brandon Sanderson)
► 2. A book you wish you had written Name of the Wind (Patrick Rothfuss)
► 3. A book that taught you something important about storytelling Dungeon Crawler Carl (Matt Dinniman)
► 4. A non-fiction book about writing that you love On Writing (Stephen King), What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Haruki Murakami)
► 5. A book that give you The Feels Assassin's Apprentice (Robin Hobb)
► 6. A book that will pick you up when you’re feeling down Murderbot (Martha Wells)
► 7. A book from when you were becoming the person you are now 10% Happier (Dan Harris)
► 8. A book that you recommend to everybody The Ember Blade (Chris Wooding)
► Album The Wicked Symphony – Avantasia
► Luxury item Chemex
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Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
📚 Our bookshop: hardysbooks.co.uk 📷 Instagram: instagram.com/hardysbooks 🎶 TikTok: tiktok.com/@hardysbooks 🎧 Tome Raiders (our podcast): tomeraiders.co.ukYoure all SLEEPING on THE DANCE OF SHADOWS by Rogba Payne (Spoiler-free review)Hardy’s Books2024-06-14 | The Dance Of Shadows is the debut novel by Rogba Payne, and Ross just got done reading it. Not only does it have the best front cover of 2024, it's right up there with the best books of this year full stop.
This is a powerful work of afrofantasy with strong women, an inventive magic system, deep cultural worldbuilding, and most of all, an epic scope. But enough waxing lyrical in the description… watch the video and find out why you should read it!
Tags: @GollanczBooks
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Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
📚 Our bookshop: hardysbooks.co.uk 📷 Instagram: instagram.com/hardysbooks 🎶 TikTok: tiktok.com/@hardysbooks 🎧 Tome Raiders (our podcast): tomeraiders.co.ukWe flew to Edinburgh for #Cymera2024 (A High-Energy Vlog)Hardy’s Books2024-06-07 | Cymera Festival is the UK's premier sci-fi & fantasy book festival and based in the lovely Edinburgh in Scotland. Authors from every corner of the industry are invited to take part in fascinating chaired discussions with book signings, writing workshops, and lots more besides.
ANYWAY, we went. And it was an absolute blast. Please enjoy a little slice of what we got up to ✌️
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Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
📚 Our bookshop: hardysbooks.co.uk 📷 Instagram: instagram.com/hardysbooks 🎶 TikTok: tiktok.com/@hardysbooks 🎧 Tome Raiders (our podcast): tomeraiders.co.uk8 BOOKS that feel like FURIOSA: A Mad Max SagaHardy’s Books2024-05-31 | The prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road is out in the cinemas, and trust us when we say Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is absolutely brilliant, and has a certain DNA that is so distinct and yet hard to find captured in literature. We're talking dieselpunk, we're talking post-apocalypse, we're talking scavengers, bandits, cars, and big personalities. So, Ross went on a search and found 8 books that evoke some of what makes Mad Max such a good franchise.
Any books we missed? Get over to Hardcover and add them to our Prompt: https://hardcover.app/prompts/in-honour-of-furiosa-a-mad-max-saga-what-are-the-best-dieselpunk-and-or-post-apocalyptic-books
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Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
📚 Our bookshop: hardysbooks.co.uk 📷 Instagram: instagram.com/hardysbooks 🎶 TikTok: tiktok.com/@hardysbooks 🎧 Tome Raiders (our podcast): tomeraiders.co.ukTop 30 Book Series according to Forbes (Our thoughts)Hardy’s Books2024-05-25 | Oohh boy! Forbes published a blog post of the Top 30 book series, and it's awful. In this video, Ross and Laura give their thoughts on each inclusion, rant about some notable exclusions, and ask themselves: was this all a ploy for engagement? Are they the fools?
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Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
📚 Our bookshop: hardysbooks.co.uk 📷 Instagram: instagram.com/hardysbooks 🎶 TikTok: tiktok.com/@hardysbooks 🎧 Tome Raiders (our podcast): tomeraiders.co.ukOur TOP 10 Fiction Books (non-SFF)Hardy’s Books2024-05-17 | Here at Hardy's Books we read a LOT of sci-fi and fantasy books, but that doesn't mean we don't love a good classic. Join us today as we count down our TOP 10 fiction books (that aren't sci-fi or fantasy). Fang makes a prolonged guest appearance in this one.
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Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
📚 Our bookshop: hardysbooks.co.uk 📷 Instagram: instagram.com/hardysbooks 🎶 TikTok: tiktok.com/@hardysbooks 🎧 Tome Raiders (our podcast): tomeraiders.co.ukThe BEST Goodreads Competitor (That You Probably Haven’t Heard Of)Hardy’s Books2024-05-10 | Do you love books? Do you want to tell the world about the books you’re reading? Do you want research books that your friends think you’ll love?
… and do you want to do that without giving money to the evil bald man that owns everything? I’m talking about Jeff Bezos, corporate billionaire overlord who owns, among other things: Amazon, Kindle, Audible and Goodreads.
Well, we’ve found an amazing Goodreads alternative, and we love it so much we made a video about it! This is not a sponsored video, we’re just mega nerds who really dig this app. Go check out @hardcoverapp if you want! Or don't, whatever.
Find it here: https://hardcover.app/
And find us and follow us! - Ross https://hardcover.app/@rosshardy - Laura https://hardcover.app/@ljmartin
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Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
📚 Our bookshop: hardysbooks.co.uk 📷 Instagram: instagram.com/hardysbooks 🎶 TikTok: tiktok.com/@hardysbooks 🎧 Tome Raiders (our podcast): tomeraiders.co.ukThe Book That Wouldnt Burn (Book Club Spoiler Review) by Mark LawrenceHardy’s Books2024-05-03 | April is over and we finally get to read another book 🙃 In this spoiler-filled Hardy's Book Club review, Ross and Laura yet again lose their minds over an author who didn't know when to pack it in. Lots of opinions were shared. Lots of neighbours were disturbed by high-pitched screaming. Please enjoy our review of The Book That Wouldn't Burn by Mark Lawrence.
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Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
📚 Our bookshop: hardysbooks.co.uk 📷 Instagram: instagram.com/hardysbooks 🎶 TikTok: tiktok.com/@hardysbooks 🎧 Tome Raiders (our podcast): tomeraiders.co.ukOur Top Magic Systems (and how they work)Hardy’s Books2024-04-27 | We're back in (possibly) our most chaotic video yet! This week we're talking fantasy magic systems: what makes a good one, where a good magic system gets its power, and some cool examples of our favourites from across the genre! We discuss hard vs soft magic, how authors can use magic to influence their storytelling and much much more.
Featured books and series include: The Mistborn Saga - Brandon Sanderson The First Law - Joe Abercrombie Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke The Realm of the Elderlings - Robin Hobb A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K Le Guin Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss The Lightbringer Series - Brent Weeks Stormlight Archive - Brandon Sanderson The Villain Series - V E Schwab The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
📚 Our bookshop: hardysbooks.co.uk 📷 Instagram: instagram.com/hardysbooks 🎶 TikTok: tiktok.com/@hardysbooks 🎧 Tome Raiders (our podcast): tomeraiders.co.ukWe went to Fantasy In The Court (and forgot to film anything)!Hardy’s Books2024-04-26 | In this chaotic bonus video, Ross and Laura go to Goldboro Books' Fantasy In The Court 2024, where we met a bunch of cool authors and got them to sign our books and generally had a good natter. Such a good natter, in fact, that we barely filmed any of it. Regardless, it was a great event, and you should definitely go next year.
Authors in order of appearance: Hannah Kaner, Ben Aaronovitch, Thomas D Lee, Adrian Tchaikovsky, C L Clark, Joanne Harris, James Logan
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Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
📚 Our bookshop: hardysbooks.co.uk 📷 Instagram: instagram.com/hardysbooks 🎶 TikTok: tiktok.com/@hardysbooks 🎧 Tome Raiders (our podcast): tomeraiders.co.ukThe BEST books weve read in 2024 (so far)Hardy’s Books2024-04-19 | Join Ross and Laura over some… coffee? (What is this??) We've been spoiled for high quality books so far this year. Expect glowing reviews of Christopher Ruocchio's Sun Eater sequence, effervescent praise for Joe Abercrombie's Age Of Madness trilogy, heart-eyes for John Gwynne's Bloodsworn Saga… they're all here, and we can't stop talking about them.
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Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
📚 Our bookshop: hardysbooks.co.uk 📷 Instagram: instagram.com/hardysbooks 🎶 TikTok: tiktok.com/@hardysbooks 🎧 Tome Raiders (our podcast): tomeraiders.co.ukA Little Hatred Review (Book Club Spoiler Discussion) by Joe AbercrombieHardy’s Books2024-04-12 | We’re back with another episode of Hardy’s Bookclub, and this month we’re discussing the extraordinary A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie, the first in his Age of Madness trilogy. Join Ross and Laura as they discuss their thoughts on Savine dan Glokta + Orso dan Luthar, The Young Lion vs The Young Wolf, Rikke and her long eye, insurrection in Valbeck and the return of Bayaz. Plus, talk of political uprising, dynastic manoeuvring and liberal use of the word qu*m.
Here’s your fair dos warning — it goes without saying, but spoilers for A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie abound! If you don’t want it spoiled, go no further! We’ll also probably inadvertently spoil elements of The First Law Trilogy, so maybe proceed with caution if you’ve not read that too. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.
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Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
📚 Our bookshop: hardysbooks.co.uk 📷 Instagram: instagram.com/hardysbooks 🎶 TikTok: tiktok.com/@hardysbooks 🎧 Tome Raiders (our podcast): tomeraiders.co.ukOur Home Library #shelfie #fantasybooks #booktubeHardy’s Books2024-04-09 | Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
📚 Our bookshop: hardysbooks.co.uk 📷 Instagram: instagram.com/hardysbooks 🎶 TikTok: tiktok.com/@hardysbooks 🎧 Tome Raiders (our podcast): tomeraiders.co.ukDemon In White by Christopher Ruocchio (Spoiler-free Review)Hardy’s Books2024-04-05 | Ross has read Demon In White, the third book in the Sun Eater saga… series… sequence… sausage roll? and he has some thoughts. Join us for this review video for discussions of plot, mysteries, foreshadowing, character work, prose, and other elements of the great modern space opera by Christopher Ruocchio.
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Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
📚 Our bookshop: hardysbooks.co.uk 📷 Instagram: instagram.com/hardysbooks 🎶 TikTok: tiktok.com/@hardysbooks 🎧 Tome Raiders (our podcast): tomeraiders.co.ukTop 10 Book Covers (according to a Graphic Designer)Hardy’s Books2024-03-31 | We're back for another top 10! This time, Ross is running through his top 10 favourite book covers. You can trust his opinion on aesthetics, because he has 15 years experience in graphic design. (Though don't listen to him for grooming advice, as clearly he forgot to straighten his beard.)
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Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
📚 Our bookshop: hardysbooks.co.uk 📷 Instagram: instagram.com/hardysbooks 🎶 TikTok: tiktok.com/@hardysbooks 🎧 Tome Raiders (our podcast): tomeraiders.co.ukMy TOP Fantasy series of all time! A character masterpiece. (The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb)Hardy’s Books2024-03-22 | We're back and this time Laura is in the hot-seat, and boy is it hot! (Because of the fire.) In today's video, Laura has lots of feelings to share about her favourite book series, the Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb. In addition to all the incredible worldbuilding, turbulent character arcs, and stupendous prose, these books have a particular importance to Laura due to the circumstances under which she read them.
Small content warning for discussions of terminal illness.
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Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
📚 Our bookshop: hardysbooks.co.uk 📷 Instagram: instagram.com/hardysbooks 🎶 TikTok: tiktok.com/@hardysbooks 🎧 Tome Raiders (our podcast): tomeraiders.co.ukWe went to GollanczFest 2024 (and met Joe Abercrombie!)Hardy’s Books2024-03-17 | Bonus video alert! We went to GollanczFest 2024, the annual sci-fi/fantasy/horror convention run by industry giant @GollanczBooks. In addition to buying a lot of books, getting an equally large number signed, and getting to attend some fascinating author panels, we were lucky enough to get 20 minutes in the company of Lord Grimdark himself, Joe Abercrombie, tête-a-tête.
#gollanczfest
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Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
📚 Our bookshop: hardysbooks.co.uk 📷 Instagram: instagram.com/hardysbooks 🎶 TikTok: tiktok.com/@hardysbooks 🎧 Tome Raiders (our podcast): tomeraiders.co.ukI found TWO white whales this month (Crazy Book Haul)Hardy’s Books2024-03-15 | In today's video, Ross runs through some of the delicious pick-ups we've had here over on Hardy's Books in the last month. Sorry to say, these are for keeps. We've got Ray Bradbury, Steven Erikson, Terry Pratchett, Robert Jordan, Joe Abercrombie, Ben Aaronovitch, and Daniel Abraham. What a line-up!
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Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 00:55 Ben Aaronovitch 01:53 Steven Erikson 02:40 Daniel Abraham 03:10 Empire of Silence Contest Info 03:53 Joe Abercrombie 05:17 We got a book press! 06:17 Comparing The Blade Itself editions 06:48 Robert Jordan 07:22 Ray Bradbury 08:16 Terry Pratchett 09:19 Outroduction
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Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
📚 Our bookshop: hardysbooks.co.uk 📷 Instagram: instagram.com/hardysbooks 🎶 TikTok: tiktok.com/@hardysbooks 🎧 Tome Raiders (our podcast): tomeraiders.co.ukTop 10 Controversial DNFs (Did Not Finish)Hardy’s Books2024-03-08 | I hope you brought the pitchfork sharpener! Today Ross is running down 10 of his most controversial book DNFs (i.e. books he did not finish). There are some Booktube darlings in here. I can almost guarantee at least one book on this list will make you angry.
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Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 00:56 Book 1 02:39 Book 2 03:35 Book 3 04:21 Book 4 05:46 Book 5 06:58 Empire of Silence Contest Info 07:35 Book 6 08:17 Book 7 09:08 Book 8 10:15 Book 9 11:09 Book 10 12:06 Outroduction
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Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
📚 Our bookshop: hardysbooks.co.uk 📷 Instagram: instagram.com/hardysbooks 🎶 TikTok: tiktok.com/@hardysbooks 🎧 Tome Raiders (our podcast): tomeraiders.co.ukRivers of London / Midnight Riot Review (Book Club Spoiler Discussion) by Ben AaronovitchHardy’s Books2024-03-05 | We're back for another Hardy's Bookclub! In February, we read the incredible urban fantasy Rivers Of London by Ben Aaronovitch (also known as Midnight Riot if you're stateside). It's the first of the series of the same name, and follows PC Peter Grant as he contends with tricksy river spirits, vampires just off Purley Way, a ghost-hunting dog, and the bureaucracy of the Met.
THIS VIDEO HAS SPOILERS, OF COURSE. Don't be daft and watch it if you aren't sure you don't want it spoiled. But you should definitely read it!
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Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
📚 Our bookshop: hardysbooks.co.uk 📷 Instagram: instagram.com/hardysbooks 🎶 TikTok: tiktok.com/@hardysbooks 🎧 Tome Raiders (our podcast): tomeraiders.co.ukWhat moving house taught me about writing (4 tips)Hardy’s Books2024-03-01 | It's been a while! Ross & Laura have finally moved house and it's been a lot. Luckily, Ross has picked up a few motes of inspiration from the whole ordeal about writing, and he would like to pass them onto you. How generous!
Apologies about the audio in this one.
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Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
📚 Our bookshop: hardysbooks.co.uk 📷 Instagram: instagram.com/hardysbooks 🎶 TikTok: tiktok.com/@hardysbooks 🎧 Tome Raiders (our podcast): tomeraiders.co.ukMORE RARE BOOKS! Sci-Fi & Fantasy Collection (Part 2: P–Z)Hardy’s Books2024-02-20 | Welcome to the second part of our Sci-Fi & Fantasy Collection! In today's video, we're running down the second half of the alphabet, starting with Ross's absolutely insane Terry Pratchett collection (did you know he has over 40 signed Pratchett books?) and continuing through Patrick Rothfuss, Christopher Ruocchio, Brandon Sanderson, J R R Tolkien, Martha Wells, and Brent Weeks.
Skip ahead: 00:00 Intro 01:00 P – Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman 09:14 R – Gabriela Romero Lacruz, Patrick Rothfuss, Christopher Ruocchio 13:10 S – Brandon Sanderson, Samantha Shannon, Mary Shelley, Dan Simmons 15:17 T – Adrian Tchaikovsky, William Tenn, J R R Tolkien, Emma Törzs 18:58 W – H G Wells, Martha Wells, T H White, Brent Weeks, Tad Williams, Chris Wooding, Janny Wurts, John Wyndham 21:22 Y – Neon Yang 21:39 Outro
Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
📚 Our bookshop: hardysbooks.co.uk 📷 Instagram: instagram.com/hardysbooks 🎶 TikTok: tiktok.com/@hardysbooks 🎧 Tome Raiders (our podcast): tomeraiders.co.ukOur MASSIVE Sci-Fi & Fantasy Book Collection (Part 1: A–P)Hardy’s Books2024-02-16 | You asked for it, we finally provided. Today's video is the first of a two-parter as we pack up our massive book collection in preparation for moving house. We've got lots of special books to show off in this episode, from authors such as Ben Aaronovitch, Joe Abercrombie, Travis Baldree, Pierce Brown, Susanna Clarke, Steven Erikson, John Gwynne, Robin Hobb, Robert Jordan, Stephen King, Ursula Le Guin, Emily St John Mandel, and George R R Martin.
Skip ahead: 00:00 Intro 01:13 A – Ben Aaronovitch, Joe Abercrombie, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, RJ Barker 03:25 B – Iain M Banks, Travis Baldree, Olivie Blake, Ray Bradbury, Peter V Brett, Pierce Brown 05:05 C – Ted Chiang, Susanna Clarke, Genevieve Cogman, Eoin Colfer, James S A Corey, Michael Crichton 06:29 E – Saara El-Arifi, Amal El-Mohtar, Steven Erikson 08:09 F – Raymond E Feist, Namina Forna, Stephen Fry 08:56 G – John Gwynne 09:11 H – Frank Herbert, Robert Heinlein, Susan Hill, Robin Hobb 12:36 I – Jordan Ifueko, James Islington 12:57 J – Robert Jordan 14:04 K - Guy Gavriel Kay, Daniel Keyes, Stephen King, R F Kuang 15:19 L – Ursula Le Guin, Thomas D Lee, C S Lewis, Ken Liu, George Lucas, Kelly Link 17:06 M – Emily St John Mandel, George R R Martin, Arkady Martine, Anne McCaffrey, Robert R McCammon, China Mieville, Silva Moreno-Garcia, Erin Morgenstern, Walter Miller 19:47 P – Mervyn Peake 19:59 Outro
Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
📚 Our bookshop: hardysbooks.co.uk 📷 Instagram: instagram.com/hardysbooks 🎶 TikTok: tiktok.com/@hardysbooks 🎧 Tome Raiders (our podcast): tomeraiders.co.ukThe Shadow Of The Gods by John Gwynne (Spoiler-free Review)Hardy’s Books2024-02-13 | Gritty, gory Norse-inspired high fantasy with fantastic protagonists, tantalising magic, and extraordinary worldbuilding? Sign me the hell up!
In this video, Laura reviews The Shadow of the Gods by John Gwynne, the first in his Bloodsworn Saga. Spoiler alert: She really bloody liked it!
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Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
📚 Our bookshop: hardysbooks.co.uk 📷 Instagram: instagram.com/hardysbooks 🎶 TikTok: tiktok.com/@hardysbooks 🎧 Tome Raiders (our podcast): tomeraiders.co.ukHowling Dark by Christopher Ruocchio (Spoiler-free Review)Hardy’s Books2024-02-09 | Howling Dark is the second book in the Sun Eater saga by Christopher Ruocchio, and holy hell it's good. In this video, Ross tries not to lose his cool as he gives his spoiler-free review of this sci-fi masterpiece. We love philosophical sci-fi and this book has it in spades, I tell you, spades! With the imminent announcement of the Howling Dark Diamond Edition, and a few months away from Disquiet Gods, there's never been a better time to get into the Sun Eater saga.
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Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
📚 Our bookshop: hardysbooks.co.uk 📷 Instagram: instagram.com/hardysbooks 🎶 TikTok: tiktok.com/@hardysbooks 🎧 Tome Raiders (our podcast): tomeraiders.co.ukRed Rising Review (Book Club Spoiler Discussion)Hardy’s Books2024-02-02 | Fill up your mug with tea or something stronger, as Ross and Laura sit down and discuss Red Rising by Pierce Brown, the first book in the saga by the same name. This book has plenty of comparisons to The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, and more recently, The Will of the Many by James Islington. Did it land for us? No. No it did not land for us.
Needless to say, massive SPOILER WARNING for Red Rising. If you haven't read Red Rising and go ahead and watch this video despite this warning, well, you're a plum.
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Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.
📚 Our bookshop: hardysbooks.co.uk 📷 Instagram: instagram.com/hardysbooks 🎶 TikTok: tiktok.com/@hardysbooks 🎧 Tome Raiders (our podcast): tomeraiders.co.ukHow to start collecting rare books (5 Key Tips)Hardy’s Books2024-01-28 | Are you starting a rare book collection? Not sure how if you have a first edition? And what is a Book Club copy anyway? All these questions and more are answered in this video.
You'll learn: – Where booksellers find all their rare books – What's the difference between a first edition and a first print, and how to identify both – What a Book Club edition is, and why they're less valuable – How to grade a book's condition – How to accurately determine the market value of a book
As comprehensive as we've tried to be, we're sure to have missed something, so please do leave us a comment with your best book collecting tips.
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Ross & Laura are a couple of internet nerds with over 20 years combined experience in eCommerce and Retail, and a shared passion for quality fantasy and science fiction.