The publicity for Victoria Aveyard's Red Queen pitches it as a clever blend of various dystopian series that have gone before. But that's doing the novel a disservice, as there are bouts of ...

Gollancz has snapped up Tempest, the first adult standalone novel from Victoria Aveyard, the author of the YA series Red Queen (Orion) and Realm Breaker (Orion), in a seven-figure pre-empt.

On Oct. 22, the statue, which was relocated from Ireland after the country’s break from the British crown and now stands outside the Queen Victoria Building, was defaced. Red paint was ...