08 February 2009

Times of terror, things of darkness

I know that this pairing is not as good as recent offerings, but  was struck by the similarity of the covers of Time of Terror, Seth Hunter's latest Nathan Peake novel of the British navy in the times of the French revolution, and This Thing of Darkness, Harry Thomspon's novel of Captain Fitzroy and the voyage of the Beagle:

Hunter  Thing darkness 

8 Feb 2009 11:24:26 | Publishing

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