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Joshua Winning is an author and film journalist who writes for TOTAL FILM, SFX, GAY TIMES and RADIO TIMES. He has been on set with Kermit the Frog, devoured breakfast with zombies on The Walking Dead, and sat on the Iron Throne while visiting the Game Of Thrones set in Dublin. Jeff Goldblum once told him he looks a bit like Paul Bettany.

In 2014, SENTINEL – the first book in Joshua’s SENTINEL TRILOGY – was published by Peridot Press. The second book, RUINS, followed in 2015. Joshua’s short story DEAD AIR appeared in SPEAK MY LANGUAGE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF GAY FICTION and Joshua’s new novel, VICIOUS RUMER, will be published by Unbound in 2018. He also co-wrote ’80s teen horror CAMP CARNAGE.

Joshua grew up watching Labyrinth and The Neverending Story on repeat, and was raised on a steady diet of Whedon, Cameron and Lucas. His literary heroes include Robin Jarvis, Stephen King and Daphne du Maurier. As a journalist, he has interviewed some of the most exciting names in the film industry, including Jodie Foster, Ryan Reynolds, Charlize Theron and Christopher Lee. He dreams of getting Sigourney Weaver to yell “Goddammit!” at him one day.

‘Hugely entertaining’ – SciFi Now
‘If you love action and mystery, this is for you’ – Guardian Children’s Books
‘I wish there had been more books like this around when I was a teen’ – The Eloquent Page

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‘An exhilarating read’ – SFX

‘Unpredictable and utterly compelling’ – A Fantastical Librarian

‘Brutal, stylish and relentless’ – Chris Whitaker, author of All The Wicked Girls

‘This dark, twisting tale never does what you expect’ – CJ Daugherty, author of The Echo Killing

Published by Unbound in April 2018

Rumer Cross is scraping by working for a dingy London detective agency. She lives in the shadow of her mother, a violent criminal dubbed the ‘Witch Assassin’ whose bloodthirsty rampage terrorised London for over a decade.

Raised by foster families who never understood her and terrified she could one day turn into her mother, Rumer has become detached and self-reliant. But when she’s targeted by a vicious mobster who believes she’s hiding an occult relic, she’s drawn into the very world she’s been fighting to avoid.

Hunted by assassins and haunted by her mother’s dark legacy, Rumer must also confront a terrible truth: that she’s cursed, because no matter what she does, everybody she’s ever grown close to has died screaming.

Set in an urban sprawl of bullet-riddled buildings, Vicious Rumer is a thriller that asks the question: can we ever really change who we are?

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Joshua is contributing editor at TOTAL FILM magazine. He also regularly contributes to SFX, GAY TIMES and RADIO TIMES.

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As part of an ongoing series, Joshua grabbed his conical hat and headed back to San Francisco to rewatch some of his favourite episodes of Charmed. Was Prue really an egomaniac? Did Piper ever get her ‘normal’ life? Time to find out…

• Episode One: The One Where Phoebe’s Boyfriend Dies (A Lot)
• Episode Two: The One With All The Prues
• Episode Three: The One Where Piper Loses It Big Time
• Episode Four: The One At Halloween
• Episode Five: The One In Black And White
• Episode Six: The One Where The Seer Is An Evil Genius
• Episode Seven: The One Where Everybody’s Been Taking Happy Pills (Except They Haven’t)
• Episode Eight: The One Where Prue Looks Like Nicolas Cage
• Episode Nine: The One With The Hot Hunk Of Man-Wyatt
• Episode Ten: The One With Mama Halliwell And The Disco Soundtrack
• Episode Eleven: The One Where Everybody’s A Superhero

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