Description: As readers we want to be thrilled, moved, tickled, saddened, something. But we don't always ask outright for what we really want: a brilliant, one of a kind story. With The Casualties Nick Holdstock did it; it's a wholly unique, lightning bolt of a book. The writing isn't exactly like anybody else. The ideas aren't plucked from a fashionable tree. The arc isn't by numbers. Like encountering a personality you just haven't met before, the book feels... new. Put it this way; despite knowing that something nasty was barreling toward Holdstock's Comely Bank, I wanted to be there when it arrived, wanted to be with the characters when it was so close you could hear it, wanted to see the looks on their faces, wanted to kiss one, hold the hand of another. The novel is a wave of sensible madness. A masterpiece snapshot. If that sounds lofty, open her up, start on page one, and let it wash over you completely.

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