 All the Laird’s Men is the newest release by author Tabatha Wood. It’s a fast paced apocalyptical / creature-feature novella, with gore galore, which makes for an ideal holiday or weekend read. But behind the easy to read façade of the novella there is a depth to Tabatha’s writing. Nature and environmentalism are again strong themes within this book, which we see echo throughout Tabatha’s previous work. But here in her first long form, Tabatha expertly intertwines them with the ethical and moralistic horror of war, and of what makes us human. So if you’re looking for a military horror read with a huge dose of Nessie, then this is the book for you.  A thrilling new novella by Tabatha Wood, author of Sir Julius Vogel-nominated collection ‘Dark Winds Over Wellington: Chilling Tales of the Weird & the Strange.’ Corporal Hopkins just wants to go home. After many years serving with the Laird’s Men, he deserves his freedom. But while the long war that fractured New Britain is over, Raiders in the Scottish forests still pose a deadly threat. Charged with dismantling a roving horde, Hopkins and his elite unit are outnumbered and woefully unprepared for the real horror that awaits them. From the shadowy depths of the great Loch Ness, an ancient evil is rising. When the battle for survival in an unforgiving country never ends, Hopkins knows it doesn’t matter which side you’re on. In the darkness, everybody bleeds the same. Tabatha Wood lives in New Zealand and writes weird, dark fiction and uplifting poetry. Despite her obsession with the strange and unusual, she considers herself mostly harmless. A former English teacher and library manager, Tabatha now teaches from home while writing in her spare time. Her debut collection, “Dark Winds Over Wellington: Chilling Tales of the Weird & the Strange” was nominated for a Sir Julius Vogel award for Best Collected Work. Since then she has had numerous short stories published in a number of antipodean horror magazines, and was the lead editor for the “Black Dogs, Black Tales” anthology, to raise money and awareness for the Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand. All the Laird’s Men is Tabatha’s first novella. You can find out more about Tabatha on her website https://tabathawood.com and on her Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/tlwood.wordweaver/  Penny Jones knew she was a writer when she started to talk about herself in the third person (her family knew when Santa bought her a typewriter for Christmas). She loves reading and will read pretty much anything you put in front of her, but her favourite authors are Stephen King, Shirley Jackson and John Wyndham. In fact Penny only got into writing to buy books, when she realised that there wasn’t that much money in writing she stayed for the cake.
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