The Janus Affair (Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences #2) Tee Morris and Pip Ballantine | Harper Voyager (May 2012) Paperback, 416 pages | Steampunk Warning: contains a spoiler The second novel of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences series, The Janus Affair, opens with the intrepid heroes, Wellington Books and Eliza Braun, witnessing the sudden disappearance of an acquaintance in a blaze of lightening so strong it burns those in the vicinity, including Books. This incident kicks off a chain of events that sends the pair on an investigation full of danger, mystery and…

Phoenix Rising (Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences #1) by Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris | Eos Books (May 2012) Paperback, 402 pages | Steampunk The first novel of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, Phoenix Rising, starts with a bang, literally with a bang. We are quickly introduced to the Ministry’s Archivist, Wellington Thornhill Books Esquire, who has been kidnapped and about to be tortured by the evil organisation, the House of Esher. The House however, are thwarted in their attempt to extract information from Books by the feisty, dynamite loving, Kiwi and Ministry agent…