Ink & Quill
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
InQ Episode 110: "Mistborn Trilogy"
31 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
When you are governed by a Lord Ruler who has turned the world into a cult of the person and a complete dictatorship, you crave some change! This is w...
InQ Episode 109: "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love"
09 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This is the story of two brothers, Nestor and Cesar, fresh out of Cuba, trying to make it as musicians in 1950’s New York. Vibrant, exciting, full ...
InQ Episode 108: "The Tango Singer"
17 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Bruno is a PhD student from New York. When he hears about Julio Martel, a tango singer with a marvelous voice, he gets on a plane and heads to Buenos ...
InQ Episode 107: "Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age"
10 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In this complete and complex biography of Nikola Tesla, the reader discovers the man, the inventor and the inventions. Very detailed and quite thoroug...
InQ Episode 106: "Galileo"
26 Jan 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In this extensively researched text, the author takes us inside the life and works of Galileo, his family, his friends, his masters and patrons, every...
InQ Episode 105: "Artemis Fowl"
23 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Genius 12 year-old evil mastermind Artemis Fowl goes from adventure to adventure accompanied by his faithful bodyguard Butler, Captain Holly Short of ...
InQ Episode 104: "The Quick"
26 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
After the death of his father, James leaves Yorkshire and his beloved sister Charlotte to move to London and study at Oxford. Once his studies are ove...
InQ Episode 103: "The Supernatural Enhancements"
11 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
A young man simply referred to as “A” inherits a very large mansion. That happens everyday! He and his mute (not deaf) companion Niamh come to the...
InQ Episode 102: "To Hell On a Fast Horse"
28 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
When the law (Pat Garrett) meets the outlaw (Billy the Kid), gunfire happens! In this 2010 extremely well researched text, author Mark Lee Gardner tr...
InQ Episode 101: "Allan Pinkerton: The First Private Eye"
12 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Everybody knows about the Pinkerton Agency. Yet, probably less people know about the man behind it all: Allan Pinkerton. Allan and his wife Joan came ...
InQ Episode 100: "Pax Arcana"
06 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
John Charming has a lot of issues. Yes, he is a Charming, kissing princesses, fighting dragons and all. But this was a long time ago. Now, he is a bar...
InQ Episode 99: "The Nightside Series"
09 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
John Taylor really does not want to go back to the Nightside, that shady weird underside of London, where all types of mythical creatures dwell, good ...
InQ Episode 98: "The Gods of Gotham"
27 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
New York, 1845. The Irish population is increasing with new immigrants coming by the dozens every day. The “copper stars” are born. A few childre...
InQ Episode 97: "The Alienist"
12 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
New York, 1896. The city is devastated and shocked! Young boys have been found dead, utterly mutilated. The police does not even know where to begin....
InQ Episode 96: "Among Others"
28 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
New father, new boarding school, new “friends” (if you can call the girls in school “friends”), a twin sister gone and an insane mother. Oh, a...
InQ Episode 95: "Redshirts"
15 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Intrepid! Congratulations, you are a brand new ensign on a famous spaceship. You have your life of adventures ahead of you. Yet you no...
InQ Episode 94: "Parade's End"
05 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
A very difficult language to follow but a tremendous story of love and honor. Christopher Tietjens is torn between a wife he hates but cannot divorce,...
InQ Episode 93: "The Quiet American"
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Fowler, British reporter in his 50s, has been in Saigon for a few years, happily living with Phuong, his young Vietnamese mistress. Despite the...
InQ Episode 92: "To Say Nothing of the Dog"
21 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when you steal a cat from the past? Does the whole course of history changes? What can you do to make sure what is supposed to happen act...
InQ Episode 91: "The Accidental Time Machine"
07 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew is an unassuming research assistant at MIT. Somewhat mediocre, nothing special about him really. Except that one fine day, the time machine he...
InQ Episode 90: "Neverwhere"
24 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
No good deed goes unpunished! Richard Mayhew decides in a split second to rescue a wounded girl bleeding on the pavement instead of accompanying his g...
InQ Episode 89: "King Rat"
12 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the world of the strange, the creepy, darkness and dread. Saul has been accused of killing his father and sent to jail. Comes to visit him...
InQ Episode 88: "The Lies of Locke Lamora"
22 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Young Locke is an orphan, picked up in the street by the Thiefmaker who teaches him and dozens of other children the fine art of picking pockets. But ...
InQ Episode 87: "The Black Company"
08 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
When you are a band of mercenaries to hire, you don’t really care what the job is. When it turns out that you are going to have to go into battles w...
InQ Episode 86: "The Feast of the Goat"
02 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Written from three different perspectives and in three different time periods, “The Feast of the Goat” retells the Dominican Republic years of dic...
InQ Episode 85: "The Blind Owl"
11 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In this masterpiece of Iranian literature by Sadegh Hedayat, the nameless narrator is slowly falling into madness. The images he sees are troublesome ...
InQ Episode 84: "MaddAddam trilogy"
31 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In her latest trilogy, Margaret Atwood describes an eerie post-apocalyptic world in which most of the human race has been destroyed by a “waterless ...
InQ Episode 83: "The New York Trilogy"
15 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
If you think you are embarking in a simple detective story, think again! The New York trilogy will take you deeper and further than any other “noir”...
InQ Episode 82: "Under the Dome"
30 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
One day out of the blue, a dome comes down, creating a perfect circle around your town. Where does it come from? No idea! Who put it there? Dunno! And...
InQ Episode 81: "Doctor Sleep"
16 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Who has not wondered what happened to Danny, the cute little boy locked in a battle of wits with a haunted hotel in the middle of the winter? Who has ...
InQ Episode 80: "Femme Fatale. Love, Lies and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari"
04 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
What do we remember of Mata Hari? A dancer? Yes. A spy? Yes, that too. But what else? In this fast-pace biography, Pat Shipman provides a fascinating ...
InQ Episode 79: "Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World"
19 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In this great depiction of the lives and conquests of the Mongols throughout history, Jack Weatherford sheds light on an historical character that has...
InQ Episode 78: "Transmetropolitan"
29 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In this futuristic series of 10 volumes set in “The City,” Spider Jerusalem, rogue journalist and truth seeker is out to get the politicians, and ...
InQ Episode 77: "Fables"
21 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Have you been wondering what happened to Snow White and if she is still happily married to her Prince Charming? And what about that Big Bad Wolf that ...
InQ Episode 76: "Paris: The Novel"
21 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This is Paris through the eyes of five families: the aristocrats, the “low-life”, the Jews, the workers and the merchants. Five different perspect...
InQ Episode 75: "Manhattan Transfer"
07 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This is not your typical book about New York. This one is all about impressions, about slices of life, about what a city does to you and how you can i...
InQ Episode 74: "Red Mars"
26 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
When you are the first 100 people on Mars, there are a few things that need to happen. First, you need to get along. That’s a given (but not as easy...
InQ Episode 73: "The Martian Chronicles"
19 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
A Classic of science-fiction, The Martian Chronicles are a gathering of little stories told from many perspectives, from the Martians witnessing the c...
InQ Episode 72: "Hunger"
30 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In this first person narration, the main character, whose name the reader never gets to discover, struggles with hunger. As his stomach remains empty,...
InQ Episode 71: "Blindness"
21 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The whole town is suddenly blind! No reason, no cause, but it is contagious. And it is spreading…fast! The military takes matters into its own hands...
InQ Episode 70: "A Discovery of Witches"
17 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
All her life, Diana has stuck her fingers way deep into her ears, refusing to accept that she is a witch, and a powerful one of those. But the situati...
InQ Episode 69: "The Night Circus"
14 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In her first novel, Erin Morgenstern takes her reader to a magical place; a circus only opened at night. There the spectator encounters tents after te...
InQ Episode 68: "The Sandman"
04 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we discuss Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman series. The WHOLE series. That’s right, the 10 episodes! Set against the background of Dream’...
InQ Episode 67: "Walt Disney"
04 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This is the story of how the man became the legend. The author follows the various circumstances, good and bad, that have allowed Walt Disney to becom...
InQ Episode 66: "Joseph Anton: A Memoir"
09 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
You are an author, minding your own business. One fine day you decide to write a book about the birth of a religion and you pick the one you know the ...
InQ Episode 65: "The Hobbit"
18 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Do we really need to introduce JRR Tolkien? With the arrival on the movie scene this December 2012 of The Hobbit movie, let’s re-immerse ourselves i...
InQ Episode 64: "This Book Is Full of Spiders"
29 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Lovers of cracked.com, this book is for you. Funny, gory, silly, completely off the wall, and of course… full of spiders! This sequel to “John die...
InQ Episode 63: "The Tangled Bridge"
22 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This sequel to “A twisted ladder” is just as good as the first novel. The reader gets reacquainted with Madeleine LeBlanc, with Zenon, with Chloe ...
InQ Episode 62: "House of Leaves"
07 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This is one of the most intelligent books out there. Creepy but amazing! If you are looking for a story with a clear beginning and end, don’t bother...
InQ Episode 61: "The Manuscript found in Saragossa"
09 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
What a strange book! Often compared to The Arabian Nights or The Decameron, this novel touches on every genre (with a large portion dedicated to the G...