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Cover reveal: Daughters of Nicnevin by Shona Kinsella

Get your first peek at the next novel from Shona Kinsella, coming from Flame Tree in

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Meet Karina Andrusiak

Every Friday, we meet a member of the BFS and peer deep into their soul (or, at least, a form they

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Lauren McMenemy & The BFS Discord Community

Summer Reads Recommendations From Our Community

Given the sun’s been out, our minds have been turning to summer reads. So we asked the BFS members

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Gary Couzens

The TV That Made Us: Escape Into Night (1972)

In his semi-regular column on the TV that made us SFFH fans, Gary Couzens revisits Escape Into

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Meet Catherine Cavendish

Every Friday, we meet a member of the BFS and peer deep into their soul (or, at least, a form they

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Meet Cheryl Morgan

Every Friday, we meet a member of the BFS and peer deep into their soul (or, at least, a form they

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House of Odysseus By Claire North

Odysseus is missing – lost at sea, assumed by many to be dead. His wife, Penelope remains in

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Starling House by Alix E Harrow

The haunted house is a stock setting in gothic fiction, instantly familiar to readers in and

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The Outcast Mage by Annabel Campbell

In Amoria, the great glass city, Naila is a prospective mage of the Academy of Amoria. She passed

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Warlords of Wyrdwood by RJ Barker

Cahan du Nahere was Cowl-Rai, chosen as a god’s saviour, though he shunned that future and

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Solarpunk: Short Stories from Many Futures (Beyond and Within) Editied By Francesco Verso

Fourteen short stories examining possible near and distant futures set in the aftermath of our

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The Half King by Melissa Landers

Like all second-born daughters, Cerise was given to the Temple at birth and trained for life as a

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