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‘Oh, the horror!’ wails a student damned to the first circle of R. F. Kuang’s hell. ‘Oh, to not be clever!’ Katabasis (2025)traces a Cambridge postgraduate’s journey…
It was only two days ago that Alma met her father, Lord Zander Avera, vessel of a god. An illegitimate child, Alma grew up in her mother’s…
The second book in a series always has a certain amount of pressure and expectations associated with it, particularly when the first has been a Sunday Times…
Anne Hoffman was minding her grandfather’s second-hand bookshop when a noise from within the many out-of-sight aisles captures her attention, for none had entered the bookshop. There…
There are stories that stay with us, floating around our subconscious, half-remembered from childhood. And there are also stories that make us. Asimov is like that for…
A Harvest of Hearts is set in a fantastical kingdom where magic is fuelled by people’s hearts. These are stolen from helpless citizens who fall head over…
In less than a year Talasyn has gone from an orphaned soldier of the hurricane wars with a tenuous grasp on her own magic, to heir of…
From killing gods and plotting the downfall of the king, Kissen and Elo must now work with these same enemies to defend Middren against an enemy bigger…
Prince Ashoka Maura is the second son of Emperor Adil and differs from his father in every way. He is diplomatic where his father is powerful, gentle…
The Bell Witches marks a turn to a new genre by Lindsey Kelk, who is well known for her “chick lit†titles. I absolutely loved I Heart…