RELENTLESS MELT by Jeremy P. Bushnell

RELENTLESS MELT Jeremy P. Bushnell (jeremypbushnell.com) Melville House Books (mhpbooks.com) £16.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Artie Quick is a 17-year-old Bostonian who wants to know everything there is to know about crime. By day, Artie is a shopgirl in Filene’s department store; by night, she dresses in men’s clothes so she […]

PERILOUS TIMES by Thomas D Lee

PERILOUS TIMES Thomas D Lee (thomasdleewriter.wordpress.com) Orbit (orbit-books.co.uk) £16.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Fabled Knight of the Round Table Sir Kay has been dead for sixteen hundred years. Well, mostly. Thanks to Merlin’s magic Kay and his fellow knights have been buried around the realm in sites guarded by sacred trees. […]

THE BALLAD OF PERILOUS GRAVES by Alex Jennings

THE BALLAD OF PERILOUS GRAVES Alex Jennings (alexjennings.net) Orbit (orbit-books.co.uk) £8.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Perilous “Perry” Graves is a ten-year-old boy who lives off Jackson Avenue in the west of Nola with his extended family. School is out for summer and Perry wants nothing more than to spend it adventuring […]

THE SPIDER DANCE by Nick Setchfield

THE SPIDER DANCE Nick Setchfield (www.nicksetchfield.com) Titan Books (titanbooks.com) £7.99 Christopher Winter, no longer working for British Intelligence, finds himself recruited by London’s gangland. But you’re never really “out” of the security services, as Winter discovers when he is summoned by his old boss. Tasked with getting Alessandra Moltini out of Budapest, Winter quickly realises […]

An Interview with VIC JAMES

Name: VIC JAMES Author of: GILDED CAGE (2017) On the web: http://www.vicjames.co.uk On Twitter: @DrVictoriaJames Vic James is a current affairs TV director who loves stories in all their forms, and Gilded Cage is her debut novel. She has twice judged the Guardian’s Not the Booker Prize, has made films for BBC1, BBC2, and Channel […]

An Interview with ANGELA SLATTER

Name: ANGELA SLATTER Author of: VIGIL (2016) On the web: http://www.angelaslatter.com On Twitter: @AngelaSlatter Angela Slatter is an award-winning short story writer with the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award and five Aurealis Awards to her name. Vigil is her first novel, introducing the world to Verity Fassbinder and the weird (and, indeed, Weyrd) […]

VIGIL by Angela Slatter

VIGIL Angela Slatter (www.angelaslatter.com) Jo Fletcher Books (www.jofletcherbooks.com) £14.99 Verity Fassbinder’s background makes her the perfect peacekeeper in the Australian city of Brisbane. The product of a Normal mother and Weyrd father, Verity has access to both worlds despite her lack of Weyrd attributes. When a siren is murdered on the heels of Verity’s discovery […]

An Interview with ZEN CHO

Name: ZEN CHO Author of: SORCERER TO THE CROWN (2015) On the web: zencho.org On Twitter: @zenaldehyde Zen Cho is a Malaysian writer of SFF and romance. She was born and raised in Selangor, read law at Cambridge, and currently lives in London. Her debut historical fantasy Sorcerer to the Crown is out now in […]

SORCERER TO THE CROWN by Zen Cho

SORCERER TO THE CROWN Zen Cho (zencho.org) Macmillan (www.panmacmillan.com) £16.99 Regency London in a time of magical upheaval. The Sorcerer Royal is dead, his staff passed on to his successor, but his familiar gone. His successor has split opinion within the Royal Society of Unnatural Philosophers: Zacharias Wythe is Sir Stephen’s son in all but […]

THE HOUSE OF SHATTERED WINGS by Aliette de Bodard

THE HOUSE OF SHATTERED WINGS Aliette de Bodard (aliettedebodard.com) Gollancz (www.gollancz.co.uk) £14.99 Whilst searching the ruins of Paris’ Grands Magasins for vital resources, Philippe and his companion come across a newborn Fallen, an Angel ejected from The City and exiled to the mortal plain. Deciding to harvest the Fallen for artefacts that contain powerful magic, […]