THE LAST MURDER AT THE END OF THE WORLD by Stuart Turton

THE LAST MURDER AT THE END OF THE WORLD Stuart Turton (stuturton.com) Raven Books (bloomsbury.com) £20.00 Almost a century ago, the world was overrun by a myterious insect-filled fog that killed everyone it touched. The last survivors – 122 villagers and 3 scientists who are treated like gods – can be found on a small […]

CHILDREN OF THE SUN by Beth Lewis

CHILDREN OF THE SUN Beth Lewis (bethlewis.co.uk) Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) £20 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Summer 1982. Following the death of his lover in a horrible car accident, journalist James Morrow has spent months trying to get information about what happened. A tip gives him the name of a woman […]

AFTER DEATH by Dean Koontz

AFTER DEATH Dean Koontz (deankoontz.com) Thomas & Mercer (amazon.com) £19.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Michael Mace is dead. Or at least he was. Now, like Lazarus, he has risen from the dead with a new – and extraordinary – ability. Michael’s plan is to help Nina Dozier, the love interest of […]

CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (nanakwameadjei-brenyah.com) Harvill Secker (penguin.co.uk) £18.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Loretta Thurwar and Hamara “Hurricane Staxx” Stacker are two of the biggest stars in America’s new favourite reality television show, Chain-Gang All-Stars, where prisoners can win their freedom by taking part in a gladiator-like competition where they […]

THE FERRYMAN by Justin Cronin

THE FERRYMAN Justin Cronin (justincroninbooks.com) Orion (orionbooks.co.uk) £22 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop The archipelago of Prospera exists in blissful isolation from the rest of the world, enclosed in a bubble that keeps whatever is going on “out there” away from the utopian lives of those lucky enough to live here. On […]

INFINITY GATE by M. R. Carey

INFINITY GATE M. R. Carey Orbit (orbit-books.co.uk) £18.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop The world is dying, a climate catastrophe doing its best to wipe all vestiges of humanity from the planet. Hadiz Tambuwal is the last person standing at Lagos’ Campus Cross research facility. At the last possible moment, and with […]

MOTHERBRIDGE: SEEDS OF CHANGE by George Mann & Aleta Vidal

MOTHERBRIDGE: SEEDS OF CHANGE George Mann (georgemann.net) Aleta Vidal (behance.net/aletavidal) Dark Horse Comics (darkhorse.com) £16.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Utopia has failed and mankind has retreated to walled enclaves, leaving the remains of the Motherbridge, and the mythical creatures that it spawned, to fend for themselves in the world outside. In […]

THE COLOURS OF DEATH by Patricia Marques

THE COLOURS OF DEATH Patricia Marques Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) £16.99 A man is dead in a stationary train in Lisbon’s Gare do Oriente, apparently having beaten himself to death on the train’s door. When Inspector Isabel Reis arrives on the scene, witnesses claim that he didn’t kill himself voluntarily. The man is Gil dos […]

THE FALL OF KOLI by M. R. Carey

THE FALL OF KOLI (The Rampart Trilogy, Book 3) M. R. Carey Orbit Books (orbitbooks.net) £9.99 And so Koli Faceless – who we’ve known by many names over the course of his tale: Woodsmith, Rampart, Witless – and his friends come to the source of the broadcast claiming to be the Sword of Albion. From […]

An Extract from KID by Sebastian de Souza

KID: A HISTORY OF THE FUTURE SEBASTIAN DE SOUZA ( offlinerpress.com ) OFFLINER PRESS (offlinerpress.com) £9.99 CHAPTER 1 CHAMPAGNE SUPERNOVA I’m definitely coming up. They must be too. The CD in my Walkman skips a little before finding itself again. Liam Gallagher singing about a champagne supernova and being caught beneath a landslide… The Roxi […]