The city & the city
£10.99A brilliantly original masterpiece of speculative fiction, fusing weird fiction with the police procedural genre, from one of the world’s most decorated SF writers.
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The last murder at the end of the world
£9.99On a seemingly idyllic island surrounded by the poisonous fog that wiped out the rest of the world, an isolated group of villagers must solve a murder which no one can remember to keep the fog from engulfing them all.
A dazzlingly original murder mystery from the author of the bestselling The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle.
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She’s always hungry
£9.99A teenager longs for perfect skin. A scientist tends to fragile alien flora. A young man takes the night into his own hands. Each of these characters has a desperate desire. Can any of them be sated? Unsettling, revelatory, and laced with her signature dark humour, Eliza Clark’s debut short story collection plumbs the depths of that most basic human feeling: hunger.
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A short history of the apocalypse
£22.00Covering subjects from gangs and government to bunkers and cannibalism, ‘A Short History of the Apocalypse’ is a journey into our impending and doomed future. Guided by Alonso Lamp, a traveller in time, who has returned from the late 21st century to impart to our cursed age his hard-earned wisdom and survival tips to give us some future perspective, Frankie Boyle and Charlie Skelton’s sketching of the end times is full of dark humour and the macabre.
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Gliff
£18.99‘Gliff’ – a Scots or Northern word for a glimpse, a shock, a glance – will not only tell its own story but also contain within it a hidden story, to be revealed only in a second novel, ‘Glyph’ – from the Greek, meaning a mark, carving or symbol – to be published a year later. In form and feeling, ‘Gliff’ will light a new, fabular and fabulist path for Ali Smith and for us through the gathering darkness of our chaotic times.
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The wood at Midwinter
£9.99Nineteen-year-old Merowdis Scott is an unusual girl. She can talk to animals and trees – and she is only ever happy when she is walking in the woods. One snowy afternoon, out with her dogs and Apple the pig, Merowdis encounters a blackbird and a fox. As darkness falls, a strange figure enters in their midst – and the path of her life is changed forever.
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The Woodsmoke women’s book of spells
£16.99Practical Magic meets The Gilmore Girls – a gorgeous autumnal, cosy read
‘Magical and grounding at the same time, otherworldly and natural. I absolutely treasured it from beginning to end.’ Cecilia Ahern, Sunday Times Number One bestseller
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Marigold Mind Laundry
£12.99Welcome to the Marigold Mind Laundry where we wash away the stains from your heart. After young Jieun accidentally misuses her powers, causing her beloved family to vanish, she lives a million restless lives in search of them. Overnight, in the village of Marigold on top of a hill, she conjures up her Mind Laundry, where she cleanses painful experiences from the heart, transferring them into stains on a T-shirt and turning them into dazzling red petals. We meet five wounded souls: a frustrated young filmmaker; a tortured social-media influencer; a distraught mother who has discovered her husband’s other family; a young woman two-timed by her lover, and Yeonghui, a victim of bullying, who works as a delivery man to escape his pain in routine. After washing the pain and ironing their creases, Jieun discovers an astonishing revelation that will change her life.
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Light over Liskeard
£9.99Q wants a simpler and safer life. His work as a quantum cryptographer for the government has led him to believe a crisis is imminent for civilisation and he’s looking for somewhere to ride out what’s ahead. He buys a ruined farmhouse in Cornwall and begins to build his own self-sufficient haven. Over the course of this quest he meets the eccentric characters who already live on the moors nearby – including the park ranger in charge of the reintroduced lynxes and aurochs that roam the area; a holy man waiting for the second coming on top of a nearby hill; an Arthurian knight on horseback and the amorous ghost of an Edwardian woman who haunts the farmhouse. As life in the cities gets more complicated, and our systems of electronic control begin to fall apart, Q flourishes in the wild Cornish countryside.
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Before we forget kindness
£14.99The fifth book in the spectacular Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, with a fresh bunch of customers in a special Tokyo cafe hoping to go back in time.
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The future
£9.99‘Gripping’ MARGARET ATWOOD
‘A fabulous, witty writer on the digital world’ SUNDAY TIMES
‘A little Atwood, a little Gibson, all Alderman, it’s brilliant and I loved it’ LAUREN BEUKES