SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY
Canongate, 4th July, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781805301691 Set in a time of acute climate crisis, this a powerful story about the devastating repercussions when ambition and principle collide.
Alexis Hall Mortal Follies Gollancz, 30th May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781399616454 If you have ever wanted your regularly Bridgerton binge just a little, or a lot, more queer with a little, or a lot, more magic then look no further.
Alexis Hall Confounding Oaths Gollancz, 9th July, hb, eb, £20, 9781399616485 Standalone story set in the spellbinding world of Mortal Follies, a witty Regency romantasy.
Emily Hamilton The Stars Too Fondly Gollancz, 11th June, hb, eb, £20, 9781399613767 When a group of post- grad students accidentally launch a decommissioned rocket they only have each other and the ship’s mysterious AI to rely on to get them home.
Paul E Hardisty The Descent Orendas, 15th February, pb, b, £9.99, 9781916788039 A young man and his family set out on a perilous voyage across a devastated planet to uncover the origin of the events that caused the cataclysmic climate emergency.
Deborah Harkness The Black Bird Oracle Headline, 23rd May, hb, £25, 9781035410163 From Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author comes long-awaited novel in All Souls series.
Markus Heitz Return of the Dwarves Book 1 Jo Fletcher, 9th May, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781529424867 Fantasy’s favourite folk plunge into their sixth adventure.
Jane Hennigan Toxxic Angry Robot, 12th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781915202710 Forty years earlier, the world changed. Men became crazed killers and threatened all humanity. Now the world might be about to change again, but will it be for the better?
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Brian Herbert, Kevin J Anderson Sands of Dune Gollancz, 14th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781399606035 Collected for the first time, these three previously unpublished novellas shine a light upon the Dune universe.
Emma Hinds The Knowing Bedford Square, 4th July, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781915798145 Beautiful, intoxicating and full of suspense, The Knowing is a story of love and obsession, betrayal and retribution, and how women survive and weaponise trauma.
Kate Hodges The Wayward Sisters Hodder, 4th July, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529371543 Enthralling novel of reclaimed power and rediscovered passion for fans of The Familiars and Pandora.
Lucy Holland Song of the Huntress Macmillan, 21st March, hb, eb, £22, 9781529077407 From the author of Sistersong comes a standalone, feminist fantasy set amidst the legends and beauty of ancient Cornwall.
TL Huchu The Mystery At Dunvegan Castle Tor, 14th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529097740 Third instalment in Huchu’s spellbinding Edinburgh Nights series follows The Library of the Dead and Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments.
Maiya Ibrahim Spice Road Hodderscape, 7th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781399702065 First book in epic fantasy series set in an Arabia- inspired land of secret spice magic.
Sarah K Jackson Not Alone Picador, 28th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529089622 Set in contemporary Britain, Not Alone tells the story of Katie and Harry, a mother and son fighting for survival in a world devastated by a toxic storm.
NN Jehangir Sektor 47 Book Guild, 28th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781916668676 Saída Abbas lives in a galaxy controlled by the sinister Grand Design. She has spent years pursuing a single goal: rescuing her uncle from
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their home planet of Sektor 47.
Simon Jimenez The Spear Cuts Through Water Solaris, 14th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781837861873 Two warriors shepherd an ancient god across a broken land to end the tyrannical reign of a royal family. British Fantasy Award winner.
Doug Johnstone The Collapsing Wave Orenda, 14th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781916788053 Ava, Lennox and Heather make contact with alien Sandy and head for a profound confrontation. Life-affirming sequel to The Space Between Us, as seen on Between the Covers, and the second in the Enceladons trilogy.
Sophie Kim The God and the Gumiho Hodderscape, 4th June, hb, eb, £20, 9781399716956 A fallen trickster god must pair up with a coffee- slinging, shapeshifting fox to track down a demon of darkness before it devours the mortal world.
SERIES
Green Creek TJ Klune Tor, 9781035002 Packed with werewolves, magic and an electric romance. 2: Ravensong 4th July, pb, eb, £9.99, 191 3: Heartsong 1st February, hb, eb, £22, 214
TJ Klune In the Lives of Puppets Tor, 14th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529088045 Queer retelling of the Pinocchio story.
Myriam Lacroix How It Works Out Jonathan Cape, 6th June, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781787334922 Runs a relationship through a sequence of increasingly disturbing hypotheticals to ask how things might have played out between the protagonists if things were different.
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Dragon Scales LR Lam Hodderscape, 97813997155 Epic fantasy trilogy about banished dragons from a top author. 1: Dragonfall 9th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 22 2: Emberclaw 7th May, hb, eb, £20, 39
Shauna Lawless The Words of Kings and Prophets
Head of Zeus, 6th June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781803282695 Sequel to the critically acclaimed The Children of Gods and Fighting Men, a powerful, historical fantasy.
Yoon Ha Lee Moonstorm Solaris, 6th June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781837861484 Hwa is a talented lancer pilot for the Empire when she discovers her next mission is to destroy her home planet—where her mother is still alive on it.
Vanessa Len Never a Hero Hodderscape, 4th June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529380156 Not every fight is won by heroes. Sometimes, you need a monster. Big sequel to Only a Monster.
Judy I Lin
Song of the Six Realms Titan, 23rd April, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781835410134 Filled with rich imagery and delicate poetry, this melodic tale inspired by Chinese mythology and Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca uncover the dark past of the celestials.
Kelly Link The Book of Love Head of Zeus, 8th February, hb, eb, £22, 9781804548455 Supernatural beings and chaos descend on the small seaside town of Lovesend, Massachusetts, in the wake of the unexpected return of three missing teenagers.
Rosalie M Lin Daughter of Calamity Tor, 18th June, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781035011261 Atmospheric and accessible fantasy novel set in Jazz Age Shanghai. Glamour, gods and gangsters.
James Logan The Silverblood Promise Jo Fletcher, 25th April, hb, eb, £20, 9781529432824 First in an extraordinary fantasy saga that will draw fans of Nicholas Eames and James Islington.
HM Long The Winter Sea: Black Tide Son Titan, 9th July, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781803362625 Swashbuckling adventure on the high seas, full of magic, betrayal, redemption and fearsome women.
Karen Lord The Best of All Possible Worlds
PH Low These Deathless Shores Angry Robot, 9th July, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781915998095 Exciting, genderbent Peter Pan origin story told from the perspective of Captain Hook. For fans of Jade City by Fonda Lee.
Sarah J Maas Crescent City Bloomsbury, 11th June, boxed pack, £68, 9781526670922 Beautiful, hardcover box set collects all three books in the series.
Sangu Mandanna A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping Hodderscape, 2nd April, hb, eb, £20, 9781399709903 Enchanting novel about a witch who has a second chance to get her magic— and her life—back on track.
Sunya Mara The Lightstruck Hodderscape, 19th July, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529355543 Vesper and Dalca face their fiercest battle yet to save their besieged city from the Great King and his army in the breathless conclusion to this duology.
Garth Marenghi Incarcerat Coronet, 25th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781399721929 Marenghi back with volume two of his TerrorTome.
Lloyd Markham Fox Bites Parthian, 4th April, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781914595172 Set in Zimbabwe during the early noughties
Gollancz, 15th February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781399618915 Engrossing picaresque, love story and a moving character study. “Lord is on a par with Ursula K Le Guin”—The Guardian.
Karen Lord The Galaxy Game Gollancz, 25th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781399618946 “’A smart science fictional fable as inventive and involving as it is finally vital”—TorDotCom.
amidst a backdrop of political turmoil, Fox Bites is a dark, coming-of-age fantasy about pain, loneliness and stepping back from the abyss.
Vianne Max Pariah Cranthorpe Millner, 30th July, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781803782195 Isabella must marry a member of the high-born Gentry or be sent to the slave pits. Instead, she chooses Bryant Lathorne, who is not quite human and a pariah in the Citadel.
Vonda N McIntyre Little Sisters and Other Stories Goldsmiths, Unversity of London, 23rd April, pb, £27, 9781915983077 Selected tales by one of the most acclaimed voices in postwar US American science fiction.
Melissa McTernan A Curse of Blood and Wolves One More Chapter, 11th April, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780008670795 Steamy reimagining of “Little Red Riding Hood”. Perfect for romantasy readers and lovers of SmutTok.
Premee Mohamed The Butcher of the Forest Titan, 27th February, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781803368726 Merciless tyrant forces ordinary woman to rescue his children from a malevolent magical wood in this eerie, twisted fable.
Premee Mohamed The Siege of Burning Grass Solaris, 14th March, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781837860463 Antiwar activist Alefret was bombed and maimed by his own government. Now, it is offering him his freedom—if he provokes the enemy’s population into an uprising against their rulers.
Gourav Mohanty Sons of Darkness Head of Zeus, 4th July, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781035900251 The House of the Dragon meets Succession in grim fantasy reimagining of the ancient Indian epic Mahabharata.
Meredith Mooring Redsight Solaris, 29th February, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781786189387 #OwnVoices, sapphic science fantasy début following a blind priestess with the power to
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