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The Memory Bookshop by Song Yu-jeong
Synopsis: Which moment should I go back to? Past regrets unspooled in my mind. All the what-ifs. Jiwon’s life has been slowly disintegrating since her mom died. Until one day, caught in a downpour, she comes across a mysterious bookstore. Uneasy, she turns to leave when a voice calls ‘If you open that door—You can…
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Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta
Synopsis: Myung and Laleh are keepers of the whale of babel. They roam within its cosmic chambers, speak folktales of themselves, and pray to an enigmatic figure they know only as ‘Great Wisa’. To Laleh, this is everything. For Myung, it is not enough. When Myung flees the whale, she stumbles into a new universe…
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The Gods Must Burn by T.R. Moore
Synopsis: Basuin doesn’t know what to believe in anymore. All Basuin knows is life as an army captain and the pain, loss, and disgrace it has brought him. Demoted and humiliated by his legion commander, he is led into the forest for one more mission: capture a god. But when his commander uses innocent wolf…
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Ancient by Luke Barley
Synopsis: Step into the woods, and discover the trees that made Britain Ancient woods are Britain’s richest habitats: rare fragments of our landscape that teem with life from soil to canopy. They live in our collective imagination as quiet places, best left pristine and untouched. But their story has always been one of interdependence with…
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Ragwort by Sam K. Horton
Synopsis: A year on from the loss of Lord Pelagius Hunt of Mirecoombe, new Keeper Nancy Bligh is still struggling. She can banish the spirits and keep peace between the spriggans and piskies, but every time Nancy sleeps, she dreams of drowning. She is haunted by loss, and by whispers from all around of The…
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Lanny by Max Porter
Synopsis: Not far from London, there is a village. This village belongs to the people who live in it and to those who lived in it hundreds of years ago. It belongs to England’s mysterious past and its confounding present. It belongs to families dead for generations, and to those who have only recently moved…
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