When Margot isn't at school, Mama and Margot spend quiet days together in their cottage, waiting for strangers to knock on their door. Strays, Mama calls them. She feeds them wine, keeps them warm. Then she satisfies her burning appetite by picking apart their bodies. But Mama's want is stronger [...]
by Naomi It feels like it's been here for a while, but today it is official: fall has begun! 'Tis the season to get cozy on your couch, wrapped up in a blanket, with a cup of tea at your elbow and a good book in your hands. You can listen [...]
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due Winner of the 2024 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel and Winner of the 2024 Shirley Jackson Award for Novel. A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he’s sent to a segregated reform school that is a [...]
by Jilles What makes a book scary? Is it when you’re reading in bed and are afraid to turn off the light? When you wake up at night, sure that the monster you read about before bed is in your closet? Or maybe it’s reading while the sun is shining and [...]
Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica It all happened so quickly. First, animals became infected with the virus and their meat became poisonous. Then governments initiated the Transition. Now, 'special meat' – human meat – is legal. Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—only no one calls them [...]
by Sophie ABC's 100 Top Tips, part 2: Eggers – Jemisin To celebrate our birthday this year (officially on 21 April, but we're celebrating it on the weekend of 12 and 13 April) we decided to ask all of the ABC staff what their most memorable books were of the past [...]
by Sophie ABC's 100 Top Tips, part 1: Abercrombie – Dunstall To celebrate our birthday this year (officially on 21 April, but we're celebrating it on the weekend of 12 and 13 April) we decided to ask all of the ABC staff what their most memorable books were of the past [...]
The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling When Gyre Price lied her way into this expedition, she thought she’d be mapping mineral deposits, and that her biggest problems would be cave collapses and gear malfunctions. She also thought that the fat paycheck – enough to get her off-planet and on the [...]
by Sophie March is traditionally a month that features particularly many new fiction releases. We've rounded up 12 books being published in March – and 1 in April – that we are very excited about. Some of them are eagerly anticipated by many folks, others just by us, really, but we [...]
The Innocent series by Shin-ichi Sakamoto, translated by Michael Gombos This series was originally published as a nine-issue manga series and has been published in English in 3 bind-ups: Innocent 1, Innocent 2 and Innocent 3. Blood, death, and duty—the title bequeathed to the heir of the royal executioner becomes [...]
