Wooing the Witch Queen by Stephanie Burgis (2025)

Queen Saskia is the wicked sorceress everyone fears. After successfully wrestling the throne from her evil uncle, she only wants one thing: to keep her people safe from the empire next door. For that, she needs to spend more time in her laboratory experimenting with her spells. She definitely doesn’t have time to bring order to her chaotic library of magic. When a mysterious dark wizard arrives at her castle, Saskia hires him as her new librarian on the spot. “Fabian” is sweet and a little nerdy, and his requests seem a little strange – what in the name of Divine Elva is a fountain pen? – but he’s getting the job done. And if he writes her flirtatious poetry and his innocent touch makes her skin singe, well… Little does Saskia know that the “wizard” she’s falling for is actually an Imperial archduke in disguise, with no magical training whatsoever. On the run, with perilous secrets on his trail and a fast growing yearning for the wicked sorceress, he’s in danger from her enemies and her newfound allies, too. When his identity is finally revealed, will their love save or doom each other?

We Could Be Rats by Emily Austin (2025)

A moving story about two very different sisters, and a love letter to childhood, growing up, and the power of imagination—from the bestselling author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead and Interesting Facts About Space. Sigrid hates working at the Dollar Pal but having always resisted the idea of growing up into the trappings of adulthood, she did not graduate high school, preferring to roam the streets of her small town with her best friend Greta, the only person in the world who ever understood her. Her older sister Margit is baffled and frustrated by Sigrid’s inability to conform to the expectations of polite society. But Sigrid’s detachment veils a deeper turmoil and sensitivity. She’s haunted by the pains of her past—from pretending her parents were swamp monsters when they shook the floorboards with their violent arguments to grappling with losing Greta’s friendship to the opioid epidemic ravaging their town. As Margit sets out to understand Sigrid and the secrets she has hidden, both sisters, in their own time and way, discover that reigniting their shared childhood imagination is the only way forward. What unfolds is an unforgettable story of two sisters finding their way back to each other, and a celebration of that transcendent, unshakable bond.

Blonde Who Came in from the Cold by Ally Carter (2025)

Ten years ago, they joined the CIA. Six years ago, he left the game. Five years ago, they fell in love. One year ago, she ran out into the cold with absolutely no intention of ever coming back. And two minutes ago, they woke up, bloody and bruised and handcuffed together in the dark. They don’t know where they are. They don’t know how they got there. And they have absolutely no idea who is after them or what this nameless, faceless villain wants. The only thing that’s clear is that, after ten years of covers and chemistry, secrets and lies, these two rival spies have been sucked into their greatest mission yet, and now they’re going to have to team up to stay alive. (If they don’t kill each other first.)

Future's Edge by Gareth L. Powell (2025)

When archaeologist Ursula Morrow accidently infects herself with an alien parasite, she fears she may have jeopardised her career. However, her concerns become irrelevant when Earth is destroyed, billions die, and suddenly no one needs archaeologists anymore...

The Lie That Binds Them by Matthew Ward (2025)

The Eternity King, Caradan Diar, is dead. But a dread Queen rules in his place and a new age of darkness threatens to overwhelm Khalad. Tyzanta - greatest of the free cities - has fallen to the Queen's armies. Worse, the leader of the rebellion, Bashar Vallant, is missing, presumed dead. What hope remains rests with Katija Arvish and her allies. They alone know the truth behind the secrets that hold Khalad together. They alone can break the realm's shackles and deliver freedom to its people. But to do so they must destroy an ancient god of unimaginable power. In the end, the lie that binds them may be their only salvation. ([Source][1]) [1]: https://store.orbit-books.co.uk/products/the-lie-that-binds-them

Snake's Birthday by Alvin Wellington (2025)

A easy-to-read story about Snake have a little birthday party.

Where We Begin Again by Unknown (2025)

A gripping psychological drama, this novel explores the complexities of identity, the resilience of the human spirit, and the choices that define us.

Nocturnal Melancholia by Angelina Enny (2025)

Nocturnal Melancholia is a spellbinding collection of short stories that quietly illuminates the inner lives of women—tender, raw, absurd, and at times, wonderfully strange. Meet Veronika, who makes peace with death; Madam Jeannette-Ludy, who falls in love through a cat painting; and a mysterious black cat that may carry nine lives—and a single miracle. With poetic warmth and a touch of surreal charm, Angelina Enny captures the quiet drama of everyday life and turns it into something quietly magical. These are stories that will make you smile, ache, and pause to ponder—long after the last page is turned.

Journey to Peridëis by Leo Talberg (2025)

Alisha, a high school graduate without a university place in the gray everyday life of the GDR, gains access to nothing less than paradise. However, the relevant paradise literature proves to be highly incomplete, because in paradise, the deepest, most secret dreams come true—a matter that authorities of all times have condemned as downright immoral. Walling up, boarding up, burying, denying—what hasn’t been done to spoil the sweetness for people? Yet the legends never died. Like Alisha, people kept uncovering hidden pathways to the lost paradise, learning that ecstasy can ignite the body’s desires and freedom can spark the mind with all sorts of forbidden thoughts—sexual, political, or otherwise undesirable. And one more thing: women’s breasts are absolutely not superfluous ornaments boldly displayed upfront. Why? Oh, you’ll have to read it yourself.

The Visitor by Unknown (2025)

He wakes up in a different body. So begins the journey of Ash—short for Pin Asher9919—who awakens on a hospital bed on, he believes, a different planet after an automobile accident took the bodily life of an Earth human named Edward Fleishman. Ash is told he was the victim of a serious brain injury and miraculously recovered from being brain dead in a coma, but Ash feels he knows the truth: his spirit has replaced the distressed spirit of the former Edward Fleishman. And so Ash's new life on earth begins, complete with a spouse who is a stranger to him, a body he is not sure how to use, a world he must learn to navigate, and a government he can't trust. **The Visitor** is a unique blend of science fiction, social commentary, and human drama, with dystopian and literary elements. It explores identity, alienation, social and political conditions, and government overreach in our current society from the viewpoint of an outsider--an alien spirit which has replaced that of a human after an automobile accident--or is he really just a human soul affected by a traumatIc brain injury? For those who love stories like *Stranger in a Strange Land, 1984,* works of Philip K. Dick, and Kashuo Ishiguro’s *Never Let Me Go.*

A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett (2025)

Wild Life by Amanda Leduc (2025)

**Amanda Leduc’s dazzling new novel follows two walking, talking hyenas as they interact with humans over decades. Blurring the line between human and animal, these strange messengers reveal what is possible when the cages that contain us are broken.** In 19th-century Scotland, young Josiah is banished by his father for seeing the divine in the animals around him and sent to Siberia with a small Christian mission to purge such nonsense from his soul. Miserably scrubbing the chapel floor one night, Josiah is visited by what he thinks is God in animal form. When his saviours, a hyena and her mate, rescue him from a natural disaster that kills the other missionaries and then bring him safely home, he founds a religion based on his belief that God granted speech to the hyenas as part of a divine plan to heal and exalt the human race. The hyena pair, Barbara and Kendrith, aren't so sure that Josiah has it right. But with their beautiful strangeness, they utterly transform the people they encounter over succeeding generations. As Josiah's church gathers adherents, more and more animals start to speak to humans—from signing baby gorillas to seductive alligators. At first one or two rebellious pets make a break for freedom, but then comes a mass exodus of all animals held captive, forcing people to contend with a wildness in themselves they have spent millennia denying. The end of this remarkable fairytale is both joyful and devastating, completely dissolving the boundary between what's "human" and what's "animal." (Source: [Penguin Random House Canada](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/551900/wild-life-by-amanda-leduc/9780735272873))

Vallesordo by Jonathan Arribas (2025)

Nico es un niño que vive en un pueblo de Zamora. Juega a polis y cacos con los amigos, va en bici, pasa tiempo con su perra, La Yesi, se aburre y se divierte en el colegio, le duele la barriga, odia a los mastines del pastor, que le ladran sin parar, y le gusta mucho ensayar coreos. Por las tardes, a la hora de la siesta, ve Fama, ¡a bailar! y manda ánimos a Yure, su favorita, que es de Canarias y tiene pelo de leona. Cuando aprende nuevos pasos de baile se los enseña enseguida a sus amigos, Izan y Telma. Nico siente cariño hacia ellos pero también rabia, y enfado, y algo que le da cosquillas y no sabe lo que es. Vallesordo es una novela entrañable con una voz original que nos habla de lo importante que es sentirse comprendido y vivir con ilusión. El brillante debut de un autor llamado a convertirse en uno de los escritores más interesantes de su generación.

L'Acquario di Carne by Unknown (2025)

Nel cuore pulsante della Milano notturna, tra luci stroboscopiche e sogni scintillanti, Asia gestisce la discoteca del suo ex fidanzato Francesco, uno dei locali più esclusivi della città, frequentato da persone facoltose e da chi ruota intorno al mondo della moda. Caterina, moglie di Francesco, ex modella altezzosa e irascibile, è attanagliata da conflitti interiori e grossi problemi psicologici, e sfoga le proprie frustrazioni sui dipendenti del locale, spesso umiliandoli in pubblico. Un tragico evento incanala gli eventi lungo una china pericolosa e inarrestabile. Tra boriosi figli di papà e giovani ragazze disposte a tutto pur di raggiungere la notorietà, tra giornaliste a caccia di scandali e uomini della sicurezza dall'aspetto poco incoraggiante, l'autore indaga nell'animo dei protagonisti al di là delle luci della ribalta, mettendo in evidenza sentimenti e comportamenti solitamente nascosti dall'immagine pubblica. Nessuno è innocente, e al Mediterraneo la verità è la danza più pericolosa di tutte.

판다야 정말 철이 없다 얘야 by Crisando Dester, Deritric Redstar (2025)

판다야 정말 철이 없다 얘야

The Quintet by Michael E. Karpeles (Mek) (2025)

The story of Leina Grey, a young loner who is pushed to unite a group of misfit prodigies, in order to resist a soulless, authoritarian regime called the Red Shepherds, led by their Protector.

Mastery of Monsters by Liselle Sambury (2025)

When August’s brother disappears before his sophomore semester, everyone thinks the stress of college got to him. But August knows her brother would never have left her voluntarily, especially not after their mother so recently went missing. The only clue he left behind was a note telling her to stay safe and protect their remaining family. And after August is attacked by a ten-foot-tall creature with fur and claws, she realizes that her brother might be in more danger than she could have imagined. Unfortunately for her, the only person with a connection to the mysterious creature is the bookish Virgil Hawthorne…and he knows about them because he is one. If he doesn’t find a partner to help control his true nature, he’ll lose his humanity and become a mindless beast—exactly what the secret society he’s grown up in would love to put down. Virgil makes a proposition: August will join his society and partner with him, and in return, he’ll help her find her brother. And so August is plunged into a deadly competition to win one of the few coveted candidate spots, all while trying to accept a frightening reality: that monsters are real, and she has to learn to master them if she’s to have any hope of saving her brother.

The Martian Contingency by Mary Robinette Kowal (2025)

No Man’s Land by Richard K. Morgan (2025)

**A compelling standalone dark fantasy set in a gritty post-WWI Britain which has been overrun by the fae, from the award-winning author of *Altered Carbon*.** The Great War was supposed to be the war to end all wars—and maybe it would have been, had an even greater, otherworldly foe not arisen to extinguish the conflict. Overnight, as guns blazed away in France and Flanders, village after village in the quiet British countryside were swallowed by the Forest. And within the Forest lurk the Huldu—an ancient fae race, monstrous in their inhumanity, who have decided that mankind’s ascendency over the world can endure no longer. Enter Duncan Silver. Scarred by the war, fueled by a rage deeper than the trenches in which he once fought, Duncan is determined to show the Huldu that the world is not theirs for the taking. Armed with a cut-down trench gun filled with iron shot and a deadly iron knife, Duncan will stop at nothing to return the children the Huldu have stolen from the arms of their families. No matter how many Huldu he may have to slaughter along the way. But when he is hired by a mother to return her four-year-old daughter, Miriam—taken by the Huldu six months past and replaced with a Changeling—all hell breaks loose. Miriam is a pawn in a much bigger game for dominance than Duncan ever expected, and several long-buried secrets from his past are about to be violently resurrected. ([Source][1]) [1]: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/117164/no-mans-land-by-richard-k-morgan/

Witchs Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna (2025)

What if love is the best magic of all? An enchanting novel about a witch who has a second chance to get her magic - and her life - back on track, from the author of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches. Sera Swan was once one of the most powerful witches in Britain. Then she resurrected her great-aunt, lost most of her magic, befriended a semi-villainous talking fox, and was exiled from her magical Guild. Now she runs an inn in Lancashire, where she deals with her quirky guests' shenanigans, tries to keep the fox in check, and longs for the magical future she lost. Then she discovers a book that could hold the secret to restoring her power. Trouble is, the only person who can help her is Luke Larsen, the gorgeous historian she had a one-night stand with years ago - and hasn't spoken to since. As Luke and Sera work together to reclaim her lost power, Sera starts to realise that love - and the family she's made - could be the best magic of all.