ALSO OUT
There’s plenty more books that we couldn’t fit in. David Zindell’s THE REMEMBRANCER’S TALE (out now, HarperVoyager) returns to the universe of his 1988 novel Neverness. It concerns the Lord Remembrancer of the Order of Mystic Mathematicians, whose beloved died at the end of a stellar war… or did she survive, robbed of her identity by a memory virus? Expect weird Lovecraftian/ Cronenbergian body horror from Lucy A Snyder’s SISTER, MAIDEN, MONSTER (out now, Titan). It follows three women with intertwining fates, in a world where humanity’s being radically altered by a virus: some now have to eat brains to survive, for example. Your protagonists include a sex worker turned cannibal serial killer. Less likely to make you lose your lunch: JJA Harwood’s THE THORNS REMAIN (out now, Magpie). Set in a Highland village in 1919, it centres on a young woman who enters into a bargain with a Lord of the Fae after her friends are spirited away. Samantha Shannon returns to the world of 2019’s The Priory Of The Orange Tree with A DAY OF FALLEN NIGHT (28 February, Bloomsbury). This epic, 880-page prequel (set five centuries before the first book) charts the events of four years, through four narrators. When the Dreadmount volcano explodes with dragons, they must find the strength to protect humanity. Finally, Sir Konrad Vonvalt – atravelling investigator/judge who can talk to the dead – returns in Richard Swan’s THE TYRANNY OF FAITH (out now, Orbit), the sequel to Justice Of Kings.