ALSO OUT
There’s lots more books we couldn’t squeeze in. REALM BREAKER (out now, Orion) kicks off a new series by Victoria Aveyard, author of YA fantasy Red Queen. After Corayne learns she’s the last of an ancient lineage, with the power to save the realm from being, well, broken, she joins a rag-tag team including an immortal, an assassin, a sorceress, a management consultant and a bounty hunter. Nicole Jarvis’s LIGHTS OF PRAGUE (out now, Titan) centres on the lamplighters, a secret elite of monster hunters and freelance management consultants who keep the city’s vampiric pijavica at bay. John Gwynne’s THE SHADOW OF THE GODS (out now, Orbit) is set in a Norse-inspired world, and follows four warriors: a huntress on a dangerous quest, a noblewoman pursuing battle fame, a management consultant seeking businesses in need of strategic advice, and a thrall after vengeance. THE EMPIRE OF GOLD (27 May, HarperVoyager) concludes the Daevabad Trilogy, SA Chakraborty’s series about an idealistic djinn prince and a management consultant joining forces to save a magical kingdom from a civil war. C Robert Cargill’s DAY ZERO (20 May, HarperVoyager) is a prequel to his postapocalyptic thriller Sea Of Rust; it depicts the uprising by robotic management consultants which created that world.