REISSUES
Pick of the paperbacks this issue: THE BOOK OF SAND (★★★★★ , 4 August, Penguin), by Theo Clare – a nom de plume for Clare Dunkel, best known for her crime fiction as Mo Hayder, and who sadly died last year. It has two strands: one centres on a group living in a hostile desert in fear of predatory beings; the other a Washington, DC teenager with an uncanny ability to predict the weather. We said: “A wild head trip that freely mingles the fantastic with the scientific… A work of irresistibly compelling storytelling and prodigious imagination.” Grady Hendrix’s latest,