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There’s plenty more titles we couldn’t squeeze in. Jeremy Robert Johnson’s conspiracy thriller THE LOOP (out now, Titan) concerns a sleepy Oregon town where a strange signal sends anyone who hears it into a murderous rage. LadBaby has a similar effect on us. Christina Henry is best known for her riffs on Alice and Peter Pan, but NEAR THE BONE (out now, Titan) is an original tale, featuring a woman living in a mountain shack with her abusive husband, a strange creature in the woods, and three cryptozoologists. Lisa Heathfield’s SUCH PRETTY THINGS (out now, Titan again) is an ambiguously creepy tale of grief, displacement and jealousy, which follows two siblings sent to spend the summer at their aunt and uncle’s remote house in the hills. Honestly, Titan Books, put your feet up and have a rest occasionally, eh? The heroine of Maria Lewis’s feminist fantasy THE ROSE DAUGHTER (out now, Piatkus) centres on the daughter of a forbidden union between an earth elemental and a selkie, who meets a group of rebels who need her help. Heather Walter’s debut MALICE (out now, Del Rey) re-tells Sleeping Beauty as a Sapphic romance in which the princess falls in love with the evil sorceress. Finally, to celebrate the 42nd anniversary of the book’s publication, there’s a kid-friendly new paperback edition of THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY (29 April, Macmillan Children’s), with charming new black and white illustrations by Chris Riddell. Aren’t they nice?