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There’s plenty more titles we couldn’t fit in. Juhani Karila’s SUMMER FISHING IN LAPLAND (out now, Pushkin Press) concerns a woman visiting her remote family farm; she has three days to catch the pike in a pond, or she and the love of her life will die! Blending fantasy, thriller, romance and comedy, it also includes magical creatures from Finnish mythology. After an ebook debut, books one and two of Leia Stone’s YA quadrilogy Kings Of Avalier have now come to paperback: THE LAST DRAGON KING and THE BROKEN ELF KING (out now, HQ). This fantasy romance centres on the relationship between Drae, a widower Dragon King, and Arwen, an 18-year-old suitably magical to produce the heir that can save his line. Described as “the love child of JG Ballard and Ursula K Le Guin”, Nick Hunt’s debut RED SMOKING MIRROR (out now, Swift) is set in 16th century Mexico. In this alternate history, the Reconquista (where Christian forces ended Muslim rule in what’s now southern Spain) didn’t happen, and the first ships that crossed the Atlantic were crewed by Moors, not Spaniards. Samira Ahmed is one of the editors of teen anthology MAGIC HAS NO BORDERS (out now, HarperCollins), which sees ancient tales featuring folkloric beings like chudails, peris and jinn reimagined by 14 authors from the South Asian diaspora. Finally, coffee table book MINIATURE MARVELS (July, Telos) celebrates artist James E McConnell, whose work graced the covers of Western, crime and romance pulps, as well as sci-fi novels like Edgar Rice Burroughs’s John Carter books.