ALSO OUT
As ever, there’s loads more books we couldn’t fit in, starting with two short story collections. The Atlas Six author Olivie Blake’s latest, JANUARIES (17 October, Tor), offers “a fairy tale twist on the timelessness of love, heartbreak, and death”. Meanwhile, Argentine writer Mariana Enriquez’s third collection A SUNNY PLACE FOR SHADY PEOPLE (out now, Granta) delivers bleak, often brutal horror. We called JM Miro’s Ordinary Monsters – a kind of Victorian-era riff on X-Men, centred on children with special abilities – “richly imagined and masterfully executed”; there’s now a follow-up, BRINGER OF DUST (out now, Bloomsbury). AM Shine’s The Watchers was recently turned into a movie by Ishana Night Shyamalan; sequel STAY IN THE LIGHT (10 October, Head Of Zeus). continues the story of his protagonist Mina. Suitable for ages 8-15, DOCTOR WHO: THE ADVENTURES BEFORE (3 October, BBC Children’s) includes eight preludes to TV stories including “Arc Of Infinity” and “Planet Of The Dead”. GODZILLA: THE ENCYCLOPEDIA (out now, Titan Books) explores the powers and anatomy of over 100 kaiju, with illustrations by monster designer Shinji Nishikawa. Tom Salinksy’s RED DWARF: DISCOVERING THE TV SERIES – VOLUME ONE (out now, Pen & Sword) covers the first six series, reviewing all 36 episodes and nitpicking continuity errors and the like.