Bookmail! October sale pickups! From Influx Press! They arrived over a week ago but the cats liked sitting on the parcel and it is illegal to move them!

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Fantastic news, this. Nina Allan wins the Prix Médicis étranger for The Good Neighbours.

As if by magic, this review (the Swift one, aka read this everyone) is now online. locusmag.com/review/when-...

Feb 2026 brings a new standalone novel from the Queen of Speculative Fiction: Arthur C. Clarke award-nominated Aliya Whiteley! Here's what @oliverklangmead.bsky.social @manuscriptgal.bsky.social @timjmajor.bsky.social & @catamaroon.bsky.social thought of it! Preorder geni.us/misheardw

15% off all Cloisterfox zines from now until Halloween! We've got stories by Robert Shearman, Ally Wilkes, Malcolm Devlin, and many more. Give one to a child instead of sweets and completely derail their psychological development. www.etsy.com/shop/cloiste...

Half price for Halloween. You Will Grow Into Them, Engines Beneath Us and a whole lot of other excellent Influx paperbacks including Joel Lane, Elizabeth Hand and more.

Half price for Halloween. You Will Grow Into Them, Engines Beneath Us and a whole lot of other excellent Influx paperbacks including Joel Lane, Elizabeth Hand and more.

When There Are Wolves Again is out in the UK today! I wrote something about the book, and keeping going, and some personal stuff I dithered over but, well, it's been A Year. I'm so glad the book is out there and thank you so much to everyone who has supported it 🐺🤍 ejswift.co.uk/2025/10/09/w...

Like Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita? The Lady, The Tiger, and the Girl Who Loved Death weaves together magic, political spectacle, and the power of storytelling in a world where reality and illusion blur dangerously together. Out from @titanbooks.bsky.social now! #DarkFantasy #CircusBooks

Thanks to @argonautbooks.bsky.social for sending M home with this one last month; she inhaled it this evening in the pub with a soundtrack of 90s and 00s Britpop, which was apparently "A++ vibes" for this unsettling little read.

This is absolutely wonderful news.

Gottle of gears. Very happy that this one has had a new lease of life.

💙📚🩸 You will start & finish this in a day. It's equally chilling and heartfelt, immediately grabs you, and has much to say on reality and perception. An incredibly relevant, compelling, and scary book ⬇️

Just putting this here. Again.

These are some of my favorite films and if you love them too, my novel is absolutely made for you! THE LADY, THE TIGER AND THE GIRL WHO LOVED DEATH has all the magic, drama, and political edge you crave🔥 Out from @titanbooks.bsky.social (and thanks to @cathtrechman.bsky.social for the fab edits!)

“At its core, THE LADY, THE TIGER AND THE GIRL WHO LOVED DEATH is a story about stories.” @mondyboy74.bsky.social reviews @manuscriptgal.bsky.social

Life imitating art: Reading about Moscow’s surreal detachment from war while people live in carefully constructed unrealities reminds me why I wrote The Lady, The Tiger and the Girl Who Loved Death—a story about power, illusion, and the lies we tell ourselves www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/w...

Come for the three glorious stories, stay for the exquisite tailoring on the trenchcoat.

Free delivery, though, so that's nice.

Nina Allan on Jonathan Buckley's excellent One Boat: www.ninaallan.co.uk?p=7111

Glorious book, this one.

At the launch of @manuscriptgal.bsky.social ‘s THE LADY, THE TIGER, AND THE GIRL WHO LOVED DEATH! Kris Knees introducing. @angelaslatter.bsky.social and Helen, at Avid Reader

Rant ahoy. Not about the book. I loved the book.

🐅 Join me July 24 at Avid Reader (6:30pm) as Angela Slatter & I dive into The Lady, The Tiger and the Girl Who Loved Death - a dark tale of grief, revenge & the dangerous allure of the circus. Can't wait to share this story! avidreader.com.au/pages/11648-... ✨

We're LIVE! AMA happening now on r/Fantasy! Ask me about Putin's theater director, revenge-plotting tigers, twenty drafts, circus magic, or anything else about The Lady, The Tiger, and the Girl Who Loved Death! www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co... #RedditAMA

📚 Join my Reddit AMA on July 11 at 5pm EST / 8am AEST! Happy to chat about The Lady, The Tiger and the Girl Who Loved Death, the writing process, or anything else on r/Fantasy. Looking forward to your questions! 🎭

🐅 Doing a Reddit AMA about my fantasy novel "The Lady, The Tiger and the Girl Who Loved Death" 📅 July 11th, 5 PM EST 🌍 (July 12th, 8 AM Brisbane time) r/Fantasy Come ask me anything about world-building, writing process-indeed, anything! #FantasyBooks #AMA #WritingCommunity

A few weeks ago, we interviewed the wonderful @manuscriptgal.bsky.social on her newest novel, The Lady, the Tiger and the Girl Who Loved Death. If you do nothing else, buy the book. But also: listen to the interview! It's delightful. Audio and video version right here: skiffyandfanty.com/p...

After years of writing this story close to my heart, The Lady, The Tiger and the Girl Who Loved Death launches Thursday! Join Angela Slatter & me at Avid Reader 6.00pm for circus magic, dark fantasy & hopefully some great conversation. See you there! avidreader.com.au/pages/11648-...

‘Understood and expertly exploited the connection between exterior and interior landscapes like no other.’ – Paul Tremblay All Joel Lane titles currently 30% off in our sale! A perfect time to get acquainted with this master of the weird. Discount code: INFLUXSUMMER25 www.influxpress.com/sale

Our Summer Sale starts today, and is running all week til July 2nd! All titles are 30% off in paperback (+P&P) and eBook. Just use discount code INFLUXSUMMER25 at checkout. www.influxpress.com/sale

Coming soon to Oxford. The excellent Helen Marshall and the brilliant Sarah Brooks talk about their novels with very long titles. The tremendous Chris Sugden will be there and so will I. 17th June, Caper, Magdalen Rd., Oxford. Tickets here: checkout.square.site/merchant/ML2...

TODAY'S THE DAY! The Lady, The Tiger, and the Girl Who Loved Death is officially out in the world! I'm overwhelmed with gratitude for everyone who helped bring this story to life. Time for a gratitude thread... 1/12

The very happiest of book birthday to @manuscriptgal.bsky.social and the incredible THE LADY, THE TIGER AND THE GIRL WHO LOVED DEATH - brilliant, complex, deadly dark and with the sharpest of claws...

Happy book birthday to THE LADY, THE TIGER AND THE GIRL WHO LOVED DEATH by Helen Marshall (@manuscriptgal.bsky.social)! A young woman is seduced by the glamour of the circus and drawn into a dangerous world of violence, cruelty and revenge 🌟 Out now! https://tinyurl.com/yc4r4apu

Engines spotted in the excellent @mostly-books.bsky.social.

Engines in the wild.

Mood.

Mood.

Summer in The Crescent. Engines Beneath Us, surfacing via @influxpress.bsky.social.

Recent Influx releases: ENGINES BENEATH US – Malcolm Devlin COMMEDIA MORTALE – Wayne Holloway DELIVERYWOMAN – Eva wyles LOCAL HAUNTS – Adam Scovell LANDSCAPES – Christine Lai I LOVE YOU SO MUCH IT'S KILLING US BOTH – Mariah Stovall All available now! influxpress.com/shop

'Confirms Devlin’s place at the forefront of Weird fiction.’ — Ginger Nuts of Horror ENGINES BENEATH US by @malcolmdevlin.bsky.social www.influxpress.com/shop/engines...

Resurfacing today, thanks to @influxpress.bsky.social, my back-to-front-folk-horror-but-in-a-town novella, Engines Beneath Us with a new cover by Luke Bird. First published by TTA Press. (And yes, I have been watching too much Play School with the three-year-old.)

A powerful and unsettling novella of how the individual spirit is crushed by the pressure to conform, from a contemporary master of weird fiction... THE ENGINES BENEATH US is out tomorrow from @influxpress.bsky.social! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/engi...

What an extraordinary book this is.

Engines Beneath Us, my upside-down folk-horror-ish novella, resurfaces courtesy of @influxpress.bsky.social, with an absolutely stunning cover by Luke Bird. Read the book my mum described as "quite miserable"!

Her Alberta? YOUR Alberta. You can read my Weird Horror story online, courtesy of @undertow.bsky.social. www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/her-alberta

Complex emotions on learning that even Meta AI's ravenous book stealing bots couldn't be arsed to read my second collection.