PALESTINE - 1: Stories from the Eve of the Nakba Ed. Basma Ghalayini 🗝️📚 📕 Pub. Nov 13 commapress.co.uk/books/palest... 📚 MANCHESTER BOOK LAUNCH 📍 Manchester Museum 📅Dec 3, 2025 Link below 👇🧵

New week at SH, and in Reviews we open with a doozy: @shinjinidey.bsky.social on Paul Kincaid's Colourfields (@briardenebooks.bsky.social). Who doesn't love reading a critic on a critic? So much to pick out in this really productive dialogue. But key: "Kincaid is attempting to apprehend a public."

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I have a new #BookReview today for THE WHITE OCTOPUS HOTEL by Alexandra Bell, which I adored! 📚💙 It’s “a steady, somewhat slow-moving stream of magical realism, star-crossed love, time travel, and reflection on grief and trauma.” aliteraryescape.com/2025/11/10/t...

In the American South, writes Elizabeth Broadbent, "[t]he past is our wound, and the past is our anchor." Here are five Southern Gothic stories that explore generational trauma and inescapable connections to the past.

Fantasycon has set a high bar for encouraging people to the next con. I’ll watch other cons with interest how they respond! *earwormed*

Bookmark of When There Are Wolves Again by E. J. Swift: complete.

The full report on this alleged food crime, now posted at ye olde blogge:

Fantasycon has set a high bar for encouraging people to the next con. I’ll watch other cons with interest how they respond! *earwormed*

New book from me! The sequel to The Executioner's Blade, another fantasy murder mystery full of monsters & intrigue.

I have just had a brilliant time launching a new science fiction convention in Scotland. PictCon1 in Perth, with guest of Honour Francesca Barbini @lunapress.bsky.social was a blast. Join us next year in October 2026. Link below. And do follow the new account!

The BFS and Waterstones Covent Gdn is excited to bring you Kill the Gods: Epic Fantasy Religion on Thursday 13th November at 6pm. Ticket: tinyurl.com/bfswatgod @stewarthotston.com @abeaumontbooks.bsky.social @annasmithspark.bsky.social @justmarvewrites.bsky.social @willwiles.bsky.social

Right UK folks - @justinleeanderson.com and I want to build communities we want to see in the world. We've created a discord whose purpose is to share news with one another, look at who to write to, when to get out and act etc. If you want in, DM me or Justin and we'll sling you an invite

In his semi-regular column on the TV that made us SFFH fans, Gary Couzens revisits Tom’s Midnight Garden, a Carnegie Medal-winning novel that’s had multiple adaptations. britishfantasysociety.org/the-tv-that-...

Review: The Hymn to Dionysus, by Natasha Pulley "To stay sane, we must go mad" @ergative-abs.bsky.social has our review at the NOAF blog www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/revi...

You should do this.

New Book Review: Psychopomp & Circumstance Review: Eden Royce’s Haunting Novel "a beautiful exploration of grief, not as something to be feared, but as a process that connects us to the past " gnofhorror.com/psychopomp-c... @edenroyce.bsky.social

The Whisper of Stars, by @cristinbwilliams.bsky.social (pub by @gollancz.bsky.social) is an ambitious and well layered romantic historical fantasy set in 1920s Russia, a character-driven story full of emotion and humanity. Full thoughts: jamreads.com/reviews/the-... 💙📚

It's about to get proper unhinged over here 🪓🐑

Loved reading the excellent The Salt Oracle by Lorraine Wilson a fascinatingly claustrophobic tale of ethics, hope and kindness - review to come

It's Monday again and today I'm reading What Stalks the Deep by @tkingfisher.com, the conclusion to the Sworn Soldier trilogy and I've Snake-Eater lined up after that What book(s) are you reading this week? 💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR alt text in images please

New review today: A strange little tale for #GermanLitMonth and #NovNov25: Paulus Hochgatterer findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/g...

Good evening Wombie. I'm currently reading the Amazon freebie for this month, the Nightwatcher by Tariq Ashkanani. I'm also listening to the Survivor wants to die at the end by Adam Silvera, another fantastic sobfest in the series.

The Longships by Bengtsson and A Gambling Man by Baldacci. Both very enjoyable.

Evening Womble. Still reading Rawblood by Catriona Ward

Happy Sunday, Womble! Hope you’re recovering well. I just finished Project Hanuman by Stewart Hotston (possibly one of my favorite reads this year so far) and will be getting stuck in to Echoes of the Imperium by Nicholas and Olivia Atwater

One of my all-time time favorite movies. I love it.

Paging the ghost of M. R. James…

Hello! Started reading Jared Pechaček's "The West Passage" on my flight yesterday, and will continue to read it on my flight today.

Did I mention the trees and the dead? As always the Womble will have more for you soon

And last for now!

I have a small (ish) list of books to look at

A small street of lucky people has a dark secret

This week trouble lurks in the leaves

An odd article. I definitely believe readers should be in the mood for a type of story but at some point you need to decide to finish or not - feels more a need to focus the TBR and pick a book www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Afternoon Womble! Currently switching between Realm of Ash by Tasha Suri and dipping back into my Murderbot series comfort reread, where Martha Wells just dropped the banger line, "I guess you can't tell a story from the point of view of something that you don't think has a point of view."

Sue reviews the Mennik Thorn prequel novella Review of the dead Man. I really should get back to this series coz the first one is soooo good!

Good evening, Womble. I don’t like that the nights are drawing in far too quickly. Ugh. Anyway, I decided to dip my toes in the Sun Eater Universe. I can’t cross a road without someone recommending it. Here goes, I guess.

This week's Sunday Summary is up. It contains: 18 books coming out this week-ish 13 books that others have tempted me with Praise for @danhartland.bsky.social's post of The Booker What's been tempting @runalongwomble.bsky.social And two excellent covers I've seen this week.

Good morning, Womble! I am reading the delightful Wreck by Katherine Newman. Just a charming book! A follow-up to her Sandwich, but you don’t have to read that one first.

In case you missed it, I wrote a thing to hopefully help folks not land in the wrong place. Since then, it’s been agent/editor approved more than once. Hah. gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/too-many-s...

Good afternoon ;) I've just started Jodie Matthews' Meet Me at the Surface Looks like it's right up my alley www.waterstones.com/book/meet-me...

One of my all time favourite books, Holdstock’s great classic of British fantasy. Join us to see what Emma made of it!

Hey! Sort of a surprise new story day. @undertow.bsky.social is making my novelette, "Uncertain Sons," (original to the collection) available online for a short time for folks catching up on end-of-year reading. Eligible for most novelette/long fiction categories. Online until end of November!

Good morning Womble! Making my way through Heinlein's The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, that guy sure had a lot of Opinions.

Hi Womble! Hope you're feeling better today. I'm reading "Years Best Weird Fiction Vol. 5" edited by Rob Shearman and Mike Perry.

Hiya Womble! Last night I finished 'Hermit' by Chris McQueer and I've just started 'The Black Flamingo' by Dean Atta.

Hiya Womble. Last week I finished Ian McDonald's The Wilding, which was all the peat bog fun. And right now I'm enjoying Dan Coxon's Unquiet Guests anthology very much.

Just finished Sistersong, by Lucy Holland, and that was top notch storytelling. Now picking a book for yet another train - whistlestop 60-hour work tour of Bristol, Exeter, Plymouth, Reading, and Paddington!