Our read for May 31st 2023:

‘The Bone Ships’ by R.J. Barker (2019), 512 pages A brilliantly imagined saga of honor, glory, and warfare, The Bone Ships is the epic launch of a new fantasy from David Gemmell Award-nominated RJ Barker. Two nations at war. A prize beyond compare. For generations, the Hundred Isles have built their ships from the bones …

Our read for April 26th 2023:

‘Hyperion’ by Dan Simmons (1989), 500 pages On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time …

Our read for March 29th 2023:

‘The Obelisk Gate’ by N.K. Jemisin (2016), 410 pages This is the way the world ends… for the last time. The season of endings grows darker as civilization fades into the long cold night. Alabaster Tenring – madman, world-crusher, savior – has returned with a mission: to train his successor, Essun, and thus seal the …

Our read for February 22nd 2023:

‘Project Hail Mary’ by Andy Weir (2021), 476 pages Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to …

Our read for January 25th 2023:

‘The Golem and the Djinni’ by Helene Wecker (2013), 484 pages In The Golem and the Jinni, a chance meeting between mythical beings takes readers on a dazzling journey through cultures in turn-of-the-century New York. Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life by a disgraced rabbi who dabbles in dark …

Our read for November 30th 2022:

‘Klara and the Sun’ by Kazuo Ishiguro (2021), 303 pages From the best-selling author of Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day, a stunning new novel—his first since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature—about the wondrous, mysterious nature of the human heart. From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational …

Our read for October 26th 2023:

‘Thirteen Storeys’ by Jonathan Sims (2020), 390 pages You’re cordially invited to dinner. Penthouse access is available via the broken freight elevator. Black tie optional. A dinner party is held in the penthouse of a multimillion-pound development. All the guests are strangers – even to their host, the billionaire owner of the building. None of …

Our read for September 28th 2022:

‘David Mogo, Godhunter’ by Suyi Davies Okungbowa Since the Orisha War that rained thousands of deities down on the streets of Lagos, David Mogo, demigod, scours Eko’s dank underbelly for a living wage as a freelance Godhunter. Despite pulling his biggest feat yet by capturing a high god for a renowned Eko wizard, David knows …