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Wednesday 27th March 2024
Binti (2015) by Nnedi Okorafor Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza...


Wednesday 24th April 2024
The Stranger Times (2021) by C.K. McDonnell There are dark forces at work in our world (and in Manchester in particular), so thank God...


Wednesday 28th May 2024
Five Minds (2021) by Guy Morpuss The Earth's growing population has finally been controlled. Lifespans are limited to eighty years,...


Wednesday 26th June 2024
Translation State (2023) by Anne Leckie The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a...


Wednesday 28th June 2023
Treacle Walker (2021) by Alan Garner, 160 pages Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the...


Wednesday 26th July 2023
Galactic North (2006) by Alistair Reynolds, 352 pages Galactic North is a collection of science fiction short stories by British author...


Wednesday 30th August 2023
Nine Princes in Amber (1970) by Roger Zelazny, 175 pages Amber, the one real world, wherein all others, including our own Earth, are but...


Wednesday 27th September 2023
How High We Go in the Dark (2022) by Sequoia Nagamatsu, 304 pages Siberia, 2031. After a virus, unearthed from melting permafrost,...


Wednesday 25th October 2023
Dawn (1997) by Octavia Butler, 256 pages One woman is called upon to rebuild the future of humankind after a nuclear war, in this...


Wednesday 29th November 2023
Sea Of Tranquility (2023) by Emily St John Mandel, 255 pages A novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from...


Wednesday 31st May 2023
Bone Ships by R.J. Barker, 496pp For generations, the Hundred Isles have built their ships from the bones of ancient dragons to fight an...


Wednesday 26th April 2023
Hyperion by Dan Simmons, 480pp. A stunning tour de force filled with transcendent awe and wonder, Hyperion is a masterwork of science...


Wednesday 29th March 2023
The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemasin 448 pages The season of endings grows darker, as civilization fades into the long cold night. For Essun...


Wednesday 25th January 2023
The Golem and the Djinni by Helene Wecker In the Polish town of Konin at the end of the 19th century, a corrupt kabbalist named Yehudah...


Wednesday 30th November 2022
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro 352pp From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational...


Wednesday 26th October 2022
Thirteen Stories by Jonathan Sims 400pp A dinner party is held in the penthouse of a multimillion-pound development. All the guests are...
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