I would like to thank the author for a copy of this novella in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher – Lethe Press Published – Out Now Price – £8.27 paperback £3.00 ebook The latest novella by Nebula finalist Jordan Kurella (I Never Liked You Anyway) is a moving allegorical tale. As mankind continues to hurt the planet, leaving us with scarred lands, stories like The Death of Mountains are more meaningful than ever. When the Death of Mountains came for us, we had been aching...| Runalong The Shelves
Hellooo! Something different watch out for on the blog. I and a few other bloggers will be talking about a new book coming out from Jelena Dunato - Love Lethal, Divine Death coming out via Dark Matter Ink 7th April 2026! We will be called The Diviners! Love Lethal, Divine Death is a dark fantasy inspired by Slavic folklore in which a young huntswoman is hurled back in the past to save her dead husband from his treacherous first wife, only to realise her interfering will cause a bloody war and...| Runalong The Shelves
I would like to thank PS Publishing for a copy of this collection in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher – PS Publishing Published – Out Now Price – £14.99 paperback A middle-aged hitwoman goes on the run from the Israeli mob; a boy on a South Pacific island searches for a missing cat and uncovers dark secrets; an ageing bagman has to recover a package across one violent night, no matter the cost; an informer must uncover the heist of a lifetime on the fringes of the Roman ...| Runalong The Shelves
I would like to thank Ghost Orchid Press for an advance copy of this novella in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher – Ghost Orchid Press Published – 23/10 Price – £9.64 paperback £2.99 ebook After her boat capsizes, Nine-year old Nefele is washed up on the Floating Forest, an infamous mythical prison-island, holding onto her father's corpse and with little chance to survive in the wild. It appears miraculous that a herd of native elks guide her to a tree house, filled with...| Runalong The Shelves
Hellooo! Welcome to the weekend! Been a busy week on all fronts! I pleasingly actually got out on a school night to a book event in Liverpool. Dead Ink books had the launch of Writing The Magic edited by Dan Coxon and Richard V Hirst. The latest in a great series of books where writers delve into why and how they write in a genre. Expect a review soon! As you read this I should be enjoying a day out to a great UK con called Edge-lit in Derby! As always Wombling Along is not just me telling yo...| Runalong The Shelves
Publisher – Luna Press Publishing Published – Out Now Price – £13.57 paperback £4.99 ebook If the Stars Are Lit is a speculative mystery exploring the implications of AI, memory, and loss. When the starship ferrying her to Earth is gutted by an explosion, Joss Carsten is left alone and adrift, struggling to reestablish contact with humanity. But her health is fading fast, and her isolation is triggering painful hallucinations of Alice, her long-estranged wife. In an act of self-preser...| Runalong The Shelves
I would like to thank the author and Undertow Publications for an advance copy of this collection in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher – Undertow Publications Published – Out Now Price – £15.99 paperback £7.12 ebook Uncertain Sons is a startling and masterful collection exploring familial love and trauma; societal and technological anxieties; identity and class; and alternate near-future irrealities. Sharp, incisive, imaginative, and visionary, Thomas Ha's debut heralds ...| Runalong The Shelves
Publisher – Solaris Published – Out Now Price – £9.99 paperback £5.99 ebook Some stories take more than one lifetime to tell. There are wrongs that echo through the ages, friendships that outpace the claws of death, loves that leave their mark on civilization, and promises that nothing can break. This is one such story. Annelid and Leveret met as children in the middle of the Sri Lankan civil war. They found each other in a torn-up nation, peering through propaganda to grasp a deeper ...| Runalong The Shelves
I would like to thank Nefarious Bat Press for a copy of this novella in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher – Nefarious Bat Press Published – Out Now Price – £7.99 paperback £2.99 ebook There's something very wrong in Thurstrop Wood. Mark Warner never noticed it before. He's there to get away from his life, his ailing mother. Out of his head. Not to think about anything. Birds sing in the wood. But their rhythms seem wrong somehow. Insects crawl and nest, but not where you...| Runalong The Shelves
Hellooo! It has been A WEEK of day job that has meant I’ve not had much time to do things that haven’t enjoyed fun words like spreadsheets, workshops and data files. I hope you avoided this! A quiet relaxing weekend beckons and I hope you have one too! Next weekend I’m at Edge-Lit and hope to see a few of you there. As always Wombling Along is the reviews and other articles that grabbed my attention this week as I’ve not been that online (for a change) It may be a little short but I...| Runalong The Shelves
Publisher - NewCon press Published – Out Now Price – £14.99 paperback £4.99 ebook In 1816, Elizabeth's life had been carefully planned for her. A home, a family, a life that she was trained to fill... and had never questioned if she wanted, until the future she expected was stolen from her. In the present day, Heck's hopes and dreams have been destroyed, the life she was fighting for gone in an instant. Amid the devastation of her plans, she's determined to fight for her dreams. Drawn t...| Runalong The Shelves
I would like to thank Titan for an advance copy of this anthology in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher – Titan Published – Out Now Price – £9.99 paperback £6.99 eBook British Fantasy and Bram Stoker-nominated author Gemma Amor brings together a unique line-up of 14 authors| Runalong The Shelves
I would like to thank Titan for an advance copy of this collection in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher- Titan Published – 6/9 Price – £17.99 hardback £5.59 Kindle eBook Three dark and disturbing horror stories from an astonishing new voice, including the viral-sensation t| Runalong The Shelves
I would like to thank the author and Random Things Tours for an advance copy of this novel in exchange for a fair and honest review Published – Out Now Price – £10.99 paperback £0.99p ebook London 1881. Can two crooked women stop a murder? Extravagant medium Mrs Ashton and her lover, blunt working-class Mrs Bradshaw, run a spiritualist scam. Mrs Ashton secretly reads minds. Grieving Lady Violet craves the truth behind her mother’s untimely death. But Lady Violet’s powerful husband S...| Runalong The Shelves
Helloooo! I hope the return to school, work, this universe has not been too much of a shock for the system and don’t forget if summer ends that just means Halloween is nearer! Welcome to this week’s Wombling Along the weekly weekend supplement to the blog experiment. Here I share tempting reviews and articles that I came across in the week I thought I’d like to share. No one is online all the time so let’s try and beat the algorithms! Reviews First up the team at Skiffy and Fanty made...| Runalong The Shelves
I would like to thank Arcadia for an advance copy of this novel in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher – Arcadia Published – Out Now Price – £20 hardback £7.99 ebook Back then, when I was a young woman, there were still witches': that was how Nana Alba always began the stories she told her great-granddaughter Minerva - stories that have stayed with Minerva all her life. Perhaps that's why Minerva has become a graduate student focused on the history of horror literature and...| Runalong The Shelves
Publisher – Dead Ink Published – Out Now Price – £10.99 paperback £4.79 ebook There's been a murder... From the macabre tales of Edgar Allan Poe through to the locked-room mysteries of the Golden Age, to the many faces of modern crime fiction and the explosion of true crime, writers have always explored the most taboo of human transgressions: the taking of a life. What is it about murder that has fascinated us for so long? And what is it about crimes of this nature that make for such ...| Runalong The Shelves
I would like to thank PS Publishing for a copy of this collection in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher – PS Publishing Published – Out Now Price – £14.99 paperback With beautiful silhouette illustrations by the amazing multiple World Fantasy Award nominee Kathleen Jennings, Black-Winged Angels collects the nine reworked/reloaded fairytales for adult readers and the story “Flight” from the original 2014 Ticonderoga Publications edition. In addition, this edition includ...| Runalong The Shelves
Hellooo! I hope you got to enjoy the UK Bank Holiday and if not I hope you get one soon! A little mini break was had and relaxation happened - I recommend that it apparently does work! This is The Experiment what I wombled along on the internet and thought worth sharing! No one is online all the time so the idea here is let’s share the stuff we enjoy without worrying about the algorithm or being permanently online! Reviews Starting with The Bookwyrm’s Hoard and their love for one of my fa...| Runalong The Shelves
Publisher – Solaris Published – Out Now Price – £25 hardback £7.99 ebook The Gods have returned to the world. Amri was a Rabbit, one of a tribe of survivors scratching out an existence in the blasted landscape of a shattered, poisoned world. The Seagull fight, the Pigeon trade and the Cockroach scavenge, but the Rabbit had one rule: If you want to see tomorrow, you run. But they didn’t run fast enough when a weapon fell from the sky and consumed their home, and now Amri is alone, in...| Runalong The Shelves
I would like to thank Orbit for an advance copy of this novel in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher - Orbit Published - Out Now Price - £22 hardback £12.99 ebook A tsunami and a dragon's wish have wrought changes upon the city of Tiankawi that have never been seen before. But shared experiences have not healed the rift between the city's fathomfolk and human citizens, and scars from years of oppression still remain. Mira, a half-siren and activist, fights politicians and her ow...| Runalong The Shelves
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I would like to thank the author and PS Publishing for an advance copy of this novella in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher – Absinthe Books Published – available to order via https://pspublishing.co.uk/for-the-road-hardcover-by-stark-holborn-6606-p.asp Price – from £1| Runalong The Shelves
I would like to thank the author for a copy of this novel in exchange for a fair and honest review Published – Out Now Price – £4.99 ebook A dame walks into a detective’s office and asks him to find a missing girl. A familiar setup. You might have seen it before. Or maybe not. Because th| Runalong The Shelves
Publisher - Fiyah Literary Magazine Price - $3.99 via https://fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/2025-issues/fiyah-34/ For this trip into the world of short fiction I really enjoyed the collection of tales in the latest edition of Fiyah Magazine. Moonrise by Bethany C Morrow - the opening tale| Runalong The Shelves
I would like to thank Tor UK and Black Crow PR for an advance copy of this novel on exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher - Tor Published - Out Now Price - £16.99 hardback £7.99 Kindle eBook Revolutionary France is no place to be, especially for aristocrat vampires facing the g| Runalong The Shelves
