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
Hellooo! Barry Nugent is a great author, quite varied and I really enjoyed their novel Trail of the Cursed Cobras by Barry Nugent which while perfect for young middle grade readers is also for geeks and those of us who grew up in the 80s. There we meet in 1982’s London five young schoolchildren p| Runalong The Shelves
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Hellooo! I hope you had a good week and avoided being slightly overloaded with work! Not been online as much this week but the experiment continues for round three- who knows it may eventually be permanent! Awards I thanks to the stuff that was going on in life earlier in the year didn’t have time for Hugo Awards but they took place and here are the winner - Congratulations to them all. https://locusmag.com/2025/08/hugo-lodestar-and-astounding-awards-winners-2/?utm_source=intergalacticmixta...| Runalong The Shelves
I would like to thank the authors for an advance copy of this book in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher- Forty-Five Limited Published - Out now Price - £10.99 paperback £3.99 ebook Murder has come to the city of Tronte... Holtar didn’t become a necromancer for the prestige—he did it because talking to the dead is marginally easier than dealing with the living. Unfortunately, his latest case has given him a fresh problem: the corpses aren’t talking. No last words. No cryp...| Runalong The Shelves
Publisher – Orbit Published – Out Now Price – £20 hardback £9.99 ebook Dr Walden is the Director of Magic at Chetwood School and one of the most powerful magicians in England. Her days consist of meetings, teaching A-Level Invocation to four talented, chaotic sixth formers, more meetings and securing the school's boundaries from demonic incursions. Walden is good at her job - no, Walden is great at her job. But demons are masters of manipulation. It's her responsibility to keep her sc...| Runalong The Shelves
Hellooo! A trip into the land of podcasts today with a great of episodes served up by the Pseudopod - it’s a big foot! It’s also a great listen Ep 983 Grave Worms by Molly Tanzer. Narrated by The Word Whore and Preston Buttons. Hosted by Kat Day I really liked this weird horror tale. It’s in dialogue with Robert Chamber’s King In Yellow - which I’ve not read despite that I just found it quite a fascinating story. It focused on a confident Dosha a business woman who finds herself com...| Runalong The Shelves
Hellooo! Hope you’ve been ok this week and avoided overheating in the UK sunshine. Let’s just say it was indescribable being back at work after a holiday! But reading is happening and that is always the important thing! The experiment appears to be working and people are enjoying the wombling. Also I’m finishing it useful too! If this is your first time the idea is to highlight things I saw online in the world of blogging that were interesting this week and I hope you find it informativ...| Runalong The Shelves
Publisher - Tor Published - hardback £4/9 Out Now in ebook Price - £14.99 hardback £9.99 ebook You don’t have to eat food to know the way to a city’s heart is through its stomach. So when a group of deactivated robots come back online in an abandoned ghost kitchen, they decide to make their own way doing what they know: making food―the tastiest hand-pulled noodles around―for the humans of San Francisco, who are recovering from a devastating war. But when their robot-run business st...| Runalong The Shelves
Publisher – Northodox Press Published – Out Now Price – £10.99 paperback £4.99 ebook Unteholz is a city built on the backs of dying monsters. When Lena Sturm, the city executioner, learns that she executed an innocent priest, she sets out to find the real killer and bring them to justice. But her quest for truth drags her into a web of conflict and conspiracy, with everyone from a zealous bishop to a mad alchemist as potential suspects. As Lena pursues justice, an army marches on the ...| Runalong The Shelves
I would like to thank Titan Books for a copy of this novel in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher – Titan Published – Out Now Price – £19.99 hardback £10.99 ebook Etsy Beaucarne is an academic who needs to get published. So when a journal written in 1912 by Arthur Beaucarne, a Lutheran pastor and her grandfather, is discovered within a wall during renovations, she sees her chance. She can uncover the lost secrets of her family, and get tenure. As she researches, she comes ...| Runalong The Shelves
Helloooo! I’m back from a much much needed holiday but really missing my beach and lots of reading time! Welcome to an experiment! This has been bubbling a while but has been triggered by a conversation I was having for a blogger project and also the incredible work Renay is doing every week with the essential Intergalactic Mixtape which you should all sign up to via https://buttondown.com/intergalacticmixtape/archive/intergalactic-mixtape-14/ The world of blogs has changed a lot over the p...| Runalong The Shelves
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
Publisher - Prime Books Price - $2.99 via https://payhip.com/b/iW07r Bringing a little chill to the summer is the latest issue of The Dark with another five selection of horror tales. They Must Be Angels by Elle Zi Dong - uses a sympathetic narrator to create a really effective dissonance. We hear they’re having strange visitors to their apartment and we get to hear about the very unglamorous life of a would be model. Is this a story talking about the dark side of beauty. Yes and no! Zi Don...| 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
Publisher - The Borough Press Published - Out Now Price - £9.99 paperback £4.99 ebook Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner Doug. Designed to satisfy his emotional and physical needs, she has dinner ready for him every night, wears the pert outfits he order| Runalong The Shelves
Publisher - PS Publishing Published - Out Now Price - £15.99 paperback or £2.99 ebook via https://pspublishing.co.uk/heartwood-a-myhago-wood-anthology-ebook-ed-by-dan-coxan-6426-p.asp As the pre-mythagos in each of our heads will naturally vary according to our experience, so the wood would| 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