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Editor’s pick★ 4

The Last King of Faerie

by Cassandra Clare

The youngest Blackthorn was never supposed to be the one they came for.

Four years after the Dark Artifices, Dru Blackthorn is a prisoner of the Seelie Court and Kit and Ty are crossing Europe to reach her. Clare opens her final Shadowhunter series with her best heroine in years and a sharp captive ro…

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Editor’s pick★ 4.5

Theo of Golden

by Allen Levi

He bought every face on the wall. Then he went looking for their owners.

An 86-year-old Portuguese stranger buys every pencil portrait on a coffee shop wall and hands each one to the person it shows. Levi's self-published phenomenon is generous, funny and deeply felt, though its hero is close to flawle…

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Editor’s pick★ 4.5

Is It Too Late to Make a Run for It?

by Judi Dench

Seventy years on the stage, and the bag is still by the door.

Judi Dench talks her way through 26 themed chapters with her friend Brendan O'Hea, from a wartime York childhood to the garden where she plants trees for lost friends. Funny, filthy and quietly devastating about her husband, thoug…

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Editor’s pick★ 4.5

The Last Days of Vic & Coco

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

One of them can run any table in America. The other can talk her way out of anything except the past.

Two women hustle pool across 1974 America, one of them running from the feds, and a stake from an old flame in a small Arizona town promises the score that gets them out. Reid's tenth novel is a friendship story dressed as a caper…

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Editor’s pick★ 5

As The World Burns

by Aaron Ryan

What would you give to save the world? What would you give to save your son?

As The World Burns by Aaron Ryan is a fast, heartfelt Christian sci-fi novel about a teenage boy whose heartbeat is overheating the planet and the president father who must decide what love demands. Told in alternating voices, it…

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Warm Bodies

by John Marrs

A retiring school cleaner in a chocolate-box Northamptonshire village pays the rent by dismembering bodies for criminals, while the neighbours' WhatsApp group decides she must be running a brothel. John Marrs's first short story is nasty, quick and very funny,…

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★ 4Too Hexed to HandleCharlotte Ingham

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