"Helm by Sarah Hall Faber, out now Hall is best known for her glittering short stories: this is the novel she's been working on for two decades. Set in Cumbria's Eden valley, it tells the story of the Helm the only wind in the UK to be given a name from its creation at the dawn of time up to the current degradation of the climate. It's a huge, millennia-spanning achievement, spotlighting characters from neolithic shamans to Victorian meteorologists to present-day pilots."
"Katabasis by RF Kuang HarperVoyager, out now The follow-up to Yellowface takes its title from the Ancient Greek for a journey to the underworld. Two Cambridge postgrads in the field of analytic magick venture into hell to retrieve the soul of their academic supervisor in a big, bold fantasy romp. Good and Evil and Other Stories by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell Picador, out now An eerie new collection from the three times International Booker-nominated Argentinian author. Set at the boundaries between our exterior and interior worlds, the stories examine moments of violence and revelation."
Helm is set in Cumbria's Eden valley and traces the named Helm wind from the dawn of time to current climate degradation, spotlighting characters from neolithic shamans to Victorian meteorologists and present-day pilots. Katabasis follows two Cambridge postgraduates studying analytic magick as they venture into the underworld to retrieve their supervisor's soul in a bold fantasy romp. Good and Evil and Other Stories is an eerie collection situated at the boundaries between exterior and interior worlds, examining moments of violence and revelation. What We Can Know imagines an academic in a flooded future Britain hunting for a once-read poem among wealthy early-21st-century archives. Will There Ever Be Another You continues an autofictional exploration of an American woman's pandemic-related breakdown. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny appears forthcoming.
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