Review: Metronome by Tom Watson

Book release date: 31 March 2022 Book blurb: For twelve years Aina and Whitney have been in exile on an island for a crime they committed together, tethered to a croft by pills they must take for survival every eight hours. They’ve kept busy – Aina with her garden, her jigsaw, her music; Whitney with

Review: Last One at the Party by Bethany Clift

Book release date: 4 February 2021 Book blurb: December 2023. The human race has fought a deadly virus and lost. The only things left from the world before are burning cities and rotting corpses. But in London, one woman is still alive. Although she may be completely unprepared for her new existence, as someone who

Review: The Liar of Red Valley by Walter Goodwater

Book release date: 28 September 2021 (ebook); 30 September 2021 (hardback) Book blurb: Don’t trust the Liar. Don’t go in the River. Do not cross the King. In Red Valley, California, you follow the rules if you want to stay alive. But even that isn’t enough to protect Sadie now that she’s unexpectedly become the

Review: Near Mortal by Julia Alty

Book release date: 17 July 2021 Book blurb: Isn’t it time you rethought immortality? In a future where Earth’s continents have collided, eradicating a majority of the landmass, cultural restructuring has become imperative. As a genetic abnormality is exposed, causing a sub-section of the human race to live centuries longer than a typical lifespan, there

Review: The Stranding by Kate Sawyer

Book release date: 24 June 2021 Book blurb: Ruth lives in the heart of the city. Working, drinking, falling in love: the rhythm of her vivid and complicated life is set against a background hum of darkening news reports from which she deliberately turns away. When a new romance becomes claustrophobic, Ruth chooses to leave