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Saturday, 14 March 2026

Solace House

by Will Maclean

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Labels: coming of age, contemporary fiction, folk horror, Gothic, Grove Atlantic, haunted house, horror, memory and time, netgalley, speculative fiction, Will Maclean

Tuesday, 10 March 2026

Communion

by Jon Doyle

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Labels: Atlantic Books, Catholicism, contemporary fiction, debut novel, Jon Doyle, netgalley, philosophy, religion, religious novel, Wales

Saturday, 7 March 2026

Midwinter Break by Bernard MacLaverty

Midwinter Break

by Bernard MacLaverty

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Labels: Bernard MacLaverty, contemporary fiction, Irish fiction, netgalley

Tillinghast

by Clare Cavenagh

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Labels: Clare Cavenagh, contemporary fiction, debut novel, folk horror, Gothic, HarperCollins, horror, netgalley, The Borough Press, vampire

Sunday, 25 January 2026

Broken Ground (Uncertain Stories - Volume 1)

Broken Ground

Uncertain Stories - Volume 1

Rob Redman (Editor), Lucy Scott (Illustrator)

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Labels: contemporary fiction, ghost story, horror, Lucy Scott, Rob Redman, short stories, speculative fiction, The Fiction Desk, Uncertain Stories, weird fiction

Saturday, 24 January 2026

Kristalli tas-Silġ by Kirsten Spiteri

Kristalli tas-Silġ

by Kirsten Spiteri

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Labels: coming of age, contemporary fiction, Faraxa Books, Faraxa Publishing, Kirsten Spiteri, Malta, Maltese fiction, Maltese literature

Saturday, 17 January 2026

The Midnight Timetable by Bora Chung

The Midnight Timetable

by Bora Chung

Translated by Anton Hur

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Labels: Anton Hur, Bora Chung, contemporary fiction, Dialogue Books, fiction in translation, ghost story, horror, Korea, speculative fiction, weird fiction

Saturday, 3 January 2026

The Hill in the Dark Grove by Liam Higginson

The Hill in the Dark Grove

by Liam Higginson

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Labels: contemporary fiction, debut novel, folk horror, historical fiction, horror, Liam Higginson, netgalley, Pan Macmillan, Picador, Wales, weird fiction

Monday, 29 December 2025

Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

Wild Dark Shore

by Charlotte McConaghy

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Labels: Canongate Books, Charlotte McConaghy, contemporary fiction, netgalley, speculative fiction, thriller

Sunday, 28 December 2025

Good Boy

by Neil McRobert

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Labels: contemporary fiction, folk horror, Gothic, horror, Northern Weird Project, novella, supernatural, weird fiction, Wild Hunt Books

Saturday, 4 October 2025

What We Can Know by Ian McEwan

What We Can Know

by Ian McEwan

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Labels: contemporary fiction, crime fiction, dystopian fiction, England, Ian McEwan, Jonathan Cape, netgalley, Random House UK, science fiction, Vintage Books

Saturday, 16 August 2025

Rokit

by Loranne Vella

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Labels: contemporary fiction, dystopian fiction, Loranne Vella, Maltese fiction, Maltese literature, Merlin Books, Merlin Publishers, science fiction, speculative fiction

Friday, 15 August 2025

Bluff

by Francine Toon

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Labels: contemporary fiction, crime fiction, dark academia, Doubleday, Francine Toon, Gothic, mystery, netgalley, Random House UK, Scotland, Transworld Digital, Transworld Publishers

Mgħawġin

Ġurnal Għawdxi - L-Ewwel Ħarġa

Corrine Zahra and Ħaley Xuereb

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Labels: contemporary fiction, Corrine Zahra, Gozitan literature, Gozo, Ħaley Xuereb, Maltese fiction, Maltese literature, poetry, short stories

Sunday, 27 July 2025

Saltwash by Andrew Michael Hurley

Saltwash

by Andrew Michael Hurley

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Labels: Andrew Michael Hurley, contemporary fiction, folk horror, horror, John Murray, memory and time, netgalley

Monday, 30 June 2025

Clean

by Alia Trabucco Zerán

Translated by Sophie Hughes

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Labels: Alia Trabucco Zerán, Chilean fiction, contemporary fiction, fiction in translation, Fourth Estate, Latin America, netgalley, Sophie Hughes, South American fiction, thriller, William Collins

Saturday, 7 June 2025

Heap Earth Upon It by Chloe Michelle Howarth

Heap Earth Upon It

by Chloe Michelle Howarth

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Labels: Chloe Michelle Howarth, contemporary fiction, Gothic, historical fiction, Ireland, Irish fiction, netgalley, VERVE Books

Sunday, 1 June 2025

The Homecoming by Zoë Apostolides

The Homecoming

by Zoë Apostolides

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Labels: contemporary fiction, debut novel, England, folk horror, ghost story, Gothic, horror, netgalley, Salt Publishing, Zoë Apostolides

Tuesday, 20 May 2025

Lotería : Stories

by Cynthia Pelayo

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Labels: contemporary fiction, Cynthia Pelayo, Edelweiss, folk horror, Gothic, horror, Latin America, myth, short stories, Union Square & Co

Monday, 19 May 2025

The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk

The Empusium

by Olga Tokarczuk

Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

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Labels: Antonia Lloyd-Jones, contemporary fiction, fiction in translation, Fitzcarraldo Editions, folk horror, Gothic, historical fiction, horror, netgalley, Olga Tokarczuk, Poland, Polish fiction

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In “Flower Hunters”, one of the stories in this collection, an angst-ridden mother finds some solace in reading about William Bartram, an 18th century naturalist who, like her had once been “a northerner dazzled by the frenzied flora and...

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My Year of Rest and Relaxation

by Ottessa Moshfegh

In Haruki Murakami's After Dark we meet Eri, an attractive young woman who has decided to “go to sleep”, and who lies in bed in a sort of suspended animation, a cross between a latter-day Snow White and Sleeping Beauty. Murakami's is a m...

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The Dark Blue Winter Overcoat & Other Stories from the North

The Dark Blue Winter Overcoat & Other Stories from the North

by Sjón

Stories from “the North”, proclaims the cover of this anthology. But what are we to understand by “the North”? For the purposes of this collection, co-editors Sjón (Sigurjón B. Sigurðsson) and Ted Hodgkinson have harvested short stories ...

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