Bluff by Francine Toon

 

Bluff 

by Francine Toon

The Long Water by Stef Penney

 

The Long Water

by Stef Penney

The Black Crescent by Jane Johnson

 

The Black Crescent

by Jane Johnson

Bear Season by Gemma Fairclough

 

Bear Season

by Gemma Fairclough

The Sleepwalkers by Scarlett Thomas

 

The Sleepwalkers

by Scarlett Thomas

Enlightenment by Sarah Perry

 

Enlightenment

by Sarah Perry

To give love without receiving it is to understand we are made in the image of God – because the love of God is immense and indiscriminate and can never be returned to the same degree. So, if you go on loving when your love is unreturned, it makes you just a little lower than the angels.

Scarlet Town by Leonora Nattrass

 

Scarlet Town

by Leonora Nattrass

Cocoon by Zhang Yueran

 

Cocoon

by Zhang Yueran

translated by Jeremy Tiang

The Raptures by Jan Carson

The Raptures

by Jan Carson

"The Leviathan" by Rosie Andrews

The Leviathan

by Rosie Andrews

She is awake. And I must remind myself of how it began. The end of all things. It was a time of witches, it was a time of saints, a time when rabbits hunted foxes, when children came into the world without their heards, and kings lost theirs on the scaffold. The world was turned upside down, or so some said… now, less than a hundred years after men and magic began to drift apart, we walk a new earth. We have become reasonable, and cleave to our certainties as once we cleaved to our kings. Now, the buried stories are dismissed as old wives’ tales, exaggerations, falsehoods. But still they bubble through the cracks, clinging on, refusing to go down into the dark. They develop strange qualities, words stored for too long. In the dim light of my small study, never bright enough now, I lay them down in honest black ink, but they are past their bloom…

We Run the Tides by Vendela Vida

 

We Run the Tides

by Vendela Vida

A book review

"The Lamplighters" by Emma Stonex

The Lamplighters
by Emma Stonex
A review

“We’re not sure of the truth, are we? Isn’t that the point? Some mysteries just aren’t meant to be known…”

"Invisible Ink" by Patrick Modiano

Invisible Ink

by Patrick Modiano

(Translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti)

A review 

Fresh Water for Flowers by Valérie Perrin

Fresh Water for Flowers

by Valérie Perrin 

translated from the French by Hildegarde Serle

A review

Country Life: Mr Cadmus by Peter Ackroyd

Mr Cadmus 

by Peter Ackroyd

A review

Australian Gothic: "Flyaway" by Kathleen Jennings

Flyaway

by Kathleen Jennings

A review 

Mysteries, secrets and lies... "Before the Ruins" by Victoria Gosling

Before the Ruins 

by Victoria Gosling

A book review

The Last Séance: Tales of the Supernatural by Agatha Christie

The Last Séance: Tales of the Supernatural

by Agatha Christie

A review

The Butchers by Ruth Gilligan: A review

The Butchers by Ruth Gilligan

A review