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Voyage of the Salamander: The Independent Space Opera That Just Won Three BookFest 2026 Awards
Christian Hurst writes his Lily Starling novels on evenings and weekends, between a day job in advertising and a house full of rescue beagles. This month one of them quietly took First Place in three categories at the BookFest 2026 awards, and it is one of the warmest, most character-driven space operas you will read this year.
Gripping Finale Seething Storm Concludes The Patrons of Earth Trilogy By A. N. Jones
A. N. Jones spent a decade writing her way back to the trilogy she started with her late mother. Seething Storm, the final book in The Patrons of Earth series, is words woven with love, grief and strength."
A Debut Novelist Writes a Man's Trauma to Say What Men Rarely Get to
Gabrielle Pelayo's debut psychological fiction, Fractured, Never Shattered, follows a composed man whose memories stop staying buried, built from real conversations about what men do not say out loud.
Citiscape: The Magical Realism Novel Asking Readers to See the People Cities Forget
Beverly Schloendorf's debut weaves Death, a ghost-turned-guardian and a homeless girl into eighteen interconnected tales about urban invisibility.
A Biochemist's Novel Imagines the Sense Humans Lost When Speech Began
Biochemist Christer Jansson's Genes of the Past uses a fictional 550,000-year-old Moroccan fossil to propose a sense ancient hominins lost when spoken words began replacing mental images.
Cindy Divine Is the Fictional Girl Holding a Mirror to Real American Politics
Shafter Bailey's debut novel follows a traumatized girl who becomes a global figure, but the real target is the political class that lets children fall through the cracks.
John Green's New Book Ends a Nine-Year Silence
The Fault in Our Stars author announces Hollywood, Ending, his first novel since 2017 and his first work of adult fiction.
Author James C. Clemens Jr on the Poems That Came From Listening to God
In Echoes of Strength, James C. Clemens Jr turns real experiences of struggle, family, and faith into inspirational poetry that reads less like verse and more like testimony.
Emma Hartwell Wrote Pixie Littlefield for Children. The Mothers Who Read It Had Other Ideas
Author Emma Hartwell's neurodivergent heroine Pixie Littlefield has sparked an unexpected wave of adult readers, women who recognise their own undiagnosed neurodivergence in a children's picture book.
Author Karen Lawrence Delivered Babies in the NHS, Now She Delivers Bestselling Stories
Former NHS midwife Karen Lawrence began writing during the Covid pandemic. Her debut novel The Last Midwife, a dystopian thriller about state-controlled childbirth, became a bestseller.
How a Dream About a Polar Bear Became a Children's Book on Climate and the Food Chain
Artist Jane Dugan and author Esther Meerschaut created Hope For The Future after a vivid dream led Dugan to First Nations polar bear legends — and a mission to teach young readers about ecological responsibility.
How Courtney Buchanan’s THRIVE Turns Black Wall Street’s Forgotten History Into a Warning for the Future
Set in a rebuilt world, ‘THRIVE’ fuses Tulsa’s Greenwood legacy with a dystopian thriller as a life-extending vaccine enforces compliance and tests freedom.