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Steven Madonia's debut fantasy novel ties magic to willpower and identity
In The Tablets of Tetran: The Phantom Labyrinth, a lifelong artist and musician writes about trauma, trust and the cost of power, through a magic system that fails when a character's will does.

Split Second: Stephanie Plum Is Married, and Someone Wants Her Dead
Two years after Now or Never, Stephanie Plum is married, hunted by an enemy with no name and minding a client for Ranger who is kidnapped on her watch.

10 Books by Women for Long Winter Evenings, From Katherine May's Wintering to Little Women
Snowbound trains, a house cut off by the tide, a Russian frost king and a Christmas in Cornwall. Ten books by women writers to see you through the darkest months.

Authors "evicted" from Big Brother Amazon reach out to Local Bookstores
When Amazon shuts a self-published author's account, every title leaves the store overnight. More than a thousand independent bookshops, new ebook routes and Rich Books Magazine offer another way to readers.

To the Moon and Back, the Reese's Book Club Pick Now in Paperback, Follows a Cherokee Woman's Race to Space: A Guide for Book Clubs
Eliana Ramage's debut follows Steph Harper, her sister, her mother and the woman she loves across three decades as Steph trains to become the first Cherokee woman in space.

Stitching Freedom Is Gary Tyler's Memoir of 41 Years in Angola Prison, Where He Learned the Quilting Now Shown in Museums
Sent to death row at 17 after a trial a federal court later called fundamentally unfair, Gary Tyler wrote his story with Ellen Bravo. His quilts are on show in Michigan until 3rd January.

Ocean of Bones Follows the Black Divers Who Spent Years Hunting the Guerrero, a Pirate Slave Ship Wrecked Off Florida in 1827
David Kushner's new book braids two journeys almost 200 years apart: 561 captive Africans on a doomed pirate ship, and the divers who went looking for its wreck.

Dog Man: A Sprinkle in Time, the 15th Dog Man Book, Is Out Now: What It Is About and the Full Reading Order
Dav Pilkey's new Dog Man graphic novel arrived on 3rd November, ten years after the series began, with Grandpa bending time and space.

Hotel Exile Wins the 2026 American Library in Paris Book Award for Its History of the Lutetia in Wartime Paris
Jane Rogoyska's account of one Left Bank hotel, from refuge for exiles to German intelligence headquarters to a reception centre for returning deportees, was named winner on 5th November inside the hotel itself.

A Court of Splintered Harmony Sold 188,914 Copies in Its First UK Week: How That Ranks Against Inferno, Go Set a Watchman and Onyx Storm
The sixth A Court of Thorns and Roses novel is the fastest-selling adult fantasy book in the UK since records began in 1998, and its US hardcover figure has now landed.

Editor's Letter: Judi Dench Wrote Her Memoir at 91, So It Is Not Too Late for You
Dame Judi Dench took a question she has carried into every rehearsal room for seventy years and made it the title of her memoir. This November, we put the same question to you.

Judi Dench's Memoir Is It Too Late to Make a Run for It? Arrives at 91, Full of Pranks, Doubt and a Thirty-Year Love Story
Made in conversation with Brendan O'Hea as her eyesight failed, Dame Judi Dench's memoir takes you from a York nativity play to M's office, and from backstage revenge to the marriage that shaped her.