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Our pick of the paperbacks this month includes BODY TOURISTS (

, out now, Sceptre), by Jane Rogers – her first SF novel. It’s set in a near-future Britain where the brains of the wealthy dead have been preserved. Flitting between multiple perspectives, it concerns a programme that can place their minds into the bodies of people willing to rent out their physical form for a fortnight. We said: “Clever, thoughtprovoking and wellwritten – its lack of focus can be a little frustrating, but if you stick with it, it’ll reward your time.” Chuck Wendig’s doorstop-thick post-apocalyptic novel

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