ALSO OUT

ovid-19’s impact means a book deluge this month, with many more titles we’d love to have fitted in. author Joanne Harris’s illustrated novella (out now,. Her YA tale (out now, Walker Books) sees the titular teen dying after falling from a balcony, and discovering a world of ghosts with magical powers. Lev Grossman, author of , has his first go at kid-lit with (out now, Bloomsbury). It sees a brother and sister whisked off on a colossal train for the adventure of a lifetime, accompanied by a load of talking animals. Set in his universe, Joe Abercrombie’s trilogy explores what happens when industrialisation hits the world of The Union. Book two is imminent: (15 September, Gollancz). We called first instalment “one of Abercrombie’s best yet”. And there’s more of MR Carey’s , set in a postapocalyptic Yorkshire where trees have become deadly predators. In (17 September, Orbit) restless teen Koli heads for London in search of precious old-times tech. We said of book one, “if Netflix have any sense, they’ll snap up the TV rights very soon.”