ALSO OUT

s ever, there’s lots more books we couldn’t fit in. Everyone with a Y chromosome vanishes in Sandra Newman’s (out now, Granta). Then footage emerges of (out now, Gollancz) centres on a battlefield surgeon with healing powers she must keep hidden (as such abilities are viewed as evil). That’s going to get trickier once she becomes a member of the Queen’s court… A bang on the head sends a Cuban-American kid back to 1985 to experience high school homophobia in David Valdes’s -esque YA book (out now, Bloomsbury). Enjoy your Dead Or Alive earworm… Anthony Ryan follows up his picaresque fantasy with (30 June, Orbit); former outlaw Alwyn Scribe is now a spymaster and protector of a royal who has visions of a demonic apocalypse. We enjoyed the first book, calling its prose “confident and moving”. There’s also a new adventure in a devastated future England for creator Jonathan Stroud’s teenage outlaw Scarlett McCain and psychic-powered lad Albert Browne; a dangerous job goes pear-shaped in (7 July, Walker). We loved the first in this YA series – especially the giant otters – giving it