There’s plenty more books that we couldn’t fit in. David Zindell’s (out now, HarperVoyager) returns to the universe of his 1988 novel . It concerns (out now, Titan). It follows three women with intertwining fates, in a world where humanity’s being radically altered by a virus: some now have to eat brains to survive, for example. Your protagonists include a sex worker turned cannibal serial killer. Less likely to make you lose your lunch: JJA Harwood’s (out now, Magpie). Set in a Highland village in 1919, it centres on a young woman who enters into a bargain with a Lord of the Fae after her friends are spirited away. Samantha Shannon returns to the world of 2019’s with (28 February, Bloomsbury). This epic, 880-page prequel (set five centuries before the first book) charts the events of four years, through four narrators. When the Dreadmount volcano explodes with dragons, they must find the strength to protect humanity. Finally, Sir Konrad Vonvalt – a travelling investigator/judge who can talk to the dead – returns in Richard Swan’s (out now, Orbit), the sequel to .
