There’s plenty more titles we couldn’t fit in. Juhani Karila’s (out now, Pushkin Press) concerns a woman visiting her remote family farm; she has three days and (out now, HQ). This fantasy romance centres on the relationship between Drae, a widower Dragon King, and Arwen, an 18-year-old suitably magical to produce the heir that can save his line. Described as “the love child of JG Ballard and Ursula K Le Guin”, Nick Hunt’s debut (out now, Swift) is set in 16th century Mexico. In this alternate history, the Reconquista (where Christian forces ended Muslim rule in what’s now southern Spain) didn’t happen, and the first ships that crossed the Atlantic were crewed by Moors, not Spaniards. Samira Ahmed is one of the editors of teen anthology (out now, HarperCollins), which sees ancient tales featuring folkloric beings like chudails, peris and jinn reimagined by 14 authors from the South Asian diaspora. Finally, coffee table book (July, Telos) celebrates artist James E McConnell, whose work graced the covers of Western, crime and romance pulps, as well as sci-fi novels like Edgar Rice Burroughs’s John Carter books.
