▶ RELEASED 18 JANUARY
269 pages | Hardback/ebook
▶ Author Aliya Whiteley
▶ Publisher Solaris
Aliya Whiteley’s work is tricky to categorise. This may be why – in a career of over 15 years, and despite being shortlisted for awards in fantasy, science fiction and horror – she has flown curiously under the radar.
Her best-known work to date is the unsettling post-apocalyptic body horror (2014), a novella about gender, fungus and how and why communities tell stories about themselves. Originally published by much-missed small press Unsung Stories, it is due to be reissued in 2024 by Solaris, along with three other books from Whiteley’s back catalogue. This is a good year, in other words, to discover her.