ALSO OUT

There’s plenty more titles that we couldn’t fit in. Bookworms will know Cixin Liu as the author of Hugo-winner . One for fans, rather than a jumping-on (out now, Head Of Zeus) is mostly made up of essays about SF, interspersed with interviews and a little short fiction. Edited by Jared Shurin (formerly of geek culture blog ), (out now, Vintage) together run to over 1,000 pages, featuring a total of 108 stories. You can find a full list at . Colonisation, betrayal and forgiveness are, apparently, among the themes of Amal Singh’s (out now, Flame Tree Press). Set in a city where petals are currency and flowers are magic, it centres on a Caretaker who must join forces with a girl who can change reality when a magical rot takes root. We’re promised both “swoon-worthy romance” and “whimsical sorcery” in Sydney J Shields’s debut (16 May, Orbit), which follows a young woman being trained as the next Honey Witch. Her magic powers come with a catch: no one can fall in love with her. But then sceptic Lottie turns up… Finally, gothic romance is the order of the day in Laura Purcell’s YA book (23 May, HarperVoyager), in which a girl is sent to live with a strict godmother and her strange daughter. Cue mysterious deaths, claw marks on the doors and eerie howling in the night. We can likely guess where that’s leading…