“Full of heart and blood, this impressive, wildly imaginative collection heralds the arrival of a compelling new voice in speculative fiction.” —Gabino Iglesias, The New York Times“This is weird girl fiction at its finest.” —Lucy Rose“Compassionate, gross, deeply compelling. A must-read.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Striking, visceral, and brutally honest, Rose Keating’s Od...

AN IRISH TIMES DEBUT AUTHOR TO LOOK OUT FOR 2025A VULTURE BEST BOOK OF 2025A woman finds herself navigating a co-dependent relationship with a ghost. A waitress gives birth to an egg during her breakfast shift. A doctor puts his patient on a cleanse to ‘purify’ her mind, body and soul.Through playful but provocative prose, Rose Keating’s stories traverse a realm both dreamlike and nightmarish, expos...

Strange. Beautiful. Shocking. Surreal.APEX MAGAZINE is a digital dark science fiction and fantasy genre zine that features award-winning short fiction, essays, and interviews. Established in 2009, our fiction has won several Hugo and Nebula Awards.Issue 125 contains the following:EDITORIALEditorial by Jason SizemoreWords from the Honorary Special Editor by Jeffery ReynoldsORIGINAL FICTIONCOTTONMOUTH by Joelle WellingtonNe...

“Full of heart and blood, this impressive, wildly imaginative collection heralds the arrival of a compelling new voice in speculative fiction.” —Gabino Iglesias, The New York Times“This is weird girl fiction at its finest.” —Lucy Rose“Compassionate, gross, deeply compelling. A must-read.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Striking, visceral, and brutally honest, Rose Keating’s Od...

AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT OF 2025'Astonishing' LUCY ROSE'Biting and rich' MOLLY AITKEN'Unforgettable' OBSERVER'A novel of rare power' GABRIELLE GRIFFITHSMyma, do you hear it? Myma, do you hear? Myma?Maya and Daughter live in complete isolation in a secluded woodland, their days aligned with the light and changing seasons, a comple...

All my life I have dreamed of retreat. Of letting go each responsibility and cutting every tie. And I know I’m not the only one. But, when I learnt about the creative figures who left their lives behind, I began to ask myself: what is gained and what is lost when we withdraw from the world?To answer this question, Guy Stagg tells the story of three of the twentieth century’s most original minds: the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, the poet and painter David Jones, and the...

In this nationally bestselling “delightful compendium of everything you ever wanted to know about” (The Washington Post) Joni Mitchell, the eternal singer-songwriter is seen anew, portrayed through a witty and comprehensive exploration of anecdotes, quotes, lyrics by Henry Alford, “the most graceful of humorists” (Vanity Fair) and a writer for The New Yorker.Joni Mitchell’s life, psyche, and evolving legacy are explored here in “the great...

**Brought to you by Penguin.THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE AUGUST PRIZE 2023**I’m fizzing. I love not being his son.Yes. I can feel it in my whole body. A great thrill – as if an adventure has begun. As if I’m the boy in a book about a boy who finds out his dad is the king of a magical and distant land.Christmas, 1983. In the aftermath of yet another furious argument, seven-year-old Andrev’s mother lets him in on a secret: ...

'A beguiling dark fantasy debut that smoulders like hearth-fire' AVA REID, author of A Study in Drowning'Strikes the perfect balance between fairytale and terror' JAMISON SHEA, author of I Feed Her to the Beast'A vividly imagined page-turner with a thought-provoking take on gender inequality' KATHRYN FOXFIELD, author of Good Girls Die First

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF O BROTHERIn a busy maternity ward, first-time father Dan meets Jada, a dad welcoming his fifth – no, sixth? – child into the world. Dan and Jada come from very different places: both called Glasgow. Dan is a successful TV writer with a townhouse in the West End and a shiny Tesla ready to drive his wife and baby home. Jada is a hustling, small-time criminal who is already planning how to separate Dan from...

'An extraordinary, hallucinatory accomplishment' KAREN JOY FOWLER'[A] reminder about what it means to be alive . . . with razor-sharp prose and diction so precise' MORGAN TALTY'Read it and be changed' B. PLADEKSomething terrible has happened.In a mysterious apartment filled with ghosts, our unnamed narrator attempts to explain this to her child - how do I ...

When Everly’s husband and young daughter die in a car crash. A lawyer appears on her doorstep and tells her her husband was not who he said he was and she is a very rich widow. She retreats to a lonely house in the countryside to recover. But there’s a well in the cellar, a spectacularly cold room, and one night, Everly wakes up with a foot hanging over the emptiness of the well and the echo of her daughter’s voice in her ears…