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Blogs in December 2025

North Sun 20th December 2025

FINALIST FOR THE 2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION From “one of our great artists of catastrophe” (Laura van den Berg) comes North Sun, or the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther—an allegory of extraction and a tale of adventure...

No Land To Light On 12th December 2025

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE ***‘Tense, lyrical, intelligent’ – The Big Issue*** ***A heart-wrenching human story – Saga*** Exit West meets An American Marriage in this breathtaking and evocative novel about a young Syrian couple in the...

Cautery 10th December 2025

Fantasies, or are they premonitions, of a great wave, an impending apocalypse, threaten to swamp a young woman trapped in a slowly curdling relationship. From the outside it all looks good—the casually elegant apartment, the cocktail parties, the impressive,...

Tamarin 10th December 2025

Tamarin Bay, Mauritius, is a travel agent’s paradise: a tropical ocean, fishermen unloading their daily catch, children building sandcastles, surfers riding giant waves. But just along the shoreline is the beach of La Preneuse, the taker of souls. The...

I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness 10th December 2025

Nestled among rugged mountains, in a remote part of Catalonia frequented by wolf hunters, bandits, deserters, ghosts, beasts and demons, sits the old farmhouse called Mas Clavell. Inside, an impossibly old woman lies on her deathbed while family and...