All the Dead Lie Down is queer gothic perfection. It is just the right amount of scary, with luscious writing and a completely immersive atmosphere. I savored every word from start to finish.
It’s the kind of book that wraps you up in a spell and leaves you a little bit changed afterwards. As a reader, I loved it— and as a writer, I was deeply jealous that I’m not the one who wrote it.
The Haunting of Bly Manor meets House of Salt and Sorrows in award-winning author Kyrie McCauley’s contemporary YA gothic romance about a dark family lineage, the ghosts of grief, and the lines we’ll cross for love.
The Sleeping House was very much awake . . .
Days after a tragedy leaves Marin Blythe alone in the world, she receives a surprising invitation from Alice Lovelace—an acclaimed horror writer and childhood friend of Marin’s mother. Alice offers her a nanny position at Lovelace House, the family’s coastal Maine estate.
Sometimes you want to read something that’s just a little bit weird, and this book certainly delivers.
Deep sea strangeness, a creeping sense of unreality, and an achingly beautiful sapphic romance made this book a star of my reading year. If you’re interested in the mysteries of the deep sea or just want to read some truly beautiful writing, I highly recommend it.
Named as book to look out for in 2022 by Guardian, i-D, Autostraddle, Bustle, Good Housekeeping, Stylist and DAZED.
Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep sea mission that ended in catastrophe. It soon becomes clear, though, that Leah may have come back wrong. Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was they were supposed to be studying before they were stranded on the ocean floor, Leah has carried part of it with her, onto dry land and into their home.
To have the woman she loves back should mean a return…
I read only a handful of nonfiction titles every year, and I’m so glad I made space in my reading schedule for this quite awe-inspiring one.
Sheldrake’s writing is so inviting and compelling, and what he has to share about the world of fungi is absolutely fascinating. I already knew more about fungi than the average person, yet I still gasped in surprise several times while reading, and I constantly regaled my partner with newly learned fungi facts.
Even if you’re not particularly interested in fungi, I think you’ll find plenty here to wonder at.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “brilliant [and] entrancing” (The Guardian) journey into the hidden lives of fungi—the great connectors of the living world—and their astonishing and intimate roles in human life, with the power to heal our bodies, expand our minds, and help us address our most urgent environmental problems.
“Grand and dizzying in how thoroughly it recalibrates our understanding of the natural world.”—Ed Yong, author of I Contain Multitudes
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—Time, BBC Science Focus, The Daily Mail, Geographical, The Times, The Telegraph, New Statesman, London Evening Standard, Science Friday
The students in Corbin College’s elite academic society, Magni Viri, have it all—free tuition, inspirational professors, and dream jobs once they graduate. When first-gen college student Tara is offered a chance to enroll, she doesn’t hesitate. Except once she’s settled into the gorgeous Victorian dormitory, something strange starts to happen. She’s finally writing, but her stories are dark and twisted. Her dreams feel as if they could bury her alive. An unseen presence seems to stalk her through the halls.
And a chilling secret awaits Tara at the heart of Magni Viri—one that just might turn her nightmares into reality; one that might destroy her before she has a chance to escape.
