The fourth Fallow sisters book sees Bee, Stella, Serena and Luna heading for Cornwall for the summer after the birth of Luna’s baby and a very strange conclusion to an open-air Shakespeare performance. The extended family includes Sam, Luna’s partner, and Ver, Sam’s gran, plus Serena’s actor boyfriend, Ward, Stella’s friends Ace and Davy, Somerset hunt-master Nick Wratchell-Haynes and Bee’s lovely boyfriend, Dark, an Elizabethan sailor-ghost. As usual the sisters’ mum is up to something, but no one knows what, and the Wild Hunt (land) and the Morlader (sea) are fratching for territory. Expect shapechanging, ghosts, phantom ships, kidnapping and a guest appearance by Elizabeth I, and Francis Drake. I love the Fallow Sisters’ books. This might be the end of the series, but there could be more. I live in hope.
The third Fallow sisters novel is split between London and rural Somerset. It’s spring and the four sisters are recovering from the events at Christmas, but they’ve come to the notice of the supernatural world. DJ Stella and fashion designer Serena (and her film actor boyfriend, Ward) are in the city where Diana the huntress sets Stella a task, and Serena keeps being dragged into the past. Bee is in Somerset, holding the family home together, content to be with her ghostly lover, Dark. Luna, the youngest sister (with her partner, Sam) is temporarily at home while her pregnancy progresses. Floating about, doing her own mysterious thing is Alys, the girls’ mother, enigmatic as usual, and not entirely trustworthy. This book weaves folklore into everyday occurrences, and all the sisters cope with magic of one kind or another. The characters (the main ones and the secondary ones) are wonderful. This is a family saga with added magic which is well worth reading, but start at the beginning with Comet Weather and Blackthorn Winter. There’s a fourth book in the pipeline.


A comet is about to appear in the sky and when it does, things will change.
It's a female oriented book which is refreshing. I love the characters in this, the main and the supporting ones, especially the ghostly Dark, who is utterly intriguing, and the grandfather who is nothing but a (talking) blue flame hovering over his own grave. It starts out with a measured pace, but the supernatural elements are bang upfront as Bee gets a message from one of the trees in the orchard. This doesn't suffer from anyone keeping back information. Whatever the sisters learn, they share. The story unfolds through their individual and collective experiences. Marvellously magical. Highly Recommended.
A novella set largely on Liz Williams' cold, bleak Mars of her novel Banner of Souls. There are two separate stories that eventually unite. Canteley, on Mars, is in Winterstrike with her family, but bombs are falling. She is taken to safety by Aunt Sulie. She keeps having dreams, strangely non-human-like dreams.
Across the galaxy Kesh, a hunter, is dead, along with her people. She alone has been reanimated for a purpose. Perhaps to protect her developing brood. All she has for company is her spear, Thousand Voice, as she journeys in space in an intelligent ship, searching for new hunting grounds.