The Best YA Books of 2023
These are our picks for the best YA releases of 2023, with titles ranging from romance to fantasy, with a little creepy horror in between.
Source: pastemagazine.com
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The Best New Fantasy Books of July 2023
These are the best new fantasy titles coming to a bookstore near you in July 2023, with stories for every kind of reader.
Source: pastemagazine.com
The 20 Best Fantasy Romance YA Books | RT Book Reviews
Discover the best young adult fantasy novel with sparks of romance. Fall in love with great characters and stories in these 20 must-read books.
Source: rtbookreviews.com
Historic Highland women including child welfare pioneer Margaret Swanson to feature in series of podcasts following a Castletown research event next Friday
Events touring the North to research podcast series focus on Castletown pioneer
Source: johnogroat-journal.co.uk
XpoNorth podcast series to feature Unforgotten Highland Women will 'complete the picture' with series of events across the North starting on Tuesday
Podcaster and the team will hold sessions to gather information
Source: inverness-courier.co.uk
Remarkable Ross-shire women will feature in podcast series that triggers North research events from next week
Podcaster and XpoNorth team will seek info to complete their picture
Source: ross-shirejournal.co.uk
A podcast series on remarkable Highland women includes flytier Megan Boyd and triggers Brora Heritage Centre event on June 23 for research
Podcaster and the team want to hold information gathering sessions to help complete the picture
Source: northern-times.co.uk
Five Sapphic Fantasies That Helped Me Find My Freedom
I came into my queerness late in life. Well, later, at any rate, than the teenagers I wrote about in my sapphic YA fantasy, Sweet & Bitter Magic. Yet after I learned that my heart was not surrounded by a wall, but rather, a gate just waiting to be opened, after I met the woman who is now my wife, as I explored the world of women who love women, I realized there had always been something inherently sapphic about the way I had lived my life. There are no shortage of ways people attempt to explai...
Source: tor.com
The Sapphic Witchy Slowburn of Adrienne Tooley's Sweet & Bitter Magic
Adrienne Tooley’s debut fantasy Sweet & Bitter Magic is a sapphic, quiet slowburn fairytale between two girls with complicated relationships to magic, themselves, and each other. Tamsin had been the most powerful young witch in Within, the witches’ land—unlike her twin, Marlena, who only ever wanted to leave Within, to explore the world and its potential. But as different as they were, Tamsin would have done anything for her sister. And when Marlena’s life is in danger, she does. Y...
Source: tor.com
New Books: 9 March 2021
(Titan Books US 978-1789094343, $15.95, 368pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, March 9, 2021) Dark gothic fairy tale. Long ago the O’Malley family struck a deal with the mer: safety for their ships in return for a child of each generation. But after years of decline, the family has been unable to keep their side of the bargain.
Source: locusmag.com