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A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking (2020), and The Hollow Places (2020). The Clocktaur War series is Clockwork Boys (2017) and Paladin’s Grace (2020) and Paladin’s Strength (2021). She writes short fiction under both names. Notable short works include Hugo Award winner “The Tomato Thief” (2016) and finalist “Sun, Moon, Dust” (2017) and Nebula Award winner and World Fantasy Award finalist “Jackalope Wives” (2014). Some of her stories have been collected in Toad Words and Other Stories (2014), The Halcyon Fairy Book (2017), and Jackalope Wives and Other Stories (2017)...

Minecraft: The Mountain is Brooks’ second Minecraft novel for Del Rey, which has a whole handful of Minecraft novels by intriguingly chosen authors (including Mur Lafferty, Catherynne M. Valente, and Nicky Drayden). Here’s the synopsis: In the new official Minecraft novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Minecraft: The Island, a stranded hero stumbles upon another castaway—and discovers that teamwork might just be the secret to survival. Wandering a vast, icy tundra, the explorer has never felt more alone. Is there anything out here? Did I do the right thing by leaving t...

THE COVEN by Lizzie Fry (Sphere, £14.99) is set in a world similar to our own except that there, witchcraft exists as part of normal life. Or it did, until a right-wing religious movement in the US saw a misogynist campaign against witches as its route to state power and ultimately to world domination. As suppression and oppression of witches specifically, and women in general, grows, a small band of escapees and their allies are on the run in the British countryside. So what we are presented with is essentially a chase thriller with magical elements and good fun it is too. Star readers will...