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July 2025

 

Haere mai, welcome to our Fantasy & Science fiction newsletter.

Whether you like your fiction fuelled by magic or advanced technology, you'll find great new reads in this newsletter.

 

Staff List

New For You - Romantasy & Fantasy - July 2025

Discover enchanting magic-filled fantasy worlds, captivating tales, and tantalizing will-they-won't-they romances.

 

Author talks at Tūranga

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Jun 19th | 11:45am - 12:30pm

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Celebrate Matariki by creating some earrings using pre-designed templates! Choose your design, shape, material, size, & earring hook type.

Staff List

Best of the year so far - 2026 edition | Debora's picks

Olivia Laing has rocked my reading world but there's also room for Kaveh Akbar and other stellar voices.

 

New Books

New Fantasy

"The Midnight Train" by Haig, Matt, 1975-
"We Burned So Bright" by Klune, TJ.
"Fury Bound" by Sorensen, Sable
"Archangel's Eternity" by Singh, Nalini, 1977-
"A Parade of Horribles" by Dinniman, Matt
"Malachite" by Andersen, Ashley
"We Burned So Bright" by Klune, TJ.
"Archangel's Eternity" by Singh, Nalini, 1977-
More new Fantasy
More Fantasy eBooks

New Science fiction

"Solo" by Lafferty, Mur
"Millennium Falcon" by Luceno, James, 1947-
"Not With A Bang" by Oh, Temi
"Sunward" by Alexander, William 1976-
"The Princess and the Scoundrel" by Revis, Beth
"Closed Horizon" by Lantos, Peter L., 1939-
"Millennium Falcon" by Luceno, James, 1947-
"Sunward" by Alexander, William 1976-
More new Science fiction
More Science fiction eBooks
 

Coming soon

Our fiction selector has picked out the best of the newest crop of sci-fi and fantasy titles. These aren't in libraries yet so get your holds on now or add them to your For Later shelf.

After the clearances by Alison Layland

Set in 2056, this is a gripping novel exploring the impacts of climate change through the story of a community of remote islanders.

 

Cursed In The Lost City by Gabby Hutchinson Crouch

A cosy, queer romcom set in a fantasy version of Elizabethan England.

 

In the Veins of the Drowning by Kalie Cassidy

Seductive siren romantasy with a dark twist. A siren and a king form the ultimate bond.

 

Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove

Dementer is a spaceship AI; her job is to shuttle humans between Earth and Alpha Centauri. Unfortunately, her passengers keep dying. A clever retelling of the Dracula story.

 
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