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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

Staff List

What you waiting for? December 2026

Donna's looking forward to a bunch of new pukapuka - Great Books, Larry David, Beck, Brannavan, wordspotting, and Manchester music.

Blog Post

Recent necrology, October 2026

Some well-known people who have died recently including Pauline Parker, and actors Tom Skerrit, Eva Saint Marie, and Patrick Stewart.

 

New Books

New Fantasy

"A Court of Splintered Harmony" by Maas, Sarah J.
"A Trade of Blood" by Bennett, Robert Jackson, 1984-
"A Court of Splintered Harmony" by Maas, Sarah J.
"Under the Iron Sky" by Emerald, A. T.
"Cursed City" by Golden, Kate
"Defy the Dusk" by Jensen, Danielle L.
"A Trade of Blood" by Bennett, Robert Jackson, 1984-
"Under the Iron Sky" by Emerald, A. T.
More new Fantasy

New Fantasy eBooks

"A Court of Splintered Harmony" by Maas, Sarah J.
"Equal Rites" by Pratchett, Terry, 1948-2015
"Fury Bound" by Sorensen, Sable
"Thistlemarsh" by Corrigan, Moorea
"Bodies of Magic" by Marske, Freya
"The Antiquarian's Object of Desire" by Holton, India
"Equal Rites" by Pratchett, Terry, 1948-2015
"Thistlemarsh" by Corrigan, Moorea
More Fantasy eBooks

New Science fiction

"The After-lands" by Bowman, Akemi Dawn
"Under A Fur Coat" by Vatomsky, Sonya
"The Twelve" by Graceffa, Joey, 1991-
"To Be Taught, If Fortunate" by Chambers, Becky
"K-PAX" by Brewer, Gene, 1937-
"Victorious" by Schwab, V. E.
"Under A Fur Coat" by Vatomsky, Sonya
"To Be Taught, If Fortunate" by Chambers, Becky
More new Science fiction

New Science fiction eBooks

"Victorious" by Schwab, V. E.
"Homebound" by Elan, Portia
"Time to Play" by Ampersand, Erin
"The Municipalists" by Fried, Seth
"Swallowed" by Smitherman, Meg
"Ant-man: Ant-ihversary" by Reilly, Tom
"Homebound" by Elan, Portia
"The Municipalists" by Fried, Seth
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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