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Heap Earth Upon It
Chloe Michelle Howarth
A creeping story of sapphic obsession with Gothic undertones and a delicious mid-century feel, from the author of the Polari Prize-shortlisted Sunburn.
January 1965. The orphaned O'Leary siblings - Tom, Jack, Anna and Peggy - arrive in the village of Ballycrea, tight-lipped about their troubled past and desperate for a fresh start.
After being met with suspicion from most of the locals, the family are thrilled when they're taken under the wing of their well-respected neighbours, Bill and Betty Nevan, who offer them work, companionship and an opportunity to fit in.
But for one of the O'Learys, this new friendship sparks an intense attachment that makes the dynamic dangerous for all. It's difficult to bury secrets, but almost impossible to bury feelings...
Crackling with suspense, Heap Earth Upon It revisits the rural Ireland of Howarth's critically acclaimed debut and delves into claustrophobic relationships and tangled identities, leaving you wondering who to trust until the very last page. It combines the emotional intensity and slow-burn sapphic obsession of Julia Armfield's Our Wives Under the Sea and K. Patrick's Mrs S. with the unsettling gothic undertones of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca and Shirley Jackson's fiction.
'A tense and claustrophobic novel with gothic atmosphere which seeps into your bones like fog... A brutal exploration of the corrosive impact of shame and secrecy. Howarth knows her sapphic yearning!' RACHEL DAWSON, author of Neon Roses
'Dark, passionate and poised. A remarkable story of the way rural Ireland haunts and is haunted. Intense and thrilling' SOULA EMMANUEL, author of Wild Geese
** READERS LOVE SUNBURN **
âAchingly beautiful, almost lyrical⊠This was both sweet and heartbreaking â I couldnât put it downâ 5-star Reader Review
âAn addictive, honey-dipped queer love storyâ 5-star Reader Review
âEver since I read this, I simply CANNOT stop thinking about itâ 5-star Reader Review
âCompletely heart-wrenching, devastating, all-consuming⊠Spectacularâ 5-star Reader Review
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Heap Earth Upon It
Chloe Michelle Howarth
A creeping story of sapphic obsession with Gothic undertones and a delicious mid-century feel, from the author of the Polari Prize-shortlisted Sunburn.
January 1965. The orphaned O'Leary siblings - Tom, Jack, Anna and Peggy - arrive in the village of Ballycrea, tight-lipped about their troubled past and desperate for a fresh start.
After being met with suspicion from most of the locals, the family are thrilled when they're taken under the wing of their well-respected neighbours, Bill and Betty Nevan, who offer them work, companionship and an opportunity to fit in.
But for one of the O'Learys, this new friendship sparks an intense attachment that makes the dynamic dangerous for all. It's difficult to bury secrets, but almost impossible to bury feelings...
Crackling with suspense, Heap Earth Upon It revisits the rural Ireland of Howarth's critically acclaimed debut and delves into claustrophobic relationships and tangled identities, leaving you wondering who to trust until the very last page. It combines the emotional intensity and slow-burn sapphic obsession of Julia Armfield's Our Wives Under the Sea and K. Patrick's Mrs S. with the unsettling gothic undertones of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca and Shirley Jackson's fiction.
'A tense and claustrophobic novel with gothic atmosphere which seeps into your bones like fog... A brutal exploration of the corrosive impact of shame and secrecy. Howarth knows her sapphic yearning!' RACHEL DAWSON, author of Neon Roses
'Dark, passionate and poised. A remarkable story of the way rural Ireland haunts and is haunted. Intense and thrilling' SOULA EMMANUEL, author of Wild Geese
** READERS LOVE SUNBURN **
âAchingly beautiful, almost lyrical⊠This was both sweet and heartbreaking â I couldnât put it downâ 5-star Reader Review
âAn addictive, honey-dipped queer love storyâ 5-star Reader Review
âEver since I read this, I simply CANNOT stop thinking about itâ 5-star Reader Review
âCompletely heart-wrenching, devastating, all-consuming⊠Spectacularâ 5-star Reader Review
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Hum
Helen Phillips
From the National Book Awardâlonglisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wife and mother whoâafter losing her job to AIâundergoes a procedure that renders her undetectable to surveillanceâŠbut at what cost?
In a city addled by climate change and populated by intelligent robots called âhums,â May loses her job to artificial intelligence. In a desperate bid to resolve her familyâs debt and secure their future for another few months, she becomes a guinea pig in an experiment that alters her face so it cannot be recognized by surveillance.
Seeking some reprieve from her recent hardships and from her familyâs addiction to their devices, she splurges on passes that allow them three nightsâ respite inside the Botanical Garden: a rare green refuge where forests, streams, and animals flourish. But her insistence that her son, daughter, and husband leave their devices at home proves far more fraught than she anticipated, and the lush beauty of the Botanical Garden is not the balm she hoped it would be. When her children come under threat, May is forced to put her trust in a hum of uncertain motives as she works to restore the life of her family.
Written in taut, urgent prose, Hum is a work of speculative fiction that unflinchingly explores marriage, motherhood, and selfhood in a world compromised by global warming and dizzying technological advancement, a world of both dystopian and utopian possibilities. As New York Times bestselling author Jeff VanderMeer says, âHelen Phillips, in typical bravura fashion, has found a way to make visible uncomfortable truths about our present by interrogating the near-future.â
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The Three-Body Problem
Liu Cixin
Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion.
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Hell Followed With Us
Andrew Joseph White
Prepare to die. His kingdom is near.
Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised himâthe fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the worldâs population. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult canât get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with.
But when cornered by monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. The ALCâs leader, Nick, is gorgeous, autistic, and a deadly shot, and he knows Benjiâs darkest secret: the cultâs bioweapon is mutating him into a monster deadly enough to wipe humanity from the earth once and for all.
Still, Nick offers Benji shelter among his ragtag group of queer teens, as long as Benji can control the monster and use its power to defend the ALC. Eager to belong, Benji accepts Nickâs termsâŠuntil he discovers the ALCâs mysterious leader has a hidden agenda, and more than a few secrets of his own.
A furious, queer debut novel about embracing the monster within and unleashing its power against your oppressors. Perfect for fans of Gideon the Ninth and Annihilation.
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The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
Andrew Joseph White
Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all.
London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has thinned. Violet-eyed mediums commune with spirits under the watchful eye of the Royal Speaker Society, and sixteen-year-old Silas Bell would rather rip out his violet eyes than become an obedient Speaker wife. According to Mother, heâll be married by the end of the year. It doesnât matter that heâs needed a decade of tutors to hide his autism; that he practices surgery on slaughtered pigs; that he is a boy, not the girl the world insists on seeing.
After a failed attempt to escape an arranged marriage, Silas is diagnosed with Veil sicknessâa mysterious disease sending violet-eyed women into madnessâand shipped away to Braxtonâs Sanitorium and Finishing School. The facility is cold, the instructors merciless, and the students either bloom into eligible wives or disappear. So when the ghosts of missing students start begging Silas for help, he decides to reach into Braxtonâs innards and expose its rotten guts to the worldâas long as the school doesnât break him first.
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Peak PH Wattpad (2013-2016 Era)
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Before I was anything, I was a kid who spent most of their time reading Filipino Wattpad stories. Those reading under the covers at 2 am, sneaking my tablet or phone to continue reading, and discovering new worlds and becoming a hopeless romantic are some of the impact it had on me. So now, I'm slowly curating all the published Wattpad classics here. 2013-2016 era will always be missed.
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House of Monstrous Women
Daphne Fama
A young woman is drawn into a dangerous game after being invited to the mazelike home of her childhood friend, a rumored witch, in this gothic horror set in 1986 Philippines.In this game, thereâs one rule: survive.Orphaned after her fatherâs political campaign ended in tragedy, Josephine is alone taking care of the family home while her older brother is off in Manila, where revolution brews. But an unexpected invitation from her childhood friend Hiraya to her house offers an escape....Why donât you come visit, and we can play games like we used to? If Josephine wins, sheâll get whatever her heart desires. Her brother is invited, too, and itâs time they had a talk. Josephineâs heard the dark whispers: Hiraya is a witch and her family spits curses. But still, sheâs just desperate enough to seize this chance to change her destiny.Except Ranoco house is strangeâlabyrinthine and dangerously close to a treacherous sea. A sickly-sweet smell clings to the dimly lit walls, and veiled eyes follow Josephine through endless connecting rooms. The air is tense with secrets and as the game continues itâs clear Josephine doesnât have the whole truth.To save herself, she will have to play to win. But in this house, victory is earned with blood.A lush new voice in horror arises in this riveting gothic set against the upheaval of 1986 Philippines and the People Power Revolution.
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The Three-Body Problem
Liu Cixin
Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion.
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It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
Anne de Marcken
Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how much of our memory, of our bodies, of the world as we know it â how much of what we love can we lose before we are lost? And then what happens? This third perspective on myself is disconcerting. The heroine of the spare and haunting It Lasts Forever and Then Itâs Over is voraciously alive in the afterlife. Adrift yet keenly aware, she notes every bizarre detail of her new reality. And even if she has forgotten her name and much of what connects her to her humanity, she remembers with an implacable and nearly unbearable longing the place where she knew herself and was knownâwhere she loved and was loved. Traveling across the landscapes of time and of space, heading always west, and carrying a dead but laconically opinionated crow in her chest, our undead narrator encounters and loses parts of her body and her self in one terrifying, hilarious, and heartbreaking situation after another. A bracing writer of great nerve and verve, Anne de Marcken bends reality (and the readerâs mind) with throwaway assurance. It Lasts Forever and Then Itâs Over plumbs mortality and how it changes everything, except possibly love. Delivering a near-Beckettian whopping to the readerâs imagination, this is one of the sharpest and funniest novels of recent years, a tale for our dispossessed times.
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