Zina has lived her whole life in her grandmother’s tearoom, selling real fortunes and fake séances. When she realises she might be able to perform a real séance, she finds it impossible to resist – despite her grandmother’s firm warnings. A séance is supposed to offer answers and comfort to the living, but Zina’s séanceContinue reading “‘The Fortune Tellers of Rue Daru’ by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore”
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‘The House Saphir’ by Marissa Meyer
Mallory makes her living as haunted house guide. The ghost is real and the stories she tells her paying customers are real, though she might be guilty of a bit of embellishment and faked theatrics. And the souvenirs she sells are very much not real, despite the high price she charges for them. There’s alsoContinue reading “‘The House Saphir’ by Marissa Meyer”
‘The Blackbird Oracle’ by Deborah Harkness
The Bishop-Clairmont family have fallen into a perfect routine of bliss, spreading their time between New Haven, Oxford, and Sept Tours. But then six year old Becca is given a gift by a dying raven that tells her it is time to go home. A long-dreaded letter from the congregation and a surprise invitation fromContinue reading “‘The Blackbird Oracle’ by Deborah Harkness”
‘When We Were Birds’ by Ayanna Gillian Lloyd
The dead of Fidelis are unhappy and only Darwin and Yejide can appease their anger and their pain. Women in Yejide’s family live between two worlds, with one foot in the living and one with the dead. Ever since her aunt died, her mother has been slowly inching closer to the dead. When she finallyContinue reading “‘When We Were Birds’ by Ayanna Gillian Lloyd”
‘The Porcelain Doll’ by Kristen Loesch
To be published 17/02/2021… Rosie lives in London and studies in Oxford and in the autumn she will marry her perfectly normal and safe fiancé, Richard. Raisa was born in Russia where she lived with her mum and dad and sister until her dad and sister were shot and her mum took her and fledContinue reading “‘The Porcelain Doll’ by Kristen Loesch”
‘Under the Whispering Door’ by TJ Klune
Wallace Price is dead. He’s not overly impressed, but unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be much he can do about it – other than hang out in a teashop with the Mei and Hugo (the reaper and the ferryman) and refuse to move on. Hugo’s dead grandad Nelson is there too, like Wallace stubbornly ignoringContinue reading “‘Under the Whispering Door’ by TJ Klune”
‘Bellevue’ by C.S. Alleyne
‘Bellevue’ features two storylines running side by side, exploring the stories that take place at Bellevue across two different time periods. The 19th century Bellevue takes the form of a corrupt mental asylum where Ellen has been incarcerated by her sister Mary’s manipulations. In the 21st century Claire is living in the newly renovated BellevueContinue reading “‘Bellevue’ by C.S. Alleyne”
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