Sunday Summary mainly functions as my personal record of book-related topics that have captured my interest over the past week. It also acts as a public memory prompt and bookmarking system.
Books Read/Reading This Week.
Finished:
- Loki: A Bad God’s Guide to Being Good [Loki: A Bad God’s Guide #1] by Louie Stowell
Currently Reading:
- The Incandescent by Emily Tesh
- The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed
Newsy Things
The British Fantasy Awards 2025 where announed yesterday.
The full list of winners is here but these two need highlighting:
- Best Anthology WINNER: BURY YOUR GAYS, EDITED BY SOFIA AJRAM
- Best Non-Fiction WINNER: QUEER AS FOLKLORE BY SACHA COWARD
One is the only anthology I haven’t dipped into yet, but it is very queer, and the other is an outsider to the genre, yet another queer work. A lovely surprise. Thank you, BFA voters.
The World Fantasty Awards 2025 where announced today.
Locus has the full list of winners but I wanted to call out a couple:
- Best Novella WINNER: Yoke of Stars, R.B. Lemberg (Tachyon)
- Best Anthology WINNER: Heartwood, Dan Coxon, ed. (Drugstore Indian)
I am still working on my post about this year’s Novella shortlist, but Yoke of Stars is a worthy winner. I also haven’t yet finished Heartwood, but it’s a powerful collection of works by talented writers, so I can see why it won.
Out This Week-ish in the UK
- Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy (paperback release)
- The House Saphir by Marissa Meyer
- Firstborn of the Sun by Marvellous Michael Anson
- It’s Not a Cult by Joey Batey
- Alien: Perfect Organism by Shaun Hamill
- Titanchild – The Talon Duology by Jen Williams (paperback release)
- The Black Crow Book of Best New Horror. Volume 1
- The Samurai Detectives. Volume 1 – The Samurai Detectives by Shotaro Ikenami [Trans Yui Kajita]
- Eurotrash by Christian Kracht (author) [Trans. Daniel James Bowles]
- The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow
- Hazelthorn by C. G. Drews
- Alien: Cult by Gavin G. Smith
- Fallen City by Adrienne Young
- The Tower of the Tyrant by J. T. Greathouse
- The School of Night by Karl Ove Knausgård [Trans. Martin Aitken]
- Vaim by Jon Fosse [Trans. Damion Searls]
Books That Others have Tempted Me With:
- The Fate of Mary Rose by Caroline Blackwood via bewareofpity
- A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst via Holly’s Reading Escapades! Read with me!
- The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones via ladybug.books (because they said it was in a universe shared with The Drowned Woods
- The Lake House by Sarah Beth Durst via kmb_author
- Extremity by Nicholas Binge: Review by Paul Di Filippo in Locus Magazine
- The Mercy of Gods by James S. A. Corey via AT BOUNDARY’S EDGE
- The Graveview Patient by Caitlin Starling via literarymadmax
Cover Reveal of the Week
The Republic of Memory by Mahmud El Sayed – published in May buy Gollanza/Saga Press
Finally, Womble’s Temptation Post:
https://www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/10/26/wombling-along
In which
- I am tempted by Halcyon Years by Alastair Reynolds
- Find out Ancillary Review of Books has a new translated fiction segment
- I am get more curious about Vampires At Sea by Lindsay Merbaum
- Find out that Reactor really embraced horror in October
And so much more.
Outro
Once again, that turned out to be a much longer post than I expected.
Perhaps next week, it’ll be shorter?
Until next week — happy reading!
Gav Reads 