Book reviews

The new series from the author of the bestselling His Dark Materials continues in The Secret Commonwealth.

Becky Chambers assembles an intriguing cast of species in a spacecraft on a mission into deep space.

Underground Airlines is set in modern day USA – basically the same except for one overwhelming difference: the Civil War

Boy Swallows Universe is a first novel rich in adventure, description and plot.

Cixin Liu takes the tropes of science fiction and looks at them with new eyes in this ambitious and imaginative