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Here's Manda's round up of (some of) the best books, poetry and podcasts she's come across this year.   Most of the links are to Bookshop.org in the UK where you can link to an independent bookshop of your choice.  In some cases, we've linked to the authors' website.

Fiction

Rachel Neumeier - Rihasi, Marag, Sekaran, Hedesa - all four are part of the TUYO series. 8 Doors from Dawn to Midnight is a stand alone. 

Natasha Pulley - The Hymn to Dionysus

Antonia Hodgson- The Raven Scholar  

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Katherine Addison - The Tomb of Dragons

Amal El Mohtar  - The River has Roots

Jacqui Morris and Tamsin Abbott - Wild Folk  Wild Gods Rising - Podcast with the authors

(WILD FOLK is being published anew by Chelsea Green in time for the Spring Equinox of 2026
You can order (or pre-order) here in the UK  https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/wild-folk-tales-from-the-stones-jackie-morris/d934f63a50bf69fd

and here in the US https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/828350/wild-folk-by-jackie-morris/ )

Richard Morgan Altered Carbon

Becky Chambers A Long Way to A Small Angry Planet

Poetry: 

You better be Lightning by Andrea Gibson

A Map to the Next World: Poems and Tales by Joy Harjo (YouTube Interview on the Power of Poetry) 

Non Fiction  

Economic Space Agency (Dick Bryan, Jorge Lopez and Akseli Virtanen)  Protocols for Post Capitalist Expression 

Richard Schwartz and Thomas Hübl - Releasing our Burdens: A Guide to Healing Individual, Ancestral and Collective Trauma

Julie Brams The Nature Embedded Mind: How the Way We Think Can Heal Our Planet and Ourselves

Tristan Gooley  How to Read a Tree: Clues and Patterns from