A few more books that we couldn’t quite fit in. Set in sixteenth-century Russia, Olesya Salnikova Gilmore’s (out now, Harper Voyager) breathes new life into the folk (12 January, Piatkus). It centres on witch Wynter Dellavale, who flees to Devil’s Cradle, the home of monsters, when the immortal Aeons (who include Abel’s brother Cain) try to execute her. Can you guess who will end up snogging? Holly Black returns to Elfhame for her latest YA book, (3 January, Hot Key). Set eight years after the events of , it sees Suren, child queen of the Court of Teeth, joining Prince Oak, heir to Elfhame, on a mission into the icy North. There, Lady Nore is using an ancient relic to create monsters of stick and snow that will do her bidding… Louise Carey’s cyberthriller trilogy Inscape, set in a future where tech corporations rule the roost, concludes with (out, now, Gollancz). Can Tanta and Cole destroy Harlow 2.0, the mind-based operating system update that’s turned the citizens of InTech into compliant zombies? Fingers crossed, eh. Finally, (out now, Titan) features scripts and commentary on them by Marvel comics scribes such as Al Ewing, Jonathan Hickman, Mark Millar and Mark Waid.
