Ian MacKenzie's promising, but ultimately flawed, debut novel follows Paul Metzger as he attempts to salvage something from his collapsing relationships with his estranged brother, his ex-wife, and his dying father. This futile existence takes a turn when he gets involved in a street fight, and finds himself being stalked by a violent stranger. >>

In Sum, a compact and attractive new book from Canongate, neuroscientist David Eagleman presents us with forty vignettes that imagine variations on the afterlife. >>

Talk of the Town is the first novel from poet Jacob Polley, a coming-of-age tale set in Carlisle during the summer of 1986, and narrated in vernacular by schoolboy Chris Hearsey. His friend Arthur—never the most stable of kids—has gone missing, and Chris sets out to try and find him. >>

Following an abortion and her break-up with a no-good boyfriend, nightclub singer and mother of two Maria begins receiving death threats. As the situation escalates, she begins to doubt her own sanity, and flees to her childhood home on the coast... Bitter Lemon Press published this fast-moving thriller from Dutch author Saskia Noort. >>

Postscripts is the flagship speculative fiction quarterly from PS Publishing. Issue #18 marks its transition from a magazine to a full-fledged anthology, and is dedicated to new writers. So what does it have to offer? >>