Out This Week! 12th January 2026
15th January 2026 – Flight of the Aura – C K Galloway
The planet of Sayyora has endured three cataclysms, and it is the duty of the gods to protect the humans who remain from themselves. At least, that’s what the godling Arawan believes, until she sees the surface for herself.
Arawan is an Aura, a genetically engineered angel living in the sky realm, where logic and obedience are divine virtues. But Arawan is cursed with emotions, imperfections, and curiosity about the forbidden surface world below, with all its colours, smells, and chaotic life. She has only kept her wings by making deals with clones and sacrificing her flock – until her final test, where she risks everything by trying to save her friend.
Now, the only thing that can save her wings is another deal with the enigmatic Archon Ghost. She must spy on the rival Ionian nation, descending to a world that will change everything she believes.
Among the Ionians, she learns to live without nectar, the drug that keeps Aurae emotionless and compliant and discovers the dangerous pull of forbidden love with Zed, an Ionian senator who sees her as more than a divine weapon.
But when Arawan uncovers the brutal truth about her people, she must choose between the wings she’s always wanted and the freedom she never knew existed.
Betrayal. Memory manipulation. A choice that will cost her everything.
In a world where gods demand perfection, one angel’s fall might be the only way to rise.
Perfect for fans of The Poppy War and Iron Widow who love complex world-building, morally grey characters, and protagonists who refuse to bow to tyranny, even when the tyrants are gods.
15th January 2026 – Godstorm – Solitaire Townsend
‘This startling alternative history takes us to a newly-imagined world… The result is a vivid, ferocious adventure’ Kim Stanley-Robinson
‘A highly original, vividly-imagined fantasy Roman Empire where oil is power’ Ruth Downie
A Female Gladiator’s Vow. A Stolen Child. A Storm to End Empires
In an oil-fuelled Roman Empire which never fell, Arrow – a gladiatrix turned governess – must rescue Livy, the child she never meant to love, a girl who could tear down the world.
When Livy is abducted during a devastating Godstorm, Arrow must unleash years of the gladiator training she’d sworn to forget in order to save her. Defying her owner, a heartless Consul, Arrow turns to her ex-lover and the illegal druid underworld in a desperate attempt to rescue the girl she has tried not to think of as her own.
Her search will take her across Londinium, a city of petrol-powered chariots, to the pagan Old Town, and eventually the edge of the known world: the Amazon, where destiny and destruction intertwine.
Facing battle and betrayal Arrow must choose: reclaim her past as a killer―or risk everything for the child who might call her ‘mother.’
She is the Sword.
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