Black Woods, Blue Sky
by Eowyn Ivey (Feb 4, 2025)
Eowyn Ivey had a runaway bestseller years ago with Snow Child, and I was so thrilled to see - finally - another novel coming. This one is also set in Alaska, Ivey’s home state, about a woman named Birdie and her daughter, Emaleen. It sounds like this one will have a little bit of everything - magical realism, romance, mother/daughter relationships, survival - all set in the most extreme of environments.
Wild Dark Shore
by Charlotte McConaghy (March 4, 2025)
If climate crisis novels are a thing, then Charlotte McConaghy is the queen of them. Her first two novels (Migrations and Once There Were Wolves) set the bar pretty high for this third novel out in March. Wild Dark Shore is the story of Dominic Salt and his three children, living in a lighthouse on an island between Australia and Antarctica. The lighthouse is defunct, and their main job has been to help the team of scientists secure and categorize seeds in the underground seed vault on the island. When a woman washes up on their shores, suspicions run rampant. The woman, Rowan, has her own suspicions - why are there no scientists left on this research base? Why have all the communication channels been destroyed? And mostly, what will happen as the ocean continues to rise.
Red Dog Farm
by Nathaniel Ian Miller (March 4, 2025)
I very much loved Nathaniel Ian Miller’s debut novel, The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven, and I can’t wait for his new one to come out in March. Red Dog Farm is the story of of a young man named Orri in contemporary Iceland who leaves university to help his father, Pabbi, on their cattle farm.
Rabbit Moon
by Jennifer Haigh (April 8, 2025)
I’m a big fan of Jennifer Haigh and some of her previous work (Faith, Heat & Light, The Condition). This one also sounds like a winner - a recently divorced couple must come back together when their daughter is in a hit and run accident. In a city they didn’t know she was in. Leading a double life they knew nothing about. Set in Singapore and rife with family drama. This has a premium spot on my TBR.
The Hounding
by Xenobe Purvis (August 5, 2025)
Ok, this feels like its ages away but the tag line is “Shirley Jackson meets The Virgin Suicides” and I’m already all-in. Set in a small town in 18th century England, The Hounding introduces us to the five Mansfield sisters - orphans being raised by their kindly (but blind-ly) grandfather. When one of the townsmen claims to have seen the eldest sister transform into a hound, rumors start to fly and tempers start to flair. Similar to The Virgin Suicides, this story is told from a variety of villagers but not the sisters themselves, so readers are left to draw their own conclusions about what really happened.
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