Yoooooo, listen! I was foaming-at-the-mouth raving about this book for over a week. I sent the author countless emails and Instagram messages at all hours of the day and night. I was a book stalker, my behaviour made worse by the fact that the author enjoyed my lunatic ramblings and dissection of her work. Oy. I'd better stop now, I feel the fever coming on and I want to spill E V E R Y T H I N G.
Be-cause! This is a glorious piece of fiction. Unfortunately for you lot, Carrion Crow is out in 2025. I read a proof. Sorry for you.
There are some facts about the world that only your mother can teach you.
So into the attic she had gone, climbing the stairs towards her promised freedom, and she would stay there until she had learned the lessons that would prepare her for the real world, the lessons that only a mother could teach.
Marguerite Perigord had been confined for the sake of her wellbeing.
That's what her mother had said.
Marguerite Perigord is locked in the attic of her family home, a towering Chelsea house overlooking the stinking Thames. For company she has a sewing machine, Mrs Beeton's…
This book is HILARIOUS. Oh my giddy aunt, I laughed so much. Jane the protag has so many issues - petty jealousies, aimlessness, unbelief - that to insert her into the world of a cult figure was always going to be a disaster waiting to happen. To have her be in PR? Genius. Also, not to brag but I am personally responsible for about ten copies of this book being sold. This is solid data. Source: Trust me, bro. Also, Twitter.
Inner peace Glowing skin The perfect body How far would you go?
Jane Dorner has two modes:
PR Jane is twenty-five, breezy, clever in a non-threatening way and eager to sell you a feminist vibrator.
Actual Jane is twenty-nine, drifting through mediocre workdays and lackluster dates while paralysed by her crushing mountain of overdue bills.
Enter the impossibly gorgeous Cass, whom Jane discovers scrolling through Instagram - proprietor of a 'wellness retreat' based out of a ramshackle country house that may or may not be giving off cult vibes. Suddenly Jane realizes she might have found the one ladder she…
Another banger, another proof and I am not sorry. This one is also out in 2025 and it is an emotional rollercoaster. It gave me many visceral reactions that I had to put it down in several points in the book to punch something, or hop on one foot or...go to the loo (seriously, it gave me stomach issues, that's how good it is). My people believe the stomach to be the seat of emotions and I 100% believe it with this book.
'Evocative and exhilarating. Christina Fonthes is a fresh and powerful new writer with a beautiful voice and bold talent' Salena Godden, author of Mrs. Death Misses Death
'A wonderful, vital novel exploring familial legacies and queer lives. Fonthes deftly charts the complex paths of these characters with real verve and authenticity' Irenosen Okojie MBE
'A captivating read from an exciting new voice' Cherie Jones, author of How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
1980's Kinshasa. Mira is the teenage daughter of a family on the rise. When she falls in love with an impoverished singer, a criminal the eyes of…
Treasure and her mother lost everything when Treasure's daddy died. Haggling for scraps in the market, Treasure meets a spirit who promises to bring her father back - but she has to complete a monstrous task for him first.
Ozoemena has an itch in the middle of her back that can't be scratched. An itch that tells of her great and terrible destiny, passed down through generations, to defend her people by becoming a leopard. Her father impressed upon her what an honour this was before he vanished, but it's one she couldn't want less.
But as the two girls reckon with their burgeoning wildness and the legacy of their fathers' decisions, Ozoemena's fellow students at her new boarding school start to vanish. Treasure and Ozoemena will face frightening choices as they are drawn into battle with sinister forces - and it's a fight they can't both survive.
