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Cleeve Bookshop
Clicking on the book titles below will take you to the website for Cleeve Bookshop, an independent bookshop in the village of Bishop's Cleeve, Gloucestershire, UK.
August 2025
The Incandescent Emily Tesh
"Dr Walden is the Director of Magic at Chetwood School and one of the most powerful magicians in England ... Walden is good at her job - no, Walden is great at her job. But demons are masters of manipulation."
Blood of Hercules Jasmine Mas
"Step into the Coliseum at the Spartan War Academy where monsters are made, immortality is won, and even a god can die ..."
September 2025
There are Rivers in the Sky Elif Shafak
"This is the story of one lost poem, two great rivers, and three remarkable lives - all connected by a single drop of water ..."
October 2025
King Sorrow Joe Hill
"An epic horror opus that sees six college friends summon the eponymous dragon-demon to wreak bloody vengeance on those who have wronged them."
December 2025
King Nyx Kirsten Bakis
"A contemporary feminist tale with a dreamlike, gothic setting." A fascinating and imaginative story by an author whose debut novel Lives of the Monster Dogs is one of my all-time favourite reads.
July 2026
The Vivisectors Missouri Williams
"Wicked, visceral and strikingly original …” “The acclaimed author of The Doloriad returns with a wildly imaginative new novel following a reclusive graduate in a campus love story like no other”.
August 2026
Roof Boy Jess Blatchley
"For a moment, I am mesmerised by his fearlessness. But there’s another part of me, a darker part, that wonders what it would feel like to watch him fall." A brilliantly dark psychological thriller that questions the nature of psychopathy - are people born evil, or do they have a choice? From friend, and fellow Cleeve Bookshop Writers’ Group alumni, Jess Blatchley.