SHB Books

13/11/2025

We love a fantastical mystery!

Curses, magic, ancient gods, unusual architecture: these SFF books are set in towns where something strange is going on. 🔗👇

29/10/2025

All of them!

07/10/2025

Nothing like a bit of the spooky!

Here are ten new mystery and thriller books coming out in October 2025.

05/10/2025

Hahaha - we would have to say Lord of the Rings - not sure there was much bathing going on!

Social media has been abuzz over a collaboration between Hellman's (the mayo company) and Jennifer Armentrout (an author). Hellman's will be making a "garlic-scented, Craven-Proof edition" of Armentrout's next book, 'The Primal of Blood and Bone.

That got us thinking...

What book would make for the *worst* scented edition?

29/09/2025

Nothing like a good cosy murder mystery, a cat and a hot bevy!

They range from a time-hopping mystery set in the English countryside to a charming tale of an elderly lady shopkeeper sleuth.

(link below)

28/09/2025

The beginning of an excellent series!

This week for we're diving into the Hugo and Nebula-award winning series, The Vorkosigan Saga, with book one in Lois McMaster Bujold's epic science fiction masterpiece, "SHARDS OF HONOR."

When Cordelia Naismith and her survey crew are attacked by a renegade group from Barrayar, she is taken prisoner by Aral Vorkosigan, commander of the Barrayan ship that has been taken over by an ambitious and ruthless crew member.

Aral and Cordelia survive countless mishaps while their mutual admiration and even stronger feelings emerge.



Don't forget to vote in next week's Throwback Thursday poll!

28/09/2025

These Japanese crime dramas will have you perched on the edge of your seat. Here are six shows you can binge tonight on Netflix.

12/03/2025

Reading time!

From Miss Marple to Kinsey Millhone, the pages of mystery fiction are packed with brilliant lady sleuths. Discover the greatest female detectives of all time.

14/02/2025

The 2025 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award is currently accepting submissions for this year's prize! Deadline to enter is April 30, 2025 at 11:59PM eastern time. Any submissions received after that will be disallowed.

Please see the FAQ for the complete rules and requirements!
https://www.baen.com/contest-faa

31/12/2024

Here’s to 2025!

05/11/2024

One of the first questions you have to ask when writing... why don't they just go home? Watch some reruns of a favourite show? Have a nap? (hmmm... naps...)

If you want momentum in your story remember diamonds are made from pressure over time!

29/10/2024

Evocative writing can come in any genre. But what about the ones that draw us in, that make us forget the world around us to immerse ourselves?

Character, yes, but triggering the senses, the imagination is a critical part of that too.

Easier said than done of course!