We're so excited to reveal that our Summer 2025 Choice will be Fiona Benson's exciting new book Midden Witch - a thrilling story of all the healers, artists and prodigies once persecuted as witches. This Choice leads a fittingly fierce, all female, round of selections for summer!
Our Selectors Yomi Ṣode, Victoria Kennefick, Alycia Pirmohamed, Yousif M. Qasmiyeh and Shivanee Ramlochan read every book and pamphlet due to be published in the next three months and chose the following selections:
Choice: Midden Witch by Fiona Benson (Cape)
Recommendations: Beast by Pascale Petit (Bloodaxe)
Chaotic Good by Isabelle Baafi (Faber)
Versus Versus: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent Poets, edited by Rachael Boast (Bloodaxe Books)
Bunting's Honey by Moya Cannon (Carcanet)
Special Commendation: Heirloom by Catherine-Esther Cowie (Carcanet)
Translation Choice: The River Has No Colour by Jessica Taggart Rose, translated by Claire Durand-Gasselin (New Menard Press)
Pamphlet Choice: Infections of Loss by Rushika Wick (Broken Sleep Books)
Join as a Choice Member to enjoy Midden Witch by Fiona Benson in your Summer Book Box or as a Complete Member to receive the Choice plus all the recommendations and Translation Choice too.