Paper Road Press: 5 books

Step up, as close as you dare… …to a place at the edge of sanity, where cicadas scritch across balmy summer nights, at the edge of town, where the cell phone coverage is decidedly dodgy, at the edge of space, where a Mimbinus argut bounds among snowy rocks, at the edge...

Run out of Black Mirror? Make Pocket Wife your next tech dystopia read. Carl’s work requires him to travel extensively, but he and his wife Jenny stay connected through their Tinys – four-inch-tall replicas of themselves which, when turned on, transmit whatever sensory information they...

Writing on the theme of strange tales of Aotearoa New Zealand, seven Kiwi authors weave stories of people and creatures displaced in time and space, dangerous odysseys, and even more dangerous discoveries. Praised as "six of the best" by renowned sci-fi writer Phillip Mann, these...

The young ladies of Hertfordshire are dropping like flies. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a mother in possession of unmarried daughters must be in want of eligible bachelors. Less well known are the lengths to which she might go to attract them… Bursting with subterfuge,...

Octavia Cade weaves together time and memory, physics and mystery, in this story inspired by Ernest Rutherford’s life and research. Two young boys disappear in the Sounds. Their mother grieves, all the music cut out of her heart; their father wanders the coast for a year, wanting and not wanting...