From the Heart of Europe
False Value, by Ben Aaronovitch
Wednesday reading
Feet of Clay, by Terry Pratchett
2025 Hugo stats
Three Eight One, by Aliya Whiteley
The best known books set in each country: Senegal
Inferno, by Gary Russell and John Ridgway
Fake history by Giscard d’Estaing, badly retold by Michel Barnier and then wrongly translated into English
Agent of Death: Memoirs of an Executioner, by Robert Greene Elliott
The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist’s Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo, by Clea Koff
Wednesday reading
Colourfields: Writing About Writing About Science Fiction, by Paul Kincaid
Voyage to Venus / Perelandra, by C.S. Lewis
The Devil’s Chord, by Dale Smith
The best known books set in each country: Somalia
August 2025 books
Hugh Carswell: Belfast’s first science fiction fan
The Iliad, by Homer, tr. Emily Wilson
Doctor Who: The Robot Revolution, by Una McCormack
Wednesday reading
The last three NZ fantasies: Ringlet and the Day the Oceans Stopped, by Felicity Williams; Light in My Blood, by Jean Gilbert & William Dresden; The Crawling Wood, by Casey Lucas
The Incandescent, by Emily Tesh
Deadfall, by Gary Russell
Alice Everett, 1865-1949
The best known books set in each country: Chile
Pronouncing the names correctly at the Hugo ceremony
Who Killed Nessie?, by Paul Cornell and Rachael Smith
Hyperion, by Robbie Morrison et al
Wednesday reading
Inspector French and Sir John Magill’s Last Journey, by Freeman Wills Crofts
House of Odysseus, by Claire North
The Master, by Louise Cooper
The best known books set in each country: Kazakhstan
Dark Winds Over Wellington: Chilling Tales of the Weird & the Strange, by TL Wood
Exterminate/Regenerate: The Story of Doctor Who, by John Higgs
Three New Zealand fantasies: We All Fall, by Helen Vivienne Fletcher; Tyrelia, by S.R. Manssen; Dragon Rift, by Eileen Mueller
Private Road, by Forrest Reid
Wednesday reading
From a Shadow Grave, by Andi C. Buchanan
Spirits Abroad, by Zen Cho
Ventiforms, by Sean Monaghan, and The Blacksmith, by Barbara Howe
Spectral Scream, by Hannah Fergesen
The best known books set in each country: Chad
Tides of the Titans, by Thoraiya Dyer