Slow your summer roll with this cozy collection of history and fast fiction. What if Henry VIII and his queens lived in an epic fantasy world with dragons? What if a mother was secretly working as a paid assassin? What if an alien signal sparked the world to change? Explore your humanity and our very existence through these “what-if” novels involving historical fantasy, sci-fi, romance, history, and more in this warm and enriching episode of the Reader’s Forecast; one of these books is for you!

This podcast was not sponsored nor elicited. All books were selected by the host for inclusion in this podcast.

Publishing Week: 16 June 2026

Books included in this weeks forecast by Title & Author (* debut author)

1) Arrivals.& Departures by Amanda Eyre Ward

2) Six Savage Thrones by Holly Race

3) Empire of Ink: The Printers, Rogues, & Radicals Who Invented the American Newspaper by Alex Wright

4) Ghost-Eye by Amitav Ghosh

5) Somebody Worth Killing by Jessica Payne

6) The Lady Imam by Charla Power

7) Good Company by Kate Christensen

8) Little Blue Dot: How GPS Shaped the Modern World by Katherine Dunn *

9) Voyagers by Meg Charlton *