Aliya Whiteley

From the award-winning author of The Beauty, Aliya Whiteley, comes a genre-defying story of fate, free will, and the choices we make in life. In the aftermath of the Great War, Shirley Fearn dreams of challenging the conventions of rural England, where life is as predictable as the changing of the seasons. The scarred veteran Mr. Tiller, left disfigured by...

A vibrant and emotional science fantasy about cousins trapped in mirrored worlds—the resplendent and verdant summer city and the ice-carved wastes of the winter city. For fans of Every Heart a Doorway and This is How You Lose the Time War. Welcome to Jamie Pike's Fairharbour—a city stuck in perpetual winter, its windows and doorways bricked shut to keep out...

Fungi are not like us – they are entirely, magically something else… Erupting, spreading, decaying, changing. Aliya Whiteley has always been in love with fungi – from a childhood taking blurry photographs of strange fungal eruptions on Exmoor to a career as a writer inspired by their surreal and alien beauty. This love for fungi is a love for life,...

Revolution in the Heart is a collection of 15 brand new stories by a group of celebrated authors, all inspired by one of the iconic figures in all of science fiction and fantasy: the legendary and award-winning Ursula K. Le Guin. From the appearance of her first work of short fiction in 1962 to the publication of the last in...

Fungi can appear anywhere, from desert dunes to frozen tundra, and create anew from rotting matter. They can invade bodies and thoughts; they can live between our toes or between our floorboards. They are unwelcome intruders or vastly expensive treats; they are symbols of both death and eternal life. But despite their familiar presence, there’s still much we don’t know...

The new collection of humane, beautiful, and disarming short stories from the award-winning author of The Beauty, Clarke Award nominee The Loosening Skin, and The Arrival of Missives, Aliya Whiteley. In 16 stories, Whiteley deftly unpeels the strangeness of everyday life through beguiling gardens, rebellious bodies, and journeys across familiar worlds, with her trademark wit and compassion. Witness the future...