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LOVE IS AN ALGORITHM de Laura Brooke Robson

For fans of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Good Material, LOVE IS AN ALGORITHM follows Eve, a musician with writer’s block, and Danny, a dating app’s disillusioned co-founder, as they navigate the perils of love in the time of AI.

LOVE IS AN ALGORITHM
by Laura Brooke Robson
Park Row/Harper, Spring 2026
(via Harvey Klinger Agency)

Pattern is more than just a dating app—it’s your friendly relationship coach. It will tell you whether you should invest in learning your partner’s love language (quality time!) or pull the escape hatch. The latest version of Pattern includes Bug, a friendly AI chatbot guaranteed to give you bespoke relationship advice and revitalize that spark. Take the uncertainty out of love! This process is entirely safe 🙂

For fans of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Good Material, LOVE IS AN ALGORITHM follows Eve, a musician with writer’s block, and Danny, Pattern’s disillusioned co-founder, as they navigate the perils of love in the time of AI. But then their budding romance becomes the catalyst for a revolutionary new version of the app that promises to quantify relationship health and potential. As the app catches fire, users everywhere begin outsourcing not just compatibility questions but major life decisions to Danny’s algorithms.

But as Danny reckons with the app’s newfound success, Eve wrestles with whether to use AI in her work. When a deepfake video of Eve supposedly getting hit by the M23 bus does the rounds online—and Eve’s fans become convinced she’s dead—Eve must confront what makes life feel real. Meanwhile, Danny struggles to connect with his dying father, who confides more in Bug than in him—forcing Danny to face that the technology he built to bring people closer is pushing him further away from the person he most wants to know.

LOVE IS AN ALGORITHM is a timely, funny, chronically online novel about making art, outsourcing our emotions to technology, and writing our own love stories.

Laura Brooke Robson grew up in Oregon and studied English and Creative Writing at Stanford. She is also the author of the young adult novels Girls at the Edge of the World and The Sea Knows My Name. She lives in New York.

SHADOW OF THE LOOM de Michael Sala

In the tradition of Justin Cronin, prize-winning author Michael Sala has created a breathtaking new fantasy series with an absorbing cast of flawed heroes and heroines. With its propulsive narrative, and its epic world-building, THE WAR OF THE SHROUD is set to become a publishing sensation.

SHADOW OF THE LOOM
(The War of the Shroud, Book One)
by Michael Sala
Text Publishing, June 2026

The world is fractured. Every night, the Shroud rises from the cracks, a dread mist that devours souls…Or transforms them.

Isa was always viewed with suspicion in her village. Partly because her mother was a foreigner, partly because Isa fell into the Shroud as a child and survived. This animosity has smouldered away, fanned by the village Seer. And when Isa’s father can no longer protect her, she has only the forest for refuge.

Dio’s family is poor, but she knows that when the time comes she will be chosen, elevated to the Weaver caste and trained for mighty deeds. But when her father sells her to a city crime lord to pay his gambling debts, Dio will have only two options: kill or die.

Kyron is destined for greatness. As a Second of the Hyrarchs, he will eventually take his place among the half-dozen most powerful people in the world. Until an act of shocking violence destroys his innate powers, and his life is upended. Now he has to decide who he will betray in order to survive.

These three people, living in different places and times, have never met. But a time of crisis is coming for their world. Between them, they hold its future in their hands.

“The story is a huge feat of imagination, the narrative drags you in powerfully, and the characters are subtly drawn but heroic. It hits all the right notes and just the right amount of new ones – everyone here who’s read any fantasy thinks it is up there with best in class.” (Mandy Brett, senior editor)

Michael Sala is a prize-winning Australian author, whose earlier works have been praised by many, including Raimond Gaita and Hannah Kent. He was born in the Netherlands in 1975 to a Greek father and a Dutch mother, and first came to Australia in the 1980s. His critically acclaimed debut, The Last Thread, won the 2013 NSW Premier’s Award for New Writing and was the regional winner (Pacific) of the 2013 Commonwealth Book Prize.

NAVIGATORS YOU CAN TRUST de Patrick Fitzgerald

Perfect for fans of Dungeons & Dragons, this action fantasy follows a mercenary, a swashbuckler, a knight, and a treasure hunter who are recruited to use their powers to protect a world while a perpetual war rages on.

NAVIGATORS YOU CAN TRUST
by Patrick Fitzgerald
Podium Publishing, May 2026
(via JABberwocky)

Meet Murta, Enoch, Jezna, and Prince.

They are a mercenary, a swashbuckler, a knight, and a treasure hunter. Each was recruited to train with the Brotherhood and become the newest Navigational Squadron and to follow in the fabled footsteps of the Leviathan and other storied navigators of Squadrons past.

But this isn’t the best time to be joining the Brotherhood. It’s hard in the best of times to be the neutral group in the middle, but with the Perpetual War starting to boil up again, the tension rising between the Noda and the Government, and rumors that the Jackals have resurfaced, there’s no room in the middle.

Now Murta, Enoch, Jezna, and Prince have to find themselves and the Tintagen Talismans, and confront their own pasts and innermost secrets while contending with factions both within and without the Brotherhood.

And the fate of the world of Archengard rests on whether they can, in fact, become navigators you can trust.

Patrick Fitzgerald developed a passion for fantasy books at an early age and graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign with a major in creative writing. When he’s not reading or writing, Fitzgerald works in auto insurance and spends his free time playing (and obsessing over) heavy metal music. Outside of brief stints in England and Ireland, he has lived in Normal, Illinois, his entire life.

BAD NEWS DADS d’Adam Frost bientôt adapté en série TV

Warner Bros. Television a récemment remporté les droits d’adaptation audiovisuelle du roman BAD NEWS DADS du scénariste Adam Frost, dans des enchères très compétitives.

Greg Berlanti, connu pour Fly Me to the Moon, Love, Simon et Life as We Know It, produira la série, aux côtés de James Marsden (Paradise, Westworld, 27 Dresses et The Notebook) qui sera également producteur et acteur principal.

Voici une présentation du roman, dont les droits de langue française sont toujours disponibles :

A hilarious and superbly plotted crime novel for fans of Richard Osman and Elle Cosimano.

BAD NEWS DADS
by Adam Frost
Emily Bestler Books/Simon & Schuster, Summer 2026 
(via Sterlin gLord Literistic)

The Bad News Dads are a recreational baseball team in Los Angeles—a terrible one, made up of a bunch of 40-something dads, several of them of the stay-at-home variety. Tired of the constant grind of packing lunches and coordinating school pick-ups, the team’s catcher, Ben, is looking for some action. When a teammate’s wife dies tragically, Ben and his two closest friends decide that something fishy has happened, and they blithely take it upon themselves to solve what they’re sure is a murder. But can they fall down the dark rabbit hole of a murder investigation without ruining their home lives? Without ruining their friendships? And without getting killed themselves?

Adam Frost was born in Vancouver, Canada. He is a writer, actor, and director known for Castle (2009), Extreme Movie (2008) and Tribal (2020).

THE PIECES OF US de Claire Alexander

Three generations of women. Three life altering events. As they discover the truth of their heritage, they’ll discover what makes the pieces of us…

THE PIECES OF US
by Claire Alexander
Penguin Michael Joseph UK, August 2025
(via Mushens Entertainment)

At fifty-eight Minnie McAllister isn’t an old woman. But as Alzheimer’s ravages her mind, her brain says otherwise.

Cat McAllister is tackling everything life can throw at her. And just when she thinks it can’t get any worse, she’s faced with the discovery that Minnie might not be the mother she once knew.

Meanwhile, Cat’s daughter, Ruby McAllister, who is staring at a two very blue lines, faces a decision that will change the course of her life.

As three generations of women are pulled in three different directions, each are forced to learn lessons about themselves that they never could have imagined.

Claire Alexander lives with her young family on the west coast of Scotland. A freelance journalist, she has written about parenting, sobriety, mental health and wellbeing for publications including The Washington Post, The Independent, The Huffington Post and Glamour. When she’s not writing or parenting, she’s on her paddle board, thinking about her next book. Claire is the author of Meredith, Alone and The Pieces of Us is her second novel.