The Underworld by Sofie Laguna

The Underworld by Sofie LagunaPublication date: 28 October 2025 The Underworld is for every reader you know; thinkers, laughers, empaths, quirky folk, queer folk, nostalgists, the young and those getting on. Readers seeking a happy ending and anyone ready to feel. Anyone who has ever been fourteen. Martha Mullins is a misfit. Her mother is glamorous, aloof and judgemental. Her father, mostly absent. Academic and shy, Martha finds herself fascinated by the underworld, a place she

and a husband and child long lost to her

'Darkly humorous

Once a spook

He was in Berlin with Lamb

He has won the American National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for All the Pretty Horses

Three fantastical and funny tales of mischief

These endlessly surprising organisms have no brain but can solve problems and manipulate animal behaviour with devastating precision

But behind closed doors

The strength

bewitching' Stacey Halls

an expedition of discovery led by John McDouall Stuart departed from a copper mine located on the very edge of the known world in the North Flinders Ranges

the unease that has lurked quietly in the original killer's wake turns to foreboding