Steven Erikson - The God Is Not Willing & a revisit of TMBotF

I found The God Is Not Willing in a Canberra bookstore while looking for holiday reading and it perfectly fit the bill - a return to the Malazan Book of the Fallen series, and picking up reasonably directly after the events of the previous main 10-book sequence. It's much more contained in scope and I had to remind myself who the carry-over characters were - apart from Karsa Orlong of course, who doesn't appear 'on stage' but whose presence looms large over all the book's events - but very well crafted and satisfying.

Also led me to revisit the original series, mostly through the re-read archive on Tor.com but also actually re-reading, with varying levels of line-by-lineness, Reaper's Gale, Dust of Dreams and The Crippled God, and recalling how actually awe-inspiring they are.

Tana French - In The Woods

Holiday reading, and one of those where I felt throughout that I'd maybe read it before (but extemporanea suggests otherwise). The first of her Dublin Murder Squad books.

The Fits

Summons intrigue and a sense of realism in its focus on the fainting spells that start hitting members of the girls' dancing troupe. Wisely doesn't steer too hard into the spookiness of the premise.