Word Magic 2025 - Accidental Gods' pick of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and podcasts through the year

Here's Manda's round up of (some of) the best books, poetry and podcasts she's come across this year.   Most of the links are to Bookshop.org in the UK where you can link to an independent bookshop of your choice.  In some cases, we've linked to the authors' website. Fiction Rachel Neumeier - Rihasi, Marag, Sekaran, Hedesa - all four are part of the TUYO series. 8 Doors from Dawn to Midnight is a stand alone.  Natasha Pulley - The Hymn to Dionysus Antonia Hodgson- The Raven Scholar    + Katherine Addison - The Tomb of Dragons Amal El Mohtar  - The River has Roots Jacqui Morris and Tamsin Abbott - Wild Folk  Wild Gods Rising - Podcast with the authors Richard Morgan Altered Carbon Becky Chambers A Long Way to A Small Angry Planet Poetry:  You better be Lightning by Andrea Gibson A Map to the Next World: Poems and Tales by Joy Harjo (YouTube Interview on the Power of Poetry)  Non Fiction   Economic Space Agency (Dick Bryan, Jorge Lopez and Akseli Virtanen)  Protocols for Post Capitalist Expression  Richard Schwartz and Thomas Hübl - Releasing our Burdens: A Guide to Healing Individual, Ancestral and Collective Trauma Julie Brams The Nature Embedded Mind: How the Way We Think Can Heal Our Planet and Ourselves Tristan Gooley  How to Read a Tree: Clues and Patterns from Roots to Leaves  Justine Afra Huxley and Anna Kovasna  Co-creating with a Living Intelligent Earth: Pathways towards Kincentric Leadership Eliezer Yudkowsky & Nate Soares If Anyone Builds it, Everyone Dies: The case against superintelligent AI PODCASTS Nate Hagens The Great Simplification: If Anyone Builds it, Everyone Dies: How Artificial SuperIntelligence Might Wipe Out our Entire Species w Nate Soares Your Undivided Attention: Feed Drop: “Into the Machine” with Tobias Rose-Stockwell Upstream - A World out of Balance: Introducing Doughnut 3.0 w Andrew Fanning  Point of Relation with Thomas Hübl: Becoming an Ally of Life  Love and Philosophy by Andrea Hiott: Moving Beyond Binaries in Eduction: Andrea Hiott in Conversation with Tim Logan of Future Learning Design Future Learning Design What’s Love Got to Do with Education? A Conversation with Dr Laura Penn, Khadija Shahper Backthiar, Jamie Bristow and Andrea Hiott Step Outside, Stand Still Pauline Leitch Magazine Permaculture Magazine Subscriptions What we offer: Accidental Gods, Dreaming Awake and the Thrutopia Writing Masterclass If you'd like to join our next Open Gathering offered by our Accidental Gods Programme it's  'Dreaming Your Year Awake' (you don't have to be a member) on Sunday 4th January 2026 from 16:00 - 20:00 GMT - details are here If you'd like to join us at Accidental Gods, this is the membership where we endeavour to help you to connect fully with the living web of life. If you'd like to train more deeply in the contemporary shamanic work at Dreaming Awake, you'll find us here. If you'd like to explore the recordings from our last Thrutopia Writing Masterclass, the details are here