My Halloween Bingo reads this week cover a lot of ground. I think that’s one of the fun things about the game. It prompts me to read the things in my TBR pile that I liked enough to buy but have left to gather virtual dust. This week’s selection has been on my shelves for an average of five years, with the oldest being bought in 2014.

What can I say? I’ve been busy. Not buying that? Neither am I. I’m a book addict. I buy more books than I have time to read. That’s unlikely to change.

So, this week, I have three authors I’ve enjoyed before giving me an exorcist in alternative London where the dead have found ways to come back, a dark, magical realism fairy tale in New York and a boy scratching a living salvaging copper from grounded oil tankers on a near-future Gulf Coast…