Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 5th September 2026

in hardcover:

Brandon Sanderson & Janci Patterson – Blightfall the 1st in their Skyward Legacy series, set in Sanderson’s Cytoverse and a follow-up to his Skyward trilogy
Sydney Olivia – A Viper Among Kings Esme is one of 7 magically bound beings who can wield magic but who rigs the succession for a candidate who she thought would be better for her own aims…
Olivia Hayward – Tailwind dragon racing!

Jo Walton – Everybody’s Perfect set in a mythical Venice, crossroads to the nine worlds!

James Islington – Scion in a world of limited resources assassins are employed to kill the profligate ultra-rich…
Chloe Benjamin – Under Story Lucy has a menial job on a big Antarctic base but then her ex-husband arrives to investigate some anomalous data…

Kenan Orhan – The Renovation instead of a new kitchen in her house the builders fit a doorway to a Turkish jail cell instead!

in softcover:

Kristen Britain – Falling in a Sea of Stars the 8th novel in her Green Rider series. The previous novel length volume was Winterlight

Naomi Novik – The Summer War Celia attempts to undo a curse she angrily put on her brother! A novella companion to Uprooted & Spinning Silver
Maddie Martinez – The Maiden and Her Monster Malka makes a bargain with a golem to help her mother but it all goes wrong!
Keri Lake – Anathema Maevyth flees through the bone archway seeking refuge in the Eating Woods…

Lexie Sharabianlou – The Blue Moon Cafe & 24-Hour Occult Emporium a reputation for bad coffee conceals a secret mission to help save magical beings who are being hunted down…
Tiffany Hunt – The Dark Lord’s Guide to Dating (and Other War Crimes) start of a new series..

Seth Haddon – Volatile Memory Wylla finds a strange AI artifact on a distant planet…
Meredith Katz – The Cybernetic Tea Shop Sal is a failing robot trying to run a tea shop and Clara is a wandering AI repair tech…
Nathan Powell – Quarter Share Ishmael joins the crew of the Solar Clipper, an interstellar trader

Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 29th August 2026

in hardcover:

Adrian Tchaikovsky – Preaching to the Choir a generational family meeting reveals some very old secrets! Signed, limited edition from Solaris.
Anthony Ryan – Upon the Forge of Battle 3rd in his Age of Wrath series, which began with A Tide of Black Steel & Born of an Iron Storm

Laura Coleman – The Heart and the Hawthorn Frida has her dream job, looking after unicorns, etc. at the London Extraordinary Zoo!
C. L. Clark – Fortune’s Wake Kova becomes an apprentice to a master Monster Hunter; but It doesn’t go well!

in softcover:

Yume Kitasei – Saltcrop in the near/mid future, with climate change & pollution ravaging the world, Skipper goes looking fo her elder sister, who ha disappeared… I enjoyed the h/c a lot.
Tony Harmsworth – Moonscape something strange and alien is loose in the moon-base

T’ Kingfisher – Daggerbound sequel to Swordheart
K. X. Song – The Dragon Wakes With Thunder a sea dragon helped now disgraced Meilin during the war and now it’s returned seeking its dues!

S. Hati – The Carousel of Forgotten Places Ryka has run a magical funfair for 500 years but now a human has appeared and must be returned home…
Mir Benitz – Fire Power competitive dragon racing!
Meg Pennerson – Wizards, Heists and Other Ways to Steal a Spellbook sequel to Dragons, Heists and Other Retirement Plans
Kentaro Utsugi – The Nine Lives of a Bookshop Cat a cat on his ninth life finds a safe, cozy but strange bookshop to spend his time in…

V. E. Schwab – Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil 3 women across the centuries all have the same wish..
Michael Redhill – The Trial of Katterfelto in the 1790s a stage magician discovers an old silver horn which may speak prophecies!
Kosoko Jackson – The Macabre struggling artist Lewis is invited to the British Museum because only he can help destroy his late father’s infamous paintings!

Josh Rountree – Summer in the House of the Departed ghost story set in rural west Texas. Always enjoy his work… Novella
Adrian Tchaikovsky – The Roar Of The Crowd short fantasy story in a font designed to be dyslexia friendly. I enjoyed The House on the Old Cliffs, his previous little story in this series.by BOTH Publishing.

magazines:

Metal Hurlant – issue # 5 of the relaunched magazine. Secondary title is Passing Through
Character Design Quarterly – CDQ # 36. Published by 3dtotal Publishing. Looks like an interesting issue

Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 22nd August 2026

in hardcover:

C. A. Fletcher – The Two of Us at the End of the World centuries after civilisation collapsed, two people flee into the hills to escape approaching strangers…
Natasha Pulley – The Salt King Avelyn is sent by the Vatican to investigate reports of miracles taking place at the little town he grew up in and never wanted to go back to…

Chuck Wendig – The Calamities Mayne’s half-demonic family controls great wealth and power and he is due to take over the running of it all, but he’d rather not…

in softcover:

Steven Erikson – No Life Forsaken subtitled The Second Tale of Witness and the sequel to The God is not Willing

Jamie Pacton & Rebecca Podos – Homeward for a Spell Sage gets her big chance to lead a quest and musician Araphi answers an ad to join a band, except it’s not a musical band!
Jared Pechacek – The West Passage the Guardian of the West Passage has died and no successor has been appointed but now ominous signs are growing and action must be taken!

T. L. Huchu – Secrets of the First School the 5th in his Edinburgh Nights series, which began with The Library of the Dead

Angelica Gorodischer – Trafalgar the hero sits in a cafe drinking coffee and recounting tales of his galaxy-wide exploits… Reprint of her 1979 work, translated from Spanish in 2013 by Amalia Gladhart for Small Beer Press.

magazines, etc:

McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern – MySweeney’s 82 dos-à-dos format, with two spines! Limited copies; I was short-supplied.

Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 15th August 2026

in hardcover:

Gareth Hanrahan – The Dungeon Book : (As told by Cornelius the skull) kidnapped and brought up by goblins in a labyrinthine dungeon, Bait has to decide where she belongs…

Seanan McGuire – Inkpot Gods the 4th of The Alchemical Journeys, which started with Middlegame

Heather Walter – The Witch Queen Ayleth has schemed her way to the throne but now all her enemies are making plans!

Christelle Dabos – We everybody has an assigned role they must conform to in the Collective… Translated from French by Hildegarde Serle

in softcover:

James Logan – The Blackfire Blade sequel to The Silverblood Promise and volume 2 of the Last Legacy series
L. E. Modesitt, jr. – Sub-Majer’s Challenge the 25th volume of The Saga of Recluce
Esther Park – The Legend of Lady Byeoksa Lady Bin disguises herself as a male ghost-stalker to earn enough to escape her curse… Translated from Korean by Gene Png

L. J. Andrews – The Mist Thief politics among the elven kingdoms has forced Skadi to marry a Prince she recently tried to kill…

J. Penner – A Fellowship of Curses & Cats 4th of the Adenashire books. The 1st was A Fellowship of bakers and Magic

Jamie D’Amato – The Good Vampire’s Guide To Blood And Boyfriends just because he’s become a vampire Brennan doesn’t see why anything should have to change…

art, etc:

Nathan Fowkes – Designing Imaginative Environments large, heavily-illustrated h/c from 3dtotal Publishing, subtitled Creating locations and landscapes for concept art and illustration

Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 8th August 2026

in hardcover:

Robert Jackson Bennett – A Trade of Blood 3rd in the series featuring detectives Dinios & Ana, which began with the award-winning The Tainted Cup
Sarah Beth Durst – Sea of Charms companion volume to The Spellshop

A.J. Lancaster – How To Find A Nameless Fae Princess Gisele was promised to an evil sorcerer but, decades later, he still hasn’t shown up again…

Richard Swan – The Infinite State a rich heiress tries a strange social experiment on a distant planet of the Empire…

in softcover:

Adrian Tchaikovsky – Spiderlight a mismatched band set out to defeat the Dark Lord…
Travis Baldree – Brigands & Breadknives 3rd in the series that began with Legends & Lattes
Hannah Nicole Maehrer – Adversary to the Villain 3rd in the series.after Assistant… and Apprentice…

Disco Barrington – This Is How The World Ends in a failing, isolated Britain life keeps getting worse…
Mark Bozon – The Mindless the greatest city ever built had sealed it’s entrances and anyone invited to enter never returned…

Stephen Jones (editor) – Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth 11 stories by other authors plus an early draft version of The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H. P. Lovecraft
Mike Ashley (editor) – Danse Macabre the latest anthology in the British Library‘s Tales of the Weird series. Subtitled Strange Stories From France. All the way from Guy de Maupassent to Aliette de Bodard.

Transreal Fiction New Titles – 1st August 2026

in hardcover:

Jaclyn Moriarty – Time Travel for Beginners a small shop in downtown Sydney appears to offer the impossible…

Christy Anne Jones – Theodora’s Tea Shop Dot takes a job in a magical teashop in a distant city, but the owner’s past threatens everything!
Laura E Weymouth – The castle and the Cloister with the kingdom on the brink of war, Fiametta seeks sanctuary within the last surviving cloisters of the sun goddess…

Grace Viall – (Mostly) Human Resources Alexys takes a new job overseeing the monsters of Appalachia and discovers that the Wardeb in charge has vanished…
Ian Green – The Deep and the Drowned Killian is an expert sailor but now has to sail a course few have survived…

in softcover:

Hayley Gelfuso – The Book of Lost Hours fleeing the Nazis, Lisavet becomes trapped in a vast, magical library…
Cassandra Khaw – The Library at Hellebore the faculty staff of the Institute are, in reality, some of the most dangerous and wicked beings in the world…

David Southwell – Hookland Fragments subtitled Volume 1: Remembering Differently

sorry for the delay today; I was vainly hanging on for a couple of boxes which were due today but patently have not arrived
Last reported at Coventry trans-shipment depot at 07.38 this morning, bound for Edinburgh, having already been on the road for well over 9 hours……

Christopher Ruocchio – Shadows Upon Time the concluding large novel of his 7-book Sun Eater series
Mona Tewari – Burn the Sea fleets of the fearsome half man/half snake people re attempting to lay claim to the coasts of a new continent…

Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 25th July 2026

in hardcover:

Barbara Erskine – The Valley of Ravens Eve goes to live in an old abandoned cottage, which may have links back to a medieval Welsh prince…
Andrea Eames – A Tangled Magic after her mother disappears Netta ventures out from the Tower, the only place she’s ever known…
Elise Kova – Prince of Swords sequel to Arcana Academy

Glenn Dixon – The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances the local internet of things want to help Harold after his wife dies…

in softcover:

Anthony Ryan – Born of an Iron Storm : vol 2 of the Age of Wrath and sequel to A Tide of Black Steel

H.G. Parry – The Witch Below the Dreaming Wood during WW2 Elaine is sent by the British Museum to catalogue a rare collection in Wales…
Amal El-Mohtar – The River Has Roots two devoted sisters tend the enchanted willows but then one falls in love…
A. K. Caggiano – Eclipse of the Crown the 3rd in the Villains & Virtues series

Amanda Foody & C.L. Herman – A Fate So Cold every year magicians must defend the realm against a devastatingly cold winter season…
K.A. Linde – The Robin on the Oak Throne all she had to do was steal a bracelet from the Queen of the Nymphs!

Geoffrey D. Morrison – The Coffin of Honey people start having strange visions and apparently visiting another, very different, world
Calvin James – Affairs of State Levan is pulled from the front lines in a space war to become an ambassador because of his past relationship with the opposing emperor…

Christopher Golden & Brian Keene (editors) – The End of the World as We Know It subtitled New Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand. Anthology full of contributions from top authors

Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 18th July 2026

in hardcover:

Thomas Elrod – The Franchise the actors in a hugely popular fantasy franchise believe that it’s all real!
Martha Wells – Platform Decay a new Murderbot novel

Jo Walton – Everybody’s Perfect set in Venice’s mystical sister city…

Brandon Sanderson & Peter Orullian – Songs of the Dead the 1st volume of The Strata Wars

Jack Campbell – Squad Kill Oz, with some rag-tag marines, is put in command of a seemingly boring scientific expedition to a distant planet…

in softcover:

Juliet Marillier – The Amber Owl new novel from the 2025 World Fantasy Award—Life Achievement award winner. Part 1 of the Heartwood Duology
Sarah Beth Durst – The Enchanted Greenhouse Terlu may have to break the law to help save some magical greenhouses…
Benedict Jacka – A Judgement of Powers : An Inheritance of Magic vol 3

M. A. Carrick – The Eye of Leviathan Spanish explorers have discovered the magical Sea Beyond…
Elizabeth Moon – Sheepfarmer’s Daughter book 1 of The Book of Paksenarrion epic fantasy first published in 1988

Megan Shunmugam – The Mortal Trials every decade 13 humans must compete in elven games
Chinaza Bado – Birth of a Dynasty M’Kuru is hiding, awaiting his chance for revenge, when an imposter claims his identity!

J. R. Dawson – The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World the lighthouse guiding departed souls has started to flicker…

Munir Hachemi – The Mulai a long-forgotten colony world has evolved in very strange ways…
David Wellington – Erebus-13 the 3rd in his Red Space series

Taylor Anderson – Inferno’s Shadow the 4th in his Artilletymen series; the companion to the Destroyerman series

art, etc:

Moebius – The Depressed Hunter the latest hardcover in the Moebius Library. Mainly b&w h/c featuring Major Grubert

magazines, etc:

McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern – issue # 81

New Titles – w/e 11th July 2026

in hardcover:

Isabel J. Kim – Sublimation Rose emigrates to New York but leaves a copy of herself behind in Korea…
Molly Tanzer – And Side By Side They Wander Earth had lent aliens its finest masterpieces but now the aliens only want to return perfect copies…

Chara Bullen – The Inn at the Foot of Mount Vengeance a city librarian is forced to do some original research in a remote part of the kingdom…
Travis Deverell (writing as Shirtaloon) – Outworlder part 1 of He Who Fights With Monsters: in the same vein at Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman. The series name is much more prominent than the individual book title.

Amanda Edmiston – Collected Curiosities : subtitled More Stories and Recipes from the Historical Apothecary Cabinet and a companion volume to her earlier The Time Traveller’s Herbal

in softcover:

Ken Liu – All That We See or Seem now an adult, Julia is trying to escape her ‘teenage hacker’ fame when a desperate lawyer tracks her down…
Ursula LeGuin – Paradises Lost novella, originally in her The Birthday of the World collection from 2002

Mikey Please – The Expanded Earth to save humanity everybody has been reduced in size to a few inches tall!

Robyn J. Pritzker – The Monsingers desperate for a job, Ismay agrees to tutor three sisters, who turn out to live near an entrance to fairyland!

Emma Osborne – Grief Eater slim horror novel set in Melbourne

Peter Stevenson – Water Folk Tales re-tellings of 40 stories from all over the world. Subtitled Mermaids, Selkies and Swan Girls

Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 4th July 2026

in hardcover:

Rebacca Thorne – Moss’d in Space an alien has abandoned a spaceship run by a sentient AI, and it’s bored and confused!
Meg Charlton – Voyagers two people, both apparently abducted ab aliens as children, try to find each other after a signal from space is received…

Mai Mochizuki – Dreamers of the Full Moon Coffee Shop a certain white cat may lead you to a very special little coffee shop… Translated from Japanese by Jordan Taylor

H. P. Lovecraft – Macabre Stories 19 of his short stories in a cute little h/c edition

Steve Brusatte – The Story of Birds subtitled An Evolutionary History of the Dinosaurs That Live Among Us. With chapter heading b&w art by local artist Cordelia Marks Venters

in softcover:

Alison King – The Phoenix Pencil Factory Monica writes computer code but as her grandmother ages, she starts to investigate her mysterious past,,,
Mike Brooks – This is Where the Future Bleeds Kitt is one of the last Diviners, able to find rich peoples’ destinies
Solitaire Townsend – God Storm Arrow is a gladiatrix in a modern(ish) Rome that never fell
David Wragg –The Iron Road the 3rd of the Tales of the Plains

Jongwon Seo – The Moon Glow Bookshop down a quiet alley lies a very special litle shop…
Sangu ManDanna – A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping Sera used up most of her magical power saving her aunt and now runs a quiet inn but now a magical historian thinks he may be able to help…Translated from Korean by Shanna Tan

Maria Z. Medina – Mistress of Bones necromancer Azul will try to steal from Death himself to save her sister, but Enjul, Death’s emissary will do anything to stop her…
Rebecca Ross – Wild Reverence 10 years ago, messenger Matilda failed to reply to a plea for help and now finds herself delivering an important message to the same person

Luis Othoniel Rosa – Animal Spiral two twins manage to wire their brains together and the resulting merged mind soon acquires many more consciousnesses in it’s growing network. Translated from Spanish by Katie Marya
Chloe Gong – Coldwire two rival cadets must join forces to expose a conspiracy…

M. John Harrison – Nova Swing his 2006 novel, now a Science Fiction Masterwork, with a new intro by Adam Roberts. Winner of both the ACC & PKD Awards
Richard Morgan – Thirteen (original 2017 title Black Man) Now a Science Fiction Masterwork.
Mikhail Bulgakov – The Fatal Eggs First published in 1925, this is a reprint of the 1972 translation from Russian by Carl Proffer. A plague kills off all of Russia’s chickerns…

Jorge Luis Borges – The Book of Imaginary Beings nice looking reprint of his 1967 bestiary, translated from Spanish by Andrew Hurley.

Brian J. Showers (editor)- Beasts with Five Fingers the latest anthology from the British Library in their Tales of the Weird series; subtitled Strange Tales of Disembodied Hands

art, etc:

Juliette Wood – The Little Book of Unicorns stories all about unicorns, with copious colour illustrations. Slim hardcover published by the British Library.