Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 26th September 2026
in hardcover:
China Mieville – Rouse giant, 1240-ish page novel I’m not going to attempt to summarise in a few words!
A. D. Sui – The Iron Garden Sutra a long=lost spaceship has been re-discovered and a team of investigators board to work out what happened to it…
C. M. Kosemen – The Final Inoculation : subtitled Surreal Art and Weird Fiction Inspired by the Mediterranean World. A collection of strange stories with matching art!
T. Kingfisher – The Raven and the Reindeer when Greta’s neighbour id kidnapped by the Snow Queen, she has to do something!
in softcover:
Pirateba – The Wandering Inn 1st in the epic online series…
Pirateba – No Killing Goblins sequel to The Wandering Inn
Alex Pheby – Waterblack sequel to Mordew & Malarkoi; the 3rd book of the Cities of the Weft
Tasha Suri – The Isle in the Silver Sea a witch and a knight try to break with their foretold future…
Jasmine Wigham – The Library of Botanical Witchcraft Thalia taakes a job in the library so she can research a cure for her sister…
M. K. Hardy – The Haunting of Avis Lovelock Avis has been hired to prove an ocean liner isn’t haunted!
Spenser Hixon – Fate & Fortune runaway kid Alex finds a way to try to correct his past mistakes at the cost of shortening his future!
Wen-yi Lee – When They Burned The Butterfly in 1970s Singapore some magic still hangs on in the alleyways…
Roger McBride Allen – The Game of Worlds a novel set in David Brin‘s Out of Time background
James Patrick Kelly – The Book of Bots a dozen stories and 2 articles about robots!
Djuna – Memoir of a Joseon Bride strange stories of South Korean science fiction…
(Various) – Hag : subtitled Forgotten Folktales Retold. No editor listed but 10 modern authors update old tales (which are also printed in the final 30+ pages of the book)
Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 19th September 2026
in hardcover:
Emily St John Mandel – Exit Party the world has changed a lot in only 5 years… From the author of Station Eleven.
Garth Nix – Massif for centuries mankind has explored the stars by hitching rides with mysterious aliens
August Clarke – The Felicity Complex Annie Bot and her companions start to question their programming…
Torsten Weitze – The Tower of Beggars book 1 of Stormfell Academy. All Niri owns is a coin which will grant entry to the prestigious institution…
L. K. Steven – Turncloak sequel to Silvercloak
C. L. Hellisen – The Shape of Monsters Vaira inherits a strange old mansion…
T. Kingfisher – Daggerbound the Bramble edition
Ben Shepherd – Blood Drunk Freddie is a minor London gangster who stumbles into a world of Vampires
in softcover:
Andrzej Sapkowski – Crossroads of Ravens a new Witcher novel!
Selina Spellman – Board Games and Broom Sticks Nyssa retreats to her grandmother’s cottage to recharge her magical batteries
Philippa Rice – Reignclowd Palace Evnie has been summoned to the Palace because of her ability to create magical spells…
Gillian Daniels – Jenny Will Eat You Now she lives quietly in an abandoned subway station, wary of the humans above. And then she meets one!.
Patricia Briggs – Blind Date with a Werewolf
Isa Agajanian – Quiet Spells sequel to Modern Divination and the 2nd half of the Spells for Life and Death
Keri Lake – Eldritch sequel to Anathema
Nicolas Binge – Extremity Julia is brought out of retirement to investigate a billionaire’s murder but finds two identical bodies!
Clark Ashton Smith – The Averoigne Chronicles : The Complete Averoigne Stories nice edition, issued by Hippocampus Press in 2021, although I’ve not stocked this edition before.
magazines, etc:
The Lovecraft Annual – 2026 ( # 20 ) 250 pages of articles about H. P. Lovecraft and his fiction
Underpaid Postage
Just got a card this morning from the Royal Mail asking me for £7.00 in respect of underpaid postage for something. Whatever it is, it was posted in the UK last Friday (11th Sept) but that’s all I know about it.
I’m not expecting anything so I will probably curtail my curiosity and save seven quid by not paying to have it delivered.
As I suspect it’s an advance copy of a new release, I apologise in advance for not reading it.
The sender can expect it back in around 3 weeks.
Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 12th September 2026
in hardcover:
Gryffin Murphy – Twig’s Traveling Tomes a witch on a quest, travelling in her magical bookshop!
Victoria Aveyard – Tempest the Empire has decided to conquer the vast, anarchic, freedom-loving archipelago in the Lryian Sea..
Emily Cooper – The Horrors We Harbour when the lighthouse starts to fail and sea-monsters start encroaching, drastic measure must be taken by the villagers…
Hannah Mathewson – The Age of Blood and Magic fight for control of the massive corporation which has controlled the availability of magic for a century…
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R. F. Kueng – Babel shiny new edition
in softcover:
qntm – There Is No Antimemetics Division the fight against anti-memes!
Anna Orridge – Parch Marks 50 years from now a severe drought reveals strange patterns formed during the Bronze Age…
Tiffany Hunt – Dark Lord’s Guide to Honeymooning (and Other Acts of Tyranny) sequel to The Dark Lord’s Guide to Dating (and Other War Crimes) and the 2nd of the Guides to Villainy and Love
Holly Black – Thief of Night to protect her boyfriend Charlie starts work for the Gloamists… Sequel to Book of Night
A.Y. Chao – Paris Celestial sequel to Shanghai Immortal
Venetia Constantine – The Last Starborn Seer blamed unjustly for The Sickening of the land, Leilani must climb the Astral Muntain…
J.T. Geissinger – Blackthorn dark romantasy
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…
