Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 9th July 2022

in hardcover:

Claire McKenna – Firetide Coast 3rd in the Deepwater Trilogy. I enjoyed the 1st one, Monstrous Heart, about magic and lighthouses! Vol 2 was Deepwater King.
Ed McDonald – Daughter of Redwinter Raine has escaped from the fortress of the warrior-magicians, the Drooihn, but she has something they need… Book 1 of the Redwinter Chronicles
Clay Harmon – Flames of Mira book 1 of new epic fantasy, The Rift Walker series

Cari Thomas – The Hedge Witch when her funds run out to pay the school fees at a posh boarding school for young witches, orohan Rowan ends up in a day school for them, run by an aunt she never knew she had!

in softcover:

Isabel Ibanez – Together We Burn to keep her inheritance, Zarela the flamenco dancer must seek help to earn to be a Dragonador!
W. P. Wiles – The Last Blade Priest an ancient evil senses a chance to return, but is opposed by 3 very different people… Part 1 of The Holy Mountain series

Emmi Itaranta – The Moonday Letters episilolatory novel mixing ancient myth with a journey across the Solar System, from Mars colonies to devastated parts of Earth, and beyond!
Benjamin Percy – The Unfamiliar Garden sequel to The Ninth Metal, and part 2 of The Comet Cycle, about the changes wrought by a rare-metal rich comet strike
Tim Lebbon – The last Storm journey across a climate change baked America…

Aric McBay – Kraken Calling twin strands, set 20 years apart following the actions and the results of serious eco-terrorism & climate change…

Polly Crosby – The Unravelling a yoing woman takes a job helping to classify butterflies on a strange little island. I Liked the h/c a lot!
A. G. Slater – The Path of Thorns Asher gains a job at remote Morwood House but grows to like the current Morwood family; can she still exact her revenge for past events?
Edward Cox – The Wood Bee Queen in a small town Ebbie is about to lose his librarian job and retreats into his love of folklore. Elsewhere, a queen has been murdered…

Richard Powers – The Overstory well reviewed (in h/c) climate fiction centred around trees; one of the new Penguin line, Vintage Earth
Marlen Haushofer – The Wall another Vintage Earth title. On holiday in Austria, a woman finds that she is alone in the valley, and that she can’t get out, nor others in. Translated from German by Shaun Whiteside. I enjoyed the film of it, Die Wand, several years ago.

Vandana Singh – Utopias of the Third Kind the 28th volume in the Outspoken Authors series by PM Press. The usual format of a novella plus various stories or articles together with an interview by editor Terry Bisson