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NEW TITLES: FICTION OCTOBER
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dearest wish is that they will be home for Christmas.
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quartet from the author better known for her literary crime (The Unquiet Dead). A dark power called the Talisman, a superstitious patriarchy that suppresses knowledge and subjugates women, is rising.
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Falcon Army, where they are mortally bound to non-magical falconers.
MILES CAMERON THE FALL OF DRAGONS GOLLANCZ, 19TH, £18.99, TPB, 9781473208896 The Red Knight’s final battle lies ahead in book five of the Traitor Son cycle, from the author who also writes historical fiction as Christian Cameron.
JOSEPH FINK AND JEFFREY CRANOR IT DEVOURS! ORBIT, 19TH, £16.99, HB, 9780356508641 Follow-up to Welcome to Night Vale: A Novel, based on the cult podcast and touring live show of the same name. BookScan
PAUL MCAULEY AUSTRAL GOLLANCZ, 19TH, £14.99, TPB, 9781473217317 On the Antarctic Peninsula, home to Earth’s newest nation, Austral—an “edited” person adapted to the unforgiving climate of the far south—has committed a terrible crime out of desperation. BookScan
D NOLAN CLARK FORBIDDEN SUNS ORBIT, 19TH, £8.99, PBO, 9780356507552 Concluding part of the Silence space opera trilogy (Forsaken Skies, Forgotten Worlds). Aleister Lanoe faces his final mission: to take revenge on the alien race that has systematically erased all the sentient life in its path.
HAILEY EDWARDS BAYOU BORN PIATKUS, 17TH, £8.99, PBO, 9780349417066 New urban fantasy series. A half-wild child is dragged from the murky waters of the Mississippi bayou, covered in mysterious markings.
JANNY WURTS DESTINY’S CONFLICT HARPERVOYAGER, 5TH, £14.99, HB, 9780008230029
Book two of The Sword of the Canon, part of the epic fantasy series The Wars of Light and Shadow. BookScan
JOANNE M HARRIS A POCKETFUL OF CROWS GOLLANCZ, 19TH, £12.99, HB, 9781473222182 In the same vein as the author’s earlier The Gospel of Loki, this is a myth-like novella of love, loss and revenge woven around a nameless wild girl. BookScan
AUSMA ZEHANAT KHAN THE BLOODPRINT HARPERVOYAGER, 19TH, £14.99, HB, 9780008171575
First in a planned fantasy
STEPHEN ARYAN MAGEBORN ORBIT, 5TH, £8.99, PBO, 9780356508474 Launches a new series set in the world of Aryan’s Battlemage trilogy. It has been 10 years since the war and Habreel believes that eradicating magic is the only way to secure the peace. BookScan
MELISSA CARUSO THE TETHERED MAGE ORBIT, 26TH, £8.99, PBO, 9780356510613 Début fantasy novel set in the Raverran Empire, where magic is scarce. Those born with power are conscripted into the
CHRISTINE FEEHAN LEOPARD’S BLOOD PIATKUS, 24TH, £8.99, PBO, 9780349416540 Her latest paranormal romance featuring the Leopard people. BookScan
KEVIN HEARNE A PLAGUE OF GIANTS ORBIT, 19TH, £8.99, PBO, 9780356509594 Warring giants and elemental magic feature in the first of a new series from the author of The Iron Druid Chronicles. BookScan
DARYNDA JONES THE TROUBLE WITH TWELFTH GRAVE PIATKUS, 5TH, £8.99, PBO, 9780349417776 Twelfth in the paranormal romance series with a sassy grim reaper heroine.
GEORGE MANN GHOSTS OF EMPIRE TITAN, 13TH, £7.99, PBO, 9781783294183 Steampunk with superheroes, says Titan of this follow-up to Ghosts of Karnak. BookScan
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MONSTERS TITAN, 3RD, £7.99, PBO, 9781781165638 Fifth novel in the alternate history vampire series Anno Dracula. which Neil Gaiman has described as “compulsory reading . . . glorious”. The year is 1899, and vampires exiled from Britain seek refuge in Japan.
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weak and bloodied, with no memory of the night before. A modern-day take on the vampire legend.
K J PARKER THE TWO OF SWORDS: VOLUME 1 ORBIT, 19TH, £8.99, PBO, 9780356506760 Originally published as a series of digital-only novellas, this volume collects the first part of the epic fantasy in print for the first time. K J Parker is a pseudonym for the comic writer Tom Holt.
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BRYAN THOMAS SCHMIDT (ED) INFINITE STARS TITAN, 17TH, £17.99, HB, 9781785655937 The definitive anthology of space opera and military SF, says Titan. Includes brand new stories from contemporary writers set in their most famous universes, plus older works by authors who defined the genre.
ALISON LITTLEWOOD THE CROW GARDEN JO FLETCHER BOOKS, 5TH, £16.99, HB, 9781786485250 Victorian Yorkshire-set tale about the new doctor at Crakethorne Asylum, who takes a close interest in one of his patients, the beautiful Mrs Harleston. Her husband accuses her of hysteria and delusions, but she accuses him of hiding secrets far more terrible. From the author of The Hidden People, which I really enjoyed. BookScan
JAY BONANSINGA RETURN TO WOODBURY PAN, 5TH, £7.99, PBO, 9781447275800
BRYAN THOMAS SCHMIDT (ED) PREDATOR: IF IT BLEEDS TITAN, 17TH, £7.99, PBO, 9781785655401
Sixteen new stories based on the original Predator films, novels and comics. Predators stalk their prey in settings as varied as 12th-century Japan, Norway at the time of the Vikings, the First World
Eighth in the series set in the world of The Walking Dead, based on the award-winning comic books and TV series.
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CONTRABAND, 31ST, £8.99, PBO, 9781910192979 Texas, 1980, and a man spends his nights trawling for women in bars. One morning he wakes up
ROBERT W CHAMBERS THE KING IN YELLOW PUSHKIN PRESS, 19TH, £9.99, HB, 9781782273769
First published in 1895, a collection of four macabre supernatural stories which inspired H P Lovecraft, among others. BookScan
WILLIAM CROFT DICKINSON DARK ENCOUNTERS: A COLLECTION OF GHOST STORIES POLYGON, 31ST, £9.99, HB, 9781846974083 First published in 1963, a “spine-tingling” collection of ghost stories set in the brooding landscape of Scotland.
GRAPHIC NOVELS
CRAIG THOMPSON BLANKETS FABER & FABER, 5TH, £18.99, TPB, 9780571336029
Published for the first time in the UK, a graphic novel exploring the sibling rivalry of two brothers growing up in rural Wisconsin. BookScan
VARIOUS STAR WARS: FROM A CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW CENTURY, 3RD, £20, HB, 9781846056833 This year is the 40th anniversary of the original Star Wars film, and these 40 stories retell a different moment from the film with a twist; every scene is told from the point of view of a seemingly minor character.
HORROR & GHOST STORIES
DAVID WONG WHAT THE HELL DID I JUST READ TITAN BOOKS, 3RD, £7.99, PBO, 9781785651656 Third in the comic horror thriller series follows John Dies at the End (which was adapted into a 2012 film starring Paul Giamatti) and This Book is Full of Spiders. BookScan
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