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Gollancz, 19th, £9.99, 9781473208759 The award-winning Bear joins Gollancz with this space opera about Haimey Dz, a space salvager who finds herself on the run with ancient, universe-changing technology.
Nancy Revell Triumph of the Shipyard Girls Arrow, 19th, £7.99, 9781787464261 This is the eighth in the Shipyard Girls series, set in 1943 Sunderland. Cornerstone says it has sold over 250,000 copies in print and ebook across the series since it launched in 2016.
Glenda Young Pearl of Pit Lane Headline, 5th, £6.99, 9781472256669 Pearl runs away when her aunt asks her to join her and work as a prostitute when their landlord raises the rent.
Science fiction and fantasy
John Birmingham The Cruel Stars Head of Zeus, 5th, £8.99, 9781789545937 The first in a trilogy, this sees mankind on the brink of annihilation from the Sturm.
Jim Al-Khalili Sunfall Bantam, 19th, £8.99, 9780857503527
Début In 2041, the Earth’s
magnetic field starts to fail and it becomes a race against time to reactivate the earth’s core using beams of dark matter. “Reminiscent of vintage Arthur C. Clarke,” said James Lovegrove in the Financial Times.
Charlie Jane Anders The City in the Middle of the Night Titan Books, 31st, £8.99, 9781789093568 The Hugo-winning founder of SFF blog io9’s new novel is set on a planet that has never-changing zones of day and night, where a pariah, sacrificed to the night, will rise to take on the entire planet.
Elizabeth Bear Ancestral Night
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Aliette de Bodard The House of Sundering Flames Gollancz, 19th, £9.99, 9781473223417 The conclusion of the Dominion of the Fallen saga sees the temporary peace between the great magical Houses of Paris torn away when House Harrier is levelled by an explosion.
Diane Duane Spider-Man: The Venom Factor Omnibus Titan Books, 10th, £9.99, 9781789094596 A collection of three clas- sic Spider-Man novels, The Venom Factor, The Lizard Sanction, and The Octopus Agenda.
Sarah Beth Durst The Deepest Blue Voyager, 19th, £9.99, 9780062955418 Oyster diver Mayara, who has the power to control
Chris Beckett Beneath the World A Sea Corvus, 5th, £8.99, 9781786491572 A British police officer is investigating a spate of killings of Duendes, myste- rious, vaguely humanoid creatures who live in a forest in South America. “Reads like Conrad’s Heart of Darkness reimagined by J G Ballard,” said the Guardian. Beckett is a former winner of the Arthur C Clarke award, for Dark Eden—one of my favourite books of recent years.
spirits, is taken to the Island of Testing when she reveals her skill. Whoever survives will be named heir to the queen.
D K Fields Widow’s Welcome Head of Zeus, 5th, £8.99, 9781789542509 Detective Cora Gorderheim finds a dead man with his mouth sewn shut in the alleyways of Fenest, capital of the Union of Realms. First in a fantasy crime series.
Ian McDonald Luna: Moon Rising Gollancz, 5th, £9.99, 9781473216761 The conclusion of McDonald’s trilogy of corporate greed and family betrayal set on the moon, which has been bought for TV in what Gollancz says was a “massive” deal by CBS.
Maya Motayne Nocturna Hodder Paperbacks, 5th, £7.99, 9781473675933
Début A Latin-inspired fantasy in which
faceshifter Finnian Voy is forced to carry out an impossible mission—steal a legendary treasure from Castallan’s royal palace or be stripped of her magic forever.
Chris Humphreys Smoke in the Glass Gollancz, 19th, £9.99, 9781473226043 The start of a new dark fantasy series set in three lands, peopled by humans and immortals, and in a fourth, hidden land, where the savage tribes plan to conquer the world.
Mark Lawrence Road Brothers HarperVoyager, 19th, £8.99, 9780008389376 A collection of short stories, set in the world of Broken Empire.
Maria Lewis The Wailing Woman Piatkus, 12th, £8.99, 9780349421322 Banshee Sadie Burke starts to question what she has been told about her gifts when she finds herself drawn to the son of their greatest oppres- sor. Urban fantasy.
Brian Naslund Blood of an Exile Tor, 5th, £8.99, 9781529016147 Bershad was sentenced to kill dragons, but after never losing a fight has been given a new mission—to kill a foreign monarch and walk free forever.
Ed McDonald Crowfall Gollancz, 5th, £9.99, 9781473222113 In the third in the Raven’s Mark fantasy series, a sorcerous cataclysm has hit the Range, while Ryhalt Galharrow journeys ever deeper into the wasteland known as the Misery.
Den Patrick Stormtide HarperVoyager, 19th, £8.99, 9780008228194 The second in Scandinavia-inspired fantasy trilogy The Ashen Torment sees Steiner’s crew rising up against the dark rule which has cost them so much.
Mike Shackle We Are The Dead Gollancz, 5th, £8.99, 9781473225220 An epic fantasy set over seven days, with the fate of the people of Jia in the hands of a motley crew including a schoolboy terrorist, a
Jaime Lee Moyer Brightfall Jo Fletcher Books, 5th, £8.99, 9781787479227 A re-imagining of Robin Hood and Maid Marian, in which the Merry Men are being murdered and Marian needs to use her magic to stop it.
crippled warrior and his wheelchair-bound son.
Anna Stephens Bloodchild HarperVoyager, 5th, £8.99, 9780008216023 The third novel in the grimdark Godblind series sees Corvus, King of the Mireces, reigning over an occupied land.
MG Wheaton Emily Eternal Hodder Paperbacks, 5th, £8.99, 9781473681972
Début Artificial consciousness
Emily was designed in a lab to help humans process trauma, and finds herself called on to save humanity when the sun begins to die 5 billion years before scientists agreed it was supposed to. “A top-class, high-tech thriller,” said the Mail.
critical acclaim but has never been translated into English, until now. “Every so often a voice emerges from the archive so vivid that it seems impossible that it should ever have been forgotten... Banine’s sensual writing and remarkable ability to conjur the emotions of lost childhood recall Colette... dashingly translated,” said the Standard.
Charlotte Bingham Spies and Stars Bloomsbury Publishing, 5th, £9.99, 9781526608802 The sequel to MI5 and Me, which the BBC has optioned for two six-part series, sees the author a typist at MI5 and the daughter of the organisa- tion’s most illustrious spy, John Bingham.
Quentin Blake Pens Ink & Places Tate Publishing, 5th, £14.99, 9781849767019 A collection of new illus- trations from the legend that is Quentin Blake.
G Willow Wilson The Bird King Grove Press, 5th, £8.99, 9781611854718 Beautiful jacket for this story of Fatima, a concu- bine in the royal court of Granada, and her friend Hassan, who can draw maps of places he’s never seen and bend the shape of reality. Wilson’s Alif the Unseen was excellent; she’s also the author of the award-winning comic series Ms Marvel.
Evan Winter The Rage of Dragons Orbit, 12th, £8.99, 9780356512969
Début Orbit is calling this “Game of
Thrones” meets “Gladiator”—it sees the Omehi people facing genocide, and Tau Tafari out for revenge.
Non-fiction
Biography & memoirs
Banine Days in the Caucasus Pushkin Press, 5th, £9.99, 9781782274896 This memoir of growing up in Azerbaijan in the early 20th century was published in 1945 to
Michael Broers Napoleon Volume 2 Faber & Faber, 5th, £14.99, 9780571301546 The second volume of Broers’ biography of Napoleon moves from 1805 to 1810, when he was at war with Britain, Russia, and Austria, and divorced Josephine in order to marry the daughter of the Austrian Emperor. “The scholarship is impressive, the narrative has the pace and panache appropriate to the subject and there is much that is new,” said the Times.
Chris Brown King and Outlaw Te History Press, 2nd, £10.99, 9780750993920 An exploration of the life of Robert the Bruce, the subject of the Netflix series “Outlaw King”.
Ursula Buchan Beyond the Thirty- Nine Steps Bloomsbury Publishing, 5th, £10.99, 9781408870822 The granddaughter of John Buchan has drawn
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