Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 18th November 2023
in hardcover:
Joanne Harris – Maiden, Mother, Crone collection of 3 short novels, A Pocketfull of Crows, The Blue Salt Road & Orfeia with another 3 much shorter stories; illustrated throughout in b&w by Bonnie Helen Hawkins. Really liked The Blue Salt Road when it was published separately a few years ago…
[This title on sale from Tuesday 21st November:
Brandon Sanderson – Defiant the 4th Skyward novel]
in softcover:
Dave Hutchinson – Sanctuary the 3rd book in the Aftermath post-breakdown series; book 1 was Shelter by Hutchinson & vol 2 was Haven by Adam Roberts
Aliya Chaudhry – Every Version Ends in Death following the death of her grandmother, Laana starts to research local ghost stories… The latest offering from Haunt Publishing
Kij Johnson – The Man Who Bridged the Mist novella back in stock alongside her new collection, The Privilege of the Happy Ending. It won both the Hugo & the Nebula awards when it came out. Signed copies of both titles should be available soon.
Dan Simmons – Hyperion new cover but still an Orion SF Masterwork
magazines:
McSweeney’s – Issue 71: Horror Stories: The Monstrous and the Terrible very nice cloth-bound h/c edition, it it’s own slipcases!
Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 11th November 2023
in hardcover:
Rebecca Yarros – Iron Flame sequel to Fourth Wing; now the real training begins!
Alex E. Harrow – Starling House the townspeople all agree the creepy old mansion and it’s heir should just be left alone…
Katee Robert – Hunt on Dark Waters a witch ends up as crew on a ship protecting the portals to other worlds, including her own! Part one of her Crimson Sails series
Cory Doctorow – The Lost Cause in mid-century as the fight to aleviate climate change becomes all-consuming, just what do the now aging climate deniers think and do about it!?
Antony Cummins – The Ultimate Unofficial Guide to Tolkien’s World a clearly told, well laid out history from the Beginning of Creation to the start of the Fourth Age
Tanya Kirk & Matthew Sangster (editors) – Realms of Imagination 20 essays from top scholars & writers about all the various aspects of fantasy, especially the books
in softcover:
Ian McDonald – Hopeland two somewhat strange families interact across the next several decades as climate change starts to bite. I loved the hardcover earlier in the year. His best since The Dervish House.
Christopher Ruocchio – Ashes of Man the 5th in his Sun Eater Sequence, which began with Empire of Silence
Kevin Hearne – A Curse of Krakens vol 3 of the Seven Kennings; the 1st two were A Plague of Giants & A Blight of Blackwings
Django Wexler – Emperor of Ruin 3rd in his Burningblade & Silvereye series, which began with Ashes of the Sun & Blood of the Chosen
Davina Evans – Shadow Baron sequel to Notorious Sorcerer
Anna Stephens – The Jaguar Path sequel to The Stone Knife
Matthew Ward – The Darkness Before Them in the troubled kingdom of Khalad, Kat uses her ability to talk to guardian spirits to plan a life-changing heist…
Katherine J. Adams – Tonight, I Burn Penny is a Thorn Witch, patrolling the margin between Life and Death…
Dara Kavanagh – Jabberwock rescued from an asylum, Ignatious is sent on a mission to Europe in the 1920s and runs afoul of the Ouroboros Brotherhood…
Constance Sayers – The Star and the Strange Moon Gemma disappeared from a horror film set almost 40 years ago and Christopher is determind to finally solve her disappearance…
Roger Zelazny – The Best of RZ new addition to the Orion SF Masterworks series; this collection includes the short novel Damnation Alley plus another dozen stories
art, etc:
Iain M. Banks – The Culture: Drawings large volume reproducing Iain’s pencil drawings and notes for The Culture at full size.
Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 4th November 2023
in hardcover:
Travis Baldree – Bookshops and Bonedust sequel to Legends and Lattes. More unlikely orc adventures!
Jim Butcher – The Olympian Affair sequel to 2015’s The Aeronaut’s Windlass; part 2 of the Cinder series, A related novella, Warriorborn, came in a couple of weeks ago…
Cassandra Clare – Swordcatcher a young thief is recruited as a Prince’s body double
Freya Marske – Power Unbound Jack and his friends fight to keep the Old Magic in safe hands… sequel to A Marvellous Light & A Restless Truth
in softcover:
Kelly Link – White Cat, Black Dog the multi award-winning short story writer & editor’s first novel
Larissa Lai – The Tiger Flu Kirilow must travel from her little village of exiled mutants to Saltwater City to try and find a specific type of organ donor to help her community survive…
Solange Burrell – Yeseni and the Daughter of Peace a young African girl can see, and maybe change, events all along the timeline, but is changing the future worth damaging the past for? And vice versa!
Christopher Rowe – The Navigating Fox a discraced guide has a chance to redeem himself by leading an expedition to Hell!
Augustina Bazterrica – Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird 20 short horror stories, translated from Spanish by Sarah Moses
Benjamin Fraser – Ben Katchor serious book all about this new York cartoonist
Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 28th October 2023
in hardcover:
Ann Eekhout – Mary, or The Birth of Framkenstein historical novel set over the summer of 1816…
Kate Hodges – The Wayward Sisters in the mid-18thC Nancy travels north to take a job near Inverness with the pre-eminent Macbeth scholar of the day…
Chris Salisbury – Folk Tales of the Night subtitled Stories for Campfires, Bedtime and Nocturnal Adventures 50 short tales gathered from around the world, themed by topic; tales of the Stars, the Moon, Creatures, etc.
in softcover:
Tamsyn Muir – Nona the Ninth 3rd in the series, after Gideon & Harrow.
Martha Wells – City of Bones revised reprint of her 2nd novel, first published in 1994
Tim Pratt – The Ravening Deep a fisherman falls under the influence of an ancient god but finds a way to fight back… an Arkham Horror novel
Christopher Brett Bailey – I Saw Satan at the 7-Eleven screwball horror novella featuring a down on his luck devil…
Kij Johnson – The Priviledge of the Happy Ending subtitled Small, Medium & Large Stories
Philip K. Dick – The Collected Stories of PKD Volume Three
Philip K. Dick – The Collected Stories of PKD Volume Four more smart new covers!
art, etc:
Josee Smimazaki – Long Season: The Art of JS full colour softcover
Martin Salisbury – Illustrators’ Sketchbook h/c with examples of work by 59 different artists
PIE International – New Fashion Illustration softcover full of current Japanese fashion art
Marc Potts – Painting Dragons just what it says! Subtitled 5 Fearsome Step-by-Step Projects full colour softcover, with sketch paper included!
Phillipe Druillet – Lone Sloane: Babel a new ( 7th?) adventure of Lone Sloane! h.c from Titan Books
Juni Ba – Mobilis: My Life With Captain Nemo full colour h/c about the adventures of a young stowaway on the Nautilus!
Nancy Pena – The Cat From the Kimono softcover b&w graphic novel about a black cat trying to get back home to his mistress…
Jef Bambas – Model: A volume 1 b&w graphic novel about a revived Model A Robot trying to get along with all the newer, more advanced Model Bs!
John Tarachine – The Witch of Thistle Castle softcover. Vol 1 of a new manga series set in Edinburgh! A retired witch is asked to look after an untrained youngster…
Ryo Sumiyoshi – Centaurs vol 1 new manga
Jim Henson‘s The Dark Crystal – Creation Myths complete collection of the comics in hardcover with concept art, essays, etc.
PS Artbooks Softee – The Spirit vol 1 contains issues 1 – 4 from 1944 & 45
PS Artbooks Softee – Weird Mysteries vol 2 contains issues 6 – 10 from 1953/4
PS Artbooks Softee – Black Magic vol 4 with 5 issues from 1953
magazines:
Illustrators – issue # 42 the lead article features the work of Richard Corben
gift:
Wall Calendar – Cthulhu Calendar 2024
Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 21st October 2023
Posting this list a couple of days early because the shop will be CLOSED on Friday through until it re-opens at noon on Wednesday. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
in softcover:
Tad Williams – Into the Narrowdark the 3rd book in The Last King of Osten Ard quartet
David Hair – Sorcerer’s Edge the 3rd (and final, I think) in The Tethered Citadel series. Should have had this a few weeks ago…
Chelsea Iversen – The Witches at the End of the World in Norway 2 sisters who are witches go their separate ways as one decides to suppress her rage-fuelled powers…
David Greygoose – Crow Dark Dawn 30 linked tales of 4 characters in an ancient city full of secrets & mysteries…
Jim Butcher – Warriorborn a novella set in the Cinder Spires world of The Aeronaut’s Windlass (2015). A 2nd full length h/c, The Olympian Affair, is due in November.
magazines, etc:
Kym Deyn, Nathaniel Spain & Finlay Worrallo – Unfurl small press publication from The Braag in Newcastle.
Stephen Graham Jones – Earthdivers: Kill Columbus 1st 6 issues of the comic about time travellers wanting to alter history for the better… Full colour softcover
A Brief Break
For personal reasons Transreal Fiction will be closed from this Friday, the 20th, until Wednesday 25th October.
Apologies for the short notice and I hope nobody is inconvenienced.
Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 14th October 2023
in hardcover:
Aliette de Bodard – A Fire Born of Exile companion volume to The Red Scholar’s Wake (now in paperback)
Wesley Chu – The Art of Destiny sequel to The Art of Prophecy
Eric Brown & Keith Brooke – Kon Tiki Coda novella from PS Publishing
Philip Pullman – Once Upon a Time in the North how Lee Scoresby & Hester met the bear Iorek Byrnison. Illustrated throughout by Chris Wormell. Nice gift edition of the 2008 novella.
Terry Pratchett – A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories 20 stories, mostly published under the pseudonym Patrick Kearns back in the early 1970s
in softcover:
Travis Baldree – Legends & Lattes an orc wants to retire and open a coffee shop!
Brandon Sanderson – The Lost Metal the conclusion of the Mistborn series!
Marie Brennan – The Waking of Angantyr the dead have always whispered to bondmaiden Hervor in her sleep…
Tom Holt – The Eight Reindeer of the Apocalypse more strange goings-on in the world of The Portable Door (which is now a Hollywood movie!)
Gabby Hutchinson Crouch – Home Sweet Hell sequel to Out of Service and the 3rd in the Rook family series, about the End of the World!
Jodi Taylor – About Time the 4th in her Time Police series, itself a spin-off of The Chronicles of St. Mary’s
Fiona Barnett – The Dark Between the Trees a present day archaelogical dig in some remote woodland where a company of Parliamentarian soldiers disappeared in the 17th C
Peter S. Beagle – A Fine and Private Place classic fantasy about ghosts and life in a graveyard!
Taran Hunt – The Immortality Thief Sean and his team are tasked with recovering important data from a long abandoned spaceship but finds aliens engaged in the same quest…
Bethany Jacobs – These Burning Stars petty thief Jon has aquired a secret that has Clerics from other star systems trying to fnd him! And they themselves are being hunted as well
A. J. Ryan – Red River Seven a group of amnesiacs wake up aboard a ship, but why can they hear inhuman screams from beyond the enveloping mist?! The author usually writes fantasy as Anthony Ryan.
Eric Brown – Helix welcome reprint of this 2007 deep space adventure where a colony ship discovers a very strange planetary body!
Margaret Helgadottir (editor) – Nordic Visions anthology with 16 sff&h stories from across the region, many in English for the first time
Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 7th October 2023
in hardcover:
Francis Spufford – Cahokia Jazz in early 1920s America, the still extant pre-Columbian city of Cahokia on the Mississippi is now an industrial powerhouse, but a murder will expose it’s secrets… I enjoyed his Colonial Manhatten novel Golden Hill a lot.
Benedict Jacka – An Inheritance of Magic book 1 of a new series in which the super-rich control all the world’s magic…
Eric Flint, Gorg Huff & Paula Goodlet – 1638: The Sovereign States the latest in Flint’s long-running 1632/Ring of Fire alternate history…
Brandon Sanderson – Yumi and the Nightmare Painter the 3rd of his Secret Projects titles
Elizabeth Hand – A Haunting on the Hill an authorised return to Shirley Jackson‘s Hill House (as in The Haunting of Hill House). A group of actors rent an old mansion to rehearse in…
Richard Kadrey – The Pale House Devil two mercenaries, one dead and one alive! Novella
Robert Louis Stevenson – The New Annotated Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde nice large h/c fully annotated by Leslie S. Klinger, with illustrations from publications across the whole 20th C to the present day.
Ellen Datlow (editor)- Christmas and Other Horrors 18 new stories from top authors celebrating the Winter Solstice
Lavie Tidhar (editor) – The Best of World SF volume 3 another 28 stories from around the world…
in softcover:
Michael Grothaus – Beautiful Shining People near future sf set in Japan
Grady Hendrix – Badasstronauts Walter is determined to rescue his cousin, stuck alone on the now abandoned ISS. First, he needs to crowdfund a spaceship!
Andrea Stewart – The Bone Shard War vol 3 of The Drowning Empire trilogy
K. J. Parker – Saevus Corax Deals With the Dead Saevus is an expert in battlefield salvage; swords, pikes, armour – he takes the lot and deals with the bodies… Part one of new trilogy Corax (all 3 due out before Christmas!)
Tobias S. Buckell – A Stranger in the Citadel Lilith lives in a city where books are forbidden, and then an outcast librarian arrives…
Heather Fawcett – Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries Emily is a great researcher but doesn’t get on with people, especially Wendel, her rival in seeking out fae secrets…
N. K. Jemisin – The World We Make 2nd half of her two volume Great Cities trilogy! The defence of New York from the Elder Gods continues! Sequel to The City We Became.
Gabriela Houston – The Bone Roots dark fantasy based on Slavic legends
Sam Rebelein – Edenville a horror writer moves to a small town where it’s macabre history is celebrated rather than hidden…
Jeff Noon – Vurt 30th Anniversary Edition of his ground breaking novel
Wolle Talabi – Incomplete Sulutions new to Transreal; sf collection by an award winning Nigerian author
Jared Shurin (editor) – Big Book of Cyberpunk 1100+ pages, from the beginnings back in the 1970s & 80s right up to this decade… 108 stories (I think!) from around the world. Looks to be a great anthology!
Alistair Kerr (editor) – Tales for Twilight subtitled Two Hundred Years of Scottish Ghost Stories. 15 tales from the likes of Walter Scott, Conan Doyle, Ian Rankin & Muriel Spark
Arthur Conan Doyle – The Captain of the Polestar short Christmas ghost story, illustrated by Seth. One of a series of Seth’s Ghost Stories
Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 30th September 2023
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE SHOP WILL BE CLOSED ON TUESDAY 3RD OCTOBER.
i HOPE TO BE OPEN AS USUAL FROM NOON ON WEDNESDAY
in hardcover:
V. E. Schwab – The Fragile Threads of Power (signed copies available) Start of the Shades of Magic trilogy, set 7 years after the Darker Shades of Magic set
Daniel Abraham – Blade of Dream vol 2 of his Kithamar Trilogy, the sequel to Age of Ash. The author co-wrote The Expanse series
Marley Lares – Sun of Blood and Ruin magic and rebellion in Spanish-ruled Mexico City…
Kell Woods – After the Forest 20 years after their traumatic experiences, Hans is deep in debt to gamblers but Greta has the wicked witch’s grimore hidden away…
Taylor Anderson – Devil’s Battle the 3rd in his Artillerymen series, a companion to the Destroyermen one.
in softcover:
R. F. Kuang – Babel rebellion against a magic-based British Empire in 1836
Courtney Smyth – The Undetectables three witches and a ghost run a detective agency…
Claudia Lux – Sign Here a minor functionary in Hell has been working on a plan for a millenia; all he needs is one more signature from a particular family, and some help from a colleague…
Cassandra Khaw – Nothing But Blackened Teeth searching for the perfect wedding venue, Cat & her friends stay overnight in a haunted house…
Dave Bara – Trinity’s Children sequel to Trinity. Military sf.
Tony Medawar (editor) – Ghosts From the Library 13 obscure tales (plus extras) of ghosts and terror from the likes of Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, & M. R. James.
art, etc:
Matt Fox – The Chillingly Weird Art of MF h/c with art from this Weird Tales cover artist
Simz – The Art of Simz the latest artist to be highlighted by 3dtotal Publishing. Very witchy theme throughout! h/c
Massarutto & Squaz – Mingus h/c graphic novelof Charlie Mingus‘ life and music
Julian Voloj & Andreas Gefe – Not a New York Love Story colour graphic novel. It kind of is.
James S. A. Corey – The Expanse: Origins graphic novel relating to the book & tv series, adapted by the creator. Originally puplished in 2018 apparently. New cover
Florentino Florez, Guillermo Sanna & Jacques Salomon – Unknown Kadath softcover graphic novel of the H. P. Lovecraft story. Full colour on glossy paper, with the full text of The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath included.
Chris Hallbeck – Pebble & Wren full colour s/c graphic novel. A young monster is sent to learn about humans! Very cute!
Lily & Robert Windom with Asiah Fulmore – Family Time fun softcover graphic novel about a family flung back in time to medieval Ireland! Full colour
Aloha Higa – Polar Bear Cafe issue # 1 manga which I ordered well over a year ago! Softcover, b&w about a cafe near a zoo run by a polar bear
Itaru Kinoshita – Dinosaur Sanctuary vol #3 the new keeper’s adventures continue! Includes a fold out map of the reserve.
PS Artbooks Softee – Plastic Man vol 3 collects issues 9 – 12 of the comic, with art by Jack Cole
PS Artbooks Softee – Classic Adventure Comics vol 7 collects issues 1 – 5 from 1953/54. Includes art by Don Heck & Pete Moresi
gift:
Studio Ghibli – Howl’s Moving Castle Journal lined journal with full colour art & sketches from the film, and lots of little corner page illos repeated throughout
Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 23rd September 2023
in hardcover:
Stephen Baxter – Creation Node in mid 23rdC, Planet 9 is discovered, but it turns out not to be a planet and sends a message towards Earth…
Em X Liu – The Death I Gave Him Hayden’s scientist father has been murdered and now he’s locked down with 4 people, one of whom must be guilty. His only support is an AI he’s known since it’s creation…
in softcover:
Paul McAuley – Beyond the Burn Zone in the far future mankind has fallen and other species have assumed their role and are discovering progress……
M. R. Carey – Infinity Gate part 1 of The Pandominion, about a loose trading alliance of a million parallel worlds
Christopher Priest – Expect Me Tomorrow in 2050 Greg has an experimental chip in his head and his twin brother persuades him to tackle a multi-generational family mystery…
Joshua Spiller – The 8th Emotion in an idyllic tribal society a new emotion is discovered, which may destroy their civilisation!
Josiah Bancroft – Hexologists Iz & Warren are willing to take on any magical mystery in the kingdom, using their bag of hexes and charms… From the author of Senlin Ascends
Sharon Emmerichs – Shield Maiden Fryda is the niece of King Beowulf and dreams of being a Shield Maiden but her uncontrolled powers are awakening a dragon!
Maureen Kilmer – Hex Education two students have been practicing magic in secret but then their most complex spell goes horribly wrong!
Freya Marske – A Restless Truth 2nd in The Last Binding series; v1 was last year’s A Marvellous Light. Maud ends up on an ocean liner with the dead body of her aging employer…
Simon Crook – Silverweed Road linked stories about a suburban street where various horrors appear to affect every household…
Michael Wheatley (editor) – Lure of Atlantis the latest volume of Tales of the Weird from the British Library. Subtitled Strange Tales From the Sunken Continent
magazines:
Locus – issue # 752 September cover date with the World fantasy Awards ballot
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