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Further Catastrophia acceptances
Posted by Paul Raven on August 27th, 2009 at 14:16
Allen Ashley’s approaching the final furlong with his Catastrophia anthology; here’s his report on the latest addition to the table of contents:
I am pleased to announce the fourteenth acceptance for the anthology. The story is by James L. Sutter, is approximately 7500 words long, and is called “The Long Road to the Sea”. James lives in Seattle and works for Paizo Publishing. Ahead of his appearance in Catastrophia, look out for James’s anthology Before They Were Giants, due from Paizo Publishing USA in Summer 2010. This book features reprints and interviews around the first published stories of authors such as William Gibson, Larry Niven and China Mieville.
I’m told that the book is now nearly full; Allen will let us know about the final few stories soon.
Wednesday reviews round-up for 26th August
Posted by Paul Raven on August 26th, 2009 at 14:14
Another week flies past… and looking out of my window it seems like summer may be over, at least so far as the weather is concerned. But the sun always shines at the PS Newsroom, especially when we have new reviews of our books to share! So, let’s see what we’ve got…
First of all, the Mad Hatter’s Bookshelf blog has some love for Ray Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles: The Complete Edition, produced in partnership with our good buddies from across the pond, Subterranean Books:
With more than 50 stories, essays, introductions, and two full-length screenplays by Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles: The Complete Edition is a volume destined for the display shelf. It will proudly sit there shouting to all who enter my library area that this is one of the best books of its kind, ever. As soon as I opened the package I was blown away by its sheer size, weight, and completeness. I immediately starting reading the introductions and found myself reading the majority of the original story and than thumbed through many of the unpublished short story gems, which would be worth the price alone for the true Bradbury die-hards. However, this is no single sitting book, but one to be savoured and reread for years to come.
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If you are a Bradbury fan or have a deep love and remembrance for The Martian Chronicles I highly recommend you get a copy from Sub/PS while they are still available. The publishers have truly done justice to Mr. Bradbury and the stories. Also, if you haven’t ever read The Martian Chronicles or haven’t in a long time go pick-up a copy. You won’t be disappointed.
Next up, Joe Sherry tackles Sarah Pinborough’s The Language Of Dying:
As Graham Joyce points out in his introduction, Sarah Pinborough is best known as a horror writer, but here the horror is not the supernatural. The horror is what we will all have to face eventually and in a variety of ways. The horror is the personal horror of waiting while a loved one dies slowly.
The Language of Dying is a beautiful, painful, stunning story. It doesn’t do anything so cliché as pluck at heartstrings. It is a realistic portrayal of a woman and a family dealing with her father dying slowly in her house. It’s not easy, but damn is this an outstanding story.
He also has good things to say about Stephen Baxter’s Starfall:
Beginning with an interstellar war as distant colonial star systems intend to wage war back on the home Sol System for their independence, Starfall is a tense and exciting novella. It is a story which spans decades, from the first wave sent out to attack Earth to the battle itself, and the aftershocks of the war. The details about the background of this future galaxy is fascinating and begs further exploration. For all that this is a novella of fewer than 100 pages and not a 800 page gargantuan Hamilton-esque novel, Starfall is a story rich with detail and history. Starfall is as fully realized as any longer novel, it’s just all compressed into a smaller package. There’s technology, wormholes, sentient computer viruses, interstellar war, scientific future history, time travel, and it’s all told in a smooth, but fast paced manner.
I want more of it.
The Baryon Review tucks in to the Passing For Human anthology, which is:
[...] filled with terrific stories that cover the many eras of science fiction from the 1940s up until today. “Mimic” by Donald A. Wollheim, “The Man Upstairs” by Ray Bradbury and “The Reality Trip” by Robert Silverberg. Other outstanding tales come from Paul Di Filippo, Howard Waldrop, James Tiptree, Jr, John Kessel, and Lisa Tuttle.
There are other stories here as well to show how some beings go about Passing For Human [... and] there is plenty of good reading for everyone. Kudos to all involved.
And last but by no means least, Regina Schroeder of Booklist takes a look at Gwyneth Jones‘ long-awaited Grazing The Long Acre collection:
Jones’ stories are lyrical and strange, containing many versions of the Other and how people deal with them. Capable of opening windows into spectacular worlds and weird situations, Jones leaves the reader haunted by the characters’ fates and reactions. These stories were first published between 1985 to 2007, and several haven’t previously been collected. Lending its title to the volume, “Grazing the Long Acre” is about an eastern European runaway who has a brush with someone who might be the angel of death. In the collection opener, “Gravegoods,” a group of people whose craziness is particularly suited to interstellar travel and the loss of their physical bodies encounter actual aliens. “The Fulcrum” offers an entertaining snippet of space opera. In the book-closing “In the Forest of the Queen,” two wealthy tourists drive through a part of France ravaged by the Great War, in which the population never quite recovered and roads into the forest lead somewhere that might be the future and might be fairyland.
As always, click on the cover art to be taken directly to the catalogue page for the book in question, or just pop over to the PS webstore to have a browse. Have you read a PS Publishing title recently? If so, let us know so we can link you back from here!
Special offer: the Black Static foursome for just £45!
Posted by Paul Raven on August 24th, 2009 at 21:03
Remember me saying how chuffed I was to see four strong reviews from Pete Tennant of Black Static last week?
If you’ve forgotten, fine things were said about Sarah Pinborough’s The Language Of Dying (“highly recommended”), Robert Freeman Wexler’s The Painting And The City (“uniquely his own”), Marly Youmans’ Val/Orson (“lucid with intelligence”) and Shrike (“the landscape of a mind”).
Well, it turns out that PS head honcho Pete was pretty stoked too… stoked enough to put together a special package deal on the books in question, no less. Take it away, Mr Crowther:
We’re so bowled over with the reviews of these four titles that we’re making it very easy for you to see for yourself what all the fuss is about.
Under normal circumstances, the trade editions of these four titles would cost £54 plus postage (£2 per book inside the UK or £4 elsewhere) — that’s an additional £8 in the UK (£62) or £16 outside (£70).
In this special offer, the price if you buy all four together is just £45 post-free in the UK or £50 post-free outside. So don’t delay — order today!
You heard the man – click on through and place an order before he sobers up changes his mind! ;)
Catastrophia update – an unexpected acquisition
Posted by Paul Raven on August 22nd, 2009 at 13:46
Here’s the latest news from the desk of Allen Ashley, editor of the forthcoming Catastrophia anthology:
I have just taken story number thirteen for the book. And this one comes with added excitement and intrigue. Why? Well, I have accepted a story called “Trouble with Telebrations” which purports to be by a late, famous British catastrophe author – let’s call him J. B. Harris. If genuine, this may be the biggest coup yet for Catastrophia. If not genuine, this is still a piece which bridges Golden Age catastrophe fiction and our more sophisticated, twenty-first century take on the subject.
J. B. Harris, eh – I wonder who that might be? ;)
Horror of Horrors: Forbidden Planet vs. PS Publishing horror fiction signing spectacular!
Posted by Paul Raven on August 20th, 2009 at 9:00
Fancy meeting some of the big names of horror fiction and getting them to sign some of our luxurious books?
Well, sure you do – and thanks to the awesome folk at the Forbidden Planet megastore in London, PS Publishing is very proud to announce Horror of Horrors, a special signing event which will feature such luminaries as:
- Ramsey Campbell
- Bryan Talbot
- Doug “Pinhead” Bradley (yes, the chap from Hellraiser);
- Angus Mackenzie
- James Hannah
- Rio Youers, and
- PS head honcho Peter Crowther himself!
This unique event will take place at the Forbidden Planet store on Shaftesbury Avenue (here’s a map for finding your way there) at 1pm on Saturday 26th September 2009.
Taking pride of place is the official launch of Creatures of the Pool, the new book from Ramsey Campbell and Bryan Talbot, but there’ll be plenty of other PS titles on offer at one-off special prices.
Add the opportunity to meet and chat with these doyens of horror fiction in the relaxed environment of Forbidden Planet, and you’ve got an event that promises to become a legend in its own right.
And the best bit? It’s free to attend, leaving you more money to spend on the important things in life – books!
We hope you’ll come along and join in the fun – there’s more than likely to be some time spent in a local drinking den after the signing, too, and we’d love to meet you all.
And if you fancy doing us a little favour, please feel free to copy the poster image above and repost it on your own blog or website – we want the world to know!
Wednesday reviews round-up for 19th August
Posted by Paul Raven on August 19th, 2009 at 14:08
It’s Wednesday afternoon, so it must be time for the weekly reviews round-up here at PS Publishing. Let’s have a look-see at what people have been saying about some of our titles, shall we?
For starters, Matthew Hughes takes on Terry Bisson’s Billy’s Book for SF Site:
Billy is a little boy who lives in a world of imagination. It might be his imagination. It might be Terry Bisson’s. But it’s certainly a place where lots of interesting things happen.
Like the time a boatload of tiny Vikings appear in Billy’s backyard pond and shanghai him into an expedition to kill frogs. Normally, Billy doesn’t mind killing things. In “Billy and the Ants,” he kills a lot of ants, one of them as big as a dog. In “Billy and the Bulldozer,” he tries to kill the kid next door, the objectionable Vernon, by running him over with his bulldozer, which got bigger when he left it out in the rain.
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“Billy and the Pond Vikings” is just one of thirteen Billy stories in this novella-length collection from PS Publishing. [...] I suppose they will not be to everyone’s taste. But if you’re the kind of reader who would have liked having Gahan Wilson or Charles Adams for a grandpa, so he could come over and read you bedtime stories [...] then Billy’s Book will offer you thirteen introductions to sweet dreams.
Scott Schaffer at SF Signal is brief but unstinting in his praise for The Best Of Gene Wolfe, the short story collection from Tor to which our own Very Best of Gene Wolfe adds extra material (plus our usual obsessive production values, of course). Says Schaffer:
Every sci-fi fan needs to have this book in their collection; loaning this book out to non-genre readers will leave them begging for more.
It is hard for me to contain my enthusiasm for this book. I’m not a huge fan of short fiction anymore (for some reason I have started to prefer novels in my old age) but I couldn’t put this book down. I couldn’t wait to get to the next story and see what Gene had in store for me next.
Of course, if you’re a die-hard Gene Wolfe fan, you’ll already feel the same way… which is why you should think about securing one of our special editions of the book for your own collection. They’ve been hugely popular already, so make your move sooner rather than later to avoid disappointment!
Our final four reviews all come from the lushly printed pages of the latest issue of Black Static, the horror and dark fantasy magazine from the TTA Press stable.
Veteran reviewer Peter Tennant finds great things to say about Sarah Pinborough’s The Language Of Dying:
Pinborough writes intelligently and sensitively about the painful business of dying, capturing both the horror of what is happening and infusing the narrative with a degree of acceptance, so each line of dialogue, each gesture the characters make, is laden with significance beyond what actually appears on the page.
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There is a richness of emotion here, seen in the way the narrative tugs at the heart strings, making the situation seem both unique and universal, and in the depth Pinborough gives the characters, this broken family with its burden of sorrow. Highly recommended.
And Robert Freeman Wexler’s The Painting And The City:
The Painting and the City brings to mind many previous literary works. The vast conspiracy that may or may not be at its core echoes Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49, while the dapper mannequin is a close cousin of Ligotti’s The Clown Puppet, and the various architectural mysteries were foreshadowed by Leiber’s Our Lady of Darkness, while insinuated into parts of the text are Lovecraft’s tentacle adorned alien progeny. It’s fun to pick up on these resonances, but Wexler’s novel is uniquely his own, a slippery thing that, just when you think you’ve got a firm hold on it, is off somewhere else entirely.
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Wexler effortlessly weaves all these into a story spanning two centuries, one in which the concrete and steel of New York, the dark essence of the city, interacts with some greater history. Like a painter himself, he brings colour and verve to the story, using a palette of words to embody the burgeoning life force lurking beneath the city streets, waiting its moment to erupt in verdant splendour. He writes of events both ominous and marvellous, that capture something of the feel of surrealism, the quality of dreams, even as they use those things to tell us the things we need to know about the world in which we live.
And Val/Orson by Marly Youmans:
This is a clever work of fiction, beautifully written and with the theme of the twin recurring throughout. Val’s love of nature comes over well, with the forest setting and his desire for a life in harmony with the environment portrayed strongly. Youman’s writing has a genuine feel for the landscape, so that the reader wants to wander beneath the forest canopy with Val, to follow in his footsteps as he leaves civilisation and all its troubles behind, and trees like Thoor Ballylee become every bit as much a part of the book’s dramatis personae as the human protagonists, given their own characteristics and distinct personalities. Infusing the work is an awareness of and respect for the trees as living beings, with every bit as much right to continue on into the future as the messy bipeds who stroll aimlessly among them.
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Val/Orson is a quiet, perfectly judged account of love and loss, of the feral child and what comes after, and lucid with intelligence and a true feeling for what is being recounted.
And last but not least, Quentin Crisp’s Shrike:
This isn’t storytelling in the traditional sense. In lieu of the beginning, middle and end structure we get a slice of life in which it appears to be all middle, the narrator’s thoughts and feelings, the landscape of a mind. The virtues of Shrike reside in Crisp’s controlled prose, the reflective nature of much of what happens and the vividly described series of events. It is a study of a character, of a stranger in a strange land, but one who seems to be more at home than in his own culture. The appeal is not so much that of being taken out of oneself by fiction, as total immersion in the life of the mind of another as Trent, like the butcher bird of the title, impales components of his own psyche on the text.
Tennant isn’t known for going easy on books he reviews, so we’re pleased as punch to see him respond so well to some of our titles. Why not pick one up for yourself and find out what all the fuss is about?
As always, click on the cover art to be taken directly to the catalogue page for the book in question, or just pop over to the PS webstore to have a browse. Have you read a PS Publishing title recently? If so, let us know so we can link you back from here!
Wednesday reviews roundup for 13th August
Posted by Paul Raven on August 12th, 2009 at 17:37
Hi folks – looks like it’s reviews round-up time once again here at PS Publishing, doesn’t it? Well, we’ve only got two to share this week… but they’re both prestigious and positive, so we’re not going to complain. Let’s see what we got, eh?
First of all, Lisa Tuttle of The Times takes on Robert Freeman Wexler’s The Painting and The City:
Lerner is a sculptor, and Wexler’s description of the daily life of a working artist in modern New York has the tang of authenticity. Into this very real, detailed setting, fantastic elements appear, such as an animated marionette made of red glass. Although they are strange and startling, they are incorporated into Lerner’s life even as his musings and dreams and personal experiences feed into the production of his art. He glimpses the face of Schuyler, watching him from a window, and then finds a reference to this experience in Schuyler’s journal. Past and present are connected: the Manhattan of the 1840s somehow still exists within the city of today, and he might be able to bring it back to life through his artworkm — if he manages to survive. This is an unusual, haunting tale from a distinctive new voice.
On the other side of the pond, Carl Hays of Booklist dives into the (Liver)pool – see what I did there?* – and immerses himself in Spook City:
Long before the Beatles brought Liverpool musical fame, it was renowned as a shipping port and a haven for inveterate dreamers. To horror film actor Doug Bradley, however, Liverpool is also “a city of spooks.” In his introduction to this distinctive horror anthology, Bradley profiles the town’s many eccentricities, past and present, while introducing the three fellow Liverpudlians whose writings the book showcases: Peter Atkins, Clive Barker, and Ramsey Campbell. Atkins’ contributions include a tale about a modern nursery-rhyme writer attacked by his own fanciful creations and another featuring a high-tech ghost hunter who exorcises spooks from a historic Liverpool mansion. Barker’s three stories are reprinted 1980s classics, including “The Forbidden,” about a supernatural creature that butchers impoverished Liverpudlians, which was filmed in 1992 as Candyman. Among Campbell’s six entries is the fascinating autobiographical essay “Coming to Liverpool,” which recounts Campbell’s mother’s writing ambitions and their unanticipated influence on his career. Each horror master offers an idiosyncratic view of Liverpool’s darker aspects that readers won’t soon forget.
As always, click on the cover art to be taken directly to the catalogue page for the book in question, or just pop over to the PS webstore to have a browse. Have you read a PS Publishing title recently? If so, let us know so we can link you back from here!
*Please note that the quality of my puns has no bearing on the quality of the books we publish… they don’t let me near the editorial process for good reason. ;)
Wednesday reviews roundup for 5th August
Posted by Paul Raven on August 5th, 2009 at 12:01
It’s Hump Day once again, which means it’s time for our weekly reviews round-up!
First through the gate, Mass Movement Magazine reviews Robert Freeman Wexler’s The Painting & The City:
As the book progressed, I began to feel more and more like I was reading a modern-day tale by Edgar Allan Poe; such was the tension mounting steadily to crescendo. As is the case with many of Poe’s narrators, one begins to question Jacob Lerner’s sanity. Nevertheless, one is compelled to keep him company on his journey of discovery and horror. I cannot adequately describe much of the book’s imagery without plagiarizing Wexler. He has done such a good job of creating atmosphere and competing realities! I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys suspense or horror, especially fans of Edgar Allan Poe or Lovecraft.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, Charles Tan tucks in to Postscripts #18, the all-new-writers issue:
… devoting an entire issue to not-so-high-profile writers is certainly a risk, but readers are treated to a publication’s that’s possibly memorable and refreshing. And given PS Publishing’s track record, there’s a good chance of that. Not surprisingly, they deliver the goods.
There are ten stories here, each one featuring a unique style from an author you probably haven’t heard of (the only one I initially recognized was Livia Llewellyn). As expected from PS Publishing, there’s more than a touch of horror in these stories which fit just right with the other issues of Postscripts. My honest reaction to the included stories is that they’re entertaining and different, perhaps not outstanding home-runs but definitely of a quality that’s good enough to catch my attention.
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The other highlight for me is the titular story, “This is the Summer of Love” by Rio Youers. The author successfully conjures this cinema atmosphere that’s apropos, one part fairy tale and one part tragic modern story. Youer’s handle on the protagonist is great, enough for readers to make us root for her at the same time making us believe that she won’t necessarily make the right decision.
We’ve more work in the pipeline from the good Mr. Youers, so keep your eyes peeled – Pete reckons he’s going to be a big deal.
And finally, while it’s not strictly a review, I though it worth mentioning that SF Site deployed the wonderful Sandy Auden to interview Pete, John Berlyne, Dick Berger and Tim Powers himself as the four-fold minds behind Powers: Secret Histories. Not only do we discover that Powers has a self-effacing streak a mile wide, but that the book was nearly a decade in the making…
John Berlyne: I went to see Bierer who shared his archive with me. Tim is of a generation of writers who pre-date word processors. There are handwritten books that he wrote where it comes out of his brain and down his arm and onto a piece of paper. It doesn’t get stuck in a word processor first where you start to lose the history and the development of the novel, because you simply just delete. So you don’t have a record of the evolution of the story. But on paper you’ve got everything. And I remember when I held the original manuscript — the handwritten manuscript — of The Anubis Gates. There is only one of these things in the world. And you can see on the pages the creative processes of the brain.
You can see this little spidery handwriting as this story travels and it goes onto the page and then it goes back. He starts to write and then crosses something out, and there are bits where crossings out are very leisurely done, don’t like that. And there are bits where it goes “Arghhhhhh.” And so you actually start to get an emotional connection with the creative process of the writer. I’m fascinated by writers and what they do and how writers, particularly in Tim’s case, create these extraordinary plots.
Tim Powers: And you see the writer spills beer a lot.
Don’t forget that for this month only you can get a trade edition of Secret Histories as one of ten books in our anniversary gift box offers, which offer incredible value for money:
- Ten trade novels, including Powers: Secret Histories – £100 [US$160 approx.]
- Ten slipcased novels, including Powers: Secret Histories – £200 [US$320 approx.]
As always, click on the cover art to be taken directly to the catalogue page for the book in question, or just pop over to the PS webstore to have a browse. Have you read a PS Publishing title recently? If so, let us know so we can link you back from here!
Apologia: Grin of the Dark pricing screw-up
Posted by Peter Crowther on August 4th, 2009 at 23:18
Hi folks;
We’ve had a bit of a glitch here with regard to the pricing of one title on the website: the slipcased edition of Ramsey Campbell’s remarkable novel, The Grin of the Dark.
In the sale we announced on Monday – and as a very special offer which we’ll be tying in with the launch of Ramsey’s two new books at Forbidden Planet in London next month – we reduced the price of the regular hardcover edition from £15 to £4… and then we went and reduced the £50 slipcased edition to £5 instead of to the £20 figure we’ve used on all other slipcased books. Needless to say, that proved to be a popular offer – but, alas, it was made in error.
Thus we’re going to be writing to everyone who ordered that particular edition and explain to them that we can’t let them have the book for that price. However, as a gesture of meeting half way, I’m going to offer the book for £12.50. So the choices are straightforward: ask for a refund of the £5 already paid; opt for the signed regular hardcover edition for £4 and get a £1 refund; or pay an additional £7.50 and get the slipcased edition.
Thanks for bearing with us on this! We’ll gte everything sorted out as soon as we can.
Best,
Pete
Midsummer madness! 60% off pre-2008 titles!
Posted by Peter Crowther on August 3rd, 2009 at 15:00
Hi folks!
Midsummer madness! 60% off pre-2008 titles!
Call me a big softie… call me crazy… heck, you can even call me Ishmael… but we’ve been tidying up our storage facilities and we’re hell-bent on freeing up some space: so, up until Hallowe’en – that’s a full three months – we’re reducing all pre-2008 titles by 60%. Yes, sixty per cent!
The usual postage charges will apply, of course, but this’ll mean that our £50 slipcased hardcovers will be just £20; our regular trade hardcovers (£20 and £25) will be only £8 or £10; jacketed novellas (£25) will be £10; and all paperback and unjacketed hardcover novellas will be a low £4 apiece.
There’ll be the following exceptions to this:
- anything by Zoran Zivkovic (because we have something completely different planned for Zoran – more on this next time!);
- the last few remaining copies of Joe Hill’s Gunpowder, which will remain at £12;
- all issues of Postscripts, which will stay at full-price; and…
- copies of Ramsey Campbell’s wonderful The Grin of the Dark – signed and numbered hardcovers, no less – which will now be reduced to just £5 (a 75% mark-down) . . . which means the book will cost less than the mass-market paperback edition.
So don’t delay – click through and place your orders now to avoid disappointment!
New acquisitions – Gene Wolfe, Steven Erikson and more
We’ve been busy as usual with new purchases, including a limited edition of Gene Wolfe’s new novel, The Sorcerer’s House, due out next March. Told entirely in a series of letters, the result is a bona fide page-turner. Based on the wonderful response to our Very Best Of collection for Gene’s shorter work, we’re expecting demand to be high on this… so watch out for ordering details.
(And while we’re talking about Gene’s Very Best Of, we’ve had some problems with the slipcase on that title, in that many of them were just too small. So we’ve sent them all back to be re-done, which means there’ll be a slight delay in filling new orders. Please bear with us! And if you’ve already received your copy and you’re having problems getting the book in and out then just send it back and we’ll sort it out… and we’ll send a little extra something to make up for the hassle.)
Also just in is a first draft of the first hundred typed pages of Steven Erikson’s brand new Bauchelain and Korbal Broach novella, Crack’d Pot Trail. Believe me when I tell you that this one is absolutely awesome. Again, we’ll have ordering details posted up on the site as soon as possible.
Add to all of this new purchases that include – novella-wise – Rotten Row, a new SF tale from Chaz Brenchley (which will include a reprint of Chaz’s “Terminal” story set in the same world, which was shortlisted for the BSFA Award) and A Princess of the Linear Jungle, the long-awaited sequel to Paul Di Filippo’s A Year In The Linear City… plus collections promised from Kathleen Ann Goonan and Andy Duncan, and a reprint of Darkness, Darkness, the long-since-sold-out first novella-length episode of my own SF/horror cycle, Forever Twilight which we’re putting out (to tie in with Subterranean’s recent issuing of volume 2, Windows To The Soul) under our brand new subsidiary imprint, Drugstore Indian Press.
Now shipping – The Language Of Dying, Billy’s Book, Blue Canoe
But enough of what’s coming, what’s actually newly arrived? As I type this, we’ve received finished copies of Sarah Pinborough’s heart-wrenching The Language of Dying and Terry Bisson’s truly charming mini-collection, Billy’s Book. Plus we’re expecting T.M.Wright’s Blue Canoe by the end of the week. They’re all novellas and thus priced at the usual £12 (around $20) for unsigned hardcovers or £25 ($40) for signed editions in dust-jackets.
Gift Boxes upgraded with new novellas and Secret Histories
Meanwhile, don’t let all this talk of new titles make you forget our Anniversary Gift Boxes. This month, as usual, we’re adding two new titles as our giftbox upgrades. The novella sets will come with the appropriate edition of either The Language of Dying, Billy’s Book or Blue Canoe (just let us know which you’d prefer when you place your order), and the two novel sets will include the signed trade edition of Powers: Secret Histories. As ever, it’s a fantastic way to grab ten quality books at a knockdown price.
- Ten trade novellas, including one of either Language of Dying, Billy’s Book or Blue Canoe - £40 [US$64 approx.]
- Ten jacketed hardcover novellas, including one of either Language of Dying, Billy’s Book or Blue Canoe - £100 [US$160 approx ]
- Ten trade novels, including Powers: Secret Histories – £100 [US$160 approx.]
- Ten slipcased novels, including Powers: Secret Histories – £200 [US$320 approx.]
Newsletter give-aways roll over again
In this month’s newletter give-away, one lucky subscriber will receive the two Michael Coney books, Hello Summer, Goodbye and I Remember Pallahaxi. And as we had no response to either of last month’s winning email addresses, the two ARCs of Spook City roll over to this month as well. That’s three chances of winning for anyone signed up to our newsletter – make sure you keep an eye on your inbox!
So stick with us, because we’re really building up a head of steam here! And watch out for the next newsletter in about four weeks’ time. Until then…
Look after each other… and happy reading!
Pete