Our 2026
publishing programme
Our fullest year yet.
In 2026 we are stepping into overdrive with a release almost every month of the year. Details on each publication will be added as they are announced.
Legacy of Obsidian by Nerine Dorman & Catriona Ross – February 2026
Dawn of the Empress by Nerine Dorman & Catriona Ross – February 2026
The Which Word by Catriona Ross – February 2026
Call the Fire by Nerine Dorman – April 2026
Death Rattle by Lebogang Matseke – May 2026
Archive of the Sixth by Matthew MacDevette – June 2026
UTOPIA/HAVOC – Various – July 2026
Swordlords and Sorcerers of Semble by Rhett Sinnema – August 2026
City of Earth by Mats Elliott – September 2026
Bloodbird by Erica Livingston – October 2026
2026
Titles available for order:
February
Legacy of Obsidian
Nerine Dorman & Catriona Ross
In a frozen world where the last surviving clans fight for a narrow peninsula while fending off a relentless, flesh-hungry threat, Prince Linnard Skylark must navigate betrayal, protect a dangerous secret, and grow into the leader his people need. If the clans cannot unite, the darkness closing in will consume them all.
Book One: Winter Mage
Fantasy
February
Dawn of the Empress
Nerine Dorman & Catriona Ross
General Gohei fights to secure Dawn Clan’s future as the empire reels from war and rival clans compete for advantage. With an aging emperor and twin heirs poised to inherit a fractured realm, Gohei and his sons must navigate shifting loyalties and political danger, testing whether honour and strategy can safeguard their clan when the balance of power is about to change.
Book Two: Winter Mage
Fantasy
February
The Which Word
Catriona Ross
Rafi Paterson moves into The Plex, a strange suburban complex where meditation, unconventional training, and hints of magic shape daily life. When her godsisters arrive and a local academic vanishes after a party, clues tied to a found diary pull them into a mystery woven with language, identity, and a force that may demand far more of Rafi than she ever expected.
Urban Fantasy
June
UTOPIA/HAVOC
Various
Follow humanity across collapse and renewal, moving from a polluted present toward imagined futures shaped by radical change. Each story explores the tension between ruin and possibility as technology, resistance, and new myths reshape what survives. Together, they form a continuum that charts our path from breakdown to a solarpunk horizon built on adaptation and hope.
Science-fiction, Cyberpunk, Solarpunk
2025
February
The Company of birds
Nerine Dorman
A magus in a fragile city-state uncovers a forbidden inheritance that pulls her into a rising political plot. As Liese ten Haven confronts betrayal, hidden power, and the threat of civil war, she must decide how far she will go to repair the damage her people caused and stop her own magic from destroying her.
Epic Fantasy
March
The Unwoven Warrior
Jon Keevy
Amkela, the Lion of the West’s younger brother, is forced into leadership after an ambush scatters his people and an ancient captive power offers him strength for a hidden cost. As Imperial forces close in, he must harness this new gift, protect his people, and endure the consequences of the bargain that now defines his path.
Fantasy
June
The Seven Wonders
Various
This anthology presents seven distinct tales that span gothic, contemporary, and uncanny worlds, following witches whose power tests their limits and reshapes their lives. Each story reveals a unique Wonder and reclaims witches as figures of resolve and transformation, offering a vivid exploration of magic’s costs and possibilities.
Fantasy, Contemporary
September
Out of the Dead Lands
Conrad Kemp
Follow people drawn together by visions, intrusions, and a visitor who claims to have crossed time to repair what was lost. Cephus Twala’s final foresight, Helen Botes’s unraveling home, and Steven Moyo’s search for a future-born squatter merge into a story about memory and displacement.
Literary speculative fiction
October
Memories of the Old Sun
Eugen Bacon
Mazu, a designer of biorobots, sees his life unravel when Jazz, a unit he created for Antarctic research, begins to develop emotion and memory. Mazu is pushed to examine his own desires and constraints, tracing the tension between expectation and authenticity across the distance between a dense city and the Antarctic ice.
Science-fiction, short story
October
The Sins on Their Bones
Laura R. Samotin
Deposed Tzar Dimitri Alexeyev hides in exile and works to unseat his estranged husband, now an immortal ruler who wields a warped religious power and commands demonic forces. The mission forces him to confront his lingering attachment to his ex and his growing bond with the man helping him reclaim their country.
Dark Fantasy, Queer Fantasy, Romantasy
October
The Lure of their Graves
Laura R. Samotin
Dimitri Abramovich has reclaimed his throne, but rising threats force him to consider a political marriage. As unrest spreads and the shadows of war and the Holy Science linger, Dimitri and Vasily confront the demands of leadership, the weight of past wounds, and the uncertain future of their bond.
Dark Fantasy, Queer Fantasy, Romantasy
2024
June
The Tilted Pentagram
Matthew MacDevette
In an alternate Europe ruled by the Church, university student Nell Blythe is accused of witchcraft and forced into hiding, her unexplained abilities echoing the power that doomed her mother. On the run and guided by a stranger who shares her gifts, she uncovers dangerous truths about her family and the Church, pushing her toward choices that could expose the secrets her mother died to protect.
Alternate History, Fantasy
July
Waypoint Seven
Xan van Rooyen
Runo, a transgender scavenger surviving on the margins of Askeria, searches the city’s magical debris to keep his found-family afloat as the High Priestess targets anyone with unsanctioned power. His crew’s discovery of a living angel offers a chance to escape, but it pulls them into a struggle involving his dangerous past, a spreading magical disease, and a hidden history that threatens to reshape humanity’s future.
Fantasy, Science-fiction
August
Bunny
SE Tolsen
Silas returns with his girlfriend to the home he fled, only to face the aunt who shaped his past and a presence in the surrounding woods that never released its hold on him. As unsettling events escalate, he is pulled back into a family shaped by addiction and something older and darker, unraveling a tense psychological and supernatural struggle that tests the limits of love and survival.
Horror, Thriller