* Green, Sally : Half Wild
(Penguin/Viking 978-0-670-01713-3, $18.99, 432pp, hardcover, March 2015)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 24 Mar 2015
Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780698148857
Half Bad #2

Young adult novel, second of a trilogy after Half Bad (2014), about modern day witches and a sixteen-year-old boy who is half white witch and half black witch.
• Penguin’s site has this description.
Publishers Weekly gave it (as it did the first book) a starred review, concluding that the book “features the same powerful language, well-developed characters, fascinating magic, and harrowing action sequences as its predecessor and will leave its readers anxiously awaiting the final volume.”

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* Gregory, Daryl : Harrison Squared
(Tor 978-0-7653-7695-4, $25.99, 320pp, hardcover, March 2015)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 24 Mar 2015
Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466852716
UK edition: Titan 978-1783297641 (Fri 27 Mar 2015)


Lovecraftian fantasy novel about a teenaged boy who’s terrified of water, and the disappearance of his mother in the coastal town of Dunnsmouth, Massachusetts.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review says, “Gregory delivers an enthralling and exciting tale that should intrigue both readers unfamiliar with Lovecraft and longtime fans of the stories.”
• Gary K. Wolfe reviews it in the March issue of Locus Magazine: “Despite some genuinely scary moments – mostly in the few chapters that shift to Harrison’s mother’s point of view – the generally good-natured tone of the tale, along with wonderful characters like Aunt Sel and the fish-boy Lub, suggest Daniel Pinkwater as much as Lovecraft, and despite the HPL furniture Harrison Squared is in no sense an imitation or pastiche.”

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* Lloyd, Tom : Old Man’s Ghosts
(UK: Orion/Gollancz 978-0575131217, £16.99, 400pp, trade paperback, March 2015)
Nominal Publication Date: Thu 19 Mar 2015
Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780575131231
Empire of a Hundred Houses #2

Fantasy novel, second volume in series following Moon’s Artifice (2013), about an investigator in the ruling city of the Empire of a Hundred Houses, which is threatened by civil war.
• Gollancz’s site has this description.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews.

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+ Philip, Gillian : Icefall
(Tor 978-0-7653-3325-4, $26.99, 448pp, March 2015)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 24 Mar 2015
Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781429967921
Rebel Angel #4

Fantasy novel, fourth and final book in a series following Firebrand, Bloodstone (both US 2013), and Wolfsbane (US 2014), set in the 16th century and about a Veil that separates the human worlds from that of the Sithe.
• The book was first published in the UK in 2014.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “The nearly flawless fourth and final volume in Philip’s Rebel Angels series (after Wolfsbane) is faster-paced and sharper than its predecessors.”

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* Robson, Justina : The Glorious Angels
(UK: Orion/Gollancz 978-0575134010, £16.99, 512pp, trade paperback, March 2015)
Nominal Publication Date: Thu 19 Mar 2015
Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780575134041

Fantasy novel about political turmoil coming to the magical city of Glimshard.
• Orion’s site has this description.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews.
• Tor.com has this review Niall Alexander: “Mixing science fiction and fantasy with elements of horror and erotica, as well as the weird, The Glorious Angels is Justina Robson’s first non tie-in novel since Down to the Bone—the conclusion of the Quantum Gravity quintet—fully four years ago.”

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+ Simmons, Dan : The Fifth Heart
(Little, Brown 978-0-316-19882-0, $28, 624pp, hardcover, March 2015)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 24 Mar 2015
Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780316198806
Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781478983156

Alternate history literary fantasy about Sherlock Holmes, who comes to America (while still presumed to be dead following Reichenbach Falls) to team up with novelist Henry Adams.
• This is the US edition, following the UK edition by 19 days.
• Hachette’s site has this description with a link to an excerpt.
Publishers Weekly gives this a starred review: “Simmons knows the Holmes canon and uses that expertise in the service of a highly original reimagining of the beloved sleuth.”

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* Thompson, Arianne ‘Tex’ : Medicine for the Dead
(Rebellion/Solaris 978-1781083079, $7.99, 480pp, mass market paperback, March 2015)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 24 Mar 2015
UK edition: 978-1781083062 (Thu 9 Apr 2015)
Children of the Drought #2

Dark fantasy western, second in a series following One Night in Sixes (2014), about a border town near an area populated by shapeshifters and animal gods.
• Solaris’ site has this post about the book.

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