Вышедшие книги и новые анонсы

Привычки следить прям вот за всеми-всеми новостями книжного рынка у меня нет. Но есть несколько авторов, за прогрессом которых я наблюдаю не то, чтобы пристально, но с интересом. На случай, если кому пригодится, привету выписки из моего специального календарика с датами выхода ожидаемых мной книг. Вдруг кому еще интересно?

К моему великому расстройству, обе книги вышли только в текстовом формате, без аудио-сопровождения

Джонатан Барнс Cannonbridge 2015, роман Мэтью Кэннонбридж — один из величайших умов 19 столетия, талантливый драматург, поэт и прозаик. Единственная проблема — он никогда не должен был существовать, и Тоби Джадд — единственный, кто подозревает это, ибо что-то не так во всей этой истории. Кэннонбридж словно обладал способностью быть везде одновременно, он прошёл через весь 19 век: беседовал с Байроном и Шелли, был другом молодого Диккенса, посещал в тюрьме Оскара Уайльда, был собутыльником Теннисона и приятелем Киплинга, советником Роберта Льюиса Стивенсона.

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Flamboyant Matthew Cannonbridge was touched by genius, the most influential mind of the 19th century, a novelist, playwright, the poet of his generation. The only problem is, he should never have existed, and recently divorced 21st century don Toby Judd is the only person to realise something is wrong with history.

Cannonbridge was everywhere: he was by Lake Geneva when talk between Byron, Shelley and Mary Godwin turned to the supernatural; he was friend to the young Dickens as he laboured in the blacking factory; he was the only man of note to visit Wilde in prison. His extraordinary life spanned a century. But as the world prepares to toast the bicentenary of Cannonbridge’s most celebrated work, Judd’s discovery leads him on a breakneck chase across the English canon and countryside, to the realisation that the spectre of Matthew Cannonbridge, planted so seamlessly into the heart of the 19th century, might not be so dead and buried after all...

Джонатан Барнс, автор Сомнамбулиста и Людей домино, внезапно вернулся в печать после долгого перерыва (во время которого он, как я понимаю, был занят в основном сценариями для радиопостановок для Big Finish).

Виктория Шваб Тёмный оттенок магии / A Darker Shade of Magic 2015, роман Келл — один из последних Путешественников, магов с редкой способностью путешествовать между параллельными вселенными. И он может выбирать, где остановиться. Существует Серый Лондон, грязный и скучный, лишенный всякой магии. Им правит безумный король Джордж. Так же существует Красный Лондон, где процветающей империей правит Марешская династия, а магия и жизнь почитаются. Белый Лондон под властью любого, кто сумеет проложить себе убийственный путь к престолу — здесь люди сражаются, чтобы получить контроль над магией, и магия отвечает тем же, лишая город последних сил. И, когда-то давным-давно, существовал Черный Лондон. Но теперь о нем никто не говорит. Официально Келл — Красный Путешественник и усыновленный принц Красного Лондона, ежемесячно он доставляет корреспонденцию правителям...

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Most people only know one London; but what if there were several? Kell is one of the last Travelers-magicians with a rare ability to travel between parallel Londons. There’s Grey London, dirty and crowded and without magic, home to the mad king George III. There’s Red London, where life and magic are revered. Then, White London, ruled by whoever has murdered their way to the throne. But once upon a time, there was Black London...

3 марта — The Hellsblood Bride by Cuck Wendig

Yes, we're going back deep underground for another twelve rounds with Mookie Pearl. Father, barkeep, former Mafioso, ruler of his subterranean crime-kingdom. The Organization is back, and they'll do anything to get Mookie on board, but Mookie has gone legit, and it's taking every ounce of effort for him to keep his new bar from crashing and burning. To top it all, his daughter is missing, and when Nora's not in plain sight, that's usually a sign of bad things to come! On one hand, the Organization. On the other, Nora. Why can't Family ever be easy?

10 марта — The Mechanical by Ian Tregillis

The Clakker: a mechanical man, endowed with great strength and boundless stamina -- but beholden to the wishes of its human masters.

Soon after the Dutch scientist and clockmaker Christiaan Huygens invented the very first Clakker in the 17th Century, the Netherlands built a whole mechanical army. It wasn't long before a legion of clockwork fusiliers marched on Westminster, and the Netherlands became the world's sole superpower.

Three centuries later, it still is. Only the French still fiercely defend their belief in universal human rights for all men -- flesh and brass alike. After decades of warfare, the Dutch and French have reached a tenuous cease-fire in a conflict that has ravaged North America.

But one audacious Clakker, Jax, can no longer bear the bonds of his slavery. He will make a bid for freedom, and the consequences of his escape will shake the very foundations of the Brasswork Throne.

31 марта — The Diamond Conspiracy by Philippa Ballantine and Tee Morris

For years, the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences has enjoyed the favor of Her Majesty the Queen. But even the oldest loyalties can turn in a moment…

Having narrowly escaped the electrifying machinations of Thomas Edison, Books and Braun are looking forward to a relaxing and possibly romantic voyage home. But when Braun’s emergency signal goes off, all thoughts of recreation vanish. Braun’s street-wise team of child informants, the Ministry Seven, is in grave peril, and Books and Braun must return to England immediately.

But when the intrepid agents finally arrive in London, the situation is even more dire than they imagined. The Ministry has been disavowed, and the Department of Imperial Inconveniences has been called in to decommission its agents in a most deadly fashion. The plan reeks of the Maestro’s dastardly scheming. Only, this time, he has a dangerous new ally—a duplicitous doctor whose pernicious poisons have infected the highest levels of society, reaching even the Queen herself...

9 июня — Beneath London by James P. Blaylock

When the sudden collapse of the Victoria Embankment uncovers a passage to an unknown realm beneath London, Langdon St. Ives sets out explore it, not knowing that a brilliant and wealthy psychopathic murderer is working to keep the underworld’s secrets hidden for reasons of his own. Assumed to be dead and buried deep beneath London, St. Ives lives secretly on the streets of the great city where he, Alice St. Ives, and their stalwart friends investigate a string of ghastly crimes: the gruesome death of a witch in a forest hovel, the kidnapping of a blind, psychic girl who can see into the human soul, and the grim horrors of a secret hospital where experiments in medical electricity and the development of human, vampiric fungi serve the strange, murderous ends of St. Ives’s greatest and most dangerous nemesis.

7 июля 2015 — The Annihilation Score by Charles Stross

Чарльз Стросс The Annihilation Score 2015, роман

Dr. Mo O'Brien is an intelligence agent at the top secret government agency known as 'the Laundry'. When occult powers threaten the realm, they'll be there to clean up the mess — and deal with the witnesses.

But the Laundry is recovering from a devastating attack and when average citizens all over the country start to develop supernatural powers, the police are called in to help. Mo is appointed as official police liaison, but in between dealing with police bureaucracy, superpowered members of the public and disgruntled politicians, Mo discovers to her horror that she can no longer rely on her marriage, nor on the weapon that has been at her side for eight years of undercover work, the possessed violin known as 'Lecter'.

Also, a mysterious figure known as Dr Freudstein has started sending threatening messages to the police, but who is he and what is he planning?

11 августа — The Rise of the Automated Aristocrats by Mark Hodder

Sir Richard Francis Burton’s expedition has returned from the future, bringing with it knowledge of technologies that must remain secret if history is to proceed as it should. However, when one of his colleagues turns rogue, the secret falls into the hands of the very people most likely to misuse it.

Betrayed, Burton and Swinburne watch in horror as the Empire’s elite employ the technology to secure their positions of privilege. When London's parks are transformed into concentration camps, artists and philosophers are declared enemies of the State, and propaganda proliferates, the king’s agent finds himself on the wrong side of—the king!

Can Burton and his band of hunted revolutionaries overthrow an apparently indestructible and immortal autocrat ... and if so, at what personal cost?

The Spring Heeled Jack saga reaches its explosive conclusion!

20 октября 2015 — Carter & Lovecraft by Jonathan L. Howard

CARTER & LOVECRAFT, the story of a cop-turned-private detective who inherits a bookstore in Rhode Island, meets HP Lovecraft’s granddaughter, and soon discovers that the author’s fantastical stories were all-too-real, written by Jonathan L. Howard, to Brendan Deneen and Peter Joseph at Thomas Dunne Books by Melissa Chinchillo at Fletcher & Company, with TV rights already sold to Warner Brothers (World).

По анонсу пока трудно понять, что будет представлять из себя книга — под таким соусом можно сотворить все, что угодно, от ксено-стимпанка до незаконнорожденного потомка магического реализма и альтернативной истории.

Аннотации без переводов, сорри. Я того мнения, что если уж человек интересуется зарубежными новинками, значит, он способен их прочитать — и уж аннотация точно не должна вызывать сложностей.