The Book Company: New Products - Alternative History

Time's Arrow (A Novel)

Mon, 18 May 2026 13:32:15 +0000

A singular, inventive novel that was nominated for the Booker Prize, following the life of a German Holocaust doctor in reverse, by the acclaimed author of Money and London Fields.

Dr Tod. T. Friendly is living his life in reverse. He awakens on his hospital deathbed..

Price: $18.00

Bloat (A Petrofiction)

Mon, 11 May 2026 13:34:56 +0000

A dark and consuming novel about oil, power, beauty, and the quiet resistance of women in a dystopia where death is not the ultimate harm

My fellow Venezuelans, we’re going to swim in black gold. Remember this year: 1999. We’re not just reclaiming our spring, our Thames, our Seine. We..

Price: $17.00

Heartfire (The Tales of Alvin Maker, Book Five)

Mon, 11 May 2026 13:26:08 +0000

The Tales of Alvin Maker continue in Heartfire, the fifth book in the historical fantasy series from the Hugo and Nebula award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Ender's Game.

Peggy is a Torch, able to see the fire burning in each person's heart...
Price: $18.99

Ice

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:32:19 +0000

*EBRD LITERATURE PRIZE PRIZE FINALIST*
*LOCUS FINALIST FOR BEST TRANSLATED NOVEL 2026*

A Trans-Siberian odyssey through political, criminal, scientific, philosophical and amorous intrigues, and into an endless winter to confront something utterly alien.
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Price: $22.99

The Crystal City (The Tales of Alvin Maker, Book Six)

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:26:21 +0000

The Tales of Alvin Maker continue in The Crystal City, the sixth book in the historical fantasy series from the Hugo and Nebula award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Ender's Game.

Using the lore and the folk-magic of the men and women who sett..
Price: $19.99

Seventh Son (The Tales of Alvin Maker, Book One)

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:26:03 +0000

The Tales of Alvin Maker begins in Seventh Son, the first book in the historical fantasy series from the Hugo and Nebula award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Ender's Game.

Using the lore and the folk-magic of the men and women who settled Nor..
Price: $16.99

Infection Points (A Winter Census of Urban Predators)

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:31:39 +0000

In this thrilling novella that’ s both outbreak and survival horror, award-winning Bulgarian author Elena Pavlova reimagines humanity’ s relationship with vampires, for fans of Jeff VanderMeer’ s Southern Reach series and The Strain. Price: $12.99

The City of Factories

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:31:23 +0000

Set in an alternative steampunk Nigeria, Naomi Eselojor’ s Africanfuturist novella is a tale of community sheltering, resistance, and technological responsibility, for fans of Nnedi Okorafor, Suyi Davies Okungbowa, and Wole Talabi.

1859, Nigeria. In the fishin..
Price: $12.99

Our Brilliant Ruin TTRPG Rulebook

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:01:42 +0000

Enter a gilded age in which upstairs-downstairs drama meets existential horror.

Our Brilliant Ruin is a tabletop roleplaying game set in the Dramark, a place where the last fragile remains of society live in the shadow of a dying world.

The Ruin, a preternatural force befouli..
Price: $59.99

Bats of the Republic

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:43:15 +0000

The full-color featherproof edition of the illuminated novel Bats of the Republic features hand-drawn maps and natural history illustrations, subversive pamphlets and science-fictional diagrams, and even a nineteenth-century novel-within-a-novel, all designed by the author, with a new..
Price: $31.95