You know when you’re sat on a train or wandering around the park and you walk past someone reading ‘that book’ you’ve been really excited about? You do a double-take before glaring at them in shock and anger: how do they have ‘that book’ when it’s not even out yet!? Finally it dawns on you. With that pesky thing called real-life on your mind, you’d totally forgotten that the release date of ‘that book’ was last month! You’d totally forgotten about it….

Well, no more! From now on: Fantasy-Faction’s got your back.

Each month, around the 21st, we’ll be running a feature called “The Month Ahead” where we’ll be listing as many fantasy upcoming fantasy books as we can (and a few Horror / Sci-Fi titles we are excited about too). We’ll give preference to new releases, but will also try to list re-releases of paperbacks (e.g. first time paperback release of novels that were released in hardback the year before and Masterwork editions, etc).

We hope you enjoy it and if we miss anything then please add them to the comments section below!

April / May 2014

The Vagrant – 23 Apr 2015

by Peter Newman

Starborn (Worldmaker Trilogy Book 1) – 23 Apr 2015

by Lucy Hounsom

Charm (Tales from the Kingdoms) – 28 Apr 2015

by Sarah Pinborough

Dragondrums (Harper Hall of Pern) – 28 Apr 2015

by Anne McCaffrey and Brandon Sanderson (Introduction)

Darkened Blade (A Fallen Blade Novel) – 28 Apr 2015

by Kelly McCullough

The High Druid’s Blade (The Defenders of Shannara) – 28 Apr 2015

by Terry Brooks

The Waterborne Blade – 5 May 2015

by Susan Murray

Chasers of the Wind – 5 May 2015

by Alexey Pehov and Elinor Huntington

Corum – The Knight of Swords (The Eternal Champion) – 5 May 2015

by Michael Moorcock

A Court of Thorns and Roses – 5 May 2015

by Sarah J. Maas

The Merchant Emperor (Symphony of Ages) – 5 May 2015

by Elizabeth Haydon

Thief’s Magic (Book 1 of Millennium’s Rule) – 7 May 2015

by Trudi Canavan

Lord of Ashes (Steelhaven: Book Three) – 7 May 2015

by Richard Ford

Day Shift (Midnight Texas 2) – 7 May 2015

by Charlaine Harris

The Watchman of Eternity – 7 May 2015

by Paul Witcover

Devastating Hate (The Legends of the Älfar) – 7 May 2015

by Markus Heitz

The Book of Phoenix – 7 May 2015

by Nnedi Okorafor

Born of Defiance (League: Nemesis Rising) – 12 May 2015

by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Dreams of Shreds and Tatters – 12 May 2015

by Amanda Downum

The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (FANTASY MASTERWORKS) – 14 May 2015

by Patricia A. McKillip

The Incorruptibles – 14 May 2015

by John Hornor Jacobs

Uprooted – 19 May 2015

by Naomi Novik

The Gracekeepers – 19 May 2015

by Kirsty Logan (Author)

Odin (Myths and Legends) – 20 May 2015

by Steven Long and Ru-Mor

Day Four – 21 May 2015

by Sarah Lotz

Assail (A Novel of the Malazan Empire) – 21 May 2015

by Ian C Esslemont

Warriors of Ultramar (Ultramarines) – 21 May 2015

by Graham McNeill

Hallow Point (A Mick Oberon Job #2) – 22 May 2015

by Ari Marmell

Beauty – 26 May 2015

by Sarah Pinborough

The Book of Life (All Souls Trilogy) – 26 May 2015

by Deborah Harkness

Wait! Before you leave do leave a comment letting us know:

Which titles are you looking forward to?

Any covers that stand out to you?

Any you’ve spotted that you’d totally forgot were coming?