I absolutely do NOT need this book... But I waaaaaaaant.
I can do ramen for a year and get it, right? 😭😭😭
Context: Folio is releasing a 1000 print run of a 30th Anniversary edition of GoT. And I've been dreaming about it every since...
Release date: 26/05/26
Price: 17.99 GBP
The first part of a captivating trilogy blending fantasy, science fiction and Japanese folklore from the author of Escape Routes, The Rainshadow Orphans leads readers into the richly imagined titular town terrorised by criminal gangs, where three loyal friends seek to avenge the murder of their beloved ‘aunt’.
Signed Edition with exclusive edges and endpapers.
The first novel in a dazzling epic fantasy trilogy inspired by Japanese folklore and Studio Ghibli, set within a mythical archipelago brimming with dragons and Sun Spirits, high-tech hackers and bubble tea.
Life is hard for the inhabitants of Rainshadow City, a place where poverty and corruption are rife and where they are terrorised by an underground criminal organisation known as the Lucky Crows.
Toshiko, Jun and Mei Kawakami are a family, bonded through loyalty if not blood, who live outside the law and who are seeking revenge for the murder of their beloved ‘aunt’ Reiko. Haru is the son of the Emperor, destined to one day rule over the Archipelago and uphold his mother’s ignoble legacy, but he is more interested in making friends with the magical Sun Spirits it seems only he can see. Theo, forced to leave his homeland, is a reluctant foot-soldier for the Lucky Crows. He doesn’t want to be a gangster, but as an illegal immigrant to the city, his choices are severely limited.
When Toshiko steals a dragon pearl from the leader of the Crows, it sets them all on a thrilling path which will determine the future of Rainshadow City. Set across two days and peopled with unforgettable characters, The Rainshadow Orphans blends fantasy and science fiction to explore what it means to stand up to corruption and take charge of destiny.
A few copies left in the vault for Folio Society’s signed edition of The Martian!
Here are some of the Waterstones editions people are talking about this week.
Are you picking any of these up? 👀
Bulletproof (Paperback) - K. M. Moronova
The Ballad of Falling Dragons - Sarah A. Parker
I Hear A New World - Alan Moore
Camp Half Blood: The Wild Zone - Rick Riordan
So TBB have just announced that they will be reprinting Malazan books 4-6, and casually posted this pic as if I’m going to just breeze past it and go on with my day?!
I have the itch, I NEED this!!
They still have books 1-3 available on the website (here if anyone also wants it, but leave a set for me!)
I just need you all to tell me if I’m being crazy because I haven’t even read one book in this series 😂
But what if they sell out and then not buying them turns into the biggest regret of my life?!
Helpppp!!
Hello lovely book collectors!
I wanted to share an update on some new features on RareBindings.net, the site I built to help keep track of all the special editions being released these days.
I recently added collection valuations, so you can now see an estimated value for your collection based on secondary sales data from eBay. The estimate shows a min / median / max range by aggregating recent sales data.
If a book does not have secondary sales data yet, you can choose to include the retail price as the basis for the estimate instead. I’ve also added recent sales data directly to book pages, so you can quickly check what similar editions have sold for. That should make it easier to price a book if you’re selling, or check whether you’re getting a fair deal when buying.
The site also supports saved searches and stock alerts, so you can keep an eye on specific books, authors, publishers, stores, or features without manually checking everything all the time.
RareBindings now supports:
- The Broken Binding
- FairyLoot
- Illumicrate
- OwlCrate
- Folio Society
- Subterranean Press
- Suntup Editions
- Grim Oak Press
- LitJoy
- Goldsboro Books
- Dragonsteel Books
- Moonlight Book Box
- The Locked Library
- The Bookish Shop
- Arcane Society
- Lit Escalates
- Waterstones
With more to come! As always, I’m building this as a collector myself, so feedback, bug reports, and store suggestions are very welcome.
Thank you!
Do we have any Adrian Tchaikovsky fans?
I have Children of Time reserved with Libby so I’ll be reading that in a few months, but I haven’t read anything from him yet!
We are excited to unveil our special edition of Green City Wars by Adrian Tchaikovsky, in collaboration with Tor!
Specs:
• Signed & Designed Endpapers
• Foil on Boards
• Digital Fore-Edge
• Block Sprayed Top & Bottom
• Head & Tail Bands
• Royal Hardback
If you've purchased our edition of Made Things, early access emails have now begun sending out! Double-check your spam folder, and if it does not arrive in the next 24 hours, drop us an email.
If any stock remains after early access has ended, it will go on general sale in June.
This edition is priced at £24 + P&P.
Pre-orders are estimated to ship out in June/July 2026.
Just wanted to share since I got the SFF sub book in the other week and I lovedddd it. The book was so good and I definitely appreciate the cover more once I understood it. This is my first blind sub box and it stresses me out to not know what it’ll look like lol idk if I’ll keep the sub bc I do have a hard time not knowing the design and I’m one of picky but I’m excited about this one!
Cost: 140 USD
Shipping: September
The set includes Wild Love, Wild Eyes, Wild Side, Wild Card
Wild Card sold out in early access so I would suggest ordering the set ASAP if you were considering it! If you cancel the preorder, it has to be done within 48 hours.
Sooo are we all thinking the same thing? (Plot twist, I have no idea but I read the Instagram comments 😂) >!Daggermouth!<
Who is excited for this? If the comments are correct lol
With collecting special edition books, there are always some people who want books they missed out on to be reprinted - is this fair to people who bought the first printing? Does it defeat the purpose of special edition books and the exclusivity and rarity of them? Or do you think reprinting is fair because they aren’t the first printing so it’s seen as different, etc?
What are your thoughts on reprints? Are you for or against them and why?
Just a discussion question I thought would be interesting to discuss with some things I’ve been seeing on other pages lately 😅 let us know your thoughts!
Here's our round up of special edition sales happening this week!
Did we miss any?? 👀
This week's pick for sci-fi Saturday is the Folio Society edition of Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro.
Kazuo Ishiguro's books are such interesting genre bending sci fi literary fiction mixes. The theme work in Ishiguro's books are the star of the show and Klara and the Sun is a book that really gets better with time, as you think more about what this book was trying to say.
I really enjoyed the overall concept and questions Ishiguro presents us with, but I think this should have been a bit shorter so everything could hit harder. The first 50% was so strong and I was really engaged, but around the 65-70% mark it just felt like the story was dragging on and I think this would have been stronger if it was shorter.
I found the characters and concept really fascinating, Klara and the Sun presents us questions on what it really means to be human and I continue to look forward to reading more from Ishiguro as he forces you to confront questions you may not have thought of before. While this isn't my favorite Ishiguro novel, it's one of the most thought provoking I've read so far and I definitely recommend people to check this one out! Plus this Folio Society edition is so pretty 😍
Has anyone read Ishiguro before or are you adding his books to your TBR? Let us know in the comments and if you have any similar recs, drop them below!
We are so excited to present to you... the 'Blood Over Bright Haven' Exclusive Edition, brought to you in collaboration with @mlwangbooksnews and @delreyuk!
The first woman admitted to study magic at the High Magistry.
The shunned janitor assigned as her lab assistant.
Together, Sciona and Thomil must uncover a secret conspiracy and the ancient secrets that threaten the foundations of magic as they know it.
What makes this Exclusive Edition special?
• Exclusive redesigned cover with foil by @c.e.illo with
design by @lydiablagden
• Foil on the hardcover by @catrina_paints with design by
@lydiablagden (front, back and spine)
• Character artwork on the endpapers by @warickaart
(different front and back)
• Digitally sprayed edge by @c.e.illo with solid sprayed top and bottom edges
• Signed by the author, M. L. Wang
This book is categorised as Adult and is suitable for readers aged 18t.
This is NOT part of our normal monthly subscriptions, and if you wish to order a copy, it will be available on our website (we ship to many countries worldwide).
The 'Blood Over Bright Haven' Exclusive Edition will be available for £24 GBP / $32 USD + shipping and is expected to ship around July/August.
Early Access will take place as follows on June 11th:
10am BST: UK/INT active subscribers
4pm BST: US/Canada active subscribers
If we have any copies remaining, these will be available to the public on June 12th at 10am BST for UK/INT customers and 4pm BST for US/Canada customers from the online shop.
We hope you adore this edition as much as we do!
Graphics by @blanca.design
June 15th 10am BST - UK/INT customers who received TKATM
June 15th 12pm BST - US/CAN customers who received TKATM
June 16th 10am BST - UK/INT active subs
June 16th 12pm BST - US/CAN active subs
If there are remaining copies, general sale will begin:
June 17th 10am BST - UK/INT general sale
June 17th 4pm BST - US/CAN general sale
Cost: 25 GBP / 34 USD
Shipping: November/December
Any Rachel Gillig fans who will be picking this up?
TBB The Dragon’s Blade Trilogy review for sale weekend
Hi everyone! Since TBB is releasing their anniversary editions of The Dragon’s Blade trilogy this weekend, I thought I could leave my review in case anyone wanted more info on the books since this trilogy doesn’t seem to be as popular as Miller’s Ascendant series.
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“Memory is the heaviest of all things. Even the strongest shoulders will be hunched by it in time. Nothing weighs upon us more, nor for longer, than memory.”
The Reborn King is the first book in The Dragon’s Blade trilogy and it is a solid debut with good characters, an interesting plot, and really good world building. I enjoyed most of the character work and relationships in this book, although I wasn’t a huge fan of the romance in here. It just felt a bit lackluster to me and I didn’t really feel like I was invested into the relationship. But there was a friendship in here that I was really invested in and I’m hoping to see more in the next book.
The world building is the star of the show and the strongest part of this book, I loved the world created and I’m definitely excited to learn more as I get into the second and third books.
The pace was on the slightly faster side and I think it worked well for this book as it’s mostly setting up the rest of the series. But the world building and plot were solid and I’m really interested in finding out where things are going to go from here. The writing style is on the simpler side and felt a bit choppy and abrupt in the beginning, but it did seem to get better in the second half. As this is a debut novel, I’m looking forward to seeing this aspect of his writing to improve as we move through the series and already seeing an improvement in book 1 makes me excited to continue! I also really like where the plot is heading, so overall a really solid debut novel.
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I saw the sale details already posted on this page so I won’t get repetitive with those, but I do have a code - GYMJEN - that you can use at checkout. It doesn’t give a discount, it just lets TBB know I sent you. No pressure to use it though! Thanks for reading if you’ve made it this far lmaooo
Just sharing some of the Waterstones Exclusive editions being talked about this week!
The Knave and the Moon - Rachel Gillig
The Wicked Powers: The Last King of Faerie - Cassandra Clare
The Wolf Queen - Lauren Palphreyman
Merciful is the Dark - Sophie Clark
Which ones are you pre-ordering??
Price: 40€ each or 70€ for the set
Sale dates: May 13th 4pm CET until 20th May 23:59pm CET
Shipping: September/October
FEATURING:
• Exclusive dustjacket designs by: @lux_mily
• Exclusive redesigned hardcovers by: @saintjupit3rgr4phic
• Exclusive redesigned edges by: @saintjupit3rgr4phic
• Exclusive endpage illustrations “A Fate Inked in Blood” by: @de_bee._
• Exclusive endpage illustrations “A Curse Carved in Bone” by: @alicecaoillustration
🔥Each book will include an exclusive set of 3 OVERLAYS🔥
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EXTRA INFO:
• This special edition is in ENGLISH
• Each copy will be numbered
• We are exploring the possibility of signed bookplates and will provide an update as soon as we can
No way I can be calm and write a casual caption with sale info lol I’m freaking out that IC just announced the Liveship Traders details! YALL IM SO HYPE LOL
Ok I will be calm and give you all the details you need to know now
Cost: 90 GBP
Shipping: October
Preorder for fantasy subs, silver/gold rewards members, and previous buyers (including reprint orders) of the Farseer trilogy: 14 July with details being sent out via email on 8 July
General sale: 16 July at 3pm BST
Ok, calmness over. Who is freaking out with me and getting this set?!