Toppings in Bath are holding a double celebration starting at 7pm on 5th March for two new books.  Tickets are available from the website https://www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/bath/adrian-tchaikovsky-in-bath-2025/

SHROUD by Adrian Tchaikovsky

A commercial expedition to a distant star system discovers a pitch-black moon alive with radio activity.  Its high-gravity, high-pressure, zero-oxygen environment is deadly to human life, but ripe for exploitation.  They name it Shroud.

Under no circumstances can a human survive Shroud's inhospitable surface - but a catastrophic accident forces Juna Ceelander and Mai St Etienne to make an emergency landing in a barely adequate escape vehicle.  Alone, and fighting to survive, the two women embark on a gruelling journey across land, sea and air in search of salvation.

But as they travel, Juna and Mai begin to understand Shroud's unnerving alien species.  It also begins to understand them.  If they escape Shroud, they'll somehow have to explain the impossible and translate the incredible.  That is, if they make it back at all ...

FUTURE'S EDGE by Gareth L. Powell

When archaeologist Ursula Morrow accidentally infects herself with an alien parasite, she fears she may have jeopardised her career.  However, her concerns become irrelevant when Earth is destroyed, billions die, and suddenly no one needs archaeologists any more.

Two years later, she's plucked from a refugee camp on a backwater world and tasked with retrieving the artefact that infected her, as it just might hold the key to humanity's survival.  With time running short, and the planet housing the weapon now situated in hostile territory, she realises she's going to have to commit an act of desperate piracy if she's going to achieve her objective before the enemy's final onslaught.

A thrilling, page-turning journey into deep space where the fights are brutal, the relationships are complicated and the world ended years ago.