‘The Woods Of Arcady’

The Woods Of Arcady: Book Two Of The Sanctuary Of The White Friars

New York: Tor hardcover, 2023 (June 6th);
original price:  $32·99;
479 + iii pages;
I.S.B.N.:  978-0-7653-2478-8;
cover artist:  Roy Perring (photograph).

Part autobiography and part fantasy adventure, The Woods Of Arcady is, as stated by its sub-title, “Book Two of the Sanctuary of the White Friars”, although that is of rather more relevance to the sequence’s first volume, The Whispering Swarm (2015), and indeed the British edition (of Woods… [see below]) does not inlcude that addition on its title page. A third volume, The Wounds Of Albion, is (at the time of writing) as yet unpublished, although a two-page preview appears at the end of Woods…

(Preceded by The Whispering Swarm)

First edition
(+ book-club ed.[?])

First British edition: London: Gollancz hardcover and simultaneous trade-sized paperback (see below), 2023 (June 8th);
no sub-title on title page;
original prices: £25·00 (h/c), £16·99 (p/b);
479 + iii pages;
I.S.B.N.s:  978-1-473-21335-7 (h/c) & 978-1-399-61501-3 (p/b);
cover artist:  Roy Perring (photograph).

British hardcover.
British trade paperback (simultaneous ed., not to scale), published for export (beyond the U.K.) only.

Gollancz trade-sized paperback, 2024 (July 4th);
original price: £10·99;
479 + iii pages;
I.S.B.N.:  978-1-4732-1336-4.

(Followed by The Wounds Of Albion)

The Woods Of Arcady is also available as e-books: 9781429944854 (U.S.A.) & 9781473213371 (U.K.).