21/04/2026
January - Exciting Award Win News!
January - Green City Wars
A new Adrian Tchaikovsky novel
UK Cover Reveal
Portia House was full of rejoicing today as Adrian won two awards in the 2025 Goonhammer Book Awards!
"Recently the Warhammer site, Goonhammer, held a poll for favourite Warhammer reads of 2025, and I’m delighted to find that my novel, Starseer’s Ruin, came out well! Not only did it come out top in the Age of Sigmar category (Warhammer’s main fantasy setting) but by a very narrow margin I also came away with their Best Writer category. I’ve been writing for Black Library for a while – in fact the only outside franchise I’ve written for. Getting this nod from BL readers definitely makes me feel that I’ve arrived as part of a longstanding tradition full of exceptional authors. Thank you!”
In a city of sunshine and secrets, the shadows belong to the animals. Private Investigator, Scotch, a genetically engineered racoon races to expose a deadly conspiracy – before it tears his whole world apart!
Green City Wars is a solarpunk noir science fiction novel filled with crime and mystery. It's a dynamic action-filled story guaranteed to have you guessing right until the end.
Released into the wild on 25 June 2026
February - Newly Released
Pretenders to the Throne of God
Signing at Goldboro Books
March - EasterCon 2026
Adrian and Karen Lord at Eastercon
It was lovely to see the new hardback Pretenders to the Throne of God (Head of Zeus/AdAstra) with its glorious cover in person. Adrian signed all these books at Goldsboro Books, London so if you have a one on order, there's a good chance it's right here in these pictures!
April - Free Story!
Creative Futures is a collection of short stories from SFF authors that draw inspiration from the Creative Futures Research Project, a partnership between Coventry University and the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL), the UK Ministry of Defence’s science and technology organisation. Edited by Dr Allen Stroud.
Children of Strife: A Sunday Times Bestseller!
5 April 2026
Adrian is overjoyed to find that Children of Strife is a Sunday Times Bestselling Novel!
A big thank you to all our Scifi and Fantasy readership.
May - NornCon 2026
The Belfast scify, fantasy, and horror convention.
A lovely weekend was had at NornCon 2026, a new scify, fantasy, and horror convention held in beautiful Northern Ireland at the Hilton Hotel in Belfast on Saturday 9 May, 2026.
Guests of honour, Adrian and Anna Smith Spark, headed a stellar cast of panellists and attendees for a day of readings, talks, games, and workshops. A local artists and dealers catered to everyone's fantasy, scify and horror needs.
Adrian did a reading from Children of Strife, was interviewed by author, Ian McDonald, and took part in two panels: “Don’t cross the streams” with Peadar Ó Guilin, Sam Poots, and Ruth Frances Long, and “Role of the Other” with Jack Fennell, Ian McDonald, RB Kelly and Jenny Hannaford.
On Sunday, the guests of honour were taken on a fascinating tour of the Navan Fort near Armagh. The tour guide was non other than distinguished archeologist and linguist, Professor J. P. Mallory. He gave the most interesting and entertaining talk in the beautiful sunny weather. In the evening we were treated to a final meal with convention organisers and local club members.
Many, many thanks go to Tommy Ferguson and the Convention Team for all the organisation, to Professor Mallory for his superb talk, and to Mandy and Tom for driving us around. We'll be back soon!