Stray Dogs
This coming-of-age thrill ride of a story by the former 60ft Dolls frontman would make any Quentin Tarantino screenplay envious. TMB’s first exclusive novel by a British author! “This novel is fierce, catchy and fullof hooks.”— Jon Langford, The Mekons
The Last Vanishing Man
Magic stops. Men vanish. Worlds end. Life goes on. American violence and masculinity are topics that weave through Matthew Cheney’s stories, as characters of various genders and sexualities get scarred by the wounds of manhood. "I can't recommend Cheney’s Last Vanishing Man highly enough."— Samuel R. Delany
Trouble the Waters:Tales from the Deep Blue
World Fantasy Award and Locus Award finalist anthology, Trouble the Waters, edited by Sheree Renée Thomas, Pan Morigan, and Troy L. Wiggins gathers a tidal force of bestselling, renowned writers from Lagos to Memphis to Copenhagen to London, including Nalo Hopkinson, Jaquira Diaz, Andrea Hairston, Linda D. Addison, Rion Amilcar Scott, Marie Vibbert, Maurice Broaddus, Sheree Renée Thomas, and other breakout beautiful voices. The stories and poems are connected by theme: water, the most vital of elemental forces.
The Offing
Soon to be a major a motion picture featuring Helena Bonham Carter, The Offing by Benjamin Myers (author of the Walter Scott Prize winning novel The Gallows Pole) is set in the United Kingdom directly after WWII and tells of the intense and uplifting relationship between a working class, English teenage boy and a hard drinking, foul-mouthed, German, bohemian recluse named Dulcie. The surprise ending can only be described as terribly beautiful.
Nine Bar Blues
Two time World Fantasy Award Winning author Sheree Renée Thomas’ debut collection of speculative fiction short stories. “A whirlpool of poem and story, a ‘wild and strangeful breed’ of cosmology … " —Tyehimba Jess
Gallows Pole
Third Man Books debut fiction novel, The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers, is for fans of Cormac McCarthy, Ted Hughes, Daniel Woodrell, David Peace. Set in the moorland hills of 18th century Yorkshire, The Gallows Pole is the true story of an organized crime of forgers known as the Cragg Vale Coiners. Winner of the 2018 Walter Scott Prize, the world’s largest prize for historical fiction. The Gallows Pole is also now a major BBC mini-series directed by Shane Meadows!
Jesus Crawdad Death
The third publication in Third Man Books' limited edition chapbook series. Betsy Phillips's collection features three speculative fiction stories spanning Jesus as a professional wrestler, the romance between a woman and her creek, and conversations between Death, the ghosts of St. Francis of Assisi, William Faulkner, and Willam Gay.
When The World Wounds
In this eagerly-awaited collection of speculative fiction stories from winner of the 2012 Otherwise (formerly James Tiptree, Jr. Award), Kiini Ibura Salaam continues her exploration of the dark, the sensual, and the mysterious with fiction that disturbs, delights, and dazzles. “Vital, fantastic in all senses of the word, audacious and tender.” —Kelly Link