Wednesday, 5 November 2025

China Miéville announces new novel, THE ROUSE, for 2026

China Miéville and Picador have announced a new novel. The book will be Miéville's first full-length, solo novel since 2012's Railsea.


Miéville has been working on the novel for over twenty years and has suggested it will be his magnum opus. The book is currently listed as 1,264 pages in length, which would comfortably be his longest-ever novel.

Details on the novel are light, although it will be published by Picador rather than the more genre-oriented imprint Tor UK, which has handled most of Miéville's work to date. The blurb is as follows:
From the bestselling and award-winning master of speculative fiction comes a deeply moving, decade- and continent-spanning epic: forced to investigate a devastating personal tragedy, an ordinary woman stumbles on dark conspiracies, and provokes the attention of uncanny forces.
The Rouse will be published on 17 September 2026 in the UK.

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