Eagle-eyed visitors to Amazon may have noticed that there's a new Mortal Engines story in the offing . Bridge of Storms is a sequel to last year's Thunder City , and it will be published by Scholastic in the UK and US on 12th February 2026. The story picks up a few months after Thunder City ended, and involves Tamzin and her friends helping a small university city called Museion across the wilds of Europe. Since Tamzin's era of the Mortal Engines world is slightly more genteel than what comes later, Museion is actually hoping to be eaten by London. But it's not that genteel, so in order to reach London's hunting grounds Museion will have to evade a band of motorised nomads and a very sinister suburb, while Tamzin gets to confront an old enemy. The text was finished a while ago, since I was under the impression that it would be published this year, so I've already had time to write a third book in the series, which I hope will appear in 2027. More on Brid...
Happy New Year, and apologies for a long silence: I've been busy with the next Mortal Engines book, of which I'll be able to say more soon, I hope. Meanwhile, Cream Tea Western Prairie Rascals is creeping towards completion: we have a rough cut, and are amassing the music and sound effects we need to finish it. I've also put together a brief trailer which you can watch here. It's a tricky project to trailer-ise because a lot of scenes won't mean much without their context, and I also don't want to give too much away. But hopefully this hints at the sort of thing you can expect: stand-offs, stare-outs, sudden outbursts of violence, and the wide open spaces of the Old West*. The music is by Nick Riddle (an arrangement of the cheery folk song Death Came A-Knockin' ) and the vocal is by Rosanna Lambert. *For budgetary reason, the wide-open spaces of the Old West are represented by my garden, and bits of Dartmoor not too far from car-parks.