Massif with Garth Nix
Thu 29 Oct 2026
7:00pm at Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, 16-18 Queen Square, Bath BA1 2HN
Book & ticket includes a ticket with a copy of the book. All tickets include 15% off any books purchased on the night, author talk, Q&A and signing.
Other ways to book:
Email tickets@mrbsemporium.live, call 01225 331155 or pop into the shop at 14-15 John Street, Bath. BA1 2JL.
We can’t wait to welcome multimillion-copy bestseller Garth Nix back to Bath to celebrate the release of his brand new novel, Massif.
The mastermind behind The Left-Handed Booksellers of London and the globally beloved The Old Kingdom series (beginning with Sabriel), Massif is Garth’s first foray into adult science fiction. A brilliant and poignant standalone story of sentient starships, galactic warfare, and the bonds a crew forms far, far from Earth, Massif is military sci-fi meets cosmic horror, wrapped up in an epic space opera – an unmissable read for fans of Andy Weir and Pierce Brown!
Garth will be in conversation with Lord Grimdark himself, Joe Abercrombie – local legend and friend of the shop! Joe is the bestselling author of the The Blade Itself, Half a King, and shop fave The Devils.
Can’t make it to the event? Order a signed & dedicated copy here!
About the book:
RIDE A MASSIF TO THE NEXT STAR SYSTEM. FIGHT THE ENEMY. REPEAT.
It’s business as usual for Parnell Shi-Sawahla and the crew of the United Earth Government Navy ship Sassafras. For more than two hundred years humans have been hitching rides into space on vast sentient mountain ranges called Massifs in an endless interstellar war between the forces of Earth and Mars. But the same unanswered questions burn behind every battle, every conquered world, every new colony.
Why do the Massifs carry humans to the stars? Why do they help us export our wars? What’s in it for them? Ship crews aren’t supposed to ask these questions – and they definitely aren’t supposed to speak to the all-powerful avatars piloting the mountains. But when Parnell’s deputy, Kaz, is stranded on an enemy planet, he needs the Massif’s help to rescue her… and that means figuring out how to talk to it.
Nothing could ever have prepared him for what he learns of the secrets fuelling their voyages across the galaxy. The only certainty amidst the dread is that there is far more at stake than the lives of his crew…
“You are in for a treat.” GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
“One of the best world-builders.” BRANDON SANDERSON
“Nix sets the standard.” LEIGH BARDUGO
“I will never get enough.” SARAH J MAAS
“A swashbuckling adventure.” JOE ABERCROMBIE
“A world with the same four dimensional authority as our own.” PHILIP PULLMAN