The Orbit UK Schedule page has been updated with details of the great new Orbit titles we’ll be bringing you in February 2009. The following Orbit books will be available from all good bookstores – high street and online alike – as of February 5th:

• The Magician’s Apprentice by Trudi Canavan – This brand new, stand-alone novel (perfect for readers new to the series as well as established fans) is a prequel to the Black Magician Trilogy, set hundreds of years before the action in The Black Magician.
• Matter by Iain M Banks – The paperback edition of the latest Culture novel, from the UK’s number-one bestselling science fiction author.
• Men of the Otherworld by Kelley Armstrong – A collection of four novellas set in the ‘Otherworld’ milieu, which tell the story of Clay Danvers, a very powerful – and very singular – werewolf.
• Bone Crossed by Patricia Briggs – In the fourth book in the urban fantasy series about VW mechanic and shape-shifter Mercedes Thompson, our heroine prepares to defend her pack against the hostile queen of the local vampire seethe.
• Small Favour by Jim Butcher – The latest book in the best-selling Dresden Files series sees our hero Harry land in trouble again, as the Queen of the Winter Court calls in the first of two ‘small’ favours…