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A dangerous cult craves a dark power. The Legacy of Arniston House is the spellbinding fourth instalment of the Edinburgh Nights series by T. L. Huchu.'Alluring . . . hints of sophisticated academic magic will draw you in'- Olivie Blake, author of The...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948316453Author Richard Jameson MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Heathen EditionsPublisher Heathen EditionsWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780778330042Author Sherryl WoodsFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Mira BooksPublisher Mira BooksSeries Chesapeake Shores NovelWeight(grams)...

On July 4, 1983, Vivian Carter and her NASA crew of seven set off on an audacious double flyby of Venus and Mars, a two-year mission with repurposed Apollo technology that will push their ingenuity and resourcefulness to the limit. Meanwhile, superpower...

Winner of the Uruguayan National Literature Prize for Fiction, the Bartolome-Hidalgo Fiction Prize, and the Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Literature Prize. A port city is in the grips of an ecological crisis. The river has filled with toxic algae, and a...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939087096Author Shelley AdinaFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Moonshell Books, Inc.Publisher Moonshell Books, Inc.Series Magnificent...

Gunpowder, treason and a plot to destroy the British Empire... 1770. Delphine lives in the shadows of London: a secret, vibrant world of smugglers, courtesans and small rebellions. Four years ago, she escaped enslavement at great...

When Death comes to claim Nella May Carter, she catches His interest with her capacity to find beauty and love even amidst the hell of slavery. So Death - bored, disgusted by humanity, and believing the Earth would be greatly improved should humans no...

'What begins as one woman's symphony of magic and loss soon unravels, stone by stone, secret by secret until we're left with nothing less than the brutal, turbulent, wild and haunted history of Jamaica itself . . . The past is uprooted, the present holds...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorHarriet Hitchen is a former archaeological illustrator and writer. She has a degree in Fine Art, particularly focusing on figure painting. She loves to unpick the...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781068584503Author Adam C FroshFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Hedgehog Books LtdPublisher Hedgehog Books LtdWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143119821Author Drew MagaryFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 131mm * 17mm

First published in 1974, this novel is a semi-autobiographical reflection on the author's experience of having been the subject of Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of A Clockwork Orange in 1971. This is the end of Enderby, Anthony Burgess's finest comic...

London, 1716. Revenge is a dish best served ice-cold...'An immersive, action-packed thriller with intrigue in the air and threats around every corner' The Herald'Great fun ... the language is colourful and the action never stops' Laura...

1670: King Charles II's reign has brought peace and prosperity to the Morland family, but James II's ascent to the throne will shatter their restored fortunes.In Yorkshire, Morland Place has flourished during the Restoration, and in London the beautiful...

'A twisted masterpiece' Guardian 1939. In a grotty corner of London, in a flat above a shop, a private eye known as Wolf keeps his office. The city is in the throes of a very British Fascism, and Wolf is far from the life he left behind in Germany,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913628086Author Eva St. JohnFormat PaperbackPage Count 438Imprint Mudlark's PressPublisher Mudlark's PressSeries The Quatum Curators

Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments by T. L. Huchu is the second spellbinding book in the Edinburgh Nights series. 'Stupendously engaging' - Ben Aaronovitch, bestselling author of Rivers of LondonSome secrets are meant to stay buried When Ropa Moyo...

1788: the bloody revolution in France causes upheaval in the Morland family.Henri-Marie Fitzjames Stuart, bastard offshoot of the Morland family, strives to protect his daughter, Heloise, his mistress, Marie-France, and their son Morland. To this end, he...

For fifteen years, the Romans of New Pompeii have kept the outside world at bay with the threat of using the Novus Particles device to alter time. Yet Decimus Horatius Pullus-once Nick Houghton-knows the real reason the Romans don't use the device for...

The kingdom of Carinthia is rich, powerful and undefeated. A thousand years ago, its ancestors were the spell-wielding northern tribes who crushed the Roman Empire. Their legendary hexmasters can destroy whole armies and turn battlefields into fiery...

1659: Cromwell's protectorate is drawing to a close, and the restoration of the monarchy can only improve the fortunes of the Morland family.The years of civil war and their aftermath have left Morland Place in dire straits, but with the return of the...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399587535Author Taylor AndersonFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Ace BooksPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

In the slums of 19th-century New York.A tattooed mystic fights for her life.Her survival hangs on the turn of a tarot card.Powerful, intoxicating and full of suspense. The Knowing is a darkly spellbinding novel about a girl fighting for her survival in...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781708330811Author G Stewart McIntoshFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedSeries Mac's Poems and...

The singular novel by the legendary author of the play, UBU ROI, is a book that can only be compared to Rabelais or Sterne. FAUSTROLL recounts the adventures of the inventor of PATAPHYSIC, the 'science of imaginary solutions.' Jarry would have found an...

The pickled Martian's tentacles are fraying at the ends and Professor Coffin's Most Meritorious Unnatural Attraction (the remains of the original alien autopsy, performed by Sir Frederick Treves at the London Hospital) is no longer drawing the crowds...

The new blockbuster thriller from Graham Hurley set against the final stages of the Second World War. Confidant of Goebbels. Instrument of Stalin. What's the worst that could happen? January 1945. Wherever you look on the map, the Thousand Year...

In a world ravaged by climate change, a young woman's job of enforcing Britain's one-child policy is compromised when she discovers an illegal sibling on the ministry hit list, and that sibling is hers... `A tightly paced plot set in an all-too...

This book compares the recent science fiction renaissances in the UK and China, known as the British and Chinese SF Booms, which emerged in the late 1980s. The author contextualizes the two booms within the transformative political and cultural histories...

When fifteen-year-old Anna begins receiving messages from another time, her parents take her to the doctor. But he can find nothing wrong; in fact he believes there may be some truth to what she is seeing. Anna is haunted by visions of the desolate...

ondon faces the worst disaster in its history... It was to be the day the American President drove in state through the streets of the UK's capital city. But the lethal combination of a gigantic freak storm and an unusually high tide launch a...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781484183885Author Brendan DuBoisFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

A special edition of Deighton's classic thriller, the first and certainly greatest 'what-if?' novel about the Second World War, to tie in with the new major BBC series starring Sam Riley and adapted by the writers of Skyfall and Spectre. In...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781533389770Author Jack TindaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Summer 1893. In a small Norwegian fishing village, local girl Johanne dutifully gathers berries for tourists and poses barefoot for painters as 'The Strawberry Girl'.When Johanne becomes a maid for the wealthy Ihlen family, their wayward daughter...

The thrilling second instalment in the TAKE THEM TO THE STARS series - a secret history of our world like no other . . .'Introspective, lyrical and with a growing sense of menace running under it all' THE TIMESPerfect for fans of The Man in the High...

Welcome to a world where the Plantagenet kings survived, the laws of magic were discovered and the physical sciences never pursued. In the resulting Anglo-French Empire, a detective like Lord Darcy needs more than a keen mind and an observant eye...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780765367358Author John ShirleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint StarscapePublisher StarscapeWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 168mm * 104mm * 33mm

1803: Napoleon is poised to invade England, with only Nelson's weather-beaten ships in his way, but the French fleet are not the only threat to the fortunes of the Morland family.In the North of England, Mary Ann's relationship with the missionary,...