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Everyone needs something to hold onto, even if it's a lie.Discover the stunning second book in the Bristol Keats fantasy duology, filled with swoon-worthy romantasy, faeries and non-stop action, from Sunday Times bestselling author Mary E. Pearson.After...

'Fantasy as it ought to be written' George R.R. Martin The second book in Robin Hobb's thrilling fantasy series returns readers to the Six Duchies and the magical world of the Fitz and the Fool. Fitz has been persuaded back to...

Fans of Robert Jordan and George RR Martin alike have found a new champion of epic fantasy in Brandon Sanderson. And now, in the first of two sequels to The Alloy Of Law the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author returns to the world of...

It's the week before Hallowe'en, and Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois. The siren song of the calliope entices all with promises of youth regained and dreams fulfilled . . .And as two boys trembling on the brink...

The hotly anticipated sequel to THE SILVERBLOOD PROMISE, the incredible new epic fantasy series perfect for fans of Scott Lynch.Winter has come early to Korslakov, City of Spires, and Lukan Gardova has arrived with it. Most visitors to this famous city...

From New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes Nine Goblins, a novella of low fantasy and high mischief.A funny cosy fantasy novella, perfect for fans of Legends & Lattes and Thornhedge.No one knows exactly how the...

Three years ago, Lift asked a goddess to stop her from growing older--a wish she believed was granted. Now, in Edgedancer, the barely teenage nascent Knight Radiant finds that time stands still for no one. Although the young Azish emperor granted her...

'Relentlessly entertaining, defiantly idealistic' Sebastien de Castell, author of TRAITOR'S BLADEThe first in an extraordinary new fantasy epic, perfect for fans of Nicholas Eames and James Islington!Lukan Gardova is a cardsharp, academy dropout, and -...

From the bestselling author of the Mistborn Trilogy and co-author of the final three books of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series comes the tale of a heretic thief who may be an Empire's only hope for survival.Shai is a Forger: a foreigner who can...

The second epic fantasy in The Faithful and the Fallen series, Valour by John Gwynne carries all of the excitement of the first.The Banished Lands are torn by war as the army of High King Nathair sweeps the realm challenging all who oppose his holy...

'Whoever said you can't fool an honest man wasn't one'The Royal Bank is facing a crisis, and it's time for a change of management. Who would not wish for that job?It's a job for life. But, as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning, the life is not...

'Brilliantly twisty, thought-provoking stuff - such enjoyable reading' Jenny Colgan'A moving time-slip romance . . . The Undoing of Arlo Knott is a triumph' GuardianWHAT IF YOUR LIFE HAD AN 'UNDO' BUTTON?Arlo Knott develops the mysterious ability to...

A beautiful new hardback edition of the classic Discworld novel.Moist von Lipwig is a con artist and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork's ailing postal service back on its feet.It was a tough decision. But he's got...

Much like her younger sister Acieth, something strnage has started happening to AlasRamus. To help their baby girl, Maou convinces the reluctant Emi to travel to herfamily's home in mystical...Eifukucho. There, the Demon King is floored by...

The seventh book in the phenomenally successful Thursday Next series by Number One bestselling author Jasper Fforde. 'Fans of the late Douglas Adams, or, even, Monty Python, will feel at home with Fforde' - HeraldThe BookWorld's leading enforcement...

Book 8 in the Rivers of London series, from Sunday Times Number One bestselling author Ben Aaronovitch.Peter Grant is facing fatherhood, and an uncertain future, with equal amounts of panic and enthusiasm. Leaving his old police life behind, he takes a...

The fifth novel in the New York Times bestselling Witcher series that inspired the hit Netflix show finds Ciri trapped in a distant world and separated from Geralt and her destiny.After walking through a portal in the Tower of the Swallow, thus narrowly...

From the far reaches of space to the hidden corners of Earth, from aliens to wizards and everything in between . . .One of the most influential SFF writers of modern times, Roger Zelazny wrote across a wide range of subgenres and themes, experimenting...

SAVE THE WORLD OR END IT. CLAIM THE SWORD OR BREAK IT.From the multimillion-copy, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Red Queen, as seen on TikTok...______________________A divided realm must rally, an unstoppable enemy must be defeated, and the fate...

Meet Augustus Berrycloth-Young - flaneur extraordinaire and Englishman abroad - as he chronicles the Jazz Age from his perch atop the city that never sleeps. 'Gussie' is not one to shun shut-eye himself, however. But his peaceful luxuriation is about to...

Winner of the August Derleth award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Perdido Street Station is an imaginative urban fantasy thriller, and the first of China Mieville's novels set in the world of Bas-Lag.The metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the centre...

"Do love stories often end this way?" "Why do you think it's over?"Shesheshen has made a fatal mistake for a monster: she's fallen in love.Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who usually resides as an amorphous lump in the swamp of a ruined manor, unless...

SOME PROMISES SHOULD NEVER BE MADE...'A monster of a book...a vast, brimstoned, relentless zinger' NICK HARKAWAYBookish dreamer Arthur Oakes is a student at Rackham College, Maine, renowned for its frosty winters and beautiful buildings.But his idyll -...

From the bestselling author who completed Robert Jordan's epic Wheel of Time series comes a new, original creation that matches anything else in modern fantasy for epic scope, thrilling imagination, superb characters and sheer addictiveness.In...

"Korean author Park Seolyeon's English-language debut succeeds in ways no other recent novel has: in portraying the anxiety-riddled realities of coming of age in our present moment through an unexpected and fantastical lens."-The Rumpus.comA millennial...

From internationally bestselling author Mary E. Pearson, The Courting of Bristol Keats is the first book in her debut adult fantasy series, filled with forbidden romance, deadly faerie curses and pulse-pounding action.This exclusive hardback edition...

Nicolai Attano is ruthless, relentless, deadly. And he's mine.In a city where criminals rule the streets, I fell for the most dangerous of them all. And our love made me a target...Kidnapped by Nicolai's enemies, I wake up in a prison of enchanted stone...

SOME PROMISES SHOULD NEVER BE MADE...'A monster of a book...a vast, brimstoned, relentless zinger' NICK HARKAWAYBookish dreamer Arthur Oakes is a student at Rackham College, Maine, renowned for its frosty winters and beautiful buildings.But his idyll -...

The Stormlight Archive saga continues in Rhythm of War, the eagerly awaited sequel to Brandon Sanderson's #1 New York Times bestselling Oathbringer, from an epic fantasy writer at the top of his game.After forming a coalition of human resistance against...

'The sci-fi romance adventure you never knew you needed'Jennifer L. Armentrout, author of Fall of Ruin and Wrath An action-packed supernatural road trip featuring an extraordinary young girl and her two unlikely protectors on the run. The Bones Beneath...

Fallen Gods is a Norse-inspired adult fantasy romance from Rachel Van Dyken, filled with ancient secrets and perilous desire.The world believed the Gods were myth and the Giants were only stories. They were wrong.The Gods aren't dead - they're merely...

Rivers of London meets A Master of Djinn in this warm-hearted, action-packed urban fantasy debut full of workplace found family, queer romance and supernatural creatures straight out of Southeast Asian lore.In the sunny city of Singapore, the government...

'The sci-fi romance adventure you never knew you needed'Jennifer L. Armentrout, author of Fall of Ruin and WrathA thrilling and heart-healing supernatural road trip featuring an extraordinary young girl and her two unlikely protectors. The Bones Beneath...

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the timeless and beloved A Wizard of Earthsea - '...reads like the retelling of a tale first told centuries ago' (David Mitchell) - comes this complete omnibus edition of the entire Earthsea chronicles, including over...

The third novel in the multimillion-copy, #1 New York Times bestselling RED QUEEN series by TikTok sensation Victoria Aveyard. 'All hail Victoria Aveyard - the new Queen of dystopian fiction' GUARDIAN ALL WILL BURN.Mare Barrow is a prisoner, powerless...

'Marvellously entertaining. A cross between Brave New World and Doctor Who' Look MagazineConsidered one of the great dystopian thrillers - alongside A Clockwork Orange and Brave New World- Ira Levin's terrifying glimpse into the future continues to...

Things are going well for Alex Verus. He's on moderately good terms with the Council, his apprentice is settling in and his shop in Camden is gaining quite a reputation.But when a mysterious woman bursts into the Arcana Emporium one night with an...

'One of the best expressions of his unstoppable flow of comic invention' The TimesThe Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that...

The 18th novel of the Hugo-nominated, New York Times bestselling October Daye urban fantasy series.For one bright, shining moment, Tybalt, King of Cats, had everything he had ever wanted. He was soon to set his crown aside; he had married the woman he...

The Air War is the eighth book in the critically acclaimed epic fantasy series Shadows of the Apt by Adrian Tchaikovsky.An empress demands her birthright . . . All is in turmoil as the world moves towards war. In Solarno, spies eye one another and ready...