SF, Fantasy & Comics

A brand new revised edition of the best-selling graphic novel based on the enchanting prelude to The Lord of the Rings. First published in 1990, David Wenzel's comic book adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit was an immediate success and...

Eversion is a superb, original Gothic SF novel. A small group of intrepid explorers are in search of a remote and mysterious artefact. It's a well-funded expedition, well organised, which is lucky as they're sailing north of Bergen on the schooner...

This is Monica, one ordinary woman's extraordinary journey through the history of comics - from the creator of Ghost World'Rich, clever... A thrilling read'GUARDIAN'In Monica, Clowes reaches a new artistic peak'VANITY FAIRA dazzling, spectacular tapestry...

It began with rumours from China about another pandemic. Then the cases started to multiply and what had looked like the stirrings of a criminal underclass, even the beginning of a revolution, soon revealed itself to be much, much worse. Faced with a...

THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Featuring paperback exclusive bonus content THIS IS ONE GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT YOU DON'T WANT TO MESS WITH ...

Mostly Harmless is the fifth and final part in Douglas Adams' much-loved cult classic series, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.This edition includes exclusive bonus material from the Douglas Adams archives, and an introduction by Dirk Maggs,...

A book for all ages, a book for all time. Adapted into the BAFTA and Oscar winning short animated film.Enter the world of Charlie's four unlikely friends, discover their story and their most important life lessons.The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse...

Elodie never dreamed of a lavish palace or a handsome prince. Growing up in the famine-stricken realm of Inophe, her deepest wish was to help her people survive each winter. So when a representative from a rich, reclusive kingdom offers her family enough...

The lyrical fantasy masterpiece about stories, legends and how they change the world. The Name of the Wind is an absolute must-read for any fan of fantasy fiction.'This is a magnificent book' Anne McCaffrey'I was reminded of Ursula K. Le Guin, George R...

5,000 years in the future, humanity faces total extermination. Our one defence: highly-trained soldiers who scour the metal-strewn blackness of space to hunt down a terrifying enemy: an insect life-form known only as 'Bugs.' This is the story of...

Discover the late Ursula Le Guin's passionate and enthralling story of a young boy sent to a school of wizardry to learn the ways of magic in the opening quartet of the Earthsea story.'One of the literary greats' Margaret Atwood'The deepest and smartest...

'An astonishing science fiction phenomenon' WASHINGTON POST'I know nothing comparable to it except The Lord of the Rings' Arthur C Clarke'It is possible that Dune is even more relevant now than when it was first published' NEW YORKERThe Duke of Atreides...

BOOK 2 IN A THRILLING NEW ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SERIES, FROM INTERNATIONAL SENSATION WILBUR SMITH'Best historical novelist' - Stephen King'A master storyteller' - Sunday Times'Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared' - The...

THE NO. 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. WINNER OF THE 2020 PRIX GONCOURT. 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD.*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD**SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 CWA CRIME THRILLER IN TRANSLATION AWARD*'Just when you think you've worked it out . . ...

He forged a whole new genre - sword and sorcery. He spawned a thousand imitators and after 90 years he's still going strong! He is CONAN THE BARBARIAN - THE GREATEST WARRIOR OF ALL TIMES! And he's back for a whole new epic saga in search of high...

When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the aliens traverse the country in huge three-legged machines, incinerating all in their path with a heat ray and spreading noxious toxic gases, the people of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800260245Author Gav ThorpeFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Games Workshop LtdPublisher Games Workshop LtdWeight(grams) 225gDimensions(mm) 107mm *...

HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A FEAST FOR CROWS is the fourth volume in the series. 'When the writing is this...

Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2015. The Lie Tree is a wonderfully evocative and atmospheric novel by Frances Hardinge, award-winning author of Cuckoo Song and Fly By Night.Faith's father has been found dead under mysterious circumstances, and as...

In ELSEWHERE, master storyteller Dean Koontz, has created a brilliant and terrifying speculative thriller with hat-tips to George Orwell, Ray Bradbury and HG Wells. In the little South Californian town of Suavidad Beach, Jeff Coltrane is...

*SHARPE'S COMMAND, the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now* Richard Sharpe, asked to help an old friend, meets, at last, the greatest enemy. Five years after the...

The international bestselling classic from the author of Animal Farm. Winston Smith rewrites history. It's his job. Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, he helps the Party, and the omnipresent Big Brother,...

Dawn of Justice! In this volume of the best-selling Complete Case Files series, Dredd uncovers the House of Pain, a no-way-out, brutal torture prison for serial perps, and must stop Orlok from spreading a lethal bio-virus - from beyond the grave! And,...

Ever had a bad day? Try having one on the moon...'Fascinating' Tim Peake, Sunday Times bestselling author of Ask an Astronaut______________________WELCOME TO ARTEMIS. The first city on the moon.Population 2,000. Mostly tourists.Some criminals.Jazz...

'An astonishing science fiction phenomenon' WASHINGTON POST'I know nothing comparable to it except The Lord of the Rings' Arthur C Clarke'It is possible that Dune is even more relevant now than when it was first published' NEW YORKERThe Duke of Atreides...

Begin your journey into Middle-earth. A New Legend Begins on Prime Video, in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. This one-volume, paperback edition includes The Fellowship of the Ring,...

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The first book in the internationally bestselling Earth's Children series, an epic work of prehistoric fiction beloved by generations of readers.When an earthquake destroys her family's camp, Ayla is left orphaned and alone in an unfamiliar and dangerous...

WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST ALL-TIME SERIES The Foundation series is Isaac Asimov's iconic masterpiece. Unfolding against the backdrop of a crumbling Galactic Empire, the story of Hari Seldon's two...

Fifty men and women set out in the twenty-third century from Earth aboard an interstellar craft to travel to a planet some thirty light-years away. The ship will approach the speed of light and so (as Einstein predicted) subjective time on board will...

First ever standalone edition of one of J.R.R. Tolkien's most important poetic dramas, that explores timely themes such as the nature of heroism and chivalry during war, and which features unpublished and never-before-seen texts and drafts...

Uncover the mysteries of Black Panther's Wakanda.From the Golden City, Birnin Zana, to the mountainous Jabari-Lands and even beyond space and time to the intergalactic Planet Bast, this book charts Wakanda and its key locations as never seen before.With...

The Sunday Times BestsellerWITNESS THE BIRTH OF THE RESISTANCEWhen the Rebellion defeated the Empire in the skies above Endor, Leia Organa believed it was the beginning to a lasting peace. But after decades of vicious infighting and partisan gridlock in...

Two of the greatest British comics of all time join forces- and bring you seven new stories of blazing Battle Action! Writer Garth Ennis (Preacher, The Boys) presents his own take on the classic characters of Battle and Action. Ace fighter pilot Johnny...

Discover the enthralling fantasy world of gods and mortals in bestselling author Scarlett St. Clair's reimagined New Greece. Readers are "hopelessly addicted" to this captivating story of Hades and Persephone."Take her, and I will destroy this world...

'More action and hair-raising stunts than you'll find in four Bond movies' EVENING TELEGRAPH'Thrilling, action-packed adventure' GUARDIANDISCOVER THIS WILDLY-ENTERTAINING, GLOBE-TROTTING ADVENTURE FROM INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER MATTHEW REILLY* * * * *What...

'A NEW MASTER OF SCIENCE FICTION' William C. Dietz, author of the Halo tie-in novelsFollowing Pariah and Exodus comes Dominion, the explosive concluding chapter of the Eternity War trilogy, in which the fate of the Alliance-and the galaxy-rests in the...

When Maxim Kammerer, a young space explorer from twenty-second-century Earth, crash-lands on an uncharted world, he thinks of himself as a latter-day Robinson Crusoe. Eager to establish first contact with the planet's humanlike inhabitants, he finds...

WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST ALL-TIME SERIES The Foundation series is Isaac Asimov's iconic masterpiece. Unfolding against the backdrop of a crumbling Galactic Empire, the story of Hari Seldon's two...

The time: 200 years after man's first landing on the Moon. There are permanent populations established on the Moon, Venus and Mars. Outer space inhabitants have formed a new political entity, the Federation, and between the Federation and Earth a growing...