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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399587269Author Anne BishopFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Ace BooksPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

With his first full novel in almost ten years (not counting his Doctor Who book), Michael Moorcock - the most influential figure in modern fantasy and science fiction - returns to the city of his birth. London has always been a central character in...

A World ApartKadra is a warrior - a demon slayer from another world. With her highly tuned senses and Amazonian physique she was born to fight, and lives only to protect her people. That is her duty - something she accepts without question, just as she...

An unpredictable, poignant, and captivating tale for readers of all ages, by the critically acclaimed author of Only Forward. There are a million stories in the world. Most are perfectly ordinary. This one....

THE FIRST ADULT NOVEL BY THE CARNEGIE PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF JUNK'A spirited retelling... witty and insightful.' i PAPER'His prose is electrical, crackling with a mischievous charge.' BUZZ MAGAZINE'Told with wit [and] verve... it's a book that exerts a...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Perfect for fans of Alice Hoffman, Isabel Allende, and Sarah Addison Allen, a family searches for the truth hidden in their past in this "expertly woven tale of family power, threaded with as much mystery as magic" (V.E. Schwab, #1...

'Unique and breathtaking and painful and broken and perfect . . . just like love'Jodi Picoult'Exquisitely written, incredibly moving and impossible to put down' Beth O'Leary, author of The Flatshare___________Joel is afraid of the future.Since he was a...

The irreverant, hilarious, touching and philosophical caper about the end of the world.'Still makes me laugh 25 years later' Ben AaronovitchThere is a hint of Armageddon in the air. According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch...

Kicking off the sexiest, smartest, most badass paranormal romance series out there. You won't be able to stop turning the pages.Half-vampire Catherine Crawfield is going after the undead with a vengeance, hoping that one of those deadbeats is her father...

Return to New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh's darkly passionate Guild Hunter world, where human-turned-angel Elena Deveraux, consort to Archangel Raphael, is thrust centre stage into an eons-old prophecy . . .Midnight and dawn, Elena's...

The third novel in the international No. 1 bestselling Mercy Thompson series - the major urban fantasy hit of the decade'I love these books!' Charlaine Harris'The best new fantasy series I've read in years' Kelley ArmstrongMERCY THOMPSON: MECHANIC,...

Winner: 2022 Hugo Award for Best Series Where it all began-the first three books in Seanan McGuire's multi-Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Wayward Children series. Join the students of Eleanor West, and jump through doors into worlds both dangerous...

The first novel in the New York Times bestselling Mercy Thompson series - the major urban fantasy hit of the decade'I love these books!' Charlaine HarrisThe best new fantasy series I've read in years' Kelley ArmstrongMERCY THOMPSON: MECHANIC,...

A voyage of discovery into the life of a remote aboriginal community in the Siberian Arctic, where the reindeer has been a part of daily life since Palaeolithic times. The Reindeer People is the first in a series of reissues of Megan...

NEIL GAIMAN: 'Glorious. A story that will be found and enjoyed and dreamed about for years to come'A celebration of friendship, courage and imagination inspired by Alice in Wonderland, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Wizard of Oz...

Mysterious fossils found deep under London's streets create a whole new 'heritage' industry - but what does selling London's history mean for the city? In these remarkable stories Moorcock explores the parts of London most of us will never see, and...

Fascinating for Latin learners and for Tolkien fans of all ages, The Hobbit has been translated into Latin for the first time since its publication 75 years ago. In foramine terrae habitabat hobbitus. ('In a hole in the ground, there lived a...

The fourth novel in the international No. 1 bestselling Mercy Thompson series - the major urban fantasy hit of the decade'I love these books!' Charlaine Harris'The best new fantasy series I've read in years' Kelley ArmstrongMERCY THOMPSON: MECHANIC,...

"Enjoying pain with your pleasure is something you either get, or you don't. If you get it, then you don't really need it explained, because you know how good it feels, and if you don't get it then no amount of talking is going to convince you it makes...

What happens when nature will no longer stand by and accept its destruction? A female fire chief discovers an ancient world rooted with secrets that can save-or destroy-in the newest fantasy by Veronica G. Henry, author of Bacchanal. Beneath the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Short Fiction 2003.Book InformationISBN 9780380977789Author Neil GaimanFormat HardbackImprint Avon...

'A real page-turner, one that kept me guessing, and pulling the rug out from under me' Novel Notions'A glorious reconfiguration of classic fantasy' David Wragg, author of The BlackhawksFrom the author of the critically-acclaimed Blackwing trilogy comes...

'Like Stephen King, . . . Armstrong not only writes interesting page-turners, she has also achieved that unlikely goal, what all writers strive for: a genre of her own. . . . This is not The Call of the Wild; it's Nora Roberts meets "The Sopranos" by way...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780440000624Author Benedict JackaFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Ace BooksPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm) 173mm * 106mm *...

The next gripping instalment in the renowned idiosyncratic trilogy that won't leave you the same again. From the elusive Sunday Times bestselling author John Twelve Hawks, for fans of Scott Mariani, Ken Follett and Michael Connolly.'The stuff that...

A life shattered in one moment. Olivia Jones has lived a life of privilege and good fortune. But on the eve of her wedding she discovers two shocking facts. One - she was adopted. Two - her biological parents are notorious serial killers. A young woman...

'A definite must for all fans of comic fantasy' - ENIGMA'Wacky humour bubbles through the polished narrative ... Holt doesn't skimp on the flashes of brilliance' - SFXEver been offered a promotion that seems too good to be true? You know - the sort...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING THRILLER SOON TO BE A TV SERIES IN 2023!'TWISTY AND COMPELLING' DAILY MAILSanctuary. It's the perfect town. . . to hide a secret.Dan's death was a tragic accident. The rumours about his ex-girlfriend are just local...

Children have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere... else. But magical lands have little need for...

The Red Knight's final battle lies ahead . . . but there's a whole war still to fight first.He began with a small company, fighting the dangerous semi-mythical creatures which threatened villages, nunneries and cities. But as his power - and his forces -...

A bittersweet gothic fantasy of family, friendship, memory, and the uncanny told from the perspective of a blind teenager in Puglia, Southern Italy, set in the same world as The Book of Hidden Things, perfect for readers of Neil Gaiman, Donna Tartt and...

From No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Briggs comes the next thrilling Alpha and Omega novel - an extraordinary fantasy adventure set in the world of Mercy Thompson but with rules of its own . . . Perfect for fans of Ilona Andrews, Nalini...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593597699Author Naomi NovikFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Del Rey BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 369gDimensions(mm) 209mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781778271304Author Olivia AtwaterFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Olivia AtwaterPublisher Olivia Atwater

The start of a fantastic new series.Johannes Cabal has never pretended to be a hero of any kind. There is, after all, little heroic about robbing graves, stealing occult volumes, and being on nodding terms with demons. His purpose, however, is noble. His...

A flooded world. A floating circus. Two women in search of a home. North lives on a circus boat with her beloved bear, keeping a secret that could capsize her life.Callanish lives alone in her house in the middle of the ocean, tending the graves of those...

A FOREST. A BOOK. A MISSING GIRL. NOMINATED FOR THE WORLD FANTASY AWARD AND THE SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - TOR.COM ...

The fifth installment in New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire's award-winning Wayward Children series, Come Tumbling Down picks up the threads left dangling by Every Heart a Doorway and Down Among the Sticks and Bones When Jack left...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Lambda Literary Awards (SF/Fantasy) 1993.Book InformationISBN 9780553373806Author StarhawkFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...

FINALIST FOR HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL 2019FINALIST FOR LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL 2019IN SPACE EVERYONE CAN HEAR YOU SINGA century ago, intelligent space-faring life was nearly destroyed during the Sentience Wars. To bring the shattered...