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In the darkest corners of the night in Caldwell, New York, a conflict like no other rages. The city is home to a band of brothers born to defend their race: the warrior vampires of the Black Dagger Brotherhood . . .Qhuinn, son of no one, is used to being...

The battle between good and evil has left the future of humanity in the hands of a reluctant saviour and his band of fallen angels. Seven deadly sins that must be righted. Seven souls that must be saved. Fallen Angel Jim Heron has completed his first...

In the little town of Palomo Grove, two great armies are amassing; forces shaped from the hearts and souls of America. In this New York Times bestseller, Barker unveils one of the most ambitious imaginative landscapes in modern fiction,...

'You don't volunteer for slugfests with vampires. It shortens your life expectancy.'And you don't fall in love with a werewolf. It interferes with your work. Especially when you're a preternatural expert, like me. My name is Anita Blake. My business...

'Patricia Briggs never fails to deliver an exciting, magic and fable filled suspense story' Erin Watt, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Royals series.Mercy Thompson, car mechanic and shapeshifter, must stop a disaster of world-shattering...

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...

One of the Washington Post's top ten feel-good novels of the year: a perfect gift for book lovers everywhere!During a childhood marked by neglect and loneliness, Lucy Hart found solace in books, especially Jack Masterson's Clock Island series. Now a...

'When the monsters are involved, it's never just one dead body. One way or another the dead multiply.'First, there were the dead in the graveyard, two hundred years dead. I'd been hired to raise them to settle a dispute over who owned the land they were...

Quentin and his friends are now the kings and queens of the magical land of Fillory. But he finds himself growing restless.So when a mystery at the heart of the kingdom is uncovered, Quentin and his old friend Julia charter a sailing ship and set off to...

'A glorious fantasy, set in that most imaginary of cities, New York' Neil Gaiman on THE CITY WE BECAME'The most celebrated science fiction and fantasy writer of her generation. . .Jemisin seems able to do just about everything' NEW YORK TIMES 'Jemisin is...

Some places are too good to be true.Under a pink moon, there is a perfect little town not found on any map.In that town, there are quiet streets lined with pretty houses, houses that conceal the strangest things.After a couple years of hard traveling,...

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...

Mexico City, 1988. Long before iTunes or MP3s, you said "I love you" with a mixtape. Meche, awkward and fifteen, discovers how to cast spells using music, and with her friends Sebastian and Daniela will piece together their broken families, and even find...

Danielle Cain is a queer punk rock traveller, jaded from a decade on the road. Searching for clues about her best friend's mysterious and sudden suicide, she ventures to the squatter, utopian town of Freedom, Iowa. All is not well in Freedom, however -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947194915Author NisiOisiNFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Vertical, Inc.Publisher Vertical, Inc.

Empire in Black and Gold is the first instalment in the critically-acclaimed epic fantasy series Shadows of the Apt by Adrian Tchaikovsky.The days of peace are over . . .The Lowlands' city states have lived in peace for decades, hailed as bastions of...

Quentin has been cast out of Fillory. Alone and adrift, he returns to Brakebills, the school of magic where it all began. But he can't hide from his past.His new path will take him through a world of grey and uncertain magic, from Antarctica to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593718148Author Alice HoffmanFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint G P Putnam's SonsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 482gDimensions(mm) 236mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525563860Author Ann VandermeerFormat PaperbackPage Count 896Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 919gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420969849Author Willa CatherFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 4mm

From the creator of the wildly popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast comes a story about loving, about searching - and about the courage you need when you find the unexpected. Keisha Lewis mourned the loss of her...

Supernatural fantasy has a new antihero in Sandman Slim, star of this gripping, gritty new series by Richard Kadrey Life sucks and then you die. Or, if you're James Stark, you spend eleven years in Hell as a hitman before finally escaping,...

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Prepare to enter a world full of richly imagined mythology - a world where dark and dangerous heroes fight to protect us. Prepare to enter an endless battle. Prepare to lose yourself ...The Mayans aren't the only ones with a 2012 prophecy ...Long before...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250854513Author Olivie BlakeFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 236mm *...

The life story of Belgararth the Sorcerer: his own account of the great struggle that went before the Belgariad and the Malloreon, when gods stills walked the land. Here is the full epic story of Belgarath, the great sorcerer learned in the...

From the author of Annihilation, now a major motion picture on Netflix.From Jeff VanderMeer, an author praised by writers such as Laren Beukes, China Mieville and Michael Moorcock, City of Saints and Madmen is by turns sensuous and terrifying. This...

The last and most amazing volume in the legendary Belgariad series: the story of the queen of truth, love, rage and destiny, Polgara the Sorceress. The queen of truth, love, rage and destiny reveals all. Polgara the Sorceress is the...

THE 30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH NEW, NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED MATERIALAfter the Internet, what came next?Enter the Metaverse - cyberspace home to avatars and software daemons, where anything and just about everything goes. Newly available on the Street -...

In Storybrooke, Maine, Emma Swan and Mary Margaret Blanchard are friends and roommates. They're united in their mission to make life better for Henry, Emma's young son, who has been raised by Storybrooke's vicious mayor, Regina Mills. However, things are...

'These days my life is a cross between a preternatural soap opera and an action-adventure movie.'The first hit man came after me at home, which should be against the rules. Then there was a second, and a third. Word on the street is that Anita Blake,...

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 -...

MAGIC. POWER. GREED. The ultra-rich control magic-the same way they control everything else-but Stephen Oakwood may just beat them at their own game in this exhilarating contemporary fantasy from the author of the million-copy-selling Alex Verus novels...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958295540Author Jessica CageFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Caged Fantasies Publications, LLCPublisher Caged Fantasies Publications,...

Some stories are universal. They play out across human history. And time is the river which will flow through them.It starts with a family, a family which will mutate. For now, it is a father, mother and two sons. One with his father's violence in his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947194397Author NisiOisiNFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint Vertical, Inc.Publisher Vertical, Inc.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Impress Prize for New Writers 2012.Book InformationISBN 9780957635104Author Wilkie MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint The Witcherley Book...

The multi-award-winning China Mieville has been called 'the equal of David Mitchell or Zadie Smith' (Scotland on Sunday), a writer whose 'inventiveness and precision is awesome' (Independent), and who writes with 'an imagination of immense power'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989741016Author Charles De LintFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Triskell PressPublisher Triskell PressWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

The global bestseller that inspired the hit musical phenomenon.The third book in Gregory Maguire's Wicked Years series - inspiration for the major, much-anticipated movie coming to the big screen this November.**Book 3 in a new collector's edition of the...