Item category 1: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Detective Sergeant Peter Grant takes a much-needed holiday up in Scotland. And he'll need one when this is over. If more's the merrier, then it's ecstatic as his partner Beverley, their young twins, his mum, dad, his dad's band and their dodgy manager all tag along. Even his boss, DCI Thomas Nigh...

The Tomb of Dragons concludes Katherine Addison's Cemeteries of Amalo trilogy, set in the world of The Goblin Emperor. The story follows Thara Celehar, a former Witness for the Dead who has lost his ability to communicate with the deceased. Despite this, he continues his investigative work, uncov...

Get ready to enter a world of hidden treasure, dazzling spells and enchanting tales. From wicked witches stealing from the Fairy Queen, to missing keys in Fairyland, there's magic everywhere in this collection of short stories by Enid Blyton. These traditional tales are ideal for younger children...

A cosmic catastrophe, the Ring of Fire, strands the West Virginia town of Grantville back in time in the middle of the Thirty Years War. One of its ripple effects is that Japan has pulled back from a policy of isolation and staked out its own claims on the west coast of North America. But it is n...

Join Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third and his dragons, Toothless and Windwalker, in their hilarious, hair-raising adventures at the Isle of Berk's Training School for Vikings and Dragons. Where they are bottom in pretty much everything. Disastrous Lesson Number One: The Art of Battle. It was s...

Ming has travelled through time to meet girls who have changed the world. However, this time is different as Herstory, History's sister, promises to reveal to Ming something of her own past: her long-lost mother. When Ming washes up on the icy shores of Nantucket Island in 1836 she is saved by th...

When retired Maths teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan. Among the rugged hills and golden beaches of the Balearics Grace searches for ...

Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollection of their lives before. As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl ...

Vianne is the long-awaited story of Vianne Rocher and begins six years before she opens her scandalous chocolaterie in the small French village of Lansquenet. Just twenty-one years old, Sylviane arrives in Marseille to start a new life, and charms her way into a job as a waitress in a run-down bi...

Ita is afraid of lots of things. She's afraid of talking to her classmates at her new school. She's afraid of walking through her new town. But most of all she is afraid of water. When one day she realises the river in her new town turns her into a fish, she is forced to face up to her fears. In ...

Gwendolyn Mary Darling Carlisle's young life has been a saga of misfortune. After a tragic accident unexpectedly took her parents, Gwen finds herself the sole caregiver for her ailing sister. It's her eighteenth birthday. With responsibilities weighing heavy, she struggles to find something worth...

The heir of ash and fire bows to no one. Celaena Sardothien has survived deadly contests and shattering heartbreak, but now she must travel to a new land to confront her darkest truth. That truth could change her life -- and her future a forever. Meanwhile, monstrous forces are gathering on the h...

Preeti the Prom Fairy makes sure that every prom goes to plan, but when Jack Frost and his naughty goblins steal her magical objects, school celebrations everywhere start to go wrong. Can Rachel, Kirsty, Gracie and Khadijah help Preeti save the night from disaster? The girls must find Preeti's ev...

Marcus has just started at a new and very unusual school, Merlin's. Determined to get expelled, Marcus does everything he can think of to get into big trouble. But when a prank involving an ancient relic and some old wizard robes accidentally wakes a sleeping giant one night, things take a turn f...

In the boiling heat of summer, a broken remote control for an air conditioner threatens life as we know it in this reality-bending, time-slipping sequel to The Tatami Galaxy. During a scorching August in Kyoto, our protagonist and his worst friend, Ozu, are locked in a glaring contest in a four-a...

As a girl, Amane realizes with horror that her parents "copulated" in order to bring her into the world, rather than using artificial insemination, which became the norm in the mid-twentieth century. Amane strives to get away from what she considers an indoctrination in this strange "system" by h...

Caly's bond to Mendax from their bonding ceremony and her mortality being tied to Aurelius's from when he saved her life mean the three of them have tangled their life forces together. And now that they know maintaining both connections is against the natural order of things, one of them must be ...

Percy Jackson has saved the world multiple times - battling monsters, Titans, even giants - but these days the modern-day son of Poseidon is hoping for a regular final year at school. Too bad the Greek gods have other plans, and three new quests for Percy to complete. First up: the cupbearer of t...

Yesterday Crumb has always felt cursed by the fox ears she was born with. Forced to work in a circus, her origins are a complete mystery. But when she is rescued by Miss Dumpling and her magical walking teashop, Yesterday learns she's a strangeling who's lost her magic. Surrounded by fantastical ...

This heartwarming collection of fairy tales celebrates the power of hope, and gently encourages questions about what happiness really means. Meet a brave princess who brings happiness to her kingdom by forging her own path, two children on a quest to discover the meaning of happiness, and a magic...

When Morrigan is invited into Nevermoor's wealthy Silver District, she discovers a world of extravagance and a family mystery she's eager to unravel. She could never imagine where it will lead: a white wedding, a golden dragon and a red pool of blood. Embroiled in suspicion and danger, Morrigan l...

Is there anyone you wish to see? So asks the smart young man, Ayumi, to his clients who have come to him for a reunion with the person who once changed their life. But it is no ordinary reunion. The people they ask to see have passed away. Calling himself the go-between, Ayumi lays down strict ru...

Oliver Wormwood is sure his new job in the library will be boring. Until he learns that books hold great power -- and danger. By the end of his first day, Oliver has witnessed a death, been frozen by a book, met a perplexing number of cats, and fought off a horde of terrifying creatures. With onl...

Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general -- also known as her tough-as-talons mother -- has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: drago...