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...

Plague and famine stalk the land, monsters lurk in every shadow and greedy princes care for nothing but their own ambitions. Only one thing is certain: the elves will come again, and they will eat everyone. Sometimes, only the darkest paths lead towards the light. Paths on which the righteous wil...

Plague and famine stalk the land, monsters lurk in every shadow and greedy princes care for nothing but their own ambitions. Only one thing is certain: the elves will come again, and they will eat everyone. Sometimes, only the darkest paths lead towards the light. Paths on which the righteous wil...

Maia, the youngest, half-goblin son of the Emperor has lived his entire life in exile, distant from the Imperial Court and the deadly intrigue that suffuses it. But when his father and three sons in line for the throne are killed in an "accident," he has no choice but to take his place as the onl...

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...

Felix hates Mondays. Dad's yelling at him to get up. His little brother, Olly, is being super annoying. So when Felix shuts the bathroom door, he wishes he could get away. He turns on the shower and... Felix finds himself standing in the middle of a field... naked... with an army of soldiers char...

Marnie is having so much fun at Minibeast Academy, a school for bugs tucked into a giant tree at the bottom of the museum gardens. And this term it's time for something really exciting - the Great Critter Contest! The contest sees minibug students set off to explore the school in teams, searching...

Lyra Bien intended to live a quiet life to avoid the attention of the magic-obsessed king in the fortress of Stonegate. Until Roark Ashwood - the prince's silent guard and rumored killer for the crown - invades her village and uncovers the truth behind the silver scars in her eyes. To save her be...

Together they'll restore a divided kingdom, or burn it to the ground...In a kingdom long divided, Lyra Bien intends to live a quiet life to avoid the attention of magic-obsessed King Damir. Unitl Roark Ashwood, the monarch's silent but irresistably handsome soldier, invades her village and uncove...

While Sera is finally free of Kolis and back with those she loves, not everything is calm. Memories of all she's endured still haunt her, but Sera finally has hope for a future... Nyktos desires, loves, and accepts every part of her - even the monstrous bits she still battles... More than ever, S...

Captain Blite knows that someone, or something, is trying to kill him. But a device he possesses, known only as the dark diamond, won't let that happen. After surviving a series of catastrophic accidents and assassination attempts, Blite realises that whenever he dies the dark diamond reverses ti...

Cora Zeng is a crime scene cleaner... in Chinatown. The bloody messes don't bother her, not when she's already witnessed the most horrific thing possible: her sister being pushed in front of a train. Before fleeing the scene, the murderer whispered two words: bat eater. Months pass, the killer is...

An unexpected story of life, family, hope, and redemption -- at the end of the world (maybe). Arto wakes up in a desolate world devoid of humanity -- he's a robot, he knows that much -- but he has no memory of how he got here. With a mysterious letter and a cheeky kitten as his only companion, he...

An impossible crime has occurred. A Treasury officer has disappeared into thin air - abducted from his quarters in a building whose entrances and exits are all sealed. The brilliant and mercurial investigator, Ana Dolabra, and her assistant Dinios Kol have been called in to crack the case. Before...

Florence, New Year's Day 1557. As dawn breaks, a painter is discovered lying on the floor of a church, stabbed through the heart. Above him, the paintings he laboured over for more than a decade. At his home, a hidden painting scandalously depicting Maria de Medici, daughter of the Duke and Duche...

Katya and the rest of the New Protectors are facing their greatest challenge yet. The wizard Daltec has been struck down by a magical curse, and the land of Tangala is in grave danger from the sorceress Zuba, who wants to destroy the kingdom forever. But when the brave young fighters and their my...

Nolan and the rest of the New Protectors are facing their greatest challenge yet. The wizard Daltec has been struck down by a magical curse, and the land of Tangala is in grave danger from the sorceress Zuba, who wants to destroy the kingdom forever. But when the brave young fighters and their my...

The children of Thayer Wren have been remarkable since the day they were born. Unsurprisingly, since Thayer was the brilliant CEO of Wrenfare Magitech and so-called father of modern technology. Telepathically and telekinetically gifted, his offspring -- Meredith, Arthur and Eilidh Wren -- are pub...

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...

In the near future, a disaffected civil servant is offered a lucrative job in a mysterious new government ministry gathering 'expats' from across history to test the limits of time-travel.

Three years after her fateful journeys through Vystrana, the widowed Mrs. Camherst defies convention to embark on an expedition to the savage, war-torn continent of Eriga, home of the legendary swamp-wyrms of the tropics. Accompanied by an old associate and a runaway heiress, Isabella must brave ...

As the renowned granddaughter of Isabella Camherst (Lady Trent, of the riveting and daring Draconic adventure memoirs) Audrey Camherst has always known she, too, would want to make her scholarly mark upon a chosen field of study. When Lord Gleinheigh recruits Audrey to decipher a series of ancien...

After her adventure in the mountains of Vystrana, and her exploits in the depths of Eriga, to the high seas aboard The Basilisk, and then to the deserts of Akhia, the Lady Trent has captivated hearts along with fierce minds. This concluding volume will finally reveal the truths behind her most no...

She was commanded to kill him with a single strike to the heart. She didn't expect her own to betray her. Sylina is a dedicated acolyte of the Arachessen, follower of the goddess of fate - and trained assassin. When the brutal vampire conqueror Atrius arrives on the shores of her human homeland, ...

The legendary Reaper, Darrow, to defend Mars from a bloodthirsty would-be conqueror, begins his long voyage home, an interplanetary adventure where old friends will reunite, new alliances will be forged, and rivals will clash on the battlefield. -- Source other than Library of Congress.

Private investigator Matilda Wren's new client is a woman seeking evidence to divorce her husband. She is also the former fiancée of her last client -- and dear friend -- Lord Ravenhurst. Though he has enthusiastically offered to aid Tilda with future investigations, she can't very well accept hi...

After being viciously stabbed and left for dead, Hadrian Becket, Earl of Ravenhurst struggles back to health only to discover he is cursed with a vexing ability to see visions he can't explain. Terrified he may be going mad, he must keep the disturbing skill secret. But when it proves helpful in ...

What would happen if Sleeping Beauty was faced with a poisoned apple and Snow White had to do battle against a ferocious dragon? As a baby, Rose was cursed to meet a mysterious fate on her thirteenth birthday. But unclear on the exact details, no one's more surprised than Rose when she's suddenly...

Now that his girlfriend has left him, professional wizard Harry Dresden can't pay his rent and alienates his friends. He's soon approached by the Winter Queen of Faerie with an offer he can't refuse--all he has to do is find out who murdered the Summer Queen's right-hand man, the Summer Knight, a...

Sarah Toomey is afraid she's losing her mind. Ever since her mother's death, she's found herself acting upon strange urges, losing track of time, and coming to in odd places. There's a dark force that seems to be haunting her, and leaving death in its wake. Yvonne Howard has reinvented herself. A...