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A A Gill

Andrew Swanston read law at Cambridge, but was inspired to write by his lifelong interest in early modern history. His Thomas Hill novels – The King’s Spy, The King’s Exile and The King’s Return – are set against the backdrops of the English Civil War, Cromwell’s Commonwealth and the early Restoration respectively. He is also the author of Waterloo: The Bravest Man and Beautiful Star and Other Stories. His first historical thriller set during the reign of Elizabeth I – Incendium (published in paperback as The Incendium Plot) – introduced readers to the academic, lawyer and intelligencer Dr Christopher Radcliff, whose adventures continue in Chaos. Andrew Swanston lives in Surrey.

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A E Langsford

A G Hopkins

A. J. BAIME is the New York Times best-selling author of The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War and Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans. Both books are in development for major motion pictures. Baime is a longtime regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal, and his articles have also appeared in the New York Times, Popular Science, and Men’s Journal. He lives in Granite Bay, California. Visit him at facebook.com/ajbaime and trumanbook.com.

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A J Jacobs

A J P Taylor

Anthony James Pollard is a British medieval historian, specialising in the fifteenth century and in particular the Wars of the Roses. A leading authority in the field, he is profesor emeritus of Teesside University. His books include North-Eastern England during the Wars of the Roses, Richard III and the Princes in theTower, Imagining Robin Hood: the Late Medieval Stories in Historical Context and Warwick the kingmaker: Politics, Power and Fame.

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A J Rochester

A K Benjamin is a clinical neuropsychologist and the author of Let Me Not Be Mad: A Story of Unravelling Minds.

A K Benjamin

A. L. Berridge read English at Oxford, and taught for ten years before moving into television, where her production credits range from period drama and thrillers to long-running soaps. She has written two previous novels, Top Ten besteller Honour and the Sword and In the Name of the King. Into the Valley of Death is her third novel.

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Alison Gaylin's first job was as a reporter for a celebrity tabloid, which sparked a lifelong interest in writing about people committing despicable acts. More than a decade later, she wrote and published her Edgar-nominated first novel, HIDE YOUR EYES. 
 
She's since published nine more books, including the USA Today and international bestselling Brenna Spector suspense series, which has been nominated for the Edgar, Anthony and Thriller awards and won the Shamus award. 
 
She lives in upstate New York with her husband, daughter, cat and dog.

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A P Wavell

A.S. Webb is the Sunday Times bestselling author of Daughter of Chaos, the first instalment of The Dark Pantheon Trilogy. She is inspired by stories rooted in history and mythology, that push the boundaries of imagination and urge us to reflect on what it means to be human.

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A. A. Dhand is the author of six previous novels, and has been shortlisted for the CWA Steel Dagger Award. His DI Harry Virdee novels are currently being adapted for TV by the BBC. He was raised in Bradford and spent his youth observing the city from behind the counter of a small convenience store. After qualifying as a pharmacist, he worked in London and travelled extensively before returning to Bradford to start his own business and begin writing. The history, diversity and darkness of the city have inspired all his novels. For more information about A. A. Dhand and his books, follow him on X @aadhand, and on Instagram @aa_dhand.

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A. A. Gill

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A. Anatoli

A. B. Poranek grew up sharing her time between Ontario, Canada and rural Poland, and eventually completed a veterinary degree at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences. A lover of mythology and history, she enjoys exploring both in her writing. Her debut novel, Where the Dark Stands Still, an instant New York Times bestseller, is an ode to Poland's folktales, while A Treachery of Swans transports readers to a world inspired by 17th century France.

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A. Bradley

Professor A. C. Grayling is Principal of the New College of the Humanities at Northeastern University, London, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. He has written and edited over thirty books on philosophy, history, science and current affairs. For several years he wrote columns for the Guardian newspaper and The Times and was the chairman of the 2014 Man Booker Prize.

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A.D. Miller is the author of Snowdrops, The Earl of Petticoat Lane and The Faithful Couple. Snowdrops was a bestseller and was shortlisted for many prizes including the Man Booker and the CWA Gold Dagger. It was translated into 25 languages. As Moscow Correspondent of The Economist A.D. Miller has travelled across the former Soviet Union and covered the Orange Revolution in Ukraine; he is now the magazine’s Culture Editor based in London. 
 
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A. D. Miller

A. E. Ellis

A. E. W. Mason

A. Humphreys

A. Igoni Barrett was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, in 1979 and lives in Lagos. He is a winner of the 2005 BBC World Service short story competition, the recipient of a Chinua Achebe Center Fellowship, a Norman Mailer Center Fellowship, and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency. His short story collection, Love is Power, or Something Like That, was published in 2013. In 2014 he was named on the Africa39 list of sub-Saharan African writers under 40. Blackass is his first novel.

A. Igoni Barrett

The short life of A.J.A. Symons (1900-41) was described by his biographer as an intricate and largely harmless confidence trick. His many interests included the collection of musical boxes and rare books as well as the study and practice of forgery; they left him time to edit an anthology of Edwardian verse and compose studies of H.M. Stanley and other notable figures. He is remembered for The Quest for Corvo, one of the most remarkable biographies ever written, and for co-founding the Wine and Food Society.

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Terry Pratchett

Paul Kidby

The Discworld is undoubtedly Sir Terry Pratchett's most famous creation. A universe teeming with dwarves, trolls, witches, and social and cultural issues that parallel those in our own world, all wrapped up in Pratchett's inimitable comic delivery. This iconic series will make you laugh, then make you think.

Enter master story-teller Terry Pratchett’s incredible Discworld in this second book in the Tiffany Aching series . . . 
 
Something is coming after Tiffany Aching . . . 
 
Tiffany Aching is ready to begin her apprenticeship in magic, but life isn't exactly what she thought it would be. She expects spells and magic – not chores and ill-tempered goats! Surely there must be more to witchcraft than this? 
 
But when a sinister creature starts pursuing her, Tiffany realises that she’ll need her magic more than ever to fight it off. And this time, neither Mistress Weatherwax (the greatest witch in the world) nor the fierce, six-inch-high Wee Free Men can protect her. In the end, it will take all of Tiffany's inner strength to save herself. 
 
Will she succeed? 
 
‘If you've never read a Discworld novel, what's the matter with you?’ Guardian 
‘Oodles of dry wit, imagination and shrewdly observed characters’ Independent on Sunday 
‘Fantastically inventive and humorous’ The Sunday Times 
 
 
DISCOVER THE FULL TIFFANY ACHING SERIES, THE PERFECT INTRODUCTION TO DISCWORLD: 
The Wee Free Men 
A Hat Full of Sky 
Wintersmith 
I Shall Wear Midnight 
The Shepherd’s Crown

A Hat Full of Sky

A Tiffany Aching Novel

Enter master story-teller Terry Pratchett’s incredible Discworld in this fourth book in the Tiffany Aching series . . . 
 
Tiffany Aching is discovering it’s not easy being a witch . . . 
 
People respect witches, but also fear them, and sometimes Tiffany Aching wishes that being a witch was more in-line with the having fun whizzing around on broomsticks that she’d imagined. 
 
Then something evil awakens that stirs up all the old stories about nasty old witches, and suddenly Tiffany starts to think that even just wearing a pointy hat seems like a very bad idea . . . 
 
Worse still, this ghost from the past is searching for one witch in particular. He's hunting for Tiffany – and he's found her . . . 
 
 
‘If you've never read a Discworld novel, what's the matter with you?' Guardian 
‘Writing at the height of his powers . . . [Sir Terry Pratchett] makes us laugh a lot’ Sunday Times 
 
DISCOVER THE FULL TIFFANY ACHING SERIES, THE PERFECT INTRODUCTION TO DISCWORLD: 
The Wee Free Men 
A Hat Full of Sky 
Wintersmith 
I Shall Wear Midnight 
The Shepherd’s Crown

I Shall Wear Midnight

Enter master story-teller Terry Pratchett’s incredible Discworld in this fifth book in the Tiffany Aching series and the very final Discworld novel . . . 
 
Tiffany Aching has finally got her wish . . . 
 
She is a witch (and a respected one, at that). Overworked and underpaid, that’s for certain, but a witch nonetheless. 
 
But deep in the Chalk, something is stirring. The owls and the foxes can sense it, and Tiffany Aching feels it in her boots. An old enemy is gathering strength. 
 
And while Tiffany might be a fully-fledged witch now, she’s going to need help. So as the fairy horde prepares for invasion, Tiffany turns to the witches to stand with her. To protect the land. Her land. 
This is a time of endings and beginnings, old friends and new, a blurring of edges and a shifting of power. 
 
There will be a reckoning . . . 
 
'If you've never read a Discworld novel, what's the matter with you?’ Guardian 
‘This isn't just a great Discworld book, it's extraordinary . . . A magnificent sign-off.’ Daily Telegraph 
 
‘Brilliant . . . This is a book worth reading twice in quick succession’ Daily Mail 
 
DISCOVER THE FULL TIFFANY ACHING SERIES, THE PERFECT INTRODUCTION TO DISCWORLD: 
The Wee Free Men 
A Hat Full of Sky 
Wintersmith 
I Shall Wear Midnight 
The Shepherd’s Crown

The Shepherd's Crown

Discover master story-teller Terry Pratchett’s incredible Discworld in this first book in the Tiffany Aching series . . . 
 
Tiffany Aching wants to be a witch when she grows up . . . 
 
A proper one, with a pointy hat. And flying, Tiffany has always dreamed of flying (though it's cold up there, and you have to wear really thick pants, two layers). 
 
And as the twentieth granddaughter of her Granny Aching: shepherdess extraordinaire, and protector of the land, Tiffany knows the most important thing a real witch can do is protect others with their magic. So, when the monsters of Fairyland kidnap her brother, Tiffany decides it’s up to her to defend her home, even if she’s only armed with a frying pan and her common sense. 
 
Luckily she has some very unusual help: the local Nac Mac Feegle – a.k.a the Wee Free Men – a clan of fierce, sheep-stealing, sword-wielding, six-inch-high blue men. Together they must face headless horsemen, ferocious grimhounds, terrifying dreams come true and ultimately the sinister Queen of the Elves herself . . . 
 
This edition includes a special introduction from Rhianna Pratchett. 
 
'If you've never read a Discworld novel, what's the matter with you?' Guardian 
'Quite, quite brilliant' Starburst 
 
DISCOVER THE FULL TIFFANY ACHING SERIES, THE PERFECT INTRODUCTION TO DISCWORLD: 
The Wee Free Men 
A Hat Full of Sky 
Wintersmith 
I Shall Wear Midnight 
The Shepherd’s Crown

The Wee Free Men

Enter master story-teller Terry Pratchett’s incredible Discworld in this third book in the Tiffany Aching series . . . 
 
Tiffany Aching is starting to realize that some witches are a bit odd . . . 
 
When the Spirit of Winter takes a fancy to young witch Tiffany Aching, he decides he wants her to stay in his gleaming, frozen world. Forever. 
 
But forever is a long time, so right now Tiffany is just trying to make it through the Winter and hopefully find a way to escape. 
 
It will take all of Tiffany’s skill and cunning, as well as some help from the legendary Granny Weatherwax and the irrepressible Wee Free Men – to survive until Spring. And survive she must, because according to the other witches, if Tiffany doesn't make it to Spring . . . Spring won't come at all. 
 
'If you've never read a Discworld novel, what's the matter with you?' Guardian 
‘Characteristically entertaining’ Sunday Times 
'In every sense fantastic' Independent 
 
DISCOVER THE FULL TIFFANY ACHING SERIES, THE PERFECT INTRODUCTION TO DISCWORLD: 
The Wee Free Men 
A Hat Full of Sky 
Wintersmith 
I Shall Wear Midnight 
The Shepherd’s Crown

Wintersmith

'In the beginning, there was nothing but endless flatness. Then came the Carpet . . .' 
 
That's the old story everyone knows and loves (even if they don't really believe it). But now the Carpet is home to many different tribes and peoples and there's a new story in the making. 
 
The story of Fray, sweeping a trail of destruction across the Carpet, and two brothers, who set out on an adventure to end all adventures. 
 
A hilarious fantasy, perfect for ages seven an up, written by master storyteller Terry Pratchett.

The Carpet People

Mark Beech

*Includes 'The Abominable Snow Baby' - the animated film featured on Christmas Day on Channel 4, starring Julie Walters and David Harewood!* 
 
A collection of wonderful Christmas stories from the fantastically funny Terry Pratchett. With incredible illustrations from Mark Beech, it's the perfect stocking filler! 
 
Have you ever wanted Christmas to be different? 
 
Turkey and carols, presents and crackers - they all start to feel a bit . . . samey. 
 
How about a huge exploding mince pie, a pet abominable snowman, or a very helpful partridge in a pear tree? What if Father Christmas went to work at a zoo, or caused chaos in a toy store or, was even, arrested for burglary!? 
 
Dive into the fantastically funny world of Terry Pratchett, for a festive treat like no other. These ten stories will have you laughing, gasping and crying (with laughter) - you'll never see Christmas in the same way again. 
 
'Funny, action-packed . . . a rip-roaring read' The Sun

Father Christmas's Fake Beard

An illustrated edition of Truckers by Terry Pratchett. 
 
Terry Pratchett's extraordinary, and extraordinarily funny, book, Truckers, available for the first time in an edition beautifully illustrated by Mark Beech. 
 
Imagine that all around you, hidden from sight, there are thousands of tiny people. 
They are four inches tall, brave, stubborn and resourceful. 
They are the nomes. 
 
The nomes in this story live under the floorboards of a large Department Store and have never been Outside. In fact, they don’t even believe in Outside. But new nomes arrive, from – where else? – and they bring with them terrifying news: the Store is closing down and Everything Must Go . . . 
 
The fantastically funny first book of the nomes, from the author of the bestselling Discworld series.

Truckers

Illustrated edition

The First Book of the Nomes

Holly Black

Cassandra Clare

Callum Hunt knows three things. 1) Never trust a magician. 2) Never pass a test a magician gives you. 3) Never let a magician take you to the Magisterium. Forced to take the Iron Trial and enter the world of the Magisterium, Call is dragged deeper into the mysteries that lurk in its depths. This collaborative series follows Call’s conflict as he goes on an extraordinary journey through the fantasy land he inhabits and decides the fate of a whole world.

The final, thrilling instalment in this extraordinary series from bestselling authors Holly Black and Cassandra Clare. 
 
A generation ago, powerful mage Constantine Madden came close to achieving what no magician had ever achieved: the ability to bring back the dead. He didn't succeed . . . but he did find a way to keep himself alive, inside a young child named Callum Hunt. 
 
Facing up to what he is, Callum has battled chaos and evil across four years of magical training at the Magisterium, eventually defeating the armies of chaos in an epic battle. 
 
It came at a cost. 
 
Now, triumphant and heartbroken, Callum Hunt has just about had enough, and is ready to complete his training. But the evil Callum faced has not given up just yet . . .

Magisterium: The Golden Tower

From the legendary Terry Pratchett, the author of Discworld, the third instalment in the Johnny Maxwell Trilogy 
 
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 THIS TIME . . . IT’S WAR. 
 
 Johnny Maxwell is just an ordinary boy, walking through an ordinary alley . . . until he stumbles across a shopping trolley that can travel back in time. 
 
 A trip on this time travelling shopping trolley takes Johnny and his friends back to 1941, in the middle of the Second World War. More specifically, on the day the German bombs will fall on their town. 
 
 What if Johnny and his friends could stop it? But tampering with history could have disastrous consequences... 
 
 ‘Enormously entertaining and contains more wry observations than you could shake a Heinkel at’ – Daily Telegraph

Johnny and the Bomb

Jennifer Bell

Karl James Mountford

After the thrilling events which concluded The Smoking Hourglass, Ivy, Seb and Valian think they've vanquished their enemies, and those of Lundinor, forever. It turns out their adventure was only just beginning . . . 
 
Ivy and Seb can't wait to join Valian for their first ever overseas uncommon adventure - they're meeting in Nubrook, the completely astonishing and totally-different-to-Ludinor trading market hidden underneath New York. But there's no time to enjoy looking round all the incredible sights - they're on a mission to find Valian's long-lost sister, Rosie. 
 
But it seems they're not the only ones looking for her. Once again the Dirge rear their terrifying heads, and it appears they're after not only Rosie, but another enormously powerful Great Uncommon Good object. But what do they want it for? And can Ivy, Seb and Valian stop them from finding it?

The Frozen Telescope

From the legendary Terry Pratchett, the author of Discworld, the second instalment in the Johnny Maxwell Trilogy 
 
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Sell the cemetery? 
 
Over their dead bodies . . . 
 
Not many people can see the dead (not many would want to). Twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell can. And he's got bad news for them: the council want to sell the cemetery as a building site. But the dead have learnt a thing or two from Johnny. They're not going to take it lying down . . . especially since it's Halloween tomorrow. 
 
Besides, they're beginning to find that life is a lot more fun than it was when they were . . . well . . . alive. Particularly if they break a few rules . . .

Johnny and the Dead

This is the first book in the Johnny Maxwell trilogy. 
 
Johnny Maxwell is just an ordinary boy – not smart, popular or rich. 
But he does love video games. 
 
And as his parents argue themselves out of a marriage, Johnny plays at becoming humanity’s last hope, shooting invading aliens out of a pixelated sky. 
 
Then comes a message from the last remaining alien spaceship: We Wish to Talk. 
 
And suddenly Johnny is thrust into the very real world of the video game, and comes face to face with an alien race that needs his help. 
 
Only Johnny can save them. And this isn't a game anymore . . .

Only You Can Save Mankind

Callum Hunt's life has fallen apart. 
 
His friend is gone. The spy has escaped. His secret is out. 
 
He is facing an existence behind bars, banished from the rest of the magical community for what he is - for what he might become. 
 
But a shocking revelation has promised freedom - at a cost. Will he stay strong, and faithful to his friends and teachers? Or take the risk, and destroy everything he's ever loved? 
 
This fourth year at the Magisterium will be unlike anything else that has gone before . . . 
 
'I can't wait to read more of this series!' - Rick Riordan

Magisterium: The Silver Mask

Following Ivy Sparrow’s discoveries in The Crooked Sixpence, the adventures continue in the second instalment of The Uncommoners trilogy, The Smoking Hourglass. 
 
 As soon as Ivy and her brother Seb set foot back in the mysterious underground city of Lundinor, they know that something has changed . . . Where before there were cobbled streets, now the squares and lanes between the city’s enchanted shops are lush with spring blooms – but something dark is stirring just below the surface, and uncommon traders are uneasy. Ivy and Seb have stumbled into a plot that could condemn every uncommoner to a disastrous fate . . . With the help of Valian, their extraordinary friend – and some exceptional uncommon objects – can Ivy and Seb put a stop to the sinister Dirge’s plans?

The Smoking Hourglass

Tiffany Aching is going ‘into service’: to be a lady, no less, a maid in a big house. At least, this is what she tells her parents. 
 
Really, Tiffany is going away to learn magic. 
 
But making friends with fellow witches is always difficult when an invisible-being-that-cannot-be-killed takes over your body – stealing money, and threatening violence. 
 
Tiffany must use all her witchy cunning to reclaim what’s hers. Luckily, she has a bit of help. What’s tiny, Scottish and blue all over? A Nac Mac Feegle of course – the rudest type of fairy, and handy to have in a tight spot . . . 
 
‘Oodles of dry wit, imagination and shrewdly observed characters’ 
Independent on Sunday

Tiffany Aching is a witch alone. 
 
Well, that’s how she feels. Everyone seems so, apart. People respect her, but also fear her. There are loads of secrets she can’t share. 
 
And when the Baron dies, and Tiffany is framed for his murder, it’s clearer than ever that she is, well . . . not liked 
 
Now Tiffany must journey to Ankh-Morpork, to inform the Baron’s heir, Roland, of his father’s death. But on the way she meets something that likes witches very much . . . a bit too much – an evil ball of spite and malice that has only now woken up. 
 
And is out to get witches everywhere . . . 
 
 
‘High peaks of imagination’ 
Sunday Times

Tiffany Aching has finally got her wish. 
 
She is a witch (and a respected one, at that). Overworked and underpaid, that’s for certain, but a witch nonetheless. 
 
Help is at hand though. In the form of young Geoffrey and his goat. Geoffrey wants to be a witch too, and thinks he can save the world by building sheds. Well, everyone has to start somewhere. 
 
But as new friends are made, and old ones return, enemies are stirring. With her beloved chalk in jeopardy, Tiffany will face the toughest challenge of her life. 
 
There will be a reckoning . . . 
 
‘Brilliant . . . This is a book worth reading twice in quick succession’ 
Daily Mail

Witches are odd. 
 
That much is clear to Tiffany. But she likes them . . . in an odd sort of way. Just as she likes Roland . . . in a friend sort of way (which most certainly isn’t odd). 
 
But Tiffany hasn’t really got time to think about Roland, because she has accidentally danced with Winter himself – the Wintersmith. 
 
And now the Wintersmith has a bit of a crush on Tiffany. 
 
According to her friend Daft Wullie, if Tiffany kisses the Wintersmith (an awful thought), her nose turns blue and fall off. According to the witches, if she doesn’t shake off her admirer, there will never be another springtime . . . 
 
‘Characteristically entertaining’ 
Sunday Times

Tiffany wants to be a witch when she grows up. 
 
A proper one, with a pointy hat. And flying, she's always dreamed of flying (though it's cold up there, you have to wear really thick pants, two layers). 
 
But she's worried Tiffany isn't a very 'witchy' name. And a witch has always protected Tiffany's land, to stop the nightmares getting through. 
 
Now the nightmares have taken her brother, and it's up to her to get him back. 
 
With a horde of unruly fairies at her disposal, Tiffany is not alone. And she is the twentieth granddaughter of her Granny Aching: shepherdess extraordinaire, and protector of the land. 
 
Tiffany Aching. Now there's a rather good name for a witch. 
 
 
'Quite, quite brilliant' 
Starburst 
 
THE FIRST BOOK IN THE TIFFANY ACHING SERIES

Jason Segel

Kirsten Miller

Charlie Laird has a very bad feeling. 
 
1. There’s a NEW GIRL at school, and Charlie and his friends have DEFINITELY seen her before. 
2. He’s been hearing strange noises after dark, which is NEVER a good sign. 
3. The nightmares are back, and they’re WEIRDER THAN EVER. 
 
Not since he faced his fears has Charlie had so many bad dreams. Whenever he falls asleep, he finds himself in a Netherworld field, surrounded by a flock of CREEPY BLACK SHEEP. 
 
They're not counting sheep. They refuse to jump. In fact, they don't do much at all. EVEN EERIER, THOUGH, is that it’s not Charlie’s nightmare. Somehow he’s trapped in someone else’s bad dream. And he’s pretty sure the twins ICK and INK are responsible. 
 
Charlie and his friends thought they’d put the twins out of business, but it seems they didn’t quite finish the job. Now the WOOLLY NIGHTMARES are closing in, and INK has shown up at Cypress Creek Elementary! Charlie’s convinced that INK is up to NO GOOD. And if he’s right, it could be a very long time before anyone’s dreams are sweet again.

Nightmares! The Lost Lullaby

Magic can save you 
Magic can kill you 
 
It should be a time of celebration. The Enemy of Death is dead; a severed head proof of his downfall. The magical world has no reason to believe otherwise, and Callum, Tamara and Aaron are celebrated as heroes. 
 
But at a party held in their honour, things go horribly, brutally wrong. A fellow student is callously murdered, and it seems Call’s worst fears are confirmed: there is a spy in the Magisterium. 
 
No one is safe. 
 
Now, using the powerful magic they’ve been taught, the trio must risk their lives to track down the killer. But magic is dangerous – in the wrong hands it could bring terrible destruction. And reveal the deadliest secret of all . . .

Magisterium: The Bronze Key

Siobhan Dowd

Darra is an omen of unluck: a thirteenth child. To appease the dark god, Dond, and bring good fortune to her small island community, Darra must be sacrificed at the age of thirteen - by drowning. 
 
On the eve of her final birthday, Darra begins to dream of the twin brother she has watched from afar but never met, and dares to hope that she might escape her fate . . . 
 
The scouring wind and remorseless waves which beat against Darra's island world are matched in Pam Smy's powerful, wild and emotive illustrations. The Ransom of Dond is our final story from Siobhan, and a book to be treasured.

The Ransom of Dond

Welcome to a world where nothing is quite as it seems . . . 
 
Dive head first into the world of Lundinor in this magical adventure story for anyone with a Hogwarts-shaped hole in their life. 
 
When their grandmother Sylvie is rushed to hospital, Ivy Sparrow and her annoying big brother Seb cannot imagine what adventure lies in store. Returning to Sylvie’s house, they find it has been ransacked by unknown intruders – before a mysterious feather scratches an ominous message onto the kitchen wall. A very strange policeman turns up on the scene, determined to apprehend them . . . with a toilet brush. Ivy and Seb make their escape – only to find themselves in a completely uncommon world, where ordinary objects have amazing powers. The forces of evil are closing in fast, and Ivy and Seb must get to the bottom of a family secret . . . before it’s too late. 
 
Complete with stunning interior illustrations by cover artist Karl Mountford.

The Crooked Sixpence

Django Wexler

For Alice, danger threatens from inside the library as well as out. Having figured out the role her master and uncle, Geryon, played in her father's disappearance, Alice turns to Ending – the mysterious, magical giant feline and guardian of Geryon's library – for a spell to incapacitate Geryon. 
 
But, like all cats, Ending is adept at keeping secrets and Alice doesn't know the whole story. Once she traps Geryon with Ending's spell, there's no one to stop the other Readers from sending their apprentices to pillage Geryon's library. 
 
As Alice prepares to face an impending attack from the combined might of the Readers, she gathers what forces she can – the apprentices she once thought might be her friends, the magical creatures imprisoned in Geryon's library – not knowing who, if anyone, she can trust.

The Palace of Glass

When you’re four inches high in a world full of giant people, things never go very well for long. 
 
After running into trouble at the quarry, the nomes want to go home. The problem is, ‘home’ is somewhere up in the stars, in some sort of Ship. 
 
Masklin must find a way to get to the ‘launch’ of a ‘communications satellite’ (whatever that is). 
 
And so begins an incredible journey, filled with peril, planes, honking geese . . . and a walking sandwich. 
 
The fantastically funny third book of the nomes, from the author of the bestselling Discworld series.

Wings

The Third Book of the Nomes

This is the story of Jekub, the Dragon in the Hill with great big teeth and a great loud voice. 
 
(Well, that’s according to the nomes, but they are only four inches tall.) 
 
When humans threaten their new home in the quarry, the natural thing would be to run and hide. But the nomes have got the wild idea that they should fight back. After all, everyone knows that nomes are faster and smarter than humans, and now they have a secret weapon . . . 
 
The fantastically funny second book of the nomes, from the author of the bestselling Discworld series.

Diggers

The Second Book of the Nomes

Debi Gliori

An epic tale of a final battle between good and evil. The Strega-Borgias are in deep fear for their lives! 
 
The forces of evil are converging on StregaSchloss - demons, the Mafia, a changeling with a nasty bite - and the wild and weird Strega-Borgias must gather together their allies to fight back. But there are just a few too many distractions, with Damp the toddler-witch missing in action and a house full of wolves and bickering teenagers getting in the way. Can the family keep it together - even when they're scattered over time and place? 
 
A deliciously inventive and hilarious finale to the Pure Dead . . . series

Deep Fear

When the Strega-Borgias return from holiday to find that their faithful family retainer, Latch, has collapsed from unknown causes, it is only the start of their problems. Signora Strega-Borgia is feeling very peaky in the mornings, Titus is trying to save the world and Pandora has an embarrassing crush on the new butler (to say nothing of the fact that a demon is trying to invade StregaSchloss). Only Ffup the dragon is truly happy, due to her forthcoming marriage to the Loch Ness Monster. A fantastically epic plot, culminating in Flora McLachlan making the ultimate sacrifice, which will have committed fans and newcomers turning the pages late into the night.

Deep Trouble

Victoria Hanley

For Zaria Tourmaline, the three years without her mother and brother have been lonely ones, living with a cold and distant guardian while she completes her education. Just as she is ready to join the world of adult fairies and genies, she finds a spellbook written entirely in her mother's hand. But this treasured object is not safe from a new enemy, a fairy with more power than Zaria ever dreamed existed. Only among the humans - who must never know fairies and genies exist - can Zaria hide the spellbook; but hidden magic, it turns out, can expose a fairy in ways she never thought possible . . .

Violet Wings

The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. But in this world, there are two moons in the sky. Discover the 1Q84 Trilogy by Haruki Murakami.

1Q84

365 Days of Art

A BBC Christmas

A Black Book Thriller

A Box Full of Murders

A Cal Leandros Novel

A Christmas Mystery

The intelligent and capable police commissioner Guido Brunetti confronts crime in and around his home town of Venice.

A Commissario Brunetti Mystery

A DC Smith / Kings Lake Investigation Series

A Daisy Story

Chronicling the lives of over three hundred characters, unrivalled for its scope and humour, this is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England.

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