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Empress & Soldier

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Druisius, the son of a merchant, is sixteen when an order from his father that he can neither forgive nor forget drives him from home and into the danger and intrigue of the military.

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Empire's Heir

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Some games are played for mortal stakes.

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Empire's Reckoning

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How many secrets does your family have? And how high the price of peace?

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Dragon Sisters

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Enter a world of fantasy and magic and recipes set in Qing China. What happens when Xiao Xiao, a daughter of an Imperial Courtesan, finds a magical green pearl in the hands of her adoptive little sister?

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Fermi's Progress: Planet of the Apiaries

by 2 hours £2.99 Book 3/4

The Fermi is the Earth's first and last faster-than-light spaceship. The last, because it turns out its engine vaporises entire star systems in its wake. And nobody knows how to turn it off.

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In the Sweep of the Bay

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This warm-hearted tale explores marriage, love, and longing, set against the majestic backdrop of Morecambe Bay, the Lakeland Fells, and the faded splendour of the Midland Hotel.

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Fermi's Progress - Season Pass

by 13 hours Season Pass £8.99 All 4 books

The Fermi is the Earth's first and last faster-than-light-spaceship. The last, because it turns out its engine vaporises entire star systems in its wake. And nobody knows how to turn it off.

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Evolution

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Over a century after being gifted with exceptional genetic adaptations, William Woods still walks the earth, as strong and physically healthy as the day he was born. The country, however, is not so fortunate.

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A Gathering of Crones

by 6 hours £4.99 Book 2/4

Can Claire harness her powers in time to help her fellow Crones defeat the mages—or will her efforts bring even greater disaster?

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The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper

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Cinrak the Dapper is a keeper of secrets, a righter of wrongs, the saltiest capybara on the sea and a rider of both falling stars and a great glass whale.

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The Witches of Greasy Creek

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In an attempt to start her life over, Kate Lawson stumbles into a world of ghosts, a missing girl, and an unsolved murder.

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The Year We Lived

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It is 1074, eight years after the fateful Battle of Hastings. Lord Henry De Bois is determined to find the secret community of Robert, an Anglo-Saxon thane. Despite his fervour, all his attempts are met with failure.

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Game of Crones

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Can Claire unleash her full powers in time to save her companions—and the world?

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Fermi's Progress: Descartesmageddon

by 3 hours £2.99 Book 2/4

The Fermi is the Earth's first and last faster-than-light spaceship. The last, because it turns out its engine vaporises entire star systems in its wake. And nobody knows how to turn it off.

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A Bagful of Dragon

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Inayat isn't a witch. She's a not-quite-ordinary twenty-something, screwing up her life one failed date at a time. But when she dumps the wrong magician, Inayat finds herself in a bubbling cauldron of paranoid fear.

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Empire's Legacy - Season Pass

by 50 hours Season Pass £25.00 All 7 books

A country on the brink of defeat. A woman who answers a call to arms. A man to challenge an Empire.

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Outermen

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An oppressed world locked inside a shell, without a single star to wish on. Now the void beyond has spat back Michael Formir, splintered in mind and body. And he may have brought something terrible with him.

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Tombtown Tales

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A collection of fantasy tales from the necromancer haven of Tombtown, by the author of the chilling and lovely Books and Bone.

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Airedale

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When Justice Analyst, Haz Edmundson, discovers the body of an activist who has crashed through a warehouse roof cocooned in a wingsuit, he's convinced it's murder. But who, and why?

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Sinful Folk

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In December of the year 1377, five children were burned to death in a suspicious fire. A small band of villagers travelled 200 miles in midwinter to demand justice for their deaths.

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Flora and Jim

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The world is frozen. The animals ascendant. And, locked in desperate pursuit of 'the other father' across a grim icy apocalypse, Jim will do anything to keep his daughter alive. Anything...

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Fermi's Progress: Dyson's Fear

by 3 hours £2.99 Book 1/4

The Fermi is Earth’s first faster-than-light capable spaceship. It’s also its last. The moment the Fermi's engines engage, it unleashes a shockwave that vaporises entire planets, entire solar systems.

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Empress & Soldier

by 11 hours £4.99 Book 7/7

Druisius, the son of a merchant, is sixteen when an order from his father that he can neither forgive nor forget drives him from home and into the danger and intrigue of the military.

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Empire's Hostage

by 8 hours £4.99 Book 2/7

A task she cannot refuse. A land that holds secrets. And a man Lena doesn't know if she can trust.

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The Complete Dragon Sisters

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The complete omnibus edition of the Dragon Sisters magical Chinese fantasy series. Includes all three exciting Qing-China inspired tales.

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Silver Moon

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Becca Thornton, divorced, middle-aged and trying to embrace her quiet existence, discovers that life still holds plenty of surprises when her menopause comes with bonus lycanthropy.

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Empire's Reckoning

by 9 hours £4.99 Book 5/7

How many secrets does your family have? And how high the price of peace?

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Arachne

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An ambitious young mediator must confront a terrifying presence haunting her telelink, as a deadly Artificial Intelligence schemes to steal human souls.

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The Naseby Horses

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A teenager, recovering from a massive epileptic seizure, attempts to unravel the disappearance of his twin sister, while fact, legend, memory and epilepsy tamper with his reality.

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Fermi's Progress: The Phone Job

by 5 hours £2.99 Book 4/4

The Fermi is the Earth's first and last faster-than-light spaceship. The last, because it turns out its engine vaporises entire star systems in its wake. And nobody knows how to turn it off.

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Folklore 101

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This fun, accessible guide to the academic study of folklore packs in a college class's worth of material, from basic concepts and major folklore genres to special topics based on identity, fancy theories, and more.

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Empire's Heir

by 11 hours £4.99 Book 6/7

Some games are played for mortal stakes.

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A Duet for Invisible Strings

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Heledd, leader of the first violins, has been in love with her irrepressible conductor Rosemary for years. But Heledd has a secret.

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Rep War - Season Pass

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In the near-future US the struggle for survival pushes citizens to breaking point as relationships fracture along lines of class and race.

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Empire's Exile

by 12 hours £4.99 Book 3/7

A task she cannot refuse. A land that holds secrets. And a man Lena doesn't know if she can trust.

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Pearl of the Palace

by An hour £2.99 Book 2/2

Xiao Xiao dreams an ominous dream of a terrible creature, the Nian. Half lion, half dragon, half everything, it threatens all she loves.

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The Book of Were-Wolves

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With the shocking histories of 10 famous cases, this classic blends science, superstition, and fiction to tell the full story of the werewolves among us.

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Oraiáphon

by 4 hours £2.99 Book 4/7

Can a musician heal, when a physician cannot? Can Sorley's music convince the gods to spare a life – and if so, at what cost?

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The Crone Wars - Season Pass

by 17 hours Season Pass £14.99 All 4 books

Divorced, menopausal grandmothers with creaky hips and hot flashes don't just randomly discover they're next in a long line of powerful women protecting the world from the dark magick of Mages.

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Sun Dragon's Song

by 2 hours £2.99

More than anything, young Ho Yi wishes to become a Sun Dragon Rider, the courageous human guardians of the magnificent beasts that roam the sky and keep watch over the land.

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Books and Bone

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The family business is raising the dead; Ree has other ambitions. She's going to resurrect the ancient magic of shapeshifting, but might doom her necromantic hometown in the process.

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The Devil's Revolver

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She is Hettie Alabama — unlikely, scarred, single-minded, and blood bound to a revolver inhabited by a demon!

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Becoming Crone

by 6 hours £4.99 Book 1/4

Divorced, menopausal grandmothers with creaky hips and hot flashes don't just randomly discover they're next in a long line of powerful women protecting the world from the dark magick of Mages.

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The Last Words of Madeleine Anderson

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Gabrielle has deliberately made an innocuous and mundane life for herself. But 20 years after her one and only brilliant novel was published, her secrets are in danger of being exposed.

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R/evolution

by 3 hours £3.99 Book 1/2

In the near-future US the struggle for survival pushes citizens to breaking point as relationships fracture along lines of class and race.

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The Town

by 4 hours £2.99

Kate knows what she saw on the satellite footage: the burnt out remains of a town. But she was drunk, the evidence is gone and nobody believes it was ever there.

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Empire's Daughter

by 10 hours £4.99 Book 1/7

An Emperor's request. A lover's refusal. And a young woman who must choose between them. Every journey begins with a choice.

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