Welcome our massive new historical fantasy series, Empire's Legacy!
Marian L. Thorpe's epic 7-book award-winning historical fantasy comes to Scarlet Ferret, with stunning extras and a huge Season Pass saving!
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Empire's Reckoning
9 hours £4.99 Book 5/7How many secrets does your family have? And how high the price of peace?
Oraiáphon
4 hours £2.99 Book 4/7Can a musician heal, when a physician cannot? Can Sorley's music convince the gods to spare a life – and if so, at what cost?
Empire's Exile
12 hours £4.99 Book 3/7A 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 Book of Were-Wolves
5 hours £2.99With the shocking histories of 10 famous cases, this classic blends science, superstition, and fiction to tell the full story of the werewolves among us.
The Town
4 hours £2.99Kate 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.
Oraiáphon
4 hours £2.99 Book 4/7Can a musician heal, when a physician cannot? Can Sorley's music convince the gods to spare a life – and if so, at what cost?
The Devil's Revolver
8 hours £4.99She is Hettie Alabama — unlikely, scarred, single-minded, and blood bound to a revolver inhabited by a demon!
Empire's Legacy - Season Pass
50 hours Season Pass £25.00 All 7 booksA country on the brink of defeat. A woman who answers a call to arms. A man to challenge an Empire.
Empire's Reckoning
9 hours £4.99 Book 5/7How many secrets does your family have? And how high the price of peace?
A Gathering of Crones
6 hours £4.99 Book 2/4Can Claire harness her powers in time to help her fellow Crones defeat the mages—or will her efforts bring even greater disaster?
Fermi's Progress: Planet of the Apiaries
2 hours £2.99 Book 3/4The 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.
Empire's Daughter
10 hours £4.99 Book 1/7An Emperor's request. A lover's refusal. And a young woman who must choose between them. Every journey begins with a choice.
Silver Moon
7 hours £4.99 Book 1/2Becca 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.
The Witches of Greasy Creek
7 hours £4.99In an attempt to start her life over, Kate Lawson stumbles into a world of ghosts, a missing girl, and an unsolved murder.
Sinful Folk
9 hours £4.99In 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.
Fermi's Progress: Descartesmageddon
3 hours £2.99 Book 2/4The 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.
A Duet for Invisible Strings
2 hours £2.99Heledd, leader of the first violins, has been in love with her irrepressible conductor Rosemary for years. But Heledd has a secret.
The Last Words of Madeleine Anderson
7 hours £4.99Gabrielle 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.
Folklore 101
5 hours £7.50This 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.
The Year We Lived
10 hours £4.99It 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.
Books and Bone
8 hours £3.99The 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.
A Bagful of Dragon
8 hours £4.99Inayat 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.
Airedale
10 hours £4.99When 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?
Fermi's Progress: The Phone Job
5 hours £2.99 Book 4/4The 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.
R/evolution
3 hours £3.99 Book 1/2In the near-future US the struggle for survival pushes citizens to breaking point as relationships fracture along lines of class and race.
Sun Dragon's Song
2 hours £2.99More 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.
Fermi's Progress: Dyson's Fear
3 hours £2.99 Book 1/4The 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.
Empire's Exile
12 hours £4.99 Book 3/7A task she cannot refuse. A land that holds secrets. And a man Lena doesn't know if she can trust.
Outermen
8 hours £4.99An 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.
Evolution
5 hours £4.99 Book 2/2Over 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.
Dragon Sisters
2 hours £3.99 Book 1/2Enter 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?
Rep War - Season Pass
8 hours Season Pass £6.99 Both booksIn the near-future US the struggle for survival pushes citizens to breaking point as relationships fracture along lines of class and race.
Pearl of the Palace
An hour £2.99 Book 2/2Xiao Xiao dreams an ominous dream of a terrible creature, the Nian. Half lion, half dragon, half everything, it threatens all she loves.
Game of Crones
6 hours £4.99 Book 3/4Can Claire unleash her full powers in time to save her companions—and the world?
The Naseby Horses
6 hours £4.99A 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.
In the Sweep of the Bay
2 hours £2.99This 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.
Empire's Hostage
8 hours £4.99 Book 2/7A task she cannot refuse. A land that holds secrets. And a man Lena doesn't know if she can trust.
The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper
3 hours £2.99Cinrak 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.
Becoming Crone
6 hours £4.99 Book 1/4Divorced, 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.
The Crone Wars - Season Pass
17 hours Season Pass £14.99 All 4 booksDivorced, 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.
Tombtown Tales
2 hours Bundle £4.50A collection of fantasy tales from the necromancer haven of Tombtown, by the author of the chilling and lovely Books and Bone.
Fermi's Progress - Season Pass
13 hours Season Pass £8.99 All 4 booksThe 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.
The Complete Dragon Sisters
3 hours £4.99The complete omnibus edition of the Dragon Sisters magical Chinese fantasy series. Includes all three exciting Qing-China inspired tales.
Flora and Jim
3 hours £3.99The 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...
Arachne
7 hours £4.99An 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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News and updates about Scarlet Ferret, our ebooks and authors.
Interzone comes to Scarlet Ferret!
In what can only be described as a coup for Scarlet Ferret, Interzone magazine is bringing its own Special Edition science fiction to our independent bookshop.
Enjoy Fermi's Progress in a new Omnibus Edition
Reduce time between jumps with the new addition to the Fermi's Progress Season Pass by Chris Farnell - the complete ebook edition of all four novellas.
Folklore Students Travel in West Virginia to Preserve Stories, Tradition
Retelling and saving all kinds of different folklore matters. Even though many conversations focused on stories of the past, these types of stories can teach people important lessons for the future.
The West Virginian Keeping Appalachian History Alive Through Storytelling
In Appalachia, storytelling and folklore has served as an important tool and perpetual reminder of who and what makes up the region's history.
If we Promised Them Aught, Let us Keep Our Promise
In 1284, Hamburg was ravaged by fire. Was it an accident? Or one man's revenge?
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Welcome to the Crone Wars!
How many witches is too much? Find out in Lydia M. Hawke's fantastic 4-part Crone Wars series, with our Special Edition ebooks.
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An accessible introduction to folklore studies
When's the last time you got to pick a folklorist's brain? Did you know memes count as folklore? Or that folklorists assign numbers to fairy tales to keep track of them all? Folklore 101 by Dr. Jeana Jorgensen has all the answers.