Blurb “The princess isn’t supposed to fall for an evil sorceress.” Once upon a time, there was a wicked fairy who cursed a line of princesses to die, and could only be broken by true love’s kiss. You’ve heard this before, haven’t you? The handsome prince. The happily-ever-after. Utter nonsense. Let me tell you, no
Blurb A Curse So Dark and Lonely is a contemporary fantasy retelling of Beauty and the Beast. We follow both Prince Rhen, the cursed prince of Emberfall, and Harper, a troubled teenager from Washington DC. When Harper tries to save a young girl from being attacked by a man in an alleyway one night, she
Blurb Generations ago, humans fled to the cosmic anomaly known as Grass. But before humanity arrived, another species had already claimed Grass for its own. It too had developed a culture… Now a deadly plague is spreading across the stars, leaving no planet untouched, save for Grass. But the secret of the planet’s immunity hides
Blurb They made me kill thousands, but I only have one target now. The Radch are conquerors to be feared – resist and they’ll turn you into a ‘corpse soldier’ – one of any army of dead prisoners animated by a warship’s AI mind. Whole planets are conquered by their own people. The colossal warship
Blurb The narrator of this riveting novel calls himself Snowman. When the story opens, he’s sleeping in a tree, wearing an old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. As he tries to piece together what has taken place, the narrative shifts to decades
Blurb Fitz has been persuaded back to court, posing as a servant to the decadent Lord Golden (who is the Fool in disguise). In secret, he will train Prince Dutiful in the magic known as the Skill. The peace remains fragile, so the diplomatic wedding between Dutiful and the Outislander princess is a crucial alliance.
Blurb History set her fate in stone… Murderer. Mercenary. Temptress. Trickster. Traitor. Thief. But under a hammer that falls like thunder, stone will always shatter. So with her voice she lights the forge. The Voyage of Freydis sings the silenced tale of Freydis Eirksdottir, the first and only woman to lead a Viking voyage across
Blurb Cassandra stands silent upon a ravaged battlefield, watching as the druids prepare the dead for the pyres, embers drifting up into the still winter darkness. She can barely breathe through the agony of her grief, but she cannot waste another second on tears. Because Londinium, the Caesar, the empire…all of it is still out
Blurb The emperor’s reign has lasted for decades, his mastery of bone shard magic powering the animal-like constructs that maintain law and order. But now his rule is failing and revolution is sweeping across the Empire’s many islands. Lin is the emperor’s daughter and spends her days trapped in a palace of locked doors and
Blurb Deka lives in fear of the blood ceremony that will determine whether she can become a member of her village. If she bleeds red, she will belong. But on the day of the ceremony, her blood runs gold – the colour of impurity, of a demon. The consequences force Deka to leave her village