Item category 1: Fantasy Paperback

Unlike cats, bluebears have 27 lives, which can be very handy when one considers the manner in which the hero of this story repeatedly manages to avoid death only by a paw's breadth. The story describes Captain Bluebear's first 13 and a half lives.

The story begins in the most boring place in the world: Chickentown USA. There lives Candy Quackenbush, her heart bursting for some clue as to what her future might hold. When the answer comes, it's not one she expects.

Orannis, the Destroyer, has been freed from its subterranean prison and now seeks to unleash its terrible powers. Only Lirael, Abhorsen-in-Waiting, has any chance of stopping it. As she and her companions set out on their fated journey, Lirael has no idea of what lies ahead.

After their heroic efforts to safeguard the Acropolis and prevent the Paris Time-Stop, the Time Police have gone from zero to hero in but a single bound. Then one fateful mission to apprehend a minor criminal selling dodgy historical artefacts blows up in all their faces. An officer is attacked w...

Taryn Cornick believes her sister Bea was deliberately run down and killed. She believes it so hard she allows a man called the Muleskinner to exact the justice Bea was denied. An eye for an eye. Which is when Taryn's problems really begin. Because the police suspect Taryn's involvement in the de...

Candy's adventures in the amazing world of the Abarat are getting more strange by the hour. Christopher Carrion, the Lord of Midnight, has sent his henchmen to capture her. What would Carrion want with a girl from Minnesota? And why is Candy beginning to feel that the world of the Abarat is famil...

Ruling from his palace on the idyllic island of Acacia, the emperor of the Known World, has inherited generations of peace and prosperity established by his ancestors. He's an intelligent man, a widower who dotes on his four children and it is this devotion that obliges him to hide a terrible sec...

Khorii, the rebellious daughter of the near-mythic Acorna & her lifemate, Aari, has followed in Acorna's footsteps leading their people from danger. For the deadly foe that has ravaged the known world & weakened even her famous parents has launched its final assault, & only Khorii & her sister, A...

Mumbai, 2010. Everyone's talking about 'Swayamvara Live!' This brand-new TV reality show is recreating the age-old custom whereby young men compete for the hand of a noble bride. In this case, the bride is Bollywood stunner Sunita Ashoka, who's pledged to marry the man who wins the on-screen cont...