Item category 1: Fantasy Paperback

Scree has been wiped from the face of the Land in a brutal demonstration of power - yet even before the fires that destroyed the city have died away to embers, the stakes have been raised to the heavens. The Gods themselves enter the fray.

When Al Jeery is seconded by The Cardinal from guard duties at Party Central to investigate the murder of a woman at a hotel he little suspects that the dead woman will turn out to be his girlfriend. Soon he is involved in a terrifying mystery.

16-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. But Katniss has been close to death before and survival, for her, is second nature.

What seems to be a straightforward job turns out to be anything but for magical hound Allie, as she finds herself dragged in a mysterious criminal underworld.

On the day the world ends, Mau is on his way home from the Boys' Island. Then the wave comes - a huge wave, dragging black night behind it and bringing a schooner which sails over and through the island rainforest. The village has gone. Now there's just Mau, a trouserman girl, and an awful lot of...

Eugenie Markham is a shaman for hire, paid to bind and banish creatures from the Other world. But after her last battle, she's also become queen of the Thorn Land. It's hardly an envious life, and that was before young girls started disappearing from the Other world. No-one, except Eugenie, seems...

Naomi Novik's series of novels follow the adventures of Captain Will Laurence and his dragon, Temeraire. Here, Napoleon's forces have landed in southern England, with their prime objective the occupation of London.

When the Republic of Cinnabar doesn't have enough battleships to deal with all the crises in its war with the Alliance, it sends the next best thing: Commander Daniel Leary and his friend, the spy Adele Mundy.

Springtime in Styria, that means war. There have been 19 years of blood. The ruthless Grand Duke Orso is locked in a vicious struggle with the squabbling League of Eight, and between them they have bled the land white. While armies march, heads roll and cities burn, behind the scenes darker power...