Speculative fiction
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A short history of the apocalypse
£22.00A short history of the apocalypse
Covering subjects from gangs and government to bunkers and cannibalism, ‘A Short History of the Apocalypse’ is a journey into our impending and doomed future. Guided by Alonso Lamp, a traveller in time, who has returned from the late 21st century to impart to our cursed age his hard-earned wisdom and survival tips to give us some future perspective, Frankie Boyle and Charlie Skelton’s sketching of the end times is full of dark humour and the macabre.
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Before we forget kindness
£14.99Before we forget kindness
The fifth book in the spectacular Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, with a fresh bunch of customers in a special Tokyo cafe hoping to go back in time.
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Daughter of the moon goddess
£9.99Daughter of the moon goddess
The bestselling debut fantasy inspired by the legend of the Chinese moon goddess.
A young woman’s quest to free her mother pits her against the most powerful immortal in the realm, setting her on a dangerous path where those she loves are not the only ones at risk?
*THE INSTANT TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*
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Farmer Giles of Ham
£8.99Farmer Giles of Ham
A commemorative 75th anniversary edition of Tolkien’s classic book, including a revised introduction, a map, a copy of Tolkien’s unpublished short story which he expanded for publication, his notes for an aborted sequel, and the original first edition illustrations by Pauline Baynes.
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House of leaves
£40.00House of leaves
A young couple – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Will Navidson and his partner Karen Green – move into a small home on Ash Tree Lane. But something is terribly wrong – their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Neither Will nor Karen are prepared to face the consequences of this impossibility. What happens next is loosely recorded on videotapes and interviews, leading to a compilation of the definitive work on the events on Ash Tree Lane, unveiling a thrilling and terrifying history.
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Light over Liskeard
£9.99Light over Liskeard
Q wants a simpler and safer life. His work as a quantum cryptographer for the government has led him to believe a crisis is imminent for civilisation and he’s looking for somewhere to ride out what’s ahead. He buys a ruined farmhouse in Cornwall and begins to build his own self-sufficient haven. Over the course of this quest he meets the eccentric characters who already live on the moors nearby – including the park ranger in charge of the reintroduced lynxes and aurochs that roam the area; a holy man waiting for the second coming on top of a nearby hill; an Arthurian knight on horseback and the amorous ghost of an Edwardian woman who haunts the farmhouse. As life in the cities gets more complicated, and our systems of electronic control begin to fall apart, Q flourishes in the wild Cornish countryside.
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Piranesi
£11.99Piranesi
Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has. In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder up staircases, the clouds that move in slow procession through the upper halls. On Tuesdays and Fridays Piranesi sees his friend, the Other. At other times he brings tributes of food and waterlilies to the Dead. But mostly, he is alone. Messages begin to appear, scratched out in chalk on the pavements. There is someone new in the House. But who are they and what do they want? Are they a friend or do they bring destruction and madness as the Other claims? Lost texts must be found; secrets must be uncovered. The world that Piranesi thought he knew is becoming strange and dangerous.
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Sunbringer
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The book that wouldn’t burn
£9.99The book that wouldn’t burn
All books, no matter their binding, will fall to dust. The stories they carry may last longer. They might outlive the paper, the library, even the language in which they were first written.
The greatest story can reach the stars . . .
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The Fellowship of the Ring
£16.99The Fellowship of the Ring
Special unjacketed hardback edition of the first part of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings. This edition features the complete story with a unique cover design embellished with gold foil and the iconic maps of Middle-earth appearing in red and black as endpapers.
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The future
£9.99The future
‘Gripping’ MARGARET ATWOOD
‘A fabulous, witty writer on the digital world’ SUNDAY TIMES
‘A little Atwood, a little Gibson, all Alderman, it’s brilliant and I loved it’ LAUREN BEUKES
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The last murder at the end of the world
£9.99The last murder at the end of the world
On a seemingly idyllic island surrounded by the poisonous fog that wiped out the rest of the world, an isolated group of villagers must solve a murder which no one can remember to keep the fog from engulfing them all.
A dazzlingly original murder mystery from the author of the bestselling The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle.
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