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A task she cannot refuse. A land that holds secrets. And a man Lena doesn't know if she can trust.

Xiao Xiao dreams an ominous dream of a terrible creature, the Nian. Half lion, half dragon, half everything, it threatens all she loves.

When only one series of an accidentally planet-destroying starship and her rag-tag crew just isn't enough. The Fermi returns!

As the Eastern Empire falls, Gwenna wrestles with a precarious legacy: her father's vision of an alliance among Ésparias, Linrathe and Varsland.

In 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.

How many secrets does your family have? And how high the price of peace?

More 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.

The Fermi is Earth's first and last faster-than-light-spaceship. The last, because its engine vaporise entire star systems in its wake. And nobody knows how to turn it off.

Over a century after being gifted with genetic adaptations, William Woods still walks the earth, as healthy as ever. The country, however, is not so fortunate.

In the near-future US the struggle for survival pushes citizens to breaking point as relationships fracture along lines of class and race.

Fermi's crew, the last surviving members of the human race, now find themselves circling an ancient Dyson sphere in a distant corner of the galaxy, where they must explore a city of ships and negotiate with a vast, lonely AI for their survival.

A 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.

An ambitious young mediator must confront a terrifying presence haunting her telelink, as a deadly Artificial Intelligence schemes to steal human souls.

In a small room in the Quad cinema in Derby during Edge-Lit 2024, eight people conceived of, plotted and wrote an entire murder mystery story.

A country on the brink of defeat. A woman who answers a call to arms. A man to challenge an Empire.

Gabrielle 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.

When a rescue mission goes wrong, two of the Fermi's crew are stranded on an enormous alien beehive floating in the atmosphere of a gas giant. But something else has made its way back to the ship.

Siân and Madoc have borrowed heavily to buy a neglected farm in Cumbria. They are land-rich now, but indebted not only to the bank but to their family.

Months into a long voyage to a mysterious and terrifying destination, the Fermi’s crew share stories of the most bone chilling planets they have ever visited (and destroyed).

This 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 Greater Galactic Commercial Network's time-warping communication system spans the cosmos. It's the Fermi's first hint of finding a trans-stellar civilisation. It offers them hope. It might even offer the chance to save a world. Just not this world.

Seeking an alien device, the Fermi arrive at a forest moon in the aftermath of an ancient and devastating war. Except that there shouldn’t be any such thing as a “forest moon”, and there is no visible sign of the war…

The complete omnibus edition of the Dragon Sisters magical Chinese fantasy series. Includes all three exciting Qing-China inspired tales.

It's Christmas onboard the fastest and deadliest ship in the universe.

Enter 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?

Can a musician heal, when a physician cannot? Can Sorley's music convince the gods to spare a life – and if so, at what cost?

In a place it should never have gone, the Fermi’s crew encounters a mysterious artefact, an adversary they cannot hope to beat, and face a series of terrible choices. But to make things worse, YOU will be the one making them…

When Justice Analyst, Haz Edmundson, discovers the body of an activist who crashed through a warehouse roof cocooned in a wingsuit, he's convinced it's murder.

Three years into their planet-busting interstellar voyage, the Fermi crew relax with a tabletop RPG about ordinary life on Earth. Only nobody can remember when they sat down to play. And the stakes might be higher than they realise.

Druisius, the son of a merchant, is sixteen when an order from his father that he can neither forgive nor forget drives him from home and into the danger and intrigue of the military.

How do you find out the truth in a world where the concept no longer applies?

This 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.

In an attempt to start her life over, Kate Lawson stumbles into a world of ghosts, a missing girl, and an unsolved murder.

She is Hettie Alabama — unlikely, scarred, single-minded, and blood bound to a revolver inhabited by a demon!

An 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.

In the near-future US the struggle for survival pushes citizens to breaking point as relationships fracture along lines of class and race.

The 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...

It 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.

A collection of fantasy tales from the necromancer haven of Tombtown, by the author of the chilling and lovely Books and Bone.

Becca Thornton, divorced, middle-aged and trying to embrace her quiet existence, is surprised when her menopause comes with bonus lycanthropy.

Some games are played for mortal stakes.

Heledd, leader of the first violins, has been in love with her irrepressible conductor Rosemary for years. But Heledd has a secret.

Crash's job has never been easy. The species that built these hollow cities she explores, these eerie facilities, was annihilated in some great catastrophe, millennia ago. Swallowed by something that still haunts the empty places.

Inayat 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.

A task she cannot refuse. A land that holds secrets. And a man Lena doesn't know if she can trust.

The 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.

An Emperor's request. A lover's refusal. And a young woman who must choose between them. Every journey begins with a choice.

The Fermi arrives at a planet where sentient fungus is sheltering from a very different kind of zombie apocalypse. As they look for supplies, the crew discover something that will challenge their idea of what it is to be human.

Cinrak 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.

Kate 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.