Engine Summer (Crowley John)(Paperback / softback)

Engine Summer (Crowley John)(Paperback / softback)

In the drowsy tranquility of Little Belaire, the Truthful Speakers lead lives of peaceful self-sufficiency ignoring the depopulated wilderness beyond their narrow borders. It is a society untouched by pain or violence and the self-destroying 'Angels' of the past are barely remembered. But when Rush

Little, Big (Crowley John)(Paperback / softback)

Edgewood is many houses, all put inside each other, or across each other. It's filled with and surrounded by mystery and enchantment: the further in you go, the bigger it gets.Smoky Barnable, who has fallen in love with Daily Alice Drinkwater, comes to Edgewood, her family home, where he finds

The Deep - John Crowley

For many generations the Just have been at war with the Protectors. In their strange world, supported by a huge pillar poised in the vast and mysterious Deep, ritual bloodshed and sorcery have obsessed the inhabitants since the beginning of time.Half human, half machine, sexless and hairless, the

Centauri Device (Harrison M. John)(Paperback / softback)

John Truck was to outward appearances just another lowlife spaceship captain. But he was also the last of the Centaurans - or at least, half of him was - which meant that he was the only person who could operate the Centauri Device, a sentient bomb which might hold the key to settling a vicious

Get Shorty - Leonard Elmore

A major Hollywood film starring John Travolta, GET SHORTY has also been adapted for TV with Chris O'Dowd and Ray Romano. Miami loan shark Chili Palmer is ice-cool, whether he's retrieving stolen property or collecting money for the mob. Chasing a bad debt leads him to the bright lights of Hollywood

Complete Roderick (Sladek John)(Paperback / softback)

Roderick is a robot and this is his autobiography. Sladek conveys, with great sensitivity and insight the innocence of an artificial intelligence and asks profound questions about mankind's right to manipulate others. It also portrays how a numerological mind might structure a narrative.Inventive,

Stand On Zanzibar (Brunner John)(Paperback / softback)

There are seven billion-plus humans crowding the surface of 21st-century Earth. It is an age of intelligent computers, mass-market psychedelic drugs, politics conducted by assassination, scientists who burn incense to appease volcanoes ... all the hysteria of a dangerously overcrowded world,

Foxglove Summer - The Fifth Rivers of London novel (Aaronovitch Ben)(Paperback / softback)

The fifth of the Sunday Times Bestselling series sees PC Grant looking for missing children. And missing London.In the fifth of his bestselling series Ben Aaronovitch takes Peter Grant out of whatever comfort zone he might have found and takes him out of London - to a small village in Herefordshire

Green Mile (King Stephen)(Paperback / softback)

Stephen King's international bestselling and highly acclaimed novel, also a hugely successful film starring Tom Hanks The Green Mile: those who walk it do not return, because at the end of that walk is the room in which sits Cold Mountain penitentiary's electric chair. In 1932 the newest resident

The Cartographers - Peng Shepherd

Deepness in the Sky (Vinge Vernor)(Paperback / softback)

This is science fiction on the grandest of scales - a cast of thousands set across hundreds of years and in the farthest reaches of Human Space. A prequel to his earlier novel A Fire Upon the Deep, this new novel is epic in scope and a thoroughly riveting read.A Deepness In the Sky is the story of

Nevermoor - The Trials of Morrigan Crow Book 1 (Townsend Jessica)(Paperback / softback)

International bestselling new series. Enter the Wundrous world of Morrigan Crow and Nevermoor - the most fantastical children's series of the year.'Exciting, mysterious, marvellous and magical ... quite simply one of the best children's books I've read in years' - Robin Stevens, author of Murder

Blue : A Memoir - Keeping the Peace and Falling to Pieces - Sutherland John

A searingly honest memoir of life, policing and falling apart 'Every contact leaves a trace' John Sutherland joined the Met in 1992, having dreamed of being a police officer since his teens. Rising quickly through the ranks, and compelled by the opportunity to make a real difference to people's

Jem - Frederik Pohl

A cynical and compelling tale of politics, exploitation and colonisation on another planetThe discovery of another habitable world might spell salvation to the three bitterly competing power blocs of the resource-starved 21st century; but when their representatives arrive on Jem, with its multiple

Together (Cohen Julie)(Paperback)

RICHARD AND JUDY SUMMER BOOK CLUB PICK 2018'This big, clever, tender and twisty love story reminded me of One Day & The Time Traveler's Wife' Erin Kelly, author of He Said, She Said **** Robbie and Emily they have been together for decades. Now, their joints are creaking and their eyesight is

The Ultimate Discworld Companion - Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs, Paul Kidby

The absolute, comprehensive, from Tiffany Aching to Jack Zweiblumen guide to all things Discworld, fully illustrated by Paul Kidby. The Discworld, as everyone knows, is a flat world balanced on the back of four elephants which, in turn, stand on the shell of the giant star turtle, the Great A'Tuin,

Martian Time-Slip - Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick is the bestselling author of MINORITY REPORT and BLADE RUNNER

Revelation Space : The breath-taking space opera masterpiece - Alastair Reynolds

Nine hundred thousand years ago, something wiped out the Amarantin. For the human colonists now settling the Amarantin homeworld Resurgam, it's of little more than academic interest, even after the discovery of a long-hidden, almost perfect Amarantin city and a colossal statue of a winged

Built to Move - Kelly Starrett, Juliet Starrett

Introducing the ten practices that will help you live a longer, healthier life

Ammonite - Nicola Griffith

The James Tiptree Jr Award-winning novel.Change or die. These are the only options available on the planet Jeep. Centuries earlier, a deadly virus shattered the original colony, killing the men and forever altering the few surviving women. Now, generations after the colony has lost touch with the

Floating Worlds - Cecelia Hollandová

The Styths, a powerful and aggressive mutant race from the Gas Planets, Uranus and Saturn, have been launching pirate raids on ships from Mars. Earth's Committee for the Revolution has been asked to mediate, to negotiate a truce between the Middle Planets and the Styth Empire. The task of

Plutoshine (anglicky) - Lucy Kissick

Terraforming - the megascale-engineering of a planet's surface to one more Earth-like - is now commonplace across the Solar System, and Pluto's is set to be the most ambitious transformation yet. Four billion miles from the Sun and two hundred degrees below zero, what this worldlet needs is light

Magnolia Parks - Jessa Hastings

Downward To The Earth - Robert Silverberg

One man must make a journey across a once colonised alien planet. Abandoned by man when it was discovered that the species there were actually sentient, the planet is now a place of mystery. A mystery that obsesses the lone traveller Gundersen and takes him on a long trek to attempt to share the