Non-Secondhand Books

When Rab was a baby, his mother made a decision which would change his life. She feared he would be sent to work in the hellish mines of Mercury, to...

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...

A return to the water-bound world of Spatterjay, teeming with bizarre characters and gruesome monsters Sable Keech is a walking dead man. Was he resurrected because he was infected by...

The daring and electrifying book that inspired one of the most notorious films ever made 'What we were after was lashings of ultraviolence' In this nightmare vision of youth in...

'My favourite kind of grand space opera' BEN AARONOVITCH She's searching for the emperor who stole her sister. He's searching for the prince who stole his heart. The entire universe...

During the Decade of Plagues, pandemics brought civilization to a standstill. The only way out was the Aspis chip: a wearable mRNA vaccine factory, able to immunize you against new...

'VISCERAL . . . IRRESISTIBLE . . . a claustrophobic, deep-sea terror tale that will leave readers glad to be safely on dry land' Kirkus NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR...

SOME AGENTS HAVE ALL THE FUN. OTHERS SAVE THE WORLD. Bob Howard is an IT expert and occasional field agent for The Laundry, the branch of Her Majesty's Secret Service...

A gripping, terrifying road trip through the heat of the post-apocalyptic American desert from the author of Netflix's The Silence. This action-packed and thought-provoking eco-nightmare will appeal to fans of...

Wakenhyrst meets du Maurier in South America, based on the author's time spent living in Brazil. Las Lgrimas takes the classic trope of a rattling English country house and transposes...

A claustrophobic, literary dystopia set in the hot, luscious landscape of Andalusia from the author of The Golden Key. After the ravages of global warming, this is place of deep...

Named as one of '50 Writers You Should Read Now' by The Guardian . A mind-bending short-story collection from award-winning science fiction author Nina Allan. A collection of short stories...

Named as one of '50 Writers You Should Read Now' by The Guardian . A mind-bending short-story collection from award-winning science fiction author Nina Allan. A collection of short stories...

From Philip K. Dick Award-nominated author M.T. Hill, The Zero Bomb is a startling science fiction mystery that asks: what do we do when technology replaces our need to work?...

Ages 12 to 18 years Stella Ainsley leaves poverty behind when she quits her engineering job aboard the Stalwart to become a governess on a private ship. On the Rochester...

Aliens came to Earth forty years ago. Their anatomy proved unfathomable and all attempts at communication failed. But through trade, humanity gained technology that allowed them to colonise the stars....

Part one of a thrilling action-adventure sci-fi duology featuring indomitable characters, incredible worlds, and plenty of rip-roaring action and thrills that follows on from Darwin Elevator, Exodus Tower & Plague...

Seven years after Thomas returned as a Walkin', the McDermott family are looking for a new life and Thomas has set his heart on starting a farmstead near the remote...

During the Decade of Plagues, pandemics brought civilization to a standstill. The only way out was the Aspis chip: a wearable mRNA vaccine factory, able to immunize you against new...

When Rab was a baby, his mother made a decision which would change his life. She feared he would be sent to work in the hellish mines of Mercury, to...

In Yalda's universe, light has mass, no universal speed and its creation generates energy; on Yalda's world, plants make food by emitting light into the dark night sky. And time...

An all-new novel based upon the acclaimed Star Trek TV series! Captain Michael Burnham and the crew of the USS Discovery are finding that each day is a critical adjustment...

An all-new novel based upon the acclaimed Star Trek TV series! Captain Michael Burnham and the crew of the USS Discovery are finding that each day is a critical adjustment...

Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author and guest editor Rebecca Roanhorse and series editor John Joseph Adams select twenty pieces that represent the best examples of the form published the...

A razor-sharp and beautifully heart-rending reimagining of a classic from #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth. Outside the last city on Earth, the planet is a wasteland. Without...

Corta Helio, one of the five family corporations that rule the Moon, has fallen. Its riches are divided up among its many enemies, its survivors scattered. Eighteen months have passed....

Corta Helio, one of the five family corporations that rule the Moon, has fallen. Its riches are divided up among its many enemies, its survivors scattered. Eighteen months have passed....

Six years ago, Laura McCaffrey's three-year-old daughter Melanie was kidnapped by Laura's estranged husband, Dylan, and seemingly vanished from the face of the earth. Now, Melanie has been found, a...

Jean le Flambeur is out of prison, but still not free. To pay his debts he has to break into the mind of a living god. But when the stakes...

'Brisk, ironic and relentlessly imaginative. These are not your mother's vampire novels' Boston Globe Born the beautiful daughter of a poor cobbler, Valynda Moore learned early in life that beauty...

Count Sessine is about to die for the very last time ... Chief Scientist Gadfium is about to receive the mysterious message she has been waiting for from the Plain...

Araldis is still under occupation by hostile forces, and with the Orion League of Sentient Species seemingly unable - or unwilling - to help, Mira Fedor is forced to turn...

When confiscated genestock is stolen out of secure government quarantine, DI Sharon Varsi finds herself on the biggest case of her career: chasing down a clever thief, a mysterious hacker,...

In 1946, an alien virus that rewrites human DNA was accidentally unleashed in the skies over New York City. It killed ninety percent of those it infected. Nine percent of...

Our continued existence was never a given. We've always wanted to know our destiny. But when the end seems in sight, how will the world react? An alien artefact plucked...

Good is a construct. Evil is a virus. The Starship Sa Niro and the Starship S Oubliette were in orbit around a black hole, one afternoon... by the end of...

From the Costa-Winning, Women's Prize-shortlisted author of Unsettled Ground- a gripping, haunting novel about memory, love and survival, for readers of Never Let me Go and Leave the World Behind...

A generation after a global plague depletes humanity and divides the world, Jenn and Mykol are brought together by a mysterious project and uncover a secret that changes everything they...

The New York Times bestselling sequel to Wicked , the multimillion-copy bestseller and basis for the Tony Award-winning hit musical, soon to be a major motion picture starring Cynthia Erivo...

A naive divorced mother of two faces the darkest parts of herself in this heart-stopping thriller from the author of USA Today bestseller, The Girl With All the Gifts ....

the timekeeper Demons burst through the Star Gate to invade tencendor, destroying the Gate and the magic of the StarDance in the process. terrifying and cruel, they have come with...

Those with the gift have the power One stormy night, three princesses are born. As each baby is placed into her mother's arms, so the Archimage Binah bestows on her...

The cause of freedom in Kentucky balances on a knife-edge. Major Valentine and his fugitive battalion are all that is left of a expeditionary force shattered in its long retreat...

It's 2075 and the fight to liberate Earth from the mysterious Kurians continues in the grim seventh 'Vampire Earth' episode (after 'Valentine's Resolve'). Freedom fighter David Stuart Valentine is determined...

Mythmakers and world builders of the first order, David and Leigh Eddings spin tales that make imaginations soar. Readers have thrilled to The Belgariad and The Mallorean, magic-filled masterworks chronicling...

Humanity's survival is still at risk, but now there is new hope in the form of male twins born to a high priestess and a dragon. These two hold the...

'Pure pleasure' THE TIMES 'Compelling' GUARDIAN 'Incredibly well written . . . I really enjoyed it' MARIAN KEYES 'One of the most sophisticated works of science fiction I've read recently'...