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The Poet Empress (Hardcover)

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RRP £20.00

House of the azalea, where thorn meets bud;

Brother betrays brother, blood forgets blood.

Young rice farmer Yin Wei was forced to become concubine to Prince Guan Terren - a monstrous wielder of poetry magic, and heir to the Azalea throne - to save her family from the famine blighting the land of Tensha.

A Testimony Of Blood

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‘A bird in a cage may be safe but it will know no peace until it can fly. After all that we have seen, all that we have lost, I believe that the time to dance has come. We’ve hidden long enough.’

The Legacy Of Heroes (Hardcover)

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RRP £18.99

‘My favourite kind of grand space opera’

BEN AARONOVITCH

Three heroes. Two love stories. One prophecy.

An empire brought to ruin.

A legend destined to repeat.

A legacy of inexorable revolution…

This is where it ends. This is where it starts.

The Order of Legends trilogy is a centuries-spanning adventure unmissable for fans of the spacefaring found family of Becky Chambers, the magical London of V. E. Schwab, and the epic climate-craft of N. K. Jemisin.

Kingdom Of Claw

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Return to the Kingdom of Íseldur in Kingdom of Claw, a Viking-inspired romantasy where enemies become lovers and dark secrets hide around every corner…

Silla Nordvig survived the Road of Bones. In the aftermath of her journey, her dreams of a simple life have been shattered. Beaten, betrayed, and reeling from the revelation of her true name, she flees Kopa with Reynir Galtung, ruthless leader of the Bloodaxe Crew. But Silla soon discovers Rey has been keeping secrets of his own, and they’re forced into hiding together.

The Hymn To Dionysus

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A timely and timeless reimagining of the story of Dionysus, Greek God of ecstasy and madness, revelry and ruin, for readers of The Song of Achilles and Elektra.

Raised in a Greek legion, Phaidros has been taught to fight for the homeland he’s never seen and to follow his commander’s orders at all costs. But when he rescues a baby from a fire at Thebes’s palace, his commander’s orders cease to make sense: Phaidros is forced to abandon the blue-eyed boy at a temple, and to keep the baby’s existence a secret.

Ghosts Of Ethuran: Book 2: City Of Jackals

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Kavi is unique - ‘blessed’ by the jinn, capable of terrible magical feats - and she has made it her mission to build a better future for her people, who have lived as outcasts for decades. That future looks closer than ever when Kavi assumes control of the unassuming Imperial Rickshaw Company.

Until it is brutally taken away from her by the notorious mobster Grishan, a man more dangerous than Kavi could ever expect.

Warhammer 40K: Fulgrim: The Perfect Son

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For too long the Emperor’s Children have been denied their birthright. Their once-glorious Legion has been fractured into disparate warbands, condemned to ravage world after futile world in the pursuit of ambition and excess. But no longer.

Lord Fulgrim – ascended Primarch of the III Legion, the Perfect Son, the Emperor-in-Waiting – has issued a challenge to his scattered warriors: vanquish the Imperial world of Crucible, and bring him the head of the Black Templar charged with its defence.

Marvel: Black, White & Blood & Guts #3 (Paco Medina Variant)

£12

ANOTHER EPIC INSTALLMENT OF HORROR! FIRST! Taboo and B. Earl join forces with industry legend LUKE ROSS to tell a Blade tale unlike any other, as the Dauntless Daywalker faces down a bloodthirsty and heretofore forgotten QUEEN OF MONSTERS! THEN!

Your new favorite creative team GARY MOLONEY and BALDEMAR RIVAS join forces to attempt the impossible…THE RESURRECTIONS OF THE HIT-MONKEY’S HITMAN! Longtime simian-centric readers know this one’s bound to cut deep! And if you don’t get the reference, what’re you waiting for?

Doctor Strange #1 (Joelle Jones Variant)

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STEPHEN STRANGE, STRANDED!

After becoming Sorcerer Supreme of Asgard, Strange lost his chance at redemption and revenge against Doom - when Loki murdered Thor, cutting Midgard off from the other nine realms.

With no way home and few allies remaining in Asgard, Strange travels to Alfheim to investigate an emerging crisis. But in an unfamiliar land, can Strange prevent elves and angels from going to war over a mysterious coffin?