The last wish
Andrzej Sapkowski

A European superstar comes to the UK for the first time! Geralt is a witcher, a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin. Yet he is no ordinary murderer: his targets are the multifarious monsters and vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent. He roams the country seeking assignments, but gradually comes to realise that while some of his quarry are unremittingly vile, vicious grotesques, others are the victims of sin, evil or simple naivety.

Blood of Elves
Andrzej Sapkowski

For more than a hundred years humans, dwarves, gnomes and elves lived together in relative peace. But times have changed, the uneasy peace is over and now the races once again fight each other - and themselves: dwarves are killing their kinsmen, and elves are murdering humans and elves, at least those elves who are friendly to humans.....Into this tumultuous time is born a child for whom the witchers of the world have been waiting.

The terror
Dan Simmons

The Terror is based on the historical accounts of the Franklin Expedition, the doomed British voyage to the Artic. In 1845, the two ships HMS Terror and HMS Erebus, under the command of Sir John Franklin, attempt to locate the Northwest Passage. Their ships become icebound and they slowly run out of supplies and coal to enable their survival. Though it is unknown about the causes of death, all men including Franklin perished of both natural and unnatural causes. Though most of the discovered bodies showed evidence of death by scurvy, lead poisoning (from contaminated canned food), starvation and cold, there was some strong evidence that also pointed to cannibalism.

Percy Jackson and the titan's curse
Rick Riordan

It's the last Friday before the winter holidays but Percy Jackson isn't at school: he's battling the fearsome Manticore (half human, half lion), which in itself isn't ideal ...but with Annabeth missing and the goddess of the hunt held captive, things get a whole lot more serious ...This is Greek mythology relocated to modern-day America.

Knife of dreams
Robert Jordan

As the very fabric of reality wears thin all portents indicate that Tarmon Gai'don, the Last Battle, is imminent - and Rand al'Thor must ready himself to confront the Dark One. But Rand must first negotiate a truce with the Seanchan armies, as their forces increasingly sap his strength. The winds of time have whirled into a storm, and Rand and his companions ride in the vortex. This small company must prevail against the trials of fate and fortune - or the Dark One will triumph and the world will be lost.

Voice of the gods
Trudi Canavan

Despite her hope for peace as the protector of the Siyee, Auraya is unable to avoid being caught up the building conflict. As the gods' demands increase, Auraya finds that she must choose between those she loves and those she's sworn to serve. Meanwhile, Mirar enjoys acceptance and respect as he reclaims his place among his people, and Emerahl is at last able to join the Thinkers in their search for the Scroll of the Gods.

Spirit gate
Kate Elliott

For hundreds of years the Guardians ruled the Hundred, but these unearthly beings have faded from human sight and no longer exert their will on the world. Only the reeves, patrolling from the skies, still represent the Guardians' power. But there is a corruption in the land that not even they can control, and fanatics are devastating villages, towns, and cities, slaughtering all who oppose them.

The crow
The third book of Pellinor
Alison Croggon

Whilst his sister, Maerad, pursues her dangerous destiny in the frozen North, Hem is sent south to Turbansk for his own safety. But soon the forces of the Dark overrun the great city and Hem flees with his mentor Saliman, his white crow Irc, and a young orphan girl Zelika, to join the resistance. He agrees to help fight the Nameless One by spying on the child armies of the Dark. But, in the Light's underground base, Hem has a vision - he too has a part to play in Maerad's quest for the Treesong...  

         

The graveyard book
Neil Gaiman

When a baby escapes a murderer intent on killing his entire family, who would have thought it would find safety and security in the local graveyard? Brought up by the resident ghosts, ghouls and spectres, Bod has an eccentric childhood learning about life from the dead. But for Bod there is also the danger of the murderer still looking for him - after all, he is the last remaining member of the family.

Emperor: The gods of war
Conn Iggulden

For across the Empire, in Spain, Africa, Greece, across Asia Minor, there are legions loyal to Pompey. How will Caesar prevail? And at what cost? 'The Gods of War' is the story of ambition and loyalty, of friendship and power, of love and war. A famous tale, of truly epic dimensions, it ranges from Rome to Greece to Egypt and back to Rome; it shows how brilliant generalship can completely turn the odds, how overwhelming success can change even the best of men; it depicts brilliantly those famous names, Caesar, Marcus Brutus, Mark Antony, Pompey, Cicero, Cleopatra, Ptolemy, so that they appear anew.

Requiem
The fall of the Templars
Robyn Young

THE CRUSADES ARE OVER AND EUROPE IS IN CHAOS. After years fighting in the desert sun -- and secretly working for peace with the Brethren -- Will Campbell returns to find his Scottish homeland under attack by his enemy, King Edward I. Betrayed by those he has served since boyhood, torn apart watching his daughter plunge into a dangerous affair, Will must now forge his own path to peace -- even if it leads through another battlefield.But a new threat is rising in France, where a warrior king will stop at nothing to achieve his twisted ambitions. The fight for the Holy Land is over. But the Temple's last battle has just begun.

Royal exile:
book one of the valisar trilogy
Fiona McIntosh

The Valisar royals of Penraven face certain death, for the savage tyrant Loethar covets what they alone possess: the fabled Valisar Enchantment, an irresistible power to coerce, which will belong to Loethar once every Valisar has been slain. But the last hope of the besieged kingdom is being sent in secret from his doomed home, in the company of a single warrior. The future of Penraven now rests on the shoulders of the young Crown Prince Leonel who, though untried and untested in the ways of war, must survive brutality and treachery in order to claim the Valisar throne.

THE HOST
By STEPHENIE MEYER

Our world has been invaded by an unseen enemy. Humans become hosts for these invaders, their minds taken over while their bodies remain intact and continue their lives apparently unchanged. Most of humanity has succumbed.

The Fate of the Fallen
Volume one of the Song of the Tears
Ian IRVINE

The maimed God-Emperor's grip on the world is almost complete. The populace now lives in fear, manipulated by an elaborate network of spies. But the God-Emperor does have a weakness: his son Nish, buried for a decade in his father's grimmest dungeon.
And despite his incarceration, the Emperor's son still inspires hope in a beaten people. But Nish is tired, and faced with a harsh choice. Can he really resist the temptation to join his father, and the power and influence on offer? If Nish does refuse he has two choices, to face a further decade in prison, or join a doomed resistance movement.

GIFTS
LE GUIN Ursula

Orrec, the son of the Brantor of Caspromant, and Gry, daughter of the Brantors of Barre and Rodd, have grown up together, running half-wild across the Uplands. The people there are like their land: harsh and fierce and prideful; ever at war with each other. Only the gifts keep the fragile peace.
The Barre gift is calling animals. The women of Cordemant have the power of blinding, or making deaf, or taking away speech. The Rodds can send a spellknife into a man's heart.
The Callems can move heavy things - even buildings, even hills. The Caspro gift is the worst and best of all: it is the gift of undoing: an insect, an animal, a place ...Orrec and Gry are the heirs to Caspro and Barre. Gry's gift runs true, but she refuses to call animals for the hunt.Orrec too is a problem, for his gift of undoing is wild: he cannot control it, and that is the most dangerous gift of all...

THE GORMENGHAST TRILOGY
vol. 1 - TITUS GROAN
PEAKE Mervyn

As the first novel opens, Titus, heir to Lord Sepulchrave, has just been born, he stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that stand for Gormenghast Castle. Inside, all events are predetermined by a complex ritual, lost in history, understood only by Sourdust, Lord of the Library. There are tears and strange laughter; fierce births and deaths beneath umbrageous ceilings; dreams and violence and disenchantment contained within a labyrinth of stone.

THE GORMENGHAST TRILOGY
vol.2 - GORMENGHAST
PEAKE Mervyn

Enter the world of Gormenghast... the vast crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is Lord and heir. Gothic labyrinth of roofs and turrets, cloisters and corridors, stairwells and dungeons, it is also the cobwebbed kingdom of Byzantine government and age-old rituals, a world primed to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, manipulation and murder, a tour de force that ranks as one of the twentieth century's most remarkable feats of imaginative writing. "Gormenghast" is more than a sequel to "Titus Groan", it is an enrichment and deepening of that book.

THE GORMENGHAST TRILOGY
vol.3 - TITUS ALONE
PEAKE Mervyn

In this final part of the trilogy, we follow Titus, now almost twenty, as he escapes from the Castle, flees its oppressive Ritual, and becomes lost in a sandstorm. Helped by the owner of a travelling zoo, Muzzlehatch, and his ex-lover Juno, Titus ends up stranded in a big, bustling city. No one there having heard of Gormenghast, the general consensus is that the boy is deranged, and with no papers, he's soon arrested for vagrancy.
But there are a few people who believe in his story, or at least who are intrigued by it, and they try to help him. And now Titus, the deserter, the traitor, longs for his home, and looks for it all the time to prove, if only to himself, that Gormenghast is truly real.

SIXTY DAYS & COUNTING
ROBINSON Kim Stanley

The new President of the United States Phil Chase has vowed to kick-start the technologically sublime task of saving the world within his first sixty days!
It's happening: even the Pentagon admits that climate change is a bigger threat than terrorism. Charlie Quibler is back on Phil's staff instigating the decapitation of the World Bank while his toddler Joe is in the White House crèche, as good as gold, worryingly. Presidential science advisor Frank Vanderwal is marshalling global resources on a scale never before attemted in a bid to reverse ecological disaster. Meanwhile he finds something reassuring about the world being so messed up. It makes his own life look like part of a trend.
As pollution in China reaches critical mass and carbon figures are close to cooking the rest of the world, a human factor enters the equation in this taut, topical and witty science thriller.

STARDUST
GAIMAN Neil

Life moves at a leisurely pace in the tiny town of Wall - named after the imposing stone barrier which separates the town from a grassy meadow. Here, young Tristran Thorn has lost his heart to the beautiful Victoria Forester and for the coveted prize of her hand, Tristran vows to retrieve a fallen star and deliver it to his beloved. It is an oath that sends him over the ancient wall and into a world that is dangerous and strange beyond imagining...

STRAKEN
BROOKS Terry

Imprisoned in the Druid's Keep, young Pen Ohmsford is separated from all who care for him, and at the mercy of the usurper Shadea a'Ru, who will do anything to destroy the rightful High Druid. Although Pen was successful in his mission to obtain the magical staff called the Tanequil, Shadea has taken it from him. Without the Tanequil, Pen cannot open the gateway to the Forbidden and rescue his aunt, the rightful High Druid.
Pen has allies, but they are under siege as well, his parents fleeing from the Druids, the Rock Troll Kermadec and the dwarf Tagwen far away, and the young elf Khyber Elessedil in deadly danger within the Druid's stronghold. Can the scattered band of friends join forces in time to defeat Shadea's evil plot?

WINTERSMITH
PRATCHETT Terry

When Tiffany Aching, young witch, steps into a dance she shouldn't, the spirit of winter falls in love with her. He gives her roses and icebergs, says it with avalanches and showers her with snowflakes; and suddenly winter is all around her. All the time.
With the help of the Nac Mac Feegle, first met in The Wee Free Men, and a bit of advice from witches Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, Tiffany must put the mess right, or there will never be another springtime ...