Empires rise, civilisations fall and one culture comes to subsume another. It's the way of the world... sometimes ways of life are improved, sometimes they are not. But the progression of change is huge and - usually - unstoppable...
Fantasy fiction
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Author:Wooding, ChrisSummary: - Author:Staveley, BrianSummary:
The children of an assassinated emperor try to stay alive and avenge their father's death while continuing down their individual life-paths, one in a monastery, another training with elite soldiers, and one appointed a minister...
- Author:Sanderson, BrandonSummary:
A Forger named Shai can copy and re-create any item by using magic to rewrite its history. After being condemned to death for attempting to steal the emperor's scepter, Shai is given one final chance. She'll be allowed to live if she...
- Author:Chakraborty, S. A.Summary:
After a brutal conquest stripped Daevabad of its magic, Nahid leader Banu Manizheh and her resurrected commander, Dara, must try to repair their fraying alliance and stabilize a fractious, warring people. As peace grows more elusive and...
- Author:Vo, NghiSummary:
With the heart of an Atwood tale and the visuals of a classic Asian period drama, Nghi Vo's The Empress of Salt and Fortune is a tightly and lushly written narrative about empire, storytelling, and the anger of women. A young royal...
- Author:de la Cruz, MelissaSummary:
A young woman claims the throne of a realm inspired by Filipino mythology in this YA romantic fantasy, the first in an enchanting new duet by #1 New York Times bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz. MJ Rodriguez has spent her life...
- Author:Chima, Cinda WilliamsSummary:
Racing against time, Jonah and Emma, who possess unique magical gifts, work to uncover the truth about Thorn Hill, a peaceful commune that the Wizard Guild claims is a hotbed of underguild terrorists.
- Author:Valente, Catherynne M.Summary:
For as long as they can remember, the twin endermen Fin and Mo have lived in the mysterious land of the End. On the outskirts of the great enderman city of Talos, they explore ancient ruins under the watchful gaze of the mighty ender...
- Author:Lawhead, StephenSummary:
Book three in an epic historical fantasy series that blurs the lines between this world and the Otherworld. Fires rage in Albion: strange, hidden fires, dark-flamed, invisible to the eye. Llew Silver Hand is High King of Albion, but now...
- Author:Morrow, JamesSummary:
Completing the World Fantasy Award-winning author's darkly comic trilogy, The Eternal Footman brings us into a future world in which God's skull is in orbit, competing with the moon, and a plague of "death awareness...
- Author:Clayton, DhonielleSummary:
With a price on her head, the evil Queen Sophia out for blood, and no idea whom to trust, Camellia Beaureguard, the former favorite Belle, must race against time to find the ailing Princess Charlotte, who has disappeared without a trace...
- Author:Lu, MarieSummary:
Everything comes to a head in this seventh book in the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling series. The world of Erdas will be changed forever. Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan were once ordinary kids. Then they discovered that they had spirit...
- Author:Showalter, GenaSummary:
Far, far away, in the realm of Enchantia, creatures of legend still exist, magic is the norm and fairy tales are real. Except, fairy tales aren't based on myths and legends of the past-they are prophecies of the future. Raised in...
- Author:Chima, Cinda WilliamsSummary:
Two teenagers, one fleeing from a forced marriage and the other from a dangerous family of wizards, cross paths and fall in love.
- Author:Jordan, RobertSummary:
In the Second Age, The Dragon subdues the Dark One and his disciples in a mystical prison. The Third Age has begun and the Dragon is gone, but reborn in a boy who doesn't yet know his supreme calling. Time is precious, for the prison...
- Author:Edgmon, H. E.Summary:
Weeks after the door to Faery closed, Asalin is still in turmoil. Emyr and Wyatt uncover the witches's real place in fae society, and it becomes clear the problems run much deeper than anyone knew.
- Author:Hamilton, KikiSummary:
The year is 1871, and Tiki has been making a home for herself and her family of orphans in a deserted hideaway adjoining Charing Cross Station in central London. They survive by picking pockets. One December night, Tiki steals a ring,...
- Author:Lackey, MercedesSummary:
Elena Klovis was supposed to be her kingdom's Cinderella -- the mistreated stepsister who fatefully falls in love with a prince, marries him, and lives happily ever after -- except that the prince is only a child! When Elena's...
- Author:Buckley, MichaelSummary:
Orphans Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sent to live with an eccentric grandmother that they have always believed to be dead.
- Author:Bancroft, JosiahSummary:
As Marat's siege engine bores through the Tower, Senlin can do nothing but observe. A great crisis looms: Edith and her crew will have to face Marat on unequal footing and with Senlin caught in the crossfire.
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