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Armageddon the Musical

  • Author: Robert Rankin
  • Publisher: Corgi
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The Earthers, a bonafide docu-soap, is making an obscene amount of interstellar bucks, but the TV execs think it needs a little boost. Something that’ll really make their audience sit-up and take note. Something Earth shattering, literally. It’s time, they think, for the grand, the spectacular, the Armageddon Finale! Meanwhile on Earth something similar is [...]

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The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse

  • Author: Robert Rankin
  • Publisher: Gollancz
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There is something very wrong in Toy City. Someone is going around and killing off some of the most famous characters in nursery history, the first to go being Humpty Dumpty. There is not much evidence but the murderer does leave behind a very special chocolate calling card… Unfortunately the cities main (and only) private [...]

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Geisha of Gion: The Memoir of Mineko Iwasaki

  • Author: Mineko Iwasaki, Rande Brown (Translator)
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
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Mineko Iwasaki was a leading geisha in Kyoto, which is one of two major areas of geisha activity (the other being Tokyo). She volunteered for the life of service when she was only 5, but had already started making inroads into the profession when she was three. Mineko was born to a family that was [...]

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Grailblazers

  • Author: Tom Holt
  • Publisher: Orbit
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Boamund is a knight of the old order and because he’s also incredibly stupid he managed to get himself put under a magic spell that sent him to sleep. For a very long time. In fact, by the time he wakes the world has changed somewhat. Like the introduction of cars, video games, TV and [...]

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Honoured Enemy — Legends of the Riftwar

  • Author: Raymond E. Feist & William Forstchen
  • Publisher: Voyager
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Hartraft is a leader of an elite group of soldiers who operate deep behind the invading Tsurani lines. He harbours a deep hatred of these invaders from another planet as they destroyed his family and led to the death of his wife-to-be. After a disastrous engagement with the Tsurani Hartraft and his Marauders find themselves [...]

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The Hobbit (or There and Back Again)

  • Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Publisher: Grafton, An Imprint of Harper Collins publishers
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Well J.R.R. Tolkiens The Hobbit is about a hobbit who went adventuring with Dwarves for Gold and to try and wrestle their family ‘castle’ back. This Hobbit was Bilbo, and he wasn’t a very willing participant! Bilbo was picked by Gandalf (a powerful magician) to be the 14th member of the group. And Gandalf picked [...]

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One Door Away From Heaven

  • Author: Dean R. Koontz
  • Publisher: Headline
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Micky is a young woman with an unpleasant history. Leilani is a nine-year-old girl with an unpleasant present. But the fates have brought them together and maybe, just maybe, Micky can find peace by freeing Leilani from her terrible fate. A fate imposed by a famous believer in bioethics called Preston Maddoc, and his drug [...]

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Falling Sideways

  • Author: Tom Holt
  • Publisher: Orbit
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David Perkins has spent most of his life living under the fear of his over-domineering mother, even now that she’s dead. He has also been living with the fact the he is 100%, totally and utterly, without a shadow of a doubt in love with Philippa Levens. It’s just a pity that she’s been dead [...]

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Night Watch

  • Author: Terry Pratchett
  • Publisher: Corgi
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Vimes is on the streets, where he loves to be and chasing down one of the vilest criminals in the city, so he is one happy man. However, just as he is grappling for his life with this most psychopathic of killers a magical thunderstorm comes in and they both find themselves in the past, [...]

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The Sword of Shannara

  • Author: The Sword of Shannara
  • Publisher: Dell Ray – Ballantine Books
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Shea Ohmsford, a half-elf, lives in the peaceful town of Shady Vale. However, this quite existence is about to end when his adopted brother, Flick Ohmsford, brings a stranger to town. The stranger sets off a chain of events that will see them fighting, and running, for their lives. All in order to find a [...]