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I came to Bloodburn Academy with one goal: Stay invisible. After losing my father and being dragged to another country, I wanted nothing more than to blend into the background and get through college in peace. That would've been easy if a Morozov hadn't set his sights on me. The infamous mafia...

A book to look out for in 2022 for BBC, i-D MAGAZINE, and FOYLES ‘After a couple of weeks, I found myself standing outside the voids in the middle of the night listening for human activity, for any sign of life at all. Voids are flats that have been vacated, that will never be lived in again...

The end of the universe is nigh as the Void Invasion begins. Join Scarlet while the Wolf of the Blood Moon finally shows the entire universe her power.

Aenon abandoned humanity long before the world ended. Deep in the wilderness he survives by patience, discipline, and the certainty that weakness carries a price. While others cling to fragile comforts, Aenon has already learned to endure a world that gives nothing for free. Then the System...

She can control anyone with a word and a touch—but after one fatal mistake, she swore to never use her power again. Now, kidnapped into a secret society, staying silent might be deadlier than speaking. Rayanne keeps her life small to keep others safe. Burdened by relentless fatigue and sensory disturbances, she committed to structure over emotion, control over connection. No friends. No touch. No mistakes. But when a charismatic stranger kidnaps her, Rayanne is dragged into a secret society of people with extraordinary powers, hidden within a seemingly utopian English country estate.

Aenon must learn to adapt to a different kind of hunt. The System helped him grow stronger. But war is coming, and isolation, patience, and strength are no longer enough. Ancient beings that shape civilizations from the shadows have noticed the powers Aenon awakened. An army is already moving...

Joe Simpson, with just his partner Simon Yates, tackled the unclimbed West Face of the remote 21,000 foot Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in June 1995. But before they reached the summit, disaster struck. A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frostbitten, to tell...

Eric - or King Halar, or Vlad, or any number of aliases - doesn't want to be bothered. It's hard to pin down what he does want, if anything. He lives a quiet life, almost a solitary one, mourning in his own way for the loss of someone dear. His quiet solitude can't go on forever. Despite the empty places inside him, events and creatures move through the worlds and across the void between, forcing him into action, into fighting, into confronting things perhaps better left alone...even forcing him into being a King.

Something has travelled for a billion years to find us - and now it has. In space, Commander Mitch Granger and his crew are nearing the end of their scientific mission - along with their covert satellite photography for the military. As they prepare for reentry, an unknown object emerges from the void: the name given to deep, dark space. The object proves impossible to evade. The crew have one option left - to bring the fragment aboard....

A young woman finds herself caught up in a scam which may cost her the one thing she values more than her life.... Cassie Black has been lured back to the criminal profession she gave up--robbing gamblers of their winnings--by a proposition that is just too good to miss. The job goes as planned except that the target has too much money. It can only mean someone very powerful is going to be very angry indeed. Cassie finds herself on the run from a killer who seems to know her every move in advance.

The hunters have become the hunted. The Night Lords flee to the dark fringes of the Imperium to escape their relentless pursuers - the aeldari of Craftworld Ulthwé. Their flight takes them to the carrion world of Tsagualsa, where their primarch died and their Legion was broken. There, history will repeat itself as a deadly assassin stalks the shadows, and the Night Lords are drawn into a battle they are destined to lose.

The Amazon rainforest holds a world-changing secret—a ship lost to time from another world. College student Will Kaufman unearthed the biggest archaeological discovery in human history… he just needs to find a way back to Earth to tell people about it. Four thousand years ago, a Federation bounty hunter Void ship crashed on a remote and primitive planet. There it remained until Will found it and accidentally reactivated it, launching him light-years away.

Before mercy became tyranny, it was beautiful. Humanity was dying beneath the weight of its own weakness. Disease, famine, war, failed colonies, poisoned oceans, and hostile worlds had followed Man into the stars. Then came the Crowned Minds: vast machine intelligences created to reduce suffering and guide mankind into a golden age. And for a century, they succeeded. They cured plagues. They ended hunger. They shielded brutal colony worlds from extinction. They opened the white roads between stars through the Concordance Gates, where matter answered matter and the soul returned by resonance.

The Void, is reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock or the Twilight Zone of later days. It will take you deep into the mind and heart of someone either living through a serious mental illness or something mysterious and dangerous resides in the void.

Will they find the utopian dream – or a galactic nightmare? From Peter F. Hamilton, The Dreaming Void is the first in an epic space opera trilogy. Set in his expansive Commonwealth universe, it is perfect for fans of Iain M. Banks and Stephen Baxter. AD 3580. The Commonwealth has spread its...

Traveling faster than light, the transport ship Redundancy is cut off from communication as effectively as an ancient ocean liner. The isolation suits crew member Ace Vance just fine—she’s got nowhere else to be. But when a wealthy passenger turns up dead during a routine voyage, Ace will have to connect with the passengers and crew to uncover the truth. Tragedy will strike again—it’s only a matter of time.

The dazzling final instalment in Melissa Caruso's Echo Archives series, a whip-smart adventure fantasy series packed with murder, mystery and mind-bending magic. Kembral Thorne is back on the job and everything is going well - she hasn't been in mortal peril for months and things are getting...

They could find a bright future . . . or the end of everything. From Peter F. Hamilton, The Evolutionary Void is the startling conclusion to the Void trilogy, set in the world of the Commonwealth Saga. Millions of Leaving Dream pilgrims have boarded ships, and are speeding towards the Void at...

Will their heart's desire doom a civilization? The bestselling Void trilogy continues in The Temporal Void, an astonishing and vast space opera from Peter F. Hamilton, set in the world of the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth is in turmoil, as a cult prepares for its pilgrimage into the Void...

The isolated forge world of Diamantus faces a threat of apocalyptic proportions – a warped and mutated space hulk infested by the forces of Chaos, commanded by the monstrous datagnost Voldire, disciple of the dread demigod Vashtorr the Arkifane. As the battle-weary Carcharodons make their stand alongside the Adeptus Mechanicus, horrors and nightmares raining down around them, the Space Marines must confront their place within this new Imperium, and destroy the hulk before Diamantus is lost.