Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis. Published: 12th July 2012 The year is 1939. Raybould Marsh and other members of British Intelligence have gathered to watch a damaged reel of film in a darkened room. It appears to show German troops walking through walls, bursting into flames and hurling tanks into the air from afar. If the British are to believe their eyes, a twisted Nazi scientist has been endowing German troops with unnatural, unstoppable powers. And Raybould will be forced to resort to dark methods to hold the impending invasion at bay. Ian Tregillis’ Bitter Seeds is a chilling masterpiece – an audacious and extraordinary debut novel that is an alternate supernatural retelling of the events of Word War two, set in a twentieth century like our own but profoundly different. Stray Souls by Kate Griffin. Published: 6th September 2012 “Don’t look back. It wants you to look back.” London’s soul has gone missing. Lost? Kidnapped? Murdered? Nobody knows – but everyone expects Sharon to have all the answers. She doesn’t have a clue where to start – but with the Gate open there are creatures loose that won’t wait for her to catch up before they go hunting.
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The first in a new series set in the same magical London as Kate Griffin’s Matthew Swift series – think Susanna Clarke meets Neil Gaiman meets Jim Butcher. First published when she was just fourteen years old, Kate Griffin (aka Catherine Webb) is a Carnegie Medal-nominated author of both YA and fantasy novels and has garnered comparisons with Terry Pratchett and Philip Pullman. God Save the Queen by Kate Locke. Published: 5th July 2012 The year is 2012, and the Queen is celebrating a jubilee. But it’s not 60 years on the throne... it’s 175. And it’s not Elizabeth... it’s Victoria. She’s the undead matriarch of a Britain where the Aristocracy is made up of werewolves and vampires, where goblins live underground and mothers know better than to let their children out after dark. A world where technology lives side-by-side with magic, where being nobility means being infected with the Plague (side-effects include undeath) and Hysteria is the popular affliction of the day. A highly original and imaginative novel that is a brilliant mash-up of urban fantasy and alternate history
Wards of Faerie by Terry Brooks. Published: 23rd August 2012 There was an age when the world was young. It was a time before the coming of humans, a time when magic was the dominant power – and it was named the age of Faerie. This is the beginning of a breath-taking new series from the master of modern fantasy Terry Brooks – the author credited with kick-starting the fantasy boom post-Tolkien. Returning to his core Shannara world, this spellbinding series will astound both seasoned Terry Brooks fans and those discovering his magical world for the first time. Macmillan / Tor UK Last Days by Adam Nevill. Published: May 2012 The new horror from the rising star of the macabre. Have you ever heard of Sister Katherine and the Temple of the Last Days? Independent filmmaker Kyle Freeman is desperate, fearing that the right project will never come up. But when Maximillian Solomon asks him about The Temple of the Last Days he figures his lu ??????????????????????????%??????????????????????????????????M????-?????????????????????????????((