by Rebecca Hall
Hayley pulled him away, leaving Bates to pack the last of their bags.
“Thank you,” she said.
“What?” Mitch blinked at her. She’d been the one helping him.
“You stopped me. I almost lost control and you saved me.”
Mitch shuddered, she’d faced down an angel and proved to be immune to the Twisted Curse; she probably would have flattened the Academy if he hadn’t stopped her. If he hadn’t saved her. He hadn’t been able to do anything for his friends, not even Bates, but he’d saved her. Maybe that was enough
“See you next year Mitch,” Hayley said as Mum started the engine. Mitch scrambled to get in before she could leave without him and Hayley flicked him a wave. Mitch waved back and she smiled at him before turning away. He kept waving.
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The Angels are coming.
The Host wants to know what the Academy was trying to hide and why the Fallen agreed to it. They want the Instrument of War, the one thing that can tip the Eternity War in their favour and put an end to the stalemate. The Academy is just collateral damage.
Mitch would like to forget the last year ever happened but that doesn’t seem likely with Little Red Riding Hood teaching Teratology. The vampire isn’t quite as terrifying as he first thought but she’s not the only monster at the Academy. The Fallen are spying on them, the new principal is an angel and there’s an enchanting exchange student with Faerie blood.
Angry and afraid of the angels in his midst, Mitch tries to put the pieces together. He knows that Hayley is the Archangel Gabriel, he knows that she can determine the course of the Eternity War and he knows that the Fallen will do anything to hide her from the Host.
Even allow an innocent girl to be kidnapped.
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Evil Above the Stars series
Peter R. Ellis
This thrilling fantasy series appeals to readers, of all ages, of fantasy or science fiction, especially fans of JRR Tolkien and Stephen Donaldson. If old theories are correct until a new idea comes along, does the universe change with our perception of it? Were the ideas embodied in alchemy ever right? What realities were the basis of Celtic mythology?
Volume 1: Seventh Child
September Weekes discovers a stone that takes her to Gwlad, where she is hailed as the one with the power to defend them against the evil known as the Malevolence. September meets the people’s leader, the Mordeyrn Aurddolen, and the bearers of the seven metals linked to the seven ‘planets’ that give them special powers to resist the elemental manifestations of the Malevolence. She returns home, but a fortnight later, is drawn back to find that two years have passed and there have been more attacks. She must help defend Gwlad against the Malevolence.
ebook, paperback (256pp)
Volume 2: The Power of Seven
Having reached Arsyllfa, September is re-united with the Mordeyrn Aurddolen with whom, together with the other senior metal bearers that make up the Council of Gwlad, she must plan the defence of the Land.
The time of the next Conjunction will soon be at hand. The planets, the Sun and the Moon will all be together in the sky. At that point the protection of the heavenly bodies will be at its weakest and Gwlad will be more dependent than ever on September. But now it seems that she must defeat Malice, the guiding force behind the Malevolence, if she is to save the Land and all its people. Will she be strong enough; and, if not, to whom can she turn for help?
ebook, paperback (288pp)
Volume 3: Unity of Seven
September is home, back to school studies and bullies. Now without the Maengolauseren, she worries about the people of Gwlad and what happened to Malice. Is Malice inside her? Could she turn to evil? To return to Gwlad she takes a journey in time and space, must overcome her fears, accept an extraordinary future and face the evil above the stars.
ebook, paperback (288pp)
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CAN’T DREAM
WITHOUT YOU
FROM THE DARK CHRONICLES
TANYA REIMER
Legends say, tens of thousands of years ago Whisperers were banished from the heavens, torn in half, and dumped on the mortal realm. Over the years, they earned magic from demons, left themselves Notebooks with hints and, by pairing up with human souls, eventually found their other halves. Humbled, they discovered the true purpose of life and many were worthy of returning to the heavens. But others were not.
Steve isn’t a normal boy. He plays with demons, his soul travels to a dream realm at night using mystical butterflies, and soon he’ll earn the power to raise the dead. In a haunting ritual performed by his father, Steve’s soul is linked to Julia, an innocent. To protect her, Steve haunts her dreams, but it has the opposite effect and now he can’t dream without her.
ebook, paperback (288pp)
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Arteess: Conflict
James Starling
Winner of the SILVER Award in the Teenage Fiction category of the 2013 Wishing Shelf Independent Book Awards
Arteess: Conflict is the first in a new science fiction series where much of the action takes place inside a game. But surviving the game is not child’s play. We learn of science, betrayal, power and progress – from the perspective of innocent, but nevertheless accomplished gamers.
Created as an experiment into the nature of time itself, the virtual world of Arteess exists, in the near future, as a private digital realm. A full-body virtual reality experience where the talented, the shrewd and the lucky are invited to participate in an international war zone of nomadic factions. We are introduced into the world of Arteess alongside the Shard squad, a group of friends specialising in conflict arenas. Though each member possesses unique talents, they are ultimately defined by their personalities, their own personal battles and the moral choices they make in the consequence-free virtual environment.
Surrounded by sociopathic technicians, facetious pilots and a potentially insane commander, they must carve out a place for themselves while surviving the onslaught of rivals and the antics of the rest of their own faction.
ebook, paperback (256pp)
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The Janus Cycle
Tej Turner
The Janus Cycle can best be described as gritty, surreal, urban fantasy. The over-arching story revolves around a nightclub called Janus, which is not merely a location but virtually a character in its own right. On the surface it appears to be a subcultural hub where the strange and disillusioned who feel alienated and oppressed by society escape to be free from convention; but underneath that façade is a surreal space in time where the very foundations of reality are twisted and distorted. But the special unique vibe of Janus is hijacked by a bandwagon of people who choose to conform to alternative lifestyles simply because it has become fashionable to be “different”, and this causes many of its original occupants to feel lost and disenchanted. We see the story of Janus unfold through the eyes of seven narrators, each with their own perspective and their own personal journey. A story in which the nightclub itself goes on a journey. But throughout, one character, a strange girl, briefly appears and reappears warning the narrators that their individual journeys are going to collide in a cataclysmic event. Is she just another one of the nightclub’s denizens, a cynical mischief-maker out to create havoc or a time-traveller trying to prevent an impending disaster?
ebook, paperback (224pp)
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Bluepri
nt trilogy
Katrina Mountfort
The Blueprint trilogy takes us to a future in which men and women are almost identical, and personal relationships are forbidden. Following a bio-terrorist attack, the population now lives within comfortable Citidomes. MindValues advocate acceptance and non-attachment. The BodyPerfect cult encourages a tall thin androgynous appearance, and looks are everything.
A dark undercurrent runs through the trilogy: the enforcement of conformity through fear, the fostering of distorted and damaging attitudes towards forbidden love, manipulation of appearance and even the definition of beauty. These books will appeal to both an adult and young adult audience.
Book 1: Future Perfect
Book 2: Forbidden Alliance
Book 3: Freedom’s Prisoners
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Jacey’s Kingdom
Dave Weaver
Jacey’s Kingdom is an enthralling tale that revolves around a startlingly desperate reality: Jacey Jackson, a talented student destined for Cambridge, collapses with a brain tumour while sitting her final history exam at school. In her mind she struggles through a quasi-historical sixth century dreamscape whilst the surgeons fight to save her life.
Jacey is helped by a stranger called George, who finds himself trapped in her nightmare after a terrible car accident. There are quests, battles, and a love story ahead of them, before we find out if Jacey will awake from her coma or perish on the operating table. And who, or what, is George? In this book, Dave Weaver questions our perception of reality and the redemptive power of dreams; are our experiences of fear, conflict, friendship and love any less real or meaningful when they take place in the mind rather than the ‘real’ physical world?
ebook, paperback (272pp)
visit bit.ly/JaceysKingdom
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THE MANDIGO TRILOGY
BY ANDERS REEMARK
MANDIGO
AND THE HELLHOUNDS
When eight-year old Mandigo finds a baby on a raft in a river, he saves it but, when he tries to carry it back to his village, he is stopped by a large stag. The stag forces Mandigo to take the baby deep into the forest, and soon other animals join the curious trio…
Thus begin the adventures of Mandigo, a boy who spends his days toiling in his father’s mill in the mediaeval village of Oakhill. Little does he know that his life until this moment has all been one big lie. When the cataclysmic event known as the Storm wreaked havoc across the world many years before, it changed the landscape and released violent magical forces.
By his twelfth birthday, Mandigo has discovered that he has become the unwitting focus of those magical forces. He must quickly learn how to deal with them in order to save not only his own soul, but also the lives of everyone he loves.
The problem is that the Hellhounds are already on to him…
Anders Reemark was born in 1980 in Denmark. After highschool and business school, Anders was employed by Danske Bank, where he still works. Anders and his wife and four-year-old daughter currently reside in a suburb of Copenhagen together with a cat called Mouse(!)
Always an avid reader, Anders got into writing when reading aloud to his daughter. She always wanted more stories, and he discovered that he had a storytelling gift of his own. He began to write his stories down, and Mandigo and the Hellhounds is his first novel.
Anders’ first novel, Mandigo and the Hellhounds, the first book in the Mandigo trilogy, was originally published in Danish (as Mandigo og Helvedeshundene) by Lars Stender e-books in 2015. Keen to see the story reach a wider audience it has been translated into other languages and is published in English by Elsewhen Press.
ebook, paperback (288pp)
visit bit.ly/MandigoHellhounds
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A Life Less Ordinary
Christopher Nuttall
There is magic in the world, hiding in plain sight. If you search for it, you will find it, or it will find you. Welcome to the magical world.
Dizzy expected nothing from life, until she stumbled from the mundane world into the magical world, an alternate reality where dragons flew through the sky and the Great Powers watched over the world. Forgetting her old life, Dizzy became apprenticed to one of the most powerful magicians in all of reality and a bright future beckoned. But powerful dark forces had their eye on the young and inexperienced magician, intending to use her for the ultimate act of evil – the apocalyptic destruction of all reality. Now, Dizzy must beat them. If she cannot, both the magical and mundane worlds will be consumed in fire.
ebook, paperback (336pp)
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Bookworm
The first book of the Bookworm series
Winner of the GOLD Award in the Adult Fiction category of the 2013 Wishing Shelf Independent Book Awards
Elaine, an inexperienced witch in Golden City, has her life turned upside down when she triggers a magical trap and ends up with all the knowledge in the Great Library stuffed inside her head. Avoiding the Inquisition she tries to understand what has happened to her. But she is a pawn in the dark plans of one who wants the Grand Sorcerer’s power.
ebook, paperback (384pp)
Bookworm II
The Very Ugly Duckling
The second book of the Bookworm series
In the wake of the disastrous attack on the Golden City, Lady Light Spinner has become Grand Sorceress and Elaine, the Bookworm, has been settling into her positions as Head Librarian and Privy Councillor. But any hope of vanishing into her books is negated when a new magician of staggering power appears in the city, one whose abilities seem to defy the known laws of magic.
ebook, paperback (432pp)
Bookworm III
The Best Laid Plans
The third book of the Bookworm series
Elaine and Johan prepare to leave Golden City, with Daria and Cass, to search for the Witch-King. But Elaine is arrested on the orders of a new Emperor, puppet of the Witch-King. She must escape and destroy him. Privy Councillors and Heads of the Great Houses have bowed to the Emperor. Only Elaine and her friends can prevent an all-out war.
ebook, paperback (400pp)
Bookworm IV
Full Circle
The fourth book of the Bookworm series
Until now the Witch-King had remained hidden as a lich. But Elaine was intent on his destruction. Bonded to the unknowingly powerful Johan, she was the only other magician who understood the deeper layers of magic. As they slowly made their way towards the catacombs in Ida where his lich was hiding, he had to rely on the new Emperor to stop them.
ebook, paperback (416pp)
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The Royal Sorceress series
Christopher Nuttall
The Royal Sorceress series will certainly appeal to all fans of steampunk, alternative history, and fantasy. As well as the fun of the ‘what-ifs’ delivered by the rewriting of our past, it delights with an Empire empowered by magic – all the better for being one we can recognise.
