Two thousand years in the future, Plato the orator summons the citizens of London on ritual occasions to impart the city's ancient history. Philosophy, technology, religion and art are all given the same witty and thought-provoking treatment. An inventive look back on the last century.

Dirk Gently, self-styled private investigator, sets out to solve a murder, and prove the `interconnectedness' of all things - not to mention saving the entire human race from extinction along the way.

The first book in the 'Hitch HIker's Guide to the Galaxy' series. One Thursday lunchtime the Earth is unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. So begins Arthur Dent's journey through space, accompanied by a host of colourful characters including Zaphod Beeblebrox, Trillian and Marvin the paranoid android.

The second book in the 'Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy' series. Arthur Dent's adventures in space become increasingly surreal as he travels through the galaxy in his bathrobe.

The third book in the `Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy' series. Arthur Dent is surprised to find himself living in a hideously miserable cave on prehistoric Earth. However, just as he think that things cannot possibly get any worse, they suddenly do. He discovers that the galaxy is not only mind-bogglingly big and bewildering, but also that most of the things that happen in it are staggeringly unfair.

The fourth book in the `Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy' series. Just when Arthur Dent's sense of reality is at its most clouded, he suddenly finds the girl of his dreams. He finds her in the last place in the universe in which he would expect to find anything at all, but which 3,976,000,000 people will find oddly familiar. They go in search of God's final message to His creation and, in a dramatic break with tradition, actually find it.

The sequel to 'Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency' (6360). Dirk Gently is a self styled holistic detective, and master of all things alternative. But can he discover who was responsible for an explosion if not the IRA, the PLO or the Gas Board?

The title story, 'Supertoys Last All Summer Long', filmed as 'AI' by Steven Spielberg, tells of a young boy who, whatever he does, cannot please his mother. He is puzzled by this, not realising that he is an android.

Part 3 of The Jedi Academy Triology. Suspended helplessly between life and death, Luke Skywalker lies in state at the Jedi academy. But on the spirit plane, Luke fights desperately for survival, reaching out physically to the Jedi twins. At the same time, Leia is on a life-and-death mission of her own, a race against Imperial agents hoping to destroy a third Jedi child - Leia and Han's baby Anakin - hidden on the planet Anoth.

Part 2 of The Jedi Academy Trilogy. Everyone is searching for Bornan Thul. Not only is he father to one of Jacen and Jaina's fellow students, he holds the key to a secret coalition gaining power in the New Republic. The young Jedi Knights race across the galaxy to find him - but they may be too late. For their true enemy is about to show its treacherous face. And it will be shockingly familiar...

Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, cloaked by the Force and riding with the Sand People, have returned to the planet of Tatooine to seek contact with Obi-Wan Kenobi. Luke hopes to help his love Callista regain her ability to use the Force.

While Luke Skywalker takes the first step toward setting up an academy to train a new order of Jedi Knights, Han Solo and Chewbacca are taken prisoner on the planet Kessel and forced to work in the fathomless depths of a spice mine. But when Hans and Chewie break away, they flee desperately to a secret imperial research laboratory surrounded by a cluster of black holes...

When the disease-ravaged body of Dr David Kennessy is found in the smouldering ruins of the DyMar genetic research laboratory, FBI agents Mulder and Scully fear that a deadly man-made plague has been unleashed.

Dr Gregory, a renowned nuclear weapons researcher is not only dead - he has been charred to a radioactive cinder. Since this is a death on Federal property, Mulder and Scully are hastily called in. As FBI agents who specialise in unexplained phenomena, they are the investigators of 'The X-Files', strange and inexplicable cases which are also mysteries that the FBI doesn't want to solve.

A team of American archaeologists disappear while exploring the lost Mayan City of Xitaclan - and FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are flown to the Yucatan jungle to investigate.

In these classic science fiction stories - 'Robbie', 'Runaround', 'Reason', 'Catch that Rabbit', 'Liar!', 'Little Lost Robot', 'Escape!' and 'Evidence and The Enviable Conflict' - Asimov creates the Three Laws of Robotics.

The Earth will be destroyed by Solaria's robot army if Elijah Baley fails to find the murderer of an eminent scientist. To solve the case he must overcome his agoraphobia and work beneath the 'Naked Sun' for the first time in his life.

Some of Asimov's most enduring and unforgettable stories read by the author himself. These vintage tales include such classics as 'The Foundation Quartet' and encompass the full range of Asimov's versatility while displaying his puckish sense of humour.

This novel moves beyond the futuristic fantasy of 'The Handmaid's Tale' to an even more dystopian world, a world where language has almost entirely vanished. Snowman seems to be the last man on earth, the only survivor of an unnamed apocalypse. Gradually the reasons behind the disaster begin to unfold as Snowman undertakes a perilous journey to the remains of the bubble-dome complex where the sinister Paradise Project collapsed and near-global devastation began. CONTAINS ADULT THEMES.

At the end of her life, Iris Griffen takes up her pen to record the secret history of her family; the romantic melodrama of its decline and fall between the two World Wars. The central enigma of Iris's tale is whether the death of her sister, Laura Chase, was suicide or an accident. This multidimensional 'novel-within-a-novel' weaves strands of pulp science fiction with sketches of Iris's present-day life, by way of newspaper clippings, letters and extracts from a book, 'The Blind Assassin' by her sister Laura, which details a clandestine love affair between a privileged young woman and a radical 'agitator'. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND ADULT THEMES.

In the repressive Republic of Gilead, Offred has just one function: to breed. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are only valued if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the days when she lived and made love with her husband Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now...

It was one of the less glorious incidents of the Idiran wars that led to the destruction of two suns and the billions of lives they supported. Now, 800 years later, the light from the first of those deaths has reached the Culture's Masaq' Orbital. A Chelgrian emissary is dispatched to the Culture.

An astronaut is stranded in a world where apes are the master race and humans are hunted for sport, experimented on and ruthlessly killed. His intelligence and the tales he tells of a planet ruled by men strike fear into the society of apes, who must silence him at all costs.

A hauntingly prophetic novel of a future where happiness is allocated on a four-walled TV screen, where individuals, eccentrics and scholars are outcasts of society and where books are burnt by a special task-force.

'The Stories of Ray Bradbury' contains the definitive collection of one of the greatest fantasists the world has ever known. In his world houses do their own housework and coffins do their own burying...

'The Stories of Ray Bradbury' contains the definitive collection of one of the greatest fantasists the world has ever known. In his world houses do their own housework and coffins do their own burying... This collection contains 21 tales.

'The Stories of Ray Bradbury' contains the definitive collection of one of the greatest fantasists the world has ever known. In his world houses do their own housework and coffins do their own burying... This collection contains 14 tales.

'The Stories of Ray Bradbury' contains the definitive collection of one of the greatest fantasists the world has ever known. In his world houses do their own housework and coffins do their own burying... This collection contains15 tales.

Caught up in a confrontation between the hated Guild magicians and the angry youth of the slums, to her dismay Sonea discovers that she possesses the same powers as the reviled magicians. To avoid capture, she must seek protection from the city's feared underworld, The Thieves. In return she must use her powers for them, but her magic never seems to do quite what she intends it to.

The first series of 'Journey Into Space', originally broadcast in the 1950s and set in the then futuristic 1965. It tells of the conquest of the moon by Jet Morgan and his crew Doc, Mitch and Lemmy.

The second series of 'Journey Into Space', broadcast originally in the 1950s. Set in the early-1970s, a high-tech space-age future, the plot centres on what happens after a space fleet led by Jet Morgan sets off on the 35-million-mile journey to Mars.

Simon Clark takes up the story twenty-five years after John Wyndham's 'The Day of the Triffids' (5236) which told the story of Bill Masen and his fight to protect a blinded population from a monstrous Triffid plant. David Masen, the now grown-up son of Bill, wakes one morning to discover that the world has been plunged into darkness. The few sighted people in the island community have their artificial lights, but once more the Triffid has the advantage.

On the moon an ancient monolith is uncovered. So great are the implications of the discovery that, for the first time, men are sent out deep into the solar system. But before they can reach their destination, things begin to go horribly wrong.

Now approaching the millennium, the light of Lucifer is extinguished and for the second time in four million years, the Monolith awakes. The limitless power of an alien technology has decided what part humanity must play in the evolution of the galaxy. The sequel to '2001: A Space Odyssey'.

Now approaching the millennium, the light of Lucifer is extinguished and for the second time in four million years, the Monolith awakes. The limitless power of an alien technology has decided what part humanity must play in the evolution of the galaxy. The sequel to '2001: A Space Odyssey'.

In the year 2130, a mysterious and apparently untenanted spaceship, Rama, enters the solar system. What is its purpose? Who is inside it? And why? Commander Norton and his crew take their ship to meet it, and, once inside, discover Rama's secret.

The year is 1806, England is beleaguered by the long war with Napoleon, and it is hundreds of years since practical magic faded into the nation's past. But scholars of this glorious history suddenly discover that one practising magician still remains: the reclusive Mr Norrell of Hurtfew Abbey. Challenged to demonstrate his powers, Norrell proceeds to London, where he raises a beautiful young woman from the dead and summons an army of ghostly ships to terrify the French. Yet Norrell is soon challenged by the emergence of another magician: the brilliant novice Jonathan Strange. Young, handsome and daring, Strange is the very opposite of the cautious, fussy Norrell, who nevertheless agrees to take Strange as a pupil. But when Strange becomes obsessed with the founder of English magic, the Raven King, he risks sacrificing not only his partnership with Norrell, but everything else he holds dear in his reckless pursuit of the wildest, most perilous forms of magic.

This is the novel which became a Spielberg film of the same name. An island off Costa Rica is to become the world's most famous theme park - a dinosaur reserve - for a biotechnology company has succeeded in cloning fifteen species of dinosaur. But the scientists' dream turns into a nightmare. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND ADULT THEMES.

This is the novel which became a Spielberg film of the same name. An island off Costa Rica is to become the world's most famous theme park - a dinosaur reserve - for a biotechnology company has succeeded in cloning fifteen species of dinosaur. But the scientists' dream turns into a nightmare. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND ADULT THEMES.

The sequel to 'Jurassic Park'. It is now six years since the disaster at Jurassic Park; six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end - the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to the public. But rumours abound that something has survived...

Here are apparitions, mysterious deaths and strange, inexplicable visions to chill the blood. Stories range from those by masters of the genre like Sheridan Le Fanu and Ambrose Bierce to classic writers such as Emile Zola and Rudyard Kipling. Some are frightening, some poignant, while others leave a lingering taste of unease.

Over two centuries the horror story has attracted writers as diverse as Robert Louis Stevenson, E.F. Benson and Saki: writers both classical and comic, imaginative and realistic. The stories in this Penguin Classics collection are the cream of the horror genre and include the witty, the macabre and the plain terrifying.

What could an omnipresent and seemingly omnipotent entity want with a humble pot-healer? Or with the dozens of other odd creatures it has lured to Plowman's Planet? And if the Glimmung is a god, are its ends positive or malign? Combining adventure, horror, and paranoid theology, Galactic Pot-Healer is a voyage to alternate worlds of the imagination.

On the arid colony of Mars the only thing more precious than water may be a ten-year-old schizophrenic boy named Manfred Steiner. For although the UN has slated 'anomalous' children for deportation and destruction, other people - especially Supreme Goodmember Arnie Kott of the Water Worker's union - suspect that Manfred's disorder may be a window into the future. In 'Martian Time-Slip' Philip K. Dick uses power politics and extraterrestrial real estate scams, adultery, and murder to penetrate the mysteries of being and time.

The title story of this collection has been made into the Steven Spielberg-directed movie of the same name about the future, where criminals are caught before the crimes they commit. 'The Days of Perky Pat' inspired one of Dick's greatest works, the novel 'The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch'; and 'The Penultimate Truth' grew from 'The Mold of Yancy'.

San Francisco on the eve of the new millennium. On the operating table of Dr Grace Holloway the seventh Doctor regenerates into a new self, but he has forgotten who and what he is. Will he remember in time to save the earth from the Master's evil plan?

The desolate planet Nimbus III is the site of an unprecedented attempt at cooperation among the galaxy's three major powers, the Klingons, the Formulans and the Federation. But terrorists have seized control of Nimbus III, and when Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise attempt a dramatic rescue, they discover a threat unlike any they have ever faced.

Professor Challenger is determined to prove the rumour of a Lost World, believed to exist on a plateau in the jungles of South America, where evolution has taken a different turn to that of the known world. Having asked volunteers to accompany him on the expedition to the plateau, he discovers that the Lost World is indeed an extremely perilous realm, populated by both fiendish ape-men and terrifying prehistoric creatures.

Professor Challenger is determined to prove the rumour of a Lost World, believed to exist on a plateau in the jungles of South America, where evolution has taken a different turn to that of the known world. Having asked volunteers to accompany him on the expedition to the plateau, he discovers that the Lost World is indeed an extremely perilous realm, populated by both fiendish ape-men and terrifying prehistoric creatures.

Fat Charlie Nancy is not actually fat. He was fat once but he is definitely not fat now. No, right now Fat Charlie Nancy is angry, confused and more than a little scared. If his rotter of an estranged father hadn't dropped dead at a karaoke night, Charlie would still be blissfully unaware that his dad was Anansi, the spider god. He would have no idea that he has a brother called Spider, who is also a god. And there would be no chance that said brother would be trying to take over his life, flat and fiance, or, to make matters worse, be doing a much better job of it than him. Desperate to reclaim his life, Charlie enlists the help of four more-than-slightly eccentric old ladies and their unique brand of voodoo - and between them they unleash a bitter and twisted force to get rid of Spider. But as darkness descends and badness begins, is Fat Charlie Nancy going to get his life back in one piece or is he about to enter a whole netherworld of pain? CONTAINS ADULT THEMES.

Awakening from a drunken spree in a London pub to find himself on one of Saturn's moons, Lister joins the Space Corps and boards the Red Dwarf, determined to return to Earth. Things do not go according to plan though... Based on the BBC television sci fi series.

Dave Lister - the last human alive - is stuck on the mining ship Red Dwarf. His only companions are the ship's computer, a robot, a hologram of his dead bunk-mate and a creature that evolved from the ship's cat. Chris Barrie performs a radio version of 'Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers', the BBC 2 Sci fi comedy which makes up the 12 part radio series that was broadcast in 1997.

Red Dwarf Radio Show Volume 2 continues the 12 part series for BBC Radio. Based on 'Better Than Life', with sound effects, music and the brilliant wit and humour that characterises this Grant Naylor creation.

In 'Children of the Jedi', Barbara Hambly introduces a new character: Callista, a brave Jedi warrior of long ago who gave her life to foil one of the Empire's darkest plans, a plot to destroy a stronghold that was sanctuary for the wives and children of the Jedi knights. Suddenly, the dreadnought is rearming itself, intent on destruction. Only Luke Skywalker can feel its evil presence as well as the mysterious influence of that powerful woman who should have died decades ago.

Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Princess Leia continue to do battle with the evil Empire. Meanwhile a parallel event is taking place that could alter the course of history and thwart their mission.

On its way back to Earth, the Tardis crash lands on Peladon where strange and violent incidents are threatening to disrupt a conference between visiting delegates from the Galactic Federation and Peladon's King. Is this the feared curse of Peladon and will it force a galactic war?

In his black-walled fortress at Inuyama, the murderous Japanese warlord, Iida Sadamu, surveys his famous nightingale floor. Constructed with exquisite skill, it sings at the tread of each human foot. No assassin can cross it unheard. But in a mountain high in the ancient lands of the Three Countries lives one exceptional boy. He has yet to discover his true identity - and the secrets that give him the power to destroy Iida. 'Across the Nightingale Floor' has been described as 'Lord of the Rings' set in Feudal Japan. CONTAINS SOME ADULT THEMES.

A sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the spice of spices. Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and grants psychic powers and longevity, so whoever controls it wields great influence. Hugo and Nebula Award winner.

Jon Childes has unwillingly linked minds telepathically with a vicious murderer, whose crimes have a strange connection with the phases of the moon. While police are suspicious of Childes, they seek his assistance as his nightmare visions grow stronger and the killer looks for his next victim.

The night on which Sir James Monmouth returns to England from Penang is not auspicious. The Cross Keys Inn provides shelter from the chill wind and rain, but it offers few comforts. The pale boy, the old woman and the mist in the mirror - do they have any reality beyond Monmouth's imagination?

Proud and solitary, Eel Marsh House surveys the windswept reaches of the salt marshes. Arthur Kipps, a young solicitor summoned to a funeral, has no inkling of its tragic secret or of the mysterious black-robed woman who haunts its shuttered rooms. 'The Woman in Black' is a spine-tingling classic of its genre.

Karen is an irritable Chinese Water Dragon. Ancient, noble, near-indestructible and, for a number of wildly improbable reasons, working as an estate-agent, Karen is irritable quite a lot of the time. She becomes positively incensed, however, when she discovers that her father, the Adjutant General to the Dragon King of the North-West, has been kidnapped by a mob of angry weathermen. If you enjoy the comic fantasy novels of Terry Pratchett, try Tom Holt. CONTAINS SOME STRONG LANGUAGE.

All is not well at the Wenley Moor underground atomic research station: there are unaccountable losses of power-output, nervous breakdowns amongst the staff, and then - a death! UNIT is called in, and the Brigadier is soon joined by Doctor Who and Liz Shaw in a tense and exciting adventure with subterranean reptile men, Silurians, and a 40 ft. high Tyrannosaurus Rex, the biggest, most savage mammal which ever trod the Earth!

Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs, all its members are happy consumers. Humans are no longer born but instead grown from embryos in huge research labs, their social status predetermined. Bernard Marx seems alone in feeling discontent. Harbouring an unnatural desire for solitude, and a perverse distaste for the pleasures of compulsory promiscuity, Bernard has an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress. Huxley's vision of the future is also a chilling comment on the present.

Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs, all its members are happy consumers. Humans are no longer born but instead grown from embryos in huge research labs, their social status predetermined. Bernard Marx seems alone in feeling discontent. Harbouring an unnatural desire for solitude, and a perverse distaste for the pleasures of compulsory promiscuity, Bernard has an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress. Huxley's vision of the future is also a chilling comment on the present.

James's novella is one of the great intellectual ghost stories of all time. A highly-strung governess believes that the two children in her care are being haunted by the malevolent ghosts of previous staff, and seeks to exorcise them - but is she a victim of her own neuroses, or of something much more sinister?

The year is 2021. No child has been born for a quarter of a century. The human race faces extinction. Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiatt, Warden of England, the old are despairing, the young beautiful but cruel.

Sent to Rome as executor of his estranged father's will, Jack Chambers learns of the magnetic temperament of the man who deserted him when he was five. As Jack traces his father's search for enlightenment, he is drawn into a terrifying supernatural world, where the truth is what he least expects. Nominated for the best novel award by the British Fantasy Society.

Ray Richardson, a brilliant architechnologist, has created 'The Gridiron' in the heart of Los Angeles. Every aspect of the building is controlled by an intricate computer system, but after two bizarre deaths, on the eve of the official opening, the computer reveals itself as set to destroy its creators. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE.

In Derry, Maine, four boys once stood together and did a very brave thing - something that changed them in ways they could not understand. A quarter of a century later, on one of their annual hunting trips, things are different. This time a man comes stumbling out of the woods, disoriented and muttering about lights in the sky.

A Radio 4 dramatisation of a Stephen King horror novel. Dr Louis Creed and his wife chose rural Maine to settle their family and bring up their children. It was a better place than smog-covered Chicago - or so they thought before they became acquainted with the old pet cemetary. CONTAINS ADULT CONTENT AND STRONG LANGUAGE.

Four complete tales of horror from the master of the modern macabre thriller. The stories are: 'The Raft' which features a primeval sea creature with an insatiable appetite; 'Mrs Todd's Shortcut'; 'The Monkey' which tells the story of an innocent-looking toy with sinister powers; and 'Gramma' who only wanted to hug little George - even after her death.

Junction City, Iowa, is an unlikely place for evil to be hiding. Sam Peebles is a middle-aged businessman who happens to have some overdue books. This may seem a minor offence - but not to Junction City's malevolent monster of a librarian.

A classic tale of wizards, dragons and terrifying shadows. The young wizard Sparrowhawk, tempted by pride to try spells beyond his powers, lets loose an evil shadow-beast in his land. Only he can destroy it, and this quest leads him to the farthest corner of Earthsea.

Both a classic horror story and a poignant romance, this is the macabre tale of a masked monster known as the 'Phantom of the Opera', who lives beneath the Paris Opera House. In love with beautiful singer Christine Daae, the Phantom devises a plan to bring her into his palace - and keep her there forever.

The earth's climate has changed - it's colder than ever before in the north, and unbearably dry and hot in the south. Mara, who is seven, and her four-year-old brother Dann live on the African continent, now called Ifrik. When they find themselves lost and alone, they are taken in by a kindly, grandmotherly woman, but this new life is hard: hunger, dirt, thirst and danger are the children's constant companions. Drought and fire carry off their adoptive home and force them to set off northward into the unknown, to experience a series of adventures featuring giant spiders and water dragons...

This is a radio dramatisation of a 'Star Wars' adventure, broadcast in the year the film was released and previously unavailable outside the USA. Starring Mark Hamill with the original music and sound effects from the classic film, it includes the episode 'Points of Origin'.

The dramatisation for radio of the classic film continues with the episodes 'Jedi That Was', 'The Millennium Falcon Deal', 'The Han Solo Solution' and 'Death Star's Transit'.

The final instalment of the dramatisation for radio of the classic film contains the episodes 'Rogues, Rebels and Robots', 'The Luke Skywalker Initiative', 'The Jedi Nexus', 'The Case for Rebellion' and 'Force and Counterforce'.

In this dramatisation for radio, the story of 'The Empire Strikes Back' has been expanded with scenes and characters not found in the film. This volume contains the episodes 'Freedom's Winter', 'The Coming Storm', 'A Question of Survival' and 'Fire and Ice'.

The second volume of this dramatisation for radio contains the episodes 'The Millennium Falcon Pursuit', 'Way of the Jedi', 'New Allies', 'New Enemies' and 'Dark Lord's Fury'.

In the final volume of this dramatisation for radio the story of 'The Empire Strikes Back' ends with the episodes 'Gambler's Choice' and 'The Clash of Lightsabres'.

Dramatised for radio, 'The Return of the Jedi' brings to its long awaited conclusion the 'Star Wars' story. It features many of the cast and crew of the film version and the original music and sound effects.

Part 1 of The Corelian Trilogy. A trade summit at Corellia brings Han Solo back to the home planet he left many years before. Arriving on the distant planet he finds Corellia overrun with agents of the New Republic Intelligence and finds himself part of a deceptive plan whose aim not even he understands.

Part 2 of The Corellian Trilogy. Han Solo is imprisoned on the planet Corellia and finds himself at the mercy of his dark side cousin, Thracken Sal-Solo. Meanwhile, other questions threatened the New Republic - and the lives of millions.

Part 3 of The Corellian Triology. Luke Skywalker and Lando Calrissian discover the terrifying secret of Centrepoint Station.

The dragonriders took to the skies and their flying dragons swirled in space, belching flames that destroyed the strands before they reached the ground. But F'lar knew he had to find it before the rebellious Oldtimers could breed any more dissent - and before his brother launched another suicide mission. The second book in the Dragonriders of Pern series.

With the New Alliance firmly established, Princess Leia Organa has taken a strong leading role in government, but even now safety and security are not assured. As Luke Skywalker and Han Solo take advantage of the stability of the new order, Leia and Han's children are kidnapped.

Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the harsh totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth and liberty he begins a secret love affair with a fellow-worker, Julia, but he comes to realise that he cannot outwit the forces at work.

Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the harsh totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth and liberty he begins a secret love affair with a fellow-worker, Julia, but he comes to realise that he cannot outwit the forces at work.

The first book in the Gormenghast trilogy, this volume introduces Titus Groan, heir to Lord Sepulchrave. He inherits the miles of rambling stone and mortar that form Gormenghast Castle and its surrounding kingdom. His world is peopled by the dark characters who inhabit the castle's half-lit corridors.

The first book in the Gormenghast trilogy, this volume introduces Titus Groan, heir to Lord Sepulchrave. He inherits the miles of rambling stone and mortar that form Gormenghast Castle and its surrounding kingdom. His world is peopled by the dark characters who inhabit the castle's half-lit corridors.

Within the crumbling, cobwebbed kingdom of Gormenghast, Lord Titus, the 77th earl, is aware of the creeping evil that haunts him. His twin sisters and several officials have met terrible and secret ends, and Titus feels that he must either quosh the evil or escape from it. The second book in the Gormanghast trilogy.

Within the crumbling, cobwebbed kingdom of Gormenghast, Lord Titus, the 77th earl, is aware of the creeping evil that haunts him. His twin sisters and several officials have met terrible and secret ends, and Titus feels that he must either quosh the evil or escape from it. The second book in the Gormanghast trilogy.

Titus Groan has abdicated. Brought up in the rotting castle of Gormenghast, he has rebelled against the age-old rituals and run headlong into the outside world. The concluding part of the Gormenghast trilogy.

Titus Groan has abdicated. Brought up in the rotting castle of Gormenghast, he has rebelled against the age-old rituals and run headlong into the outside world. The concluding part of the Gormenghast trilogy.

Set just after 'The Return of the Jedi', this Star Wars adventure features the shocking return of Black Sun, the vast crime syndicate.

This collection of Poe's best stories contains all the terrifying and bewildering tales that characterise his work. As well as the Gothic horror of 'The Pit and the Pendulum' and other similar tales, all of Poe's 'Auguste Dupin' stories are included.

This chilling collection of stories and poems by the master of the macabre includes such classics as 'The Masque of the Red Death', 'The Raven' and 'The Fall of the House of Usher'.

The incomparable Basil Rathbone reads six of Poe's best tales of horror: 'The Tell-Tale Heart', a story of a man's descent into insanity; 'The Fall of the House of Usher', a tale in which ghostly sighs echo through the night; 'The Cask of Amontillado', a notorious chronicle of revenge; 'The Black Cat, The Masque of the Red Death', and the nerve-wracking classic, 'The Pit and the Pendulum'.

A real witch never usually steps out of her body and leaves it empty. Eleven year old Tiffany Aching does and there is something ancient and horrible just waiting for a body like that to take over. Tiffany returns for this new adventure, helped once again by the Nac Mac Feegle, the rowdiest, toughest, smelliest bunch of fairies ever to be thrown out of Fairyland for being drunk at two in the afternoon.

The wizard Drum Billet decides the time has come to relinquish his power and choose a successor, who should by rights be the eighth son of an eighth son. The designated eighth son, though, is female, and wizards are meant to be male. The third book in the Discworld series.

The wizard Drum Billet decides the time has come to relinquish his power and choose a successor, who should by rights be the eighth son of an eighth son. The designated eighth son, though, is female, and wizards are meant to be male. The third book in the Discworld series.

Eric is the Discworld's only demonology hacker. The trouble is, he's not very good at it. All he wants is the usual three wishes: to be immortal, rule the world and have the world's most beautiful woman fall madly in love with him. The usual stuff. But what he gets is Rincewind, and Rincewind's luggage into the bargain. The 11th book in the Discworld series.

As autumn fogs hold Ankh-Morpok in their grip, the City Watch must find a murderer who can't be seen. The golems may know something, but they've all started to commit suicide. And on top of all this, the Watch have other problems to deal with, such as a werewolf suffering from Pre-Lunar Tension. The 19th book in the Discworld series.

Terror stalks the streets of Ankh-Morpork, greatest city on the Discworld. Something is turning unwary citizens into things resembling small charcoal biscuits. To the rescue come Carrott, Sergeant Vimes and the other members of the inebriated night watch. The eighth book in the Discworld series.

Terror stalks the streets of Ankh-Morpork, greatest city on the Discworld. Something is turning unwary citizens into things resembling small charcoal biscuits. To the rescue come Carrott, Sergeant Vimes and the other members of the inebriated night watch. The eighth book in the Discworld series.

Where is the big jolly fat man? Why is Death creeping down chimneys and trying to say Ho Ho Ho? The darkest night of the year is getting a lot darker. Susan the gothic governess has got to sort it out by morning, otherwise there won't be a morning. Ever again. The 20th book in the Discworld series.

The oldest empire on the Discworld is in turmoil, brought about by the revolutionary treatise 'What I Did on My Holidays'. Workers are uniting, with nothing to lose but their water buffaloes. Warlords are struggling for power. War (and Clancy) are spreading throughout the ancient cities. The 16th book in the Discworld series.

The oldest empire on the Discworld is in turmoil, brought about by the revolutionary treatise 'What I Did on My Holidays'. Workers are uniting, with nothing to lose but their water buffaloes. Warlords are struggling for power. War (and Clancy) are spreading throughout the ancient cities. The 16th book in the Discworld series.

It's a hot Midsummer Night. Everything ought to be going like a dream as Magrat Garlick, witch, is going to be married in the morning. But crop circles are turning up everywhere and the Lancre All-Comers Morris Team have got drunk on a fairy mound. The 13th book in the Discworld series.

It's a hot Midsummer Night. Everything ought to be going like a dream as Magrat Garlick, witch, is going to be married in the morning. But crop circles are turning up everywhere and the Lancre All-Comers Morris Team have got drunk on a fairy mound. The 13th book in the Discworld series.

The Opera House, Ankh-Morpork, is a huge, rambling building, where innocent young sopranos are lured to their destiny by an evil mastermind in a hideously deformed evening dress. But Granny Weatherwax, Discworld's most famous witch, is in the audience and she doesn't hold with that sort of thing. The 18th book in the Discworld series.

The Opera House, Ankh-Morpork, is a huge, rambling building, where innocent sopranos are lured to their destiny by an evil mastermind in a hideously deformed evening dress. But Granny Weatherwax, Discworld's most famous witch, is in the audience and she doesn't hold with that sort of thing. The 18th book in the Discworld series.

Corporal Carrot, a young dwarf, is newly in charge of the recruits guarding Ankh-Morpork. Edward, the 37th Lord d'Eath, has just discovered that Ankh-Morpork, kingless for generations, has a sovereign ruler, who must be convinced that he is, in fact, the King. The fate of Ankh-Morpork rides on a young man's courage, an ancient sword's magic and a three-legged poodle's bladder. The 14th book in the Discworld series.

Corporal Carrot, a young dwarf, is newly in charge of the recruits guarding Ankh-Morpork. Edward, the 37th Lord d'Eath, has just discovered that Ankh-Morpork, Kingless for generations, has a sovereign ruler, who must be convinced that he is, in fact, the King. The fate of Ankh-Morpork rides on a young man's courage, an ancient sword's magic and a three-legged poodle's bladder. The 14th book in the Discworld series.

Polly Perks had to become a boy in a hurry. Cutting off her hair and wearing trousers was easy. Learning to belch in public and walk like an ape took more time... And now she's enlisted in the army, looking for her lost brother. But there's a war on, and Polly and her fellow recruits are suddenly in the thick of it, without any training. All they have on their side is the most artful sergeant in the army and a vampire with a lust for coffee... The 30th book in the Discworld series.

Death comes to us all. When he came to Mort, he offered him a job. After being assured that being dead was not compulsory, Mort accepted. However, he soon found that romantic longings did not mix easily with the responsibilities of being Death's apprentice. The fourth book in the Discworld series.

Death comes to us all. When he came to Mort, he offered him a job. After being assured that being dead was not compulsory, Mort accepted. However, he soon found that romantic longings did not mix easily with the responsibilities of being Death's apprentice. The fourth book in the Discworld series.

The alchemists of the Discworld have discovered the magic of the silver screen, and the inhabitants of Ankh-Morpork achieve stardom as the cameras roll. But what is the dark secret of Holy Wood hill? It's up to Victor Tugelbend and Theda Withel to find out. The ninth book in the Discworld series.

Set in the desert kingdom of Djelibeybi, 'Pyramids' follows the adventures and, more often, misadventures of Teppic, a teenage pharoah faced with a terror-filled world of mad high priests, sacred crocodiles, marching mummies and exploding pyramids. The seventh book in the Discworld series.

Set in the desert kingdom of Djelibeybi, 'Pyramids' follows the adventures and, more often, misadventures of Teppic, a teenage pharoah faced with a terror-filled world of mad high priests, sacred crocodiles, marching mummies and exploding pyramids. The seventh book in the Discworld series.

Death is missing. Dead Rights activist Reg Shoe suddenly has more work than he'd ever dreamed of, and newly-deceased wizard Windle Poons wakes up in his coffin to find that he has come back as a corpse. The tenth book in the Discworld series.

Death is missing. Dead Rights activist Reg Shoe suddenly has more work than he'd ever dreamed of, and newly-deceased wizard Windle Poons wakes up in his coffin to find that he has come back as a corpse. The tenth book in the Discworld series.

Brutha is a novice with little chance of becoming a priest. He can't read or write, but he's pretty good at growing melons, and his wants are few. He wants peace and justice and brotherly love, but most of all he wants his god, who's currently in the shape of a tortoise, to choose someone else. The 12th book in the Discworld series.

Brutha is a novice with little chance of becoming a priest. He can't read or write, but he's pretty good at growing melons, and his wants are few. He wants peace and justice and brotherly love, but most of all he wants his god, who's currently in the shape of a tortoise, to choose someone else. The 12th book in the Discworld series.

It's hard to grow up normally when grandfather rides a white horse and wields a scythe - especially when you have to take over the family business, everyone thinks you're the Tooth Fairy, and you have to face the new and addictive music that has reached the Discworld. The 16th book in the Discworld series.

Coin may only be a child, but he is also an extremely powerful sourcerer who has decided that he wants to take over the Discworld. The only people who stand in his way are Rincewind the inept wizard, Conina the Great Barbarian Thief who really wants to be a hairdresser, and Nijel. The fifth book in the Discworld series.

The first book in the 'Bromeliad' trilogy, which is followed by 'Diggers' (7256) and 'Wings' (7257). The nomes are tiny little people who, up until now, lived happily beneath the floorboards of Arnold Bros department store. But their tiny, comfortable world is shattered when they discover that the store is to be demolished and they have to find a way of getting to the Outside. The only escape route is via one of the huge trucks that humans use to deliver goods - but first the nomes all have to be educated by the Sationari, and to do that the bickering between departments simply has to stop.

The second novel in the 'Bromeliad' trilogy, which follows 'Truckers' (5334). The third book in the trilogy is 'Wings' (7257). After being rescued from death and destruction on the back of a lorry, the nomes now have to begin the real battle for survival 'Outside'. As winter rages in the quarry where the nomes have made their new home, the tribes start to bicker amongst themselves. But the everyday squabbling of the nomes is nothing compared to the Great Battle they will have to fight to save the quarry, and it is the intrepid Masklin who once again steps in to save the nomes from destruction by humans.