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By Sam Read Bookseller
Every Book a Doorway - Sci Fi and Fantasy

Fantasy reads recommended by Hannah Catterall

Spinning Silver
Naomi Novik
£9.99 £9.49An intricate, wintry novel set in a fantasy version of Poland. It follows the lives of a money-lender's daughter, a princess married to a terrifying prince, and a servant-woman who goes to desperate lengths.

Gideon the Ninth
Tamsyn Muir
£14.99 £14.24Gideon the Ninth is the coolest book I've ever read in my life & isn't easily summarised, so here's the cover blurb: "Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space! Decadent nobles vie to serve the deathless emperor! Skeletons!"

The Raven Tower
Ann Leckie
£10.99 £10.44Based on the story of Hamlet - but it's written from the perspective of Strength and Patience of the Hill, an ancient god in the form of a giant rock that rests on a tall hill.

Ninefox Gambit
Yoon Ha Lee
£8.99 £8.54A mathematical military space opera. Captain Cheris is tasked with breaking a blockade - and so she requests the aid of the greatest tactician ever known. Only problem? She has to host his malevolent ghost in her own body.

This is How You Lose the Time War: The epic time-travelling love story and Twitter sensation
Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
£12.99 £12.34This is This is How You Lose the Time War is a gorgeously poetic epistolary novella documenting the relationship between two agents on different sides of the time war.

The Luminous Dead: A Novel
Caitlin Starling
£9.99 £9.49A horror novel following a caver on a distant planet. She is tasked with mapping the mineral deposits in a tunnel system that has already killed everyone who came before her - and there's something in there with her.

The Light Brigade
Kameron Hurley
£10.99 £10.44The Light Brigade is a mind-melting thriller about a futuristic war between corrupt capitalist corporations, in which soldiers are broken down into light in order to get them to the front lines on Mars.

A Local Habitation (Toby Daye Book 2)
Seanan McGuire
£9.99 £9.49A Local Habitation is part of a series of detective novels following a grouchy faerie knight. In this installment, she sets out to solve a series of murders at a faerie-run IT company (where a dryad lives in the server network).