A fantasy manga about an adventurer who’s disowned for always being second best at magic, swordsmanship, and countless other disciplines, and yet that’s what makes him the ultimate jack of all trades!Cleo Farshid has been disowned from his noble family due to his inability to be number one in anything at the Royal Academy. Cleo decides to escape his stuffy life and live more freely, taking advantage of his skills to become an adventurer. Neither he nor his father h...

**One of NPR's 50 Favorite Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books of the Past DecadeMagic and mayhem clash with the British elite in this whimsical and sparkling debut.**The Royal Society of Unnatural Philosophers maintains the magic within His Majesty’s lands. But lately, the once proper institute has fallen into disgrace, naming an altogether unsuitable gentleman as their Sorcerer Royal and allowing England’s stores of magic to bleed dry. At least they haven’t stooped so low as to allo...

High above the blood- and mud-soaked trenches, a young girl pits herself against army mages in high stakes aerial duels with bullets, spells, and bayonets. Her name is Tanya Degurechaff and she is the Devil of the Rhine, one of the greatest soldiers the Empire has ever seen! But inside her mind lives a ruthless, calculating ex-salaryman who enjoyed a peaceful life in Japan until he woke up in a war-torn world. Reborn as a destitute orphaned girl with nothing to her name but memories of a p...

Expanded debut collection (9 new stories) very popular award-winning author with broad genre support Grew up in Malaysia, lives in England, has travelled to US in past novel from Tor in spring 2021 #ownvoices #WeNeedDiverseBooks

Award-winning author Zen Cho delivers a sparkling and witty rivals-to-lovers romance reminiscent of Sally Thorne's The Hating Game and Sajni Patel's The Trouble with Hating You.Sparks fly when an ambitious rules-bound lawyer clashes with a maverick new hire who threatens his chances of partnership—and the walls he's built around his heart.Charles Goh has always played by the rules. It’s how he survived his difficult childhood as t...

Saturn has been saying goodbye her whole life. As a soldier's daughter, she learned early that nothing stays — not houses, not friends, not home. Only music and books ever stayed constant, the one thing that never asked her to leave.She built a life out of impermanence: surviving bullying, grief, and the relentless pressure of the spotlight, always ready to walk away before anything could truly hold her. It was easier that way. Safer.Then she arrives in a city that feels li...

Guardians are defenders, carers and guides. Some look after individual people, others whole planets or universes, but all share a strong belief in their responsibility to protect their charges.The Guardian is an anthology of eleven science fiction short stories by writers from across the globe. It is part of the Newcomer series of scifi anthologies.The stories are:-Awakening - Alasdair ShawThe Lattice - Jeff TanyardBiting Shadow - C GoldGate of D...

This collection contains Books 1 - 4 of the Horny Zombies Crave Tacos series.About the Horny Zombies Crave Tacos series:In the zombie apocalypse, the walking dead have evolved and no longer wish to eat women anymore. Instead, their lust for "tacos" have overwhelmed their desire for brains and they simply wish to stick their still in tact penises into the holiest of holy holes.However, zombies are not...

An Alphabet of Embers is an anthology of unclassifiables – lyrical, surreal, magical, experimental pieces that straddle the border between poetry and prose. It lives in a place between darkness and sound, between roads and breaths, its pages taut with starlight; between its covers, words talk to each other, and have an occasional cup of tea.Edited by Rose Lemberg, featuring work by:Alvaro Zinos-AmaroAmal El-MohtarArkady MartineCeleste Rita Baker...

From the renowned**, award-winning author** Zen Cho comes a delightfully funny romance about family, class, and love in modern London.From the outside, Renee Goh’s life looks perfect. She’s thirty and beautiful, runs a glamorous—and profitable—women’s clothing company in London, and is dating a hot Taiwanese pop star.But Renee is lonely. Estranged from her family in Singapore, she practically lives at the office, and now she’s just been dum...

A finalist for the 2022 World Fantasy Award for Best NovelOne of BookPage's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2021One of Tor.com Reviewers' Choice Best Books of 2021One of Book Riot's Best SFF Standalones of 2021“Ghosts. Gods. Gangsters. Black Water Sister has it all…a wildly entertaining coming-of-age story for the twentysomething set, with a protagonist who is almost painfully relatab...

When the average Japanese salaryman is suddenly thrown into in a world wracked with warfare and hardship by a supernatural power, they might first think to hide or run away. But not Tanya Degurechaff. A calculating and utilitarian man has been reborn as a child soldier. This young girl will do anything to rise in rank and find a way to live a life of comfort, and woe to any king, country, or god who stands in her way.