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The Fifth Season Series: Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin

In the Stillness, survival is everything – especially if you are an orogene, a human born with the ability to control the energy of the earth itself. Feared and reviled, orogenes like Essun must blend in if they want to live. But when a cataclysm turns society on its head, Essun realises she has a chance to end this oppression once and for all… Mr Gormley says: “Jemisin’s world -building is like no other, and her characters are amazingly complex. The trilogy is engrossing and ambitious – once you start, you’ll be hooked.”

Babel by R.F. Kuang

Oxford, 1836 . Robin Swift is brought from Canton to England, there to study the magic of words (quite literally) at Oxford’s Royal Institute of Translation, the centre of Britain’s imperial power. But what at first seems like a paradise to Robin and his friends quickly descends into a nightmare – for the Empire’s methods are far from innocent. Can one student stand up to the might of an empire?

A thrilling alternative-history fantasy about language and resistance.

A Winter’s Promise Series: Mirror Visitor by Christelle Dabos

Long ago, the world broke apart into floating islands called arks. Ophelia lives on one such ark, Anima – but her peaceful existence is shattered when she is promised in marriage to Thorn, an influential member of a faraway clan. On the icy ark of Pole, Ophelia realises she is a pawn in a much bigger, and much more dangerous, game… A spellbinding novel, perfect for fans of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials and Philip Reeves’ Mortal Engines.