The stunningly original and brilliant first novel from a storytelling genius

The first case file from Harry Dresden, a modern-day wizard and P.I.

After three years in prison, Shadow has done his time. But as the time until his release ticks away, he can feel a storm brewing. Two days before he gets out, his wife Laura dies in a car crash, in adulterous circumstances. Dazed, Shadow travels home, only to encounter the bizarre Mr Wednesday claiming to be a refugee from a distant war.

Bursting with imaginative power, this story blends fantasy with humour and drama

The second case file from Harry Dresden, a modern-day wizard and private investigator who gets into some seriously challenging situations.

The hottest new supernatural thriller series, from a major new voice in urban fantasy.

The seventh case file from Harry Dresden, a modern-day wizard who gets into some seriously challenging situations.

The third case file from Harry Dresden, a modern-day wizard who gets into some seriously challenging situations.

The story of a young girl who must put the pieces of her life back together in the tough streets of New York. This is a novel of passion, loss, courage - and of the sometimes terrible tolls exacted from us just to stay alive.

A sinister, chilling fantasy about ancient power struggles, menacing villains and beautiful dark heroes from the author of The Spiderwick Chronicles.

When 17-year-old Valerie Russell runs away to New York City, she's trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city's labyrinthine subway system. But there's something eerily beguiling about Val's new friends.

The fourth case file from Harry Dresden, a modern-day wizard who gets into some seriously challenging situations.

An exploration of Los Angeles, told with passion, wit and a sharp eye for the absurd, the unjust and the dangerous. The author tells a lurid tale of greed, manipulation, power and prejudice that has made LA one of the most cosmopolitan and class-divided cities in the United States.

With a third of the global urban population already living in Dickensian slums, at least half under the age of twenty, this book explores the threat of disease, of forced settlement on hazardous terrains, and of state violence on huge populations. It also shows how poverty grew massively in the 1990s.

The sixth case file from Harry Dresden, a modern-day wizard who gets into some seriously challenging situations.

The fifth case file from Harry Dresden, a modern-day wizard who gets into some seriously challenging situations.

'I don't date vampires. I kill them.' The first book in the New York Times bestselling Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series: sharp, sassy, sexy and bloody good fun.

Harry Dresden, PI, is a modern-day wizard with a bad habit of getting into danger. His most recent case looks set to follow the trend - and this time it's personal . . .