The Forever WarPrivate William Mandella is a reluctant hero in an interstellar war against an unknowable and unconquerable alien enemy. But his greatest test will be when he returns home. Relativity means that for every few months' tour of duty centuries have passed on Earth, isolating the combatants ever more from the world for whose future they are fighting. The Earth he knew is dead. The one he returns to . . . unrecognisable. Winner of the Nebula, Locus and Hugo

meticulous and wondrously original' PHILIPPE SANDS

Through nighttime raids on enemy compounds and combat advising of resistance movements

he decides that alongside his adventuring job

- Find peace

including speech delay and difficulty learning to read

THE BURGLAR IN THE LIBRARY: Bernie rarely ventures outside Manhattan but he's excited by the prospect of a getaway at a remote upstate BandB

Rory won't desert her this time and

Maybe Maltesers

Foreword by Professor John Wass

A helpful stranger at a gas station shoves a petrol pump down a customer's throat and squeezes the trigger

and an unflappable dedication to the New York Knicks

the lives of Broken's defenders and its would-be destroyers intertwine until secretly