 | The Eye of the World (Wheel of Time) by Robert Jordan
Buy new: £5.54 / Used from: £0.01 Fantasy - The first in a brilliant series where a young man discovers he has hidden powers that can break the world. He is trained, hunted and helped by an awesome array of characters and humanoids.
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 | The Lord of The Rings (Based on the 50th Anniversary Single volume edition 2004) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £0.44 The grand-daddy of them all. Can be hard work but well worth the effort as you totally lose yourself in Tolkein's massive and perfectly realised world. You've got to do this one!
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 | The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever: "Lord Foul's Bane", "Illearth War" and "Power That Preserves" (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant) by Stephen Donaldson
Buy new: £10.99 / Used from: £2.63 Fantasy - the series that started me writing! Wonderful history and magical lore with really believable characters and some friends to die for! The fight and battle sequences are just stunning.
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 | Jason Willow by Gareth Craig Mottram
Buy new: £6.99 Real World Fantasy - Imagine a mix of the later Harry Potters, Buffy/Angel and the Supernatural T.V. series. Packed full of hard hitting martial arts and gun action, suspense and supernatural powers
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 | Lord Loss (Book One of The Demonata) by Darren Shan
Buy new: £2.99 / Used from: £0.67 Teenage Fantasy/Horror - Well paced realisation of the existence of demons and it coming down to some pretty ordinary kid to deal with it all. Nice Relationship building too.
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 | Raven's Gate (Power of Five) by Anthony Horowitz
Buy new: £4.54 / Used from: £0.01 "A real, down to earth hero, excellent in-the-sticks village/farm location and slowly revealed powers. V.good build up and atmosphere."
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 | Dark Magick (Wicca) by Cate Tiernan
Buy used from: £2.00 A female heroine in a realistic teenage life discovering she has fantastic witch like powers but is not alone. Good emotional angst thrown in amongst the suspense.
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 | Hellhole (Sorcerers of the Nightwing) by Geoffrey Huntington
Buy used from: £0.01 Teenage Fantasy/Horror - Nice discovery of powers coupled with spooky location, Poltergeist sucked in to the TV type demons and a whole host of evil just on the other side of the wall!
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 | Across the Nightingale Floor (Tales of the Otori) by Lian Hearn
Buy new: £4.19 / Used from: £0.74 Subltle magic but mysterious and fleshed out secret clans and well paced exciting Samurai and Ninja-like combat/action scenes which leap into life all across your mind. Believable relationships"
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 | Boy Soldier by Andy McNab
Buy new: £3.59 / Used from: £0.01 Losing the fantasy element totally but good if you're after realistic action with a boy hero who is most definitely not all powerful and very much learning on the job. Tough and gritty.
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