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I like Steph Swainston. And her books seems to be available as ebooks. Here is the first one:

http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9...War/index.aspx

Different fantasy and as one reviewer wrote:

http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfic...rofourwar2.htm

This is a bizarre, baffling, baroque fantasy which has been highly acclaimed as the first novel by British author Steph Swainston.

This is fantasy on a completely different planet from those cover scanseemingly endless young people's heroic questing coming-of-age trilogies which stretch into 10 or 11 books. Instead of a medieval-type world, the setting of The Year of Our War is an odd, unclear mixture. The characters wear jeans and T-shirts, read newspapers and paperback novels, enjoy Marathon races. However, they also wear armour and fight with swords, bows and arrows, rule Manors and are ruled in turn from the Emperor's Castle.