One was "Swordspoint" (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0553585495/qid=1142184881/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/203-9924649-4535963) by Ellen Kushner. I've already read it. I read it in one sitting, so it must have done something right, but it's not lingered too much in my mind afterwards. I think I'd have liked it a lot more had it been one of a series, in which I could really have got to know the characters, and not just a one-off.

The other is "Luck in the shadows" (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0553575422/qid=1142184954/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/203-9924649-4535963) by Lynn Flewelling, but I've not read it yet. It's almost definitely going to be one of my aeroplane reads on Friday.