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Legends of Shannara; Book 1. Five hundred years have passed since the devastating demon-led war that almost exterminated humankind. Those who escaped the carnage were led to sanctuary by the boy saviour known as Hawk: the gypsy morph. But now, the unimaginable has come to pass: the cocoon of protective magic surrounding the valley has vanished. Then Sider Ament, last surviving Knight of the Word, detects unknown predators stalking the valley, and Trackers from the human village of Glensk Wood, find two of their own gruesomely killed, there can be no doubt: the once safe haven of generations has been laid bare. Together, the young Trackers, the aging Knight, and a daring Elf princess race to spread word of the encroaching danger. But suspicion and hostility among their countrymen threaten to doom their efforts from within, while beyond the breached borders, a ruthless Troll army masses for invasion. Standing firm between the two, the last wielder of the black staff and its awesome magic must find a successor to carry on the fight against the cresting new wave of evil. Cover art by Steve Stone. -
Book VI of The Death Gate Cycle. From the army of the Undead, Xar, Lord of Nexus, learns of the existence of the mysterious Seventh Gate. It is said the Gate grants whoever enters it the power to create worlds - or destroy them. Only Haplo knows its location - but he doesn't know he knows it. An ex-lover has been sent to betray Haplo and bring back his corpse. The assassin Hugh the Hand is also after Haplo, wielding the Accursed Blade. With his old companion Alfred, Haplo must seek sanctuary in the Labyrinth - a deadly prison maze whose inhabitants are condemned to death. Cover art by Stephen Youll. -
Book III of Warrior of Mars trilogy. Michael Kane, scientist and warrior extraordinary, travels through space and time for the last time to disease-ravaged Mars. 'I saw a man stagger from a house and come stumbling towards us. There was bloody foam on his lips and his face had a greenish patch coming up from his neck to his nose., One arm seemed paralysed and useless, the other waved about as if he was trying to keep his balance. He saw us, and an articulate cry came from his lips. His eyes were fever-bright and hatred shone from them...' Originally published as Barbarians of Mars. Cover art by Richard Clifton-Dey. -
Book I of The Dark Amulet Cycle. Leighor the Healer's credentials come from a conveniently far-off southern and they might not bear too close a scrutiny. Instead of the rich pickings he'd expected, he found himself in a rural backwater, cold, wet and penniless. So when the summons from the Archbaron came, Leighor saw only a warm bed and a full belly - but he actually landed at the heart of a monstrous conspiracy to allow an evil that men thought long vanquished to return to the world. Falsely accused of murder, Leighor flees with a small band of strange companions to try and avert the election of a new High King who plans to deliver the Realms of the East into the hands of this ancient evil.
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Geomancer: Ian Irvine
$15.00Book I of The Well of Echoes. Tiaan, a lonely crystal worker, is using a new crystal when she begins to have extraordinary visions. The crystal has woken her talent for geomancy, the most powerful of the Secret Arts, and the most perilous - a magic that humanity's allies and enemies alike are desperate to control but it is deadly to the user. Falsely accused of sabotage by her rival, Irisis, Tiaan flees for her life. She is captured by the alien lyrinx Ryll, who plans to use her in his dreadful flesh-forming experiments. Only geomancy can save her and she follows her visions all the way to Tirthrax, greatest peak in the Three Worlds where a nightmare awaits her. Cover art by Nick Stathopolous. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/tetrarch-ian-irvine/ -
Forgotten Realms, Book II of The Cleric series. Cadderly, the Edificant Library's eccentric young scholar-priest has survived his first adventure but the chaos curse is just the beginning of Castle Trinity's plans for regional conquest. Cadderly and his friends must save the inhabitants of the beautiful elven forest Shilmista, where a new opponent leads an army of vile monsters. Not even Cadderly's powerful companions can insulate him from the trials of courage and character he must face. Cover art by Jeff Easley. -
The Gryphon King: Tom Deitz
$20.00A group of eccentric college students are living, goofing off and taking graduate degrees in Athens, Georgia - an off-beat kind of place. Then a library donation shipment arrives...the contents of the mislaid box from the University of Georgia's Rare Book Library includes crumpled newspapers, British bestsellers, old leather-bound folios, and a sword that seems possessed by a mysterious evil...Cover art by Ken Barr. -
Book I of the Apotheosis trilogy. In the shadowed swamps far from the fabulous city of Quamarr, a sorcerer tests the fabric of the Universe - and something stirs in the void beyond the stars. It is incalculably evil and immeasurably old, summoned by the promise of fresh human souls...Meanwhile, in a twentieth century film studio, Red Cordell takes another cheap part in yet another cheap sword and sorcery movie. A beautiful, neglected sword he finds in Props is his only consolation. But in Quamarr, the enchantress Aurilia is in mortal danger. When she calls on the Sword of Corodel, Red finds himself at her side, fighting for her life in a land of waking dreams. Cover art by Duncan Storr. -
Book I of The Orokon. Long ago, the god Orok gave each of his five children crystals to embed on the Rock of Being and Unbeing. From this circle of crystals, known as the Orokon, sprung the gods, the earth, and all its peoples. And, it ensured the harmony of life - until the dark god Koros plucked one from the Rock and plunged the world into chaos and despair. Now, someone has emerged willing to try to reunite the crystals of the Orokon: the young, crippled Jemany Vexing. But, the evil sorcerer Toth-Vexrah has his own plans...and he will let no one stand in his way. Cover art by Kevin Jenkins. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/king-queen-swords-tom-arden/ -
Book VI of Sword Of Truth. Tormented her entire life by inhuman voices, a young woman named Jennsen seeks to end her intolerable agony. She at last discovers a way to silence the voices. For everyone else, the torment is about to begin. With winter descending and the paralyzing dread of an army of annihilation occupying their homeland, Richard Rahl and his wife Kahlan must venture deep into a strange and desolate land. Their quest turns to terror when they find themselves the helpless prey of a tireless hunter. Meanwhile, Jennsen finds herself drawn into the center of a struggle for conquest and revenge. Worse yet, she finds her will seized by forces more abhorrent than anything she ever envisioned. Only then does she come to realize that the voices were real. Staggered by loss and increasingly isolated, Richard and Kahlan must stop the relentless, unearthly threat which has come out of the darkest night of the human soul. To do so, Richard will be called upon to face the demons stalking among the Pillars of Creation. Cover art by Keith Parkinson. -
Book I of The Crown's Game. Vika Andreyeva can summon the snow and turn ash into gold. Nikolai Karimov can see through walls and conjure bridges out of thin air. They are enchanters - the only two in Russia - and with the Ottoman Empire and the Kazakhs threatening, the tsar needs a powerful enchanter by his side. And so he initiates the Crown’s Game, an ancient duel of magical skill - the greatest test an enchanter will ever know. The victor becomes the Imperial Enchanter and the tsar’s most respected adviser. The defeated is sentenced to death. Raised on tiny Ovchinin Island her whole life, Vika is eager for the chance to show off her talent in the grand capital of Saint Petersburg. But can she kill another enchanter - even when his magic calls to her like nothing else ever has? For Nikolai, an orphan, the Crown’s Game is the chance of a lifetime. But his deadly opponent is a force to be reckoned with - beautiful, whip-smart, imaginative - and he can’t stop thinking about her. And when Pasha, Nikolai’s best friend and heir to the throne, also starts to fall for the mysterious enchantress, Nikolai must defeat the girl they both love…or be killed himself. As long-buried secrets emerge, threatening the future of the empire, it becomes dangerously clear: the Crown’s Game is not one to lose. -
The Wicked Day: Mary Stewart
$15.00Book IV of the Arthurian Saga. This volume tells the story of Mordred, Arthur's bastard son by incest with his half-sister Morgause, reared in secret in the Orkney Islands in the hope he would become, as prophesied by Merlin, the doom of her hated half-brother. Mordred desperately fights to deny his destructive destiny against the wishes of his witch-mother Queen Morgause. Here, Mordred is portrayed not as a hero or a villain, but as a fallible human being, an ambitious and powerful man who eventually rose to a position of trust in his father's kingdom, to become regent and eventually, his father's heir. -
Book III of The Horseclans. Bili of Morguhn has been summoned home to claim his inheritance after years of soldiering in the Middle Kingdoms. But the Ehleen nobility and the priests of the Old Religion are planting the seeds of rebellion, swearing to wrest back from Bili and his fellow Horseclansmen the lands and wealth that were once theirs. War seems inevitable, but what Bili does not know is that both his troops and those of his enemy are pawns in a larger game and the stakes are as big as the survival of the Confederation and the Horseclans themselves. Cover art by Luis Royo. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/swords-horseclans-robert-adams/ https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/the-coming-of-the-horseclans-robert-adams/ -
Book II of the Guenevere series. Arthur and Guenevere are holding a glittering feast to celebrate the Knights of the Round Table. But Sir Lancelot is missing, sent away by Guenevere who is tormented by a love for him she can neither honour or deny. As she struggles to reconcile duty and destiny, Lancelot is also torn by conflicting loyalties to his Queen and his King. Can Guenevere endure his absence and the shattering news that there is a rival for his love? -
Henry VIII's England is a time of upheaval, factions and intrigue. Far from the turmoil and glitter of Court life, four children make four wishes - Edward will own all he sees about him; Tom wants to marry the highest in the land; Jane wants to marry a king - and Cloverella wishes for wisdom. Just a game to the three Seymour children. But their strange half-Romany cousin is already aware of her second sight, and knows it is no game. -
Lord Darcy dwells in an alternate world - the history of which diverged from our reality during the reign of King Richard the Lionheart - in which King John never reigned and most of western Europe and the Americas are united in an Angevin Empire whose continental possessions were never lost by that king. Magic-based technology replaces science. Lord Darcy serves the king of a prosperous Empire - its citizens are contented, its rulers are just, its allies staunch and loyal. But there are yet enemies - and when they arise it's time for Lord Darcy, Chief Investigator for the Duke of Normandy, and his sorcerous assistant Sean O'Lochlainn to put their occult skills and canny powers of deduction to use in defence of the King's Justice. This volume contains four stories: A Matter of Gravity; The Ipswich Phial; The Sixteen Keys and The Napoli Express. -
Book VII of North America’s Forgotten Past. Set in ancient Florida, a village of fisher folk must face their deepest fear: Pondwader, a boy of fifteen summers. He is the White Lightning Boy, the first one to be born in tens of tens of summers. His white hair, pink eyes and pale skin make him fearsome enough, but legend says that White Lightning Boy will make Sister Moon hide her face in the clouds and weep falling stars - and the winds of destruction will be unleashed. The fisher folk trade him in marriage to Musselwhite, a woman warrior who really does not want him. She must face an old enemy who has captured her beloved husband - an enemy who is determined to destroy her. What good is this soft boy to her? But she will discover that Pondwader really is a Lightning Boy, who can hear voices in the wind that tell of coming horror. Cover art by Luis Royo. -
Book III of The Incompleat Enchanter: The Mathematics of Magic - it was the greatest discovery ever. Or so thought Professor Harold Shea. With the proper equations he could instantly transport himself and his friend Reed Chalmers back - or sideways - in time to all the wondrous lands of ancient myth and legend. But slips in time were a hazard. and Shea's magic didn't always work quite as he expected. A dragon spell might yield a hundred dragons - or, even worse, one-tenth of a dragon. And the various imaginary lands he travelled to held countless dangers that even Shea's equations couldn't predict...Cover art by Peter Jones. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/prosperos-isle-tom-wham/ -
Book III of Chaos Walking. As a world-ending war surges to life around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions. Three armies march on New Prentisstown, each one intent on destroying the other. Todd and Viola are caught in the middle, with no chance of escape. AS the battle commences, how can they hope to stop the fighting? How can there ever be peace when they're so hopelessly outnumbered? And if war makes monsters of men, what terrible choices await? But then a third voice breaks into the battle...one bent on revenge... -
Book I of Prophecy. The legend of Merlin begins...In the kingdom of Dyfed, Vortigern, Celtic High King of Cymru and the North, rules in relative peace. Yet his choice of wife - a Saxon queen - fuels tension between the Saxon and Celtic tribes. In the town of Segontium, a young boy is raised by his grandmother. The product of a brutal rape, he is spurned by his mother as a demon child. The boy is Myrddion - prince of the Deceangli and apprentice to a skilled healer. Far away, Vortigern oversees the resurrection of ancient Dinas Emrys. According to prophecy, the king will perish if the fort does not rise again. But the foundations refuse to hold and Vortigern needs the blood of a demon seed - a human sacrifice - to make the towers stand firm. Myrddion's life is in danger. Yet the child has a prophecy of his own and a greater destiny to fulfil... -
Straken: Terry Brooks
$10.00Book III of High Druid Of Shannara. Young Penderrin Ohmsford, barely more than a boy, with the daunting task of rescuing his aunt, Grianne, Ard Rhys of the Druid order, from her forced exile in the terrifying dimension of all things damned: the Forbidding. With the noble dwarf Tagwen and the prodigal elven princess Khyber Elessedil by his side–and with the outcome of the bloody war between the Federation and the Free-born at stake–Pen has accepted his mission without question. But not without risk...or sacrifice. Shadea a’Ru, the ruthless Druid responsible for imprisoning the true Ard Rhys and usurping leadership at Paranor, has sent her agents and assassins in relentless pursuit of Pen and his comrades. And in securing the talisman he needs to breach the Forbidding, Pen has paid a devastating price. Now if the last of the Free-born forces should fail, Shadea’s domination of the Four Lands will be assured. Only Pen’s success can turn the tide. But Pen’s challenge grows greater when he learns that his parents, Bek Ohmsford and Rue Meridian, have fallen into Shadea’s hands. He must try to save them by plunging into the depths of Druid's Keep, where Shadea’s minions and dark magic lurk at every turn. Yet these dangers will all pale in comparison to the horrors that wait inside the Forbidding–horrors poised to break free upon the Four Lands when the time is right...Cover art by Steve Stone. -
Book II of The Bitterbynde. Although Imrhien's memory is clouded by sorcery, she must take vital news to the King-Emperor of Caermelor. She hopes that there she may also find Thorn, the fearless ranger who has won her heart. Since no commoner may approach the royal court, Imrhien assumes a new identity as Rohain, a noble visitor from the distant Sorrow Isles. She soon discovers that the King and his rangers have departed to battle the Unseelie hordes which have suddenly declared war against mortals. Attacks by nightmare monsters of the Wild Hunt, led by the unseelie Lord Huon, grow ever more frequent and brutal. And when evil forces lay siege to the royal sanctuary on a hidden mystic island, Rohain is confronted with a horrifying discovery. To protect those she loves, the Lady of the Sorrows must undertake a desperate quest to discover who she is and why an unhuman evil would wreak such destruction. But the truth of Rohain's past will prove more incredible - and far more tragic - than any she could possibly have imagined. Cover art by Paul Gregory. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/the-battle-of-evernight-cecilia-dart-thornton-2/ -
Imperial Light: Mary Corran
$12.00The ruling force of an evil priesthood is killing the land. Chosen to undertake 'special worship', the outcast Kyria is imprisoned in a sea cave and left to die. Brought up in the ways of an ancient, banned religion, a miracle and her own iron will save her life. From then on she is exiled to a harsh prison island. Hilarion is dangerous - an Imperial Heir who can see through the lies of the Lords of Light and who must hide his own thoughts. When he learns the ways of the Old Gods, he knows he must find the prophesised Lightbearer, whom the Lords of Light would kill at any cost. But the Old Gods have very real powers and They seek to save the land through the Lightbearer, to open the old temples, bathe the land in true light and save the entire country from evil and death. So when Kyria escapes from prison and Hilarion can no longer avoid the dangers of the Imperial Court, the wheels of fate are set in motion. Cover art by Steve Crisp.
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Book III of the Empire trilogy. Besieged by spies and rival houses, stalked by a secret and merciless brotherhood of assassins, the brilliant Lady Mara of the Acoma faces the most deadly challenge she has ever known. The fearsome Black Robes see Mara as the ultimate threat to their ancient power. In search of allies who will join her against them, Mara must travel beyond civilization's borders and even into the hives of the alien cho-ja. As those near and dear to her fall victim to many enemies, Mara cries out for vengeance. Drawing on all of her courage and guile she prepares to fight her greatest battle of all - for her life, her home, and the Empire itself. Cover art by Geoff Taylor. -
Book I of The Fall Of Atlantis. Domaris, disciple of the Temple of Light, was wrenched from her peaceful life by the arrival of the Atlantean prince Micon, whose powers over wind and sun, earth and fire are coveted by the sorcerers of the dark who would harness his gifts for their own evil ends. Soon, out of a tender, earthly passion, would rise forces that might decide the final victory. Soon, Domaris would bear Micon a son - but Deoris, her sister, would be enthralled by the forces of darkness.
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After incinerating the evil witch in her candy-house oven, Hansel and Gretel grow up to become famed witch hunters - with loads of cool weaponry and a bag of tricks to outwit evil witches everywhere. Mayor Englemann of Ausberg has hired the siblings to rescue the town's missing children, who are presumed abducted by witches - and Hansel and Gretel must find them before the coming Blood Moon, where the witches plan to sacrifice twelve children to gain immunity to fire, their greatest weakness. But it's going t0 take all their ingenuity, knowledge and weaponry to defeat the greatest evil they have ever faced. Also stars Thomas Mann, Famke Janssen and Peter Stormare
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