Fantasy

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  • Book II of The Dragon King.  It has been ten years since Quentin helped Eskevar, the Dragon King, battle the monstrous sorcerer Nimrood.  Since that time, there has been peace in the land of Mensandor.  But everything is about to change. An urgent message summons Quentin to Castle Askelon.  The king, who is dying, wishes to name the brave young man his successor.  But first, he sends him on an unfathomable mission. What Quentin and his friend Toli, the Jher horseman, discover is not for the cowardly.  The brightening Wolf Star is an omen of impending evil that might herald the beginning of the end of mankind on earth.  It signifies Nin, a fearsome giant of a man who hopes to add Mensandor to his growing empire.  Along with his merciless warlords, they are the fulfillment of a nightmarish prophecy. Cover art by Jenny Thorne.
  • Book II of The Dragon King Saga. The rising Wolf Star, herald of Nin, has cast a long shadow of terror over the realm of the Dragon King. Salvation lies in a sword - Zhaligkeer, the Shining One. Again Quentin holds life and death in his hands, as the drama and suspense build to a stupendous climax.

  • The classic children's fantasy adventure that was first published in 1863. Tom, a poor orphan, is employed by the villainous chimney-sweep, Grimes, to climb up inside flues to clear away the soot. While engaged in this dreadful task, he loses his way and emerges in the bedroom of Ellie, the young daughter of the house who mistakes him for a thief. He runs away, and, hot and bothered, he slips into a cooling stream, falls fast asleep - and becomes a water baby.  In this new life, he meets all sorts of aquatic creatures, including an engaging old lobster and other water babies before finding his way to St Branden's Isle, where he encounters the fierce Mrs Bedonebyasyoudid and the motherly Mrs Doasyouwouldbedoneby.  After a long and arduous quest to the Other-End-Of-Nowhere, Tom achieves his heart's desire.
  • Book III of The Wanderers. Two young Druids eat the sacred bread of the Faerie folk and drink the Holy Water of Life.  Thus Maw and Sianan embrace eternal life.  They will be Wanderers through the years, messengers to future generations to preserve the ancientness of the Druids.  They journey to Alba to help fee the Gaels of the barbarism of the Saxons, travelling with old friends.  But the Saxons have made a surprising alliance and will not be easily defeated.  There will be a bloody battle on Samhain that will fulfill a prophecy. Cover art by Caiseal Mor.
  • Book IV of The View From The Mirror. There is a dark full moon on Mid-Winter's Day. The foretelling has come to pass. Rulke the Charon is unstoppable now.  Karan is held captive in desolate Carcharon Tower. Rulke plans to use her to find the Way Between The Worlds. On the mountainside below, the allies await their fate Karan's lover, Llian, is in chains, falsely accused of betraying her to the enemy. As the dark moon rises, Rulke begins to open the Way. If he succeeds, the world will be overwhelmed by the dread armies of the void. There is only one solution - Karan must be the sacrifice. Cover art by Mark Sofilas.

  • Book I of The Night Angel. For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art-and he is the city's most accomplished artist. For Azoth, survival is precarious. Something you never take for granted. As a guild rat, he's grown up in the slums, and learned to judge people quickly - and to take risks. Risks like apprenticing himself to Durzo Blint. But to be accepted, Azoth must turn his back on his old life and embrace a new identity and name. As Kylar Stern, he must learn to navigate the assassins' world of dangerous politics and strange magics - and cultivate a flair for death. Cover art by Calvin Chu.
  • Thursday Next No. III. Leaving Swindon behind her, to hide out in the Well of Lost Plots - the place where all fiction is created - Thursday Next, Literary Detective and soon to be one-parent family, ponders her next move from within an unpublished novel of dubious merit entitled Caversham Heights. Her husband, Landen, exists only in her memory and with Goliath and the Chronoguard on her tail in the real world , the safest place for her to be is inside the covers of a book. But changes are afoot in the world of fiction.. The much-awaited upgrade to the centuries old book system - in which grammasites will be exterminated, punctuation standardised and the number of possible plots extended from eight to an astonishing thirty two! - is only weeks away. But if this is the golden age in fictional narrative then why are Jurisfiction agents mysteriously dying? Perkins is eaten by the minotaur, Snell succumbs to the Mispeling Vyrus and Godot is missing. As the date of the upgrade looms closer and the bookworld prepares for the 923rd Annual Fiction Awards, Thursday must unmask the villain responsible for the murders, establish exactly just what the upgrade entails and do battle with an old enemy intent on playing havoc with her memories.
  • Ingrid, the beautiful healer's daughter of the Viking settlement of Wayland is pledged to redeem her village from the ravages of the Grey Folk, the drowned victims of the ancient Norse rituals.  Alone, she sets out across the savage landscape of the far north in search of the elixir of power she believes will restore Wayland to a life without fear.  She finds witchcraft, magic and violence - but also love and passion, as well as the secret strength of womanhood that will help her to confront the ancient power of Odin.
  • Book I of The Book of Isle trilogy. Long ago the little land of Isle seemed to be the whole world.  Vast oceans encircled the Forest.  The Old Ones walked on the Wastes or the Wealds.  Gods, ghosts and delvers in the hollow hills were no strangers to the woven shade at the castle gates.  It was in those times that The Book of Suns was begun, although the Sun Kings knew it but dimly, and a far flung fate got started when a lady as fair as sunlight loved the Moon King at Laureroc.