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The tales of Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad on the Riverbank and in the Wild Wood. Mole goes boating with the Water Rat instead of spring-cleaning; Toad's craze for fast travel leads him and his friends on a whirl of trains, barges, gypsy caravans and stolen motor cars - and even into battle! Ratty and Mole become lost in the snowy Wild Wood and find a haven with wise Mr. Badger; and on a search for missing little Portly, the baby otter, there is a magical encounter with the Piper at the Gates of Dawn... -
Book II of The Roads Between Worlds. The Fireclown, a painted demon, a fat messiah, ever-masked, leading hysterical subterranean riots, inciting the people to tear down and revolt. For his own deadly power? Or for galactic salvation? A grotesque political charlatan - or the only voice of sanity left on Earth? No-one knew but everyone was frightened and there were those who were prepared to exploit that fear. Earth, with its savage class structure, was dying. Complacently rushing toward a holocaust, corrupt and weakened by an impotent administration, Earth trembled before the threat of solar war. Only Alan Powys and Helen Curtis saw sense in the Fireclown's vision. But by then, he had vanished - and the greatest space chase in history was on. Cover art by Bob Haberfield. -
In the towering City of Switzerland, after a century of peace, political power was deadlocked between the Solar Referendum Party and the Radical Liberal Movement. Until the laughing Fireclown arrived. His jovial personality, grotesque appearance and powerful speeches in favour of a return to Nature: all these excited the masses- and struck fear into the ruling elite. Was the Fireclown merely a romantic anachronism, a potential vote catcher, an issue with which to distract the populace from Earth's real problems? Or was he a genuine threat to humanity's future? Only Alan Powys and Helen Curtis tried to understand what the Fireclown was really saying...Cover art by George Underwood.
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Book I of The Warlord Chronicles. Derfel, once a captain in Arthur's war band, recalls the dramatic days of wilful Guinevere, arrogant Lancelot, abstracted Merlin and intolerant Bishop Sansum, vying for mastery amid faction and bitter chaos. He also tells the story of Arthur, royal bastard, unwise lover and inspired warlord, the only man who can hold Uther's throne for its infant heir and unite Britain's squabbling kingdoms against the enemy at the gates. Cover art by Bob Gregory.
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Book 3 of A Wizard in Rhyme. Saul didn't have so many friends that he could afford to lose one without a fight. So when Matt disappeared from university one day without a word to anyone, Saul tried his family, friends and even the police - no leads. Then he climbed through the kitchen window of Matt's apartment and found festoons of spider webs and a scrap of parchment covered in runes. Like Matt before him, Saul was swept away into a world of magic and a maelstrom of danger. Cover art by Sanjulian. -
Book II of Sun Wolf and Starhawk. Every female of the House of Wenshar was possessed of a powerful magic: but their line is long dead and the desert city is a ruin. Yet Lady Kaletha has some gift for it and will train her neophytes to free their talents. Sun Wolf, the mercenary seeks her out to train his own new-found magic. But after his arrival, a series of horrific supernatural killings turns Wenshar into a snakepit of superstition, fear and loathing, and vicious tongues begin to wag about Sun Wolf. Cover art by Mark Salwoski. -
Every female of the House of Wenshar was possessed of a powerful magic: but their line is long dead and the desert city is a ruin. Yet Lady Kaletha has some gift for it and will train her neophytes to free their talents. Sun Wolf, the mercenary seeks her out to train his own new-found magic. But after his arrival, a series of horrific supernatural killings turns Wenshar into a snakepit of superstition, fear and loathing, and vicious tongues begin to wag about Sun Wolf. Cover art by Mark Salwoski.
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Book II of Rondo. The fantastic world of Rondo can be perilous, but Leo and Mimi know they can't keep away. They have to play their part in the continuing battle to keep Rondo safe from their deadly enemy, the remorseless Blue Queen. Plunging once more into the magic world within the antique music box, they are determined to stay out of trouble. But Rondo's spell soon draws them in, and their quest to find a missing wizard becomes something far more dangerous as they try to track the Blue Queen's henchman, Spoiler, and confront an ancient terror lurking in the skies of the north. Cover art by Martin McKenna. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/battle-rondo-emily-rodda/ -
Crocken the peddler had made a bad bargain. For a bag of gold and a chance to keep breathing, Crocken had grudgingly agreed to conduct the shadow-remnant of a murdered wizard to the distant kingdom of Armyn. Crocken kept his end of the deal. Trailed at every step by the chill, disapproving wraith, he braved wilderness, floods, and savage beasts. But when he finally won through to the Armyn fortress of Axe-Edge, he found his term of servitude extended at his intangible master's whim. For at Axe-Edge, Crocken was mistaken for a hero. Doors opened to a hero that would have slammed in any ordinary peddler's face. And behind one of those doors waited the wizard's murderer... Cover art by Mark Harrison.
