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Baudolino: Umberto Eco
$10.00April 1204: Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion, one Baudolino saves a historian and high court official from certain death at the hands of the crusading warriors and proceeds to tell his own fantastical story. Born a simple peasant in northern Italy, Baudolino has two major gifts - a talent for learning languages and a skill in telling lies. When still a boy he meets a foreign commander in the woods, charming him with his quick wit and lively mind. The commander - who proves to be Emperor Frederick Barbarossa - adopts Baudolino and sends him to the university in Paris, where he makes a number of fearless, adventurous friends. Spurred on by myths and their own reveries, this merry band sets out in search of Prester John, a legendary priest-king said to rule over a vast kingdom in the East - a phantasmagorical land of strange creatures with eyes on their shoulders and mouths on their stomachs, of eunuchs, unicorns, and lovely maidens. -
Battleaxe: Sara Douglass
$45.00Book I of the Axis trilogy. A thousand years ago the Acharites drove the Forbidden from their land. Now strange sightings along Achar's northern border foreshadow their return. The barbaric tribes of the Ravensbund are pouring south with tales of fearsome beings who feed on the terror of their prey. Winter has come early, and with it the promise of war. Axis, bastard son of the dead Princess Rivkah, is sent to the battlefront of Gorkenfort with his elite Axe-Wielders. Once there, he must hand over command to his hated half-brother, Borneheld. But travelling north, Axis falls in love with Faraday - Borneheld's bethrothed - and meets two priests who challenge the very essence of his beliefs. The Sentinels walk the land, the TreeFriend has been found, and the people of the Plough, the Wing and the Horn must set aside their differences and unite under one leader against the evil rising in the North. Cover art by Greg Bridges, Greg Downes and Gayna Murphy. -
Barrow: John Deakins
$10.00In Elsewhen all time passes but no time passes. Clocks won't run there, whether mechanical or biological, Blood doesn't clot, tears don;t fall when shed; hearts don;t beat on their own...The Old Man dwells in Barrow, on the Plaines of Elsewhen. He is the teacher of the towns raggedy children. The master of Mysteries. An immortal mage who alters destiny at will...He is a spinner of stories, a creator of yarns that entangle and entwine; tales of wicked wizards and multi-limbed monsters, ensnared forever by the Masters magical web...Cover art by Julek Heller. -
The crawling bird is the first character to be encountered in this antic-novel stuffed with characters that could make you grope for the digitalis. The reader will also meet: the demon, the fatman, the lawyer, the other fatman, the Ebony Kings, the gunsel, the golden singing snakes, the Big Red Cheese. The Virgin Queen of England, the middleman and his secretary Zelda, a pig in a red trench coat (!), the lonely hawkman, the godlike man with no name, the insiduous Oriental Doctor, the talking, blood-sucking flowers, Dwit and Xit the cigar-smoking frogs, the tap-dancing locust...The author lists as influences the Marx Brothers, Monty Python, Richard Lester, the silent comedians, Woody Allen, Harry Harrison, Keith Laumer, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Dorothy Parker, Hemingway, Jeeves and Wooster, Phil Dick, Robert Sheckley, and Alfred Bester. Cover art by Ron Cobb. -
From out of the icy steppes they came, the fiercest and most feared warriors the world had ever known. At their head was the wily and ferocious Attila of the Huns, and behind him lay a trail of pillage and carnage. To forge peace with the mighty Attila, a young Burgundian prince is sent as a foster son to the merciless warlord. Here young Hagan learns the fighting arts of the Huns as he develops an uneasy relationship with his unpredictable new foster father. But it is during his first battle that Hagan learns the most important - and most dangerous - lesson of all. A gasp away from death, he discovers the pathway to the otherworld - a knowledge he must guard carefully, for it makes him a dangerous adversary of Attila himself. Cover art by Mike Posen. -
Athyra: Steven Brust
$8.00Book VI of Vlad Taltos. Vlad Taltos - sorcerer, sometime witch, ex-assassin - and two faithful jhereg were an unbeatable team. But lately, Vlad's heart just hasn't been in his work, so he decides to retire. Unfortunately, old enemies have scores to settle with Vlad. So much for retirement... Cover art by Ciruelo Cabral. -
Book II of Demonwar. Recent events have devastated the Conclave of Shadows; the discovery of the Demon horde on the heels of the taredhel invasion of Midkemia, the threat of the star elves themselves, and the terrible personal cost paid by Pug and his family. But grieving must wait; at a deserted fortress in the Valley of Lost Men, the Conclave’s agents witness horror beyond their imagination, orchestrated by a familiar enemy. But Belasco's motives are as yet unclear. The Conclave must regroup and discover the true meaning behind the chaos seeded by the evil magician if they are ever to find a way to stop the destruction of Triagia before the demon horde even arrives. -
Book II of Arthur; the sequel to The Seeing Stone. Set in the Welsh Marches and France in the year 1200, Arthur de Caldicot arrives at Holt to be squire to Lord Stephen and accompany him on crusade. It is an exciting and bewildering time for him as he finds a warhorse, is fitted with armour, and improves his fighting skills. He dreads a confrontation with his blood-father, the violent Sir William, and dreams of finding his true mother; he discovers girls – including the vivacious Winnie de Verdon whom he rescues from burning to death; he has to deal with the aftermath of a murder; he sees the sea for the first time, sails to France and finally takes the Cross. And meanwhile these events are reflected in his seeing stone, in stories of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Cover art by Marc Adams. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/seeing-stone-kevin-crossley-holland/ https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/arthur-king-of-the-middle-march-kevin-crossley-holland/ -
Book I of Oathbreaker. In Eyrie - a world of two moons, shapeshifters, and powerful magic - Aron of Brailing knows he owes loyalty to his guild, obedience to the code of the land, and his life to his closest companions, but it is his own family he holds closest to his heart. Kidnapped and forced to become an assassin, Aron must learn to control and harness his own fearsome talents even as he grieves for the family he knows is lost forever. But when he is tempted to put everything aside everything he has learned in order to avenge his family's killers, will Aron make unforgivable mistakes?
