Book VII of Wheel of Time. Elaine, Aviendha and Mat come ever closer to the bowl ter'angreal that may reverse the world's endless heatwave and restore natural weather. Egwene begins to gather women who can channel - Sea Folk, Windfinders, Wise Ones and others. Rand faces the dread Forsaken Sammael in the shadows of Shadar Logoth, where the blood-hungry mist, Mashadar, waits for prey...Cover art by Darrell K. Sweet.
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A Dance With Dragons: George R.R. Martin
$7.00–$15.00Book V of A Song Of Ice And Fire. In the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance - beset by newly emerging threats from every direction. In the east, Daenerys Targaryen, the last scion of House Targaryen, rules with her three dragons as queen of a city built on dust and death. But Daenerys has thousands of enemies, and many have set out to find her. As they gather, one young man embarks upon his own quest for the queen, with an entirely different goal in mind. Fleeing from Westeros with a price on his head, Tyrion Lannister, too, is making his way to Daenerys. But his newest allies in this quest are not the rag-tag band they seem, and at their heart lies one who could undo Daenerys’s claim to Westeros forever. Meanwhile, to the north lies the mammoth Wall of ice and stone - a structure only as strong as those guarding it. There, Jon Snow, 998th Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch, will face his greatest challenge. For he has powerful foes not only within the Watch but also beyond, in the land of the creatures of ice. From all corners, bitter conflicts reignite, intimate betrayals are perpetrated, and a grand cast of outlaws and priests, soldiers and skin-changers, nobles and slaves, will face seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Some will fail, others will grow in the strength of darkness. But in a time of rising restlessness, the tides of destiny and politics will lead inevitably to the greatest dance of all. -
Book IV of Mortal Engines. It's six months after the tumultuous adventures on Brighton and Wren Natsworthy and her father Tom have taken to the skies in their airship, the Jenny Haniver. Wren is loving life as an aviatrix but Tom is troubled by Hester's disappearance and the old wound caused by Pennyroyal's bullet. Then a fluke encounter with a familiar face sets him thinking about the ruins of London and the possibility of going back. Meanwhile, the fragile truce between the Green Storm and the Traction Cities splinters and hostilities break out again. Events are set on a collision course as things end where they began, with London. Cover art by David Frankland. -
Book IV of The Riftwar Saga: As Prince Arutha and his companions prepare for the final battle against an ancient and mysterious evil, the dread necromancer Macros the Black prepares to unleash his dark sorcery, threatening to tip the balance against the Kingdom forces. The fate of two worlds wilbe decided in a titanic struggle beneath the dark walls of Sethanon as the link between Kelewan and Midkemia is revived. Cover art by Dominic Harman. -
Book VI of Dragonlance Chronicles. With the dragon orbs and the newly-forged dragonlances, the forces of good finally stand a chance against the minions of the Queen of Darkness. Then a new darkness - one from within - threatens the companions. Old loves and new treacheries will shake the Companions' faith in one another. All they have fought for is about to fall into endless night and it may be too late to save one Companion from his doom. Cover art by Glen Angus; interior art by Vinod Rames. -
Book IV of A Song Of Ice and Fire. The bloodthirsty, treacherous Lannisters are in power on the Iron Throne in the name of the boy-king Tommen. The war in the Seven Kingdoms has burnt itself out but in the bitter aftermath new conflicts spark to life. The Martells of Dorne and the Starks of Winterfell seek vengeance for their dead. Euron Crow's Eye returns from the smouldering ruins of Valyria to claim the Iron Isles. From the icy north, where Others threaten the Wall, apprentice Maester Samwell Tarly brings a mysterious babe in arms to the citadel. Cover art b y Larry Rostant. -
Book II of Sword of Shadows. The Long Night has begun and the Endlords are stirring in their eternal prison. Now should be the time when city men and clansmen come together to fight the dark forces, yet the clans feud among themselves and the Mountain Cities plan invasion. Only the Sull are preparing for war against the Endlords, but they are an ancient race and their numbers are declining. They fear this fight may be their last. Outcast clansman Raif Sevrance must search for Ash March, their most valued and sacred warrior. To find her he must journey through the nightmare realm of the Want, wherein hides the Fortress of Grey ice. Cover art by Bob Warner. -
Volume 1 A Song of Ice And Fire. Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister forces are massing beyond the kingdom’s protective Wall. To the south, the king’s powers are failing—his most trusted adviser dead under mysterious circumstances and his enemies emerging from the shadows of the throne. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the frozen land they were born to. Now Lord Eddard Stark is reluctantly summoned to serve as the king’s new Hand, an appointment that threatens to sunder not only his family but the kingdom itself. A tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; a child is lost in the twilight between life and death; and a determined woman undertakes a treacherous journey to protect all she holds dear. Amid plots and counter-plots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, allies and enemies, the fate of the Starks hangs perilously in the balance, as each side endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: The Game Of Thrones. Cover art by Stephen Youll. -
Two-volume set. A celebration of an unrivalled era in Australian fantasy writing and illustration. It's an anthology of Australian classics of the golden age from 1900 to the 1940s - Dorothy Wall, Harold Gaze, Norman Lindsay, Pixie O'Harris and May Gibbs, writers who created a magic door for children to enter a realm of fantasy that was uniquely Australian. The adventures of Blinky Bill, Chucklebud and Wunkydoo, Albert the Magic Christmas Pudding and an entire cast of elves, sprites, fairies and goblins who continue to charm and delight readers of all ages. There are diverse illustrators: Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, D.H. Souter, May Gibbs, Norman Lindsay and Harold Gaze, who drew inspiration from an English style of fantasy and combined it with Australian flora and fauna. Holden also presents the lives and works of well known - and lesser-known - authors. Both volumes lavishly illustrated.
