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Book II - Blood And Gold. The Starks are scattered. Robb Stark may be King in the North, but he must bend to the will of the old tyrant Walder Frey if he is to hold his crown. And while his youngest sister, Arya, has escaped the clutches of the depraved Cersei Lannister and her son, the capricious boy-king Joffrey, Sansa Stark remains their captive. Meanwhile, across the ocean, Daenerys Stormborn, the last heir of the Dragon King, delivers death to the slave-trading cities of Astapor and Yunkai as she approaches Westeros with vengeance in her heart. Cover art by Larry Rostant. -
Book III of A Song Of Ice And Fire. Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage as alliances are made and broken. Joffrey sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of the Seven Kingdoms. His most bitter rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated and disgraced, victim of the sorceress who holds him in her thrall. Young Robb still rules the North from the fortress of Riverrun. Meanwhile, making her way across a blood-drenched continent is the exiled queen, Daenerys, mistress of the only three dragons still left in the world. And as opposing forces manoeuver for the final showdown, an army of barbaric wildlings arrives from the outermost limits of civilization, accompanied by a horde of mythical Others—a supernatural army of the living dead whose animated corpses are unstoppable. As the future of the land hangs in the balance, no one will rest until the Seven Kingdoms have exploded in a veritable storm of swords...Cover art by Jim Burns. -
In the Middle Ages, the status of a storyteller was such that he could ask for a harp from a King and a ring from a Queen in return for a well-told tale. The role of the storyteller has declined and storytelling no longer holds a place among the living arts. But there are those who still believe there is a need for storytelling. Eileen Colwell has collected twenty tales: funny tales, fairy and folk tales and classic tales. In this volume: Elsie Piddock Skips In Her Sleep, Eleanor Farjeon; The Swallow and the Mole, Geraldine Elliot; A Chinese Fairy Tale, Laurence Housman; The Young Man With Music In His Fingers, Diana Ross; The Jolly Tailor Who Became King, Lucia M. Borski and Kate B. Miller; The Selfish Giant, Oscar Wilde; Suppose You Met A Witch, Ian Serraillier; The Monster Who Grew Small, Joan Grant; The Children of Lir, Traditional; The Magic Tea-Kettle, John Masefield; A Meal With A Magician, J.B.S. Haldane; The White Cat, Countess D'Aulnoy; The Ballad of Semmerwater, William Watson; The Little Pagan Faun, Patrick Chalmers; The Mousewife, Rumer Godden; The Hurdy-Gurdy Man, Margery Williams Bianco; Lazy Tok, Mervyn Skipper; The Nightingale, Hans Andersen; Where Love Is, God Is, Leo Tolstoy. Cover art by Carol Barker. -
Book III of The White Bird Of Kinship. Twenty years have passed since the martyrdom of the Boy-Piper of York, twenty years in which his legacy, the movement of Kinship, has challenged the tyranny of the Church Militant in Britain's seven island kingdoms. Now his namesake, Tom, bearing the Boy's own pipes and perhaps himself imbued with the spirit of the White Bird, is wandering Europe with the girl, Witchet. But disaster overtakes them and Tom, in furious vengeance, breaks his vows of Kinship. A terrible path lies before him, one that transcends his own world. As he travels it, Tom must come to understand the true nature of the wild White Bird, of the Bride of Time and her Child and of the Song the Star-Born sang. Cover art by Mick van Houten.
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Book V of Raven, Swordsmistress of Chaos. On the night of the Summer Gathering in Haral, The Black One arose from the depths, killing, torturing and dismembering its victims. Panic ruled the City. The Priests of Lord Vedast claimed that, in fulfilling an ancient prophecy, Raven and Spellbinder were responsible for the carnage. The two find themselves powerless bait for the monster - a devil who aimed to make Raven Mistress of the World and the murderer of Spellbinder. Cover art by Chris Achilleos. -
Book V of Deverry; Book I of Westlands. It is years since the half-elven Lord Rhodry took the throne of Aberwyn, yet his half-elven blood keeps him so young that his people suspect magic. Elven magic. And they're not sure if they like it . When Rhodry's lost lover, Jill -now a powerful sorceress - -comes to Aberyn and tells him it's time he accepted his elven heritage. Rhodry is persuaded to take drastic action - an act that will lead him to the mysterious Westlands and force him to confront his destiny - whether he likes it or not. Cover art by Geoff Taylor. -
Book VIII of Deverry. Rhodry and his new dragon ally, Arzosah, have joined forces with the dwarven axemen and are rushing to the aid of the besieged town of Cengarn. Within the town walls, the Princess Carra and her unborn child are under the protection of the sorcerers Jill and Dallandra, who eagerly await the arrival of their allies. But food supplies are running low and their chances look bleak. And as time grows shorter, the surrounding Horsekin army, under the instruction of the goddess Alshandra, are preparing to end the siege once and for all. Only the destruction of Alshandra will ensure peace between Horsekin and humans, a seemingly impossible task. Cover art by Geoff Taylor.
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Book I of Tales Of The Otori. In the ancient Oriental lands of the Otori, Takeo, a young boy, is one of the Hidden, a reclusive people who know only the ways of peace. In an instant, all that Takeo has ever known is taken away by the murderous Tohan clan in a massacre. Rescued by a mysterious lord, Takeo begins a quest for revenge, using supernatural skills that he never knew he had. Mastering these skills, he sets out on a journey of treachery, honour, loyalty, beauty and magic. -
Book II of Nightside. John Taylor works in the Nightside - the gaudy, neon noir secret heart of London, where it's always three in the morning, where gods and monsters make deals and seek pleasures they won't find anywhere else. Taylor can find things - sometimes dangerous things. He is now searching for the Unholy Grail, the cup that Judas drank from at the Last Supper. It corrupts all who touch it - but it also gives enormous power. Others are hunting - angels, devils, sinners and saints - all are tearing apart the Nightside, looking for the dark goblet. And it's only a matter of time before they realise that John Taylor is the man who will lead them straight to it. Cover art by Jonathan Barkat. -
Albion: John Grant
$20.00Terman is shipwrecked on gentle seashore, and believes he has found a land of myth, but instead finds a people beset by the most basic of problems, problems it seems that he is uniquely equipped to solve. The peasants of Albion are in thrall to the ruling House of Ellon, against whose repression they have no redress. They have no long term memory and rely on instinct to get them through each day.Until Mina brings Terman home from the beach. He finds that naming the villagers gives them the ability to remember each day as it happens, to recall the position of their fields and what crops grow there, to recognise their friends and remember the dead. He hates the raids of the Ellonia and their taking of food and women, yet he is only one man against many. But Lian, child of Terman and Mina has inherited his father's gift of memory and uses it to begin freeing his people from Ellonian rule, beginning with half a dozen ill-equipped warriors. But as he travels to the Ellonian stronghold, more are drawn to him until the Despot is forced to respond. Cover art by Lee Gibbons. -
Alicia II: Robert Thurston
$15.00In the not so distant future the world hasn't changed that much - men and women still laugh, fall in love and sip wine - but some will live forever as retreads, old souls surgically implanted into the empty bodies of the young. Voss Geraghty is a retread, a retiring government researcher rewarded with a new body. In this new life he wants fun, sex and adventure - what he finds is disappointment. His 'shell' was donated by a young man who was not eager to die - the shell is damaged, Voss is impotent so he must settle for adventure this time out. In his unusual choice, Voss becomes a troubleshooter for the Space Service and an inadvertent hero. When he returns, the government, controlled by retreads, capitalises on his fame to support the immortality programme against an underground rebellion determined to overthrow the regime of death for the young so that the old may live eternally. The rebellion movement has the technology to cure Voss of his impotence in return for his help in destroying the retread centres. Still he hesitates - until he meets Alicia and falls in love. He will die in the destruction of the retread centres - but he wants to experience love as well. Cover art by Norm Walker.
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American Gods: Neil Gaiman
$12.00Days before his release from prison, Shadow's wife, Laura, dies in a mysterious car crash. Numbly, he makes his way back home. On the plane, he encounters the enigmatic Mr Wednesday, who claims to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and the king of America. Together they embark on a profoundly strange journey across the heart of the USA, whilst all around them a storm of preternatural and epic proportions threatens to break. It’s a long hard look into the soul of America – and it’s surprising what – and who – can be found there… -
Since the days on antiquity people have been fascinated with angels: the ethereal beings who are said to hover between Heaven and Earth, watching over us to intercede in the age-old struggle between good and evil. Here is a collection of tales by well-known authors, who tell of winged messengers and their mysterious, magical and sometimes startling encounters on Earth. Some of these stories take place in contemporary settings, where the gritty realities of life would seem to negate the very existence of these heavenly creatures. There are tales of guardian angels, traditional angels, fallen angels and angels who seem to be very unlikely messengers of God. In this volume: Unworthy Of The Angel, Stephen Donaldson; The Penalty, Henry Slesar; The Box, Bruce Coville; Angel Levine, Bernard Malamud; Angelica, Jane Yolen; Your Soul Comes C.O.D., Mack Reynolds; A Plethora Of Angels, Robert Sampson; The General Zapped An Angel, Howard Fast; Alfred, Lisa Goldstein; And The Angels Sing, Kate Wilhelm; Extract From Captain Stormfield's Visit To Heaven, Mark Twain; What Men Live By, Leo Tolstoy; Basileus, Robert Silverberg; The Last Trump, Isaac Asimov; Angel's Egg, Edgar Pangborn; The Big Sky, Charles De Lint; The Angel Was A Yankee, Steohen Vincent Benét. -
Verse the Second in The Ballad of Wuntvor...Once upon a time, a brave young lad named Wuntvor, hapless apprentice to the mighty mage Ebenezum, journeyed from Vushta, City of Forbidden Delights, to the far distant Eastern Kingdoms in search of a cure for his master's malady of magicks (which had, unfortunately, spread to the entire College of Wizards). When he reached his destination, the luckless lad almost immediately ran afoul of the dread Mother Duck, a witch of awesome powers and great literary ambition. Soon he found himself in the witch's clutches… and her creations - cast as hero (or heroine) in a strange series of foundering fables. Seeing her storytelling efforts fall far short of perfection, the dread Mother Duck flew into a rage, and brought all of her terrible powers to bear against the lad named Wuntvor, to make certain that he… Lived happily ever after? Cover art by Josh Kirby. -
Book V of Avalon. The priests and priestesses of Atlantis have known for many years that the Sea Kingdoms were doomed. Even so, they are unprepared for the catastrophe when it occurs. Micail and Tiriki, prince and princess, priest and priestess of the last island to fall, are separated during the escape and land on different shores of the island of Britain. Micail's party is led by Prince Tjalan, who dreams of founding a glorious new empire in the tradition of Atlantis, whether the local tribes like it or not. Meanwhile Tiriki and the elderly priest Chedan lead their smaller group to form a new community in harmony with the existing population at the sacred Tor. Once the two factions become aware of each other, conflict is inevitable. Cover art by Dominic Harman. -
Book III of The Word And The Void. As a Knight of the Word, John Ross has struggled against the tireless dark forces of the Void for twenty-five years with the magic he wields. Now Ross has learned of the birth of a gypsy morph, a rare and dangerous creature formed of wild magics spontaneously knit together. If he can discover its secret, the morph could be an invaluable weapon against the Void. But the Void, too, knows the value of the morph, and will not rest until the creature has been corrupted - or destroyed. Desperate, Ross returns to Hopewell, Illinois, home of Nest Freemark, a young woman with magical abilities of her own. Twice before they have prevailed against the Void. Now they face an ancient evil beyond anything they have ever encountered, for a demon of ruthless intelligence and feral cunning awaits them in Hopewell... Cover art by Brom. -
Twenty-one year old Harriet shares her room at home with Grandma... and the dreaded chamber pot - what a life! She flies the respectable suburban nest to take a room in Mrs Delvecchio Schwarz's Bohemian boarding house. Mrs Schwarz tells fortunes, and she opens Harriet's eyes to a world of excitement, passion, adventure and men. But Harriet finds that following your heart is not easy and the future isn't as obvious as Mrs Schwarz's crystal ball would suggest. And there is Flo - Mrs Schwarz's beautiful, mute four year old daughter. Harriet loses her heart to little Flo and when tragedy strikes, she fights to ensure Flo's survival - and solves the mystery of a missing family member. Told in the form of a diary and set in Sydney's colourful King's Cross of the 1960s, this is an uputdownable read. -
All animals are equal - but some are more equal than others...When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr. Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought, and find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another. Orwell wrote in 1945: 'It is the history of a revolution that went wrong - and of the excellent excuses that were forthcoming at every step for the perversion of the original doctrine.' He wrote the novel at the end of 1943, but it almost remained unpublished; its savage attack on Stalin, at that time Britain's ally, led to the book being refused by publisher after publisher. This simple, tragic fable has since become a world-famous classic. With an introduction by novelist, critic and Professor Emeritus of American Studies at the University of East Anglia Malcolm Bradbury. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/dvd-animal-farm/
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