Children's Fantasy 2002

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Tangled Web UK: New Children's Fantasy Titles 2002

Catherine Fisher The Archon Pbk published February 2004 by Hodder Children's Books at Ł5.99 ISBN: 0 340 84377 2

I will make the journey to the Well of Songs. I will drink of the water, and bring it back for you, from beyond death and the desert. I will make the rivers flow and the crops grow for you. I will save you, my people.

Alexos, the new Archon, will lead a pilgrimage to the Well of Songs. Great riches are said to lie there, and the Archon seeks peace with the Rain Queen. But the desert is a place of strange menace for the Archon and his companions, and behind them there is always the general, Argelin, seeking riches and power for himself. Alone, amid treachery. Mirany has to face the terrors of war.
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