Fantasy 2005
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Tangled Web UK: New Fantasy Titles 2005


But at Amazon.co.uk Graham Joyce The Limits of Enchantment Published January 2005 by Gollancz at £14.99 ISBN: 0 575 07231 8
‘What they did to Mammy they tried to do to me. They released the dogs. And when it comes to telling how it was done, I only ask this: think how we few have held our tongues for so long. How we have choked back the truth. How we have burned in our hearts rather, than risk the telling.’
A story of old secrets and a new life.
A story of an extraordinary young woman coming of age in a small village in the 1960s.
If I could tell you this in a single sitting, then you might believe all of it, even the strangest part. If I could unwind this story in a single spool, or peel-it like an apple the way Mammy would with her penknife in one unbroken coil, juice a-glistening on the blade, then you might bite in without objection.
But Mammy always said we have lost the art of Listening. She said we live in an age when everyone chatters and no one takes heed, and that, she said, is not a good time in which to live. When you come to know the nature of the teller of this tale you may have good reason to doubt both. You may suspect the balance of my mind, and you may condemn my position. You may to disbelieve.
Perhaps I once was mad. Briefly. Perhaps that much is true. And this, in an age where we no longer have the patience to listen, may cause you to break off, to give up on me, to turn away. A young woman has so little of interest to offer, after all.
And when you feel most far from me, then at that moment listen hard. Not to your thoughts, which will mislead you, nor to your heart, which will lie, but to the voice behind the voice, and trust the tale and not the teller.

Praise for Graham Joyce
‘This is the kind of book I love to read I have not been so charmed by a novel in a long time’ Isabel Allende on The Facts of Life
`The flipside of Alex Garland’s The Beach. Vividly imagined . . . a sure narrative touch’ The Times
A superlative novel’ SFX
A beautifully written and powerful work of fiction. Compelling and deeply unsettling’ Vector
A wonderful achievement by one of the UK’s best writers’ SF. Revu
`One of the finest writers in the field . . . The finest novel of his career’ Locus
`Graham Joyce writes the kind of novels we keep hoping to find, but rarely do’ Jonathan Carroll
`Brilliantly original’ Sunday Times
`Smoking Poppy is quite simply a beautifully written and powerful work of fiction’ Vector
`Superb’ SFX
`Simply one of the finest writers around. Full stop!’ SF Revu
`One of Britain’s best writers at the peak of his powers’ The Third Alternative
`Joyce’s characterisation is superb. Wonderful and at times hilarious’ Starburst
`I became a rabidly dedicated fan of Graham Joyce’s the first time I read his work’ Peter Straub


About The Author
Graham Joyce is a full-time writer and lives in Leicester. He has previously written adult fantasy books, which have received much critical acclaim. Of these, Dark Sister won the British Fantasy Best Novel Award for 1993, and Requiem was shortlisted for the World Fantasy Best Novel Award and won the British Fantasy Best Novel Award in 1995. He also runs Creative Writing courses for adults at Nottingham Trent University. He is married with two children. He has won the British Fantasy Award an unprecedented four times.


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The Last Light of the Sun

But at Amazon.co.uk Guy Gavriel Kay The Last Light of the Sun Pbk published July 2005 by Pocket Books at £7.99 ISBN: 0 7434 8423 1

The Northlands; countries of mist and myth, the clash of weapons and sea-faring invaders echoing over the huddled settlements. But through the actions of a few, the world can change, and irresistible forces fall.
Alun Ab Owyn, young and impulsive with a head full of songs, is such a man. Grieving for his brother’s death, he is consumed by the need for revenge. Bern Thorkellson, punished for his father’s sins, is another, as is the king who holds his beleaguered people together, King Aeldred.
Making brilliant use of saga, song and chronicle, Guy Gavriel Kay has written a novel of infinite, spellbinding richness, full to the brim with intrigue, passion and unforgettable storytelling.

Praise For Tigana
`A huge book, packed with action, I enjoyed it all’ The Times

About The Author
Guy Gavriel Kay was born and raised in Canada, although he does most of his writing in Europe. He worked with Christopher Tolkien on J.R.R. Tolkien's great posthumous work, The Simarillion. Since then he has written seven world-wide best-selling novels. Kay lives in Toronto, Canada where he is a Number One best-seller.


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But at Amazon.co.uk Ursula,K. Le Guin Changing Planes Pbk published January 2005 by Gollancz at £6.99 ISBN: 0575076232

Armchair travel for the mind
It was Sita Dulip who discovered, whilst stuck in an airport, unable to get anywhere, how to change planes literally. By a mere kind of a twist and a slipping bend, easier to do than describe, she could go anywhere - be anywhere - because she was already between planes …and on the way back from her sister’s wedding, she missed her plane in Chicago and found herself in Choom.
The author, now armed with this knowledge and Roman’s invaluable Handy Planetary Guide - although not the Encyclopedia Planeria, as that runs to forty four volumes - has spent many happy years exploring places as diverse as Islac and the Veksian plane.
Changing Planes is an intriguing, enticing mix: a satirical, sometimes cynical, sometimes hilarious spoof on air travel by one of the world’s most elegant writers.

‘One of the great masters of science fiction’ Robert Silverberg
‘Her characters are complex and haunting and her writing is remarkable for its sinewy grace’ Time
‘Brings a whole new meaning to inter-planetary travel ... Le Guin continues to demonstrate her genius with gentle if caustic tales that throw the world’s folly back in our faces’ Jon Courtenay Grimwood in the Guardian
‘Intriguing pieces, full of wit and invention’ Times Literary Supplement
‘The cumulative power of the stories is superb’ Good Book Guide

About The Author
Ursula K. Le Guin was born in 1929 into an academic household - her father, A. L. Kroeber, was an eminent anthropologist, while her mother, Theodora Kroeber, was a writer. She herself obtained a Masters degree in Romance Literature following her undergraduate degree. Her first story was published in Fantastic magazine in 1962. Her first novel was Rocannon’s World (1966), set in her Hainish universe. Her fourth novel, The Left Hand of Darkness was critically acclaimed and won both the Nebula Award (in 1969) and the Hugo Award (1970). She repeated this feat with The Dispossessed (1974). Between these two books she wrote The Lathe of Heaven (1971), which was adapted for television in America, and the Earthsea Trilogy (A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), The Tombs of Atuan (1971) and The Farthest Shore (1972)), a fantasy originally written for children. In 1985 Le Guin published the ambitious Always Coming Home. She returned to the world of Earthsea with her novel Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea (1990). As well as writing SF, she has written SF criticism; she received the Pilgrim Award for her critical work in 1989, a Pushcart Prize, the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Newbery Honor and the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement.


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Ian R. Macleod
The House of Storms

But at Amazon.co.uk New" Ian R. Macleod The House of Storms Published February 2005 by Simon & Schuster at £12.99 ISBN: 0743256727
From prize-winning author Ian R. MacLeod comes his enthralling tale of love and power. Set amongst the familiar hills and cities of an England that is strangely recognizable, yet utterly new and suffused with the power of magic, The House of Storms explores all the beauty and horror of a universe which readers of his previous novel The Light Ages will recognize, but takes it to a yet more astonishing level.
When Great Grandmistress Alice Meynell, ruthless matriarch of the Great Guild of Telegraphers, brings her son to Invercombe, west of Bristol, she expects him to die there. Though her power and grace are legendary, not even she can halt her son’s disease. Now ensconced in the magnificent old house, forgotten outpost of the Guild, with its disused weathertop, its formal gardens, its long tradition, at least there might come some tranquility to his death.
The age of aether still reigns; its pale glow illuminating the land. All bear the mark of aether’s strange influence, except the changelings, banished to Einfell, that strange land untouched by the Ages of Industry, that lies uneasy at England’s troubled heart. And it is to Einfell that Alice turns in desperation, to plead for her son’s life to one who once trusted her, and suffered the consequences.
Ralph is cured. Far away from the filth of industrial London, he is drawn away from his family responsibilities to the world of nature and to a fisherman’s daughter, Marion Price. Together they plan to run away, to defy the rule of Guilds, even to change the world and how it understands itself.
But his mother will not let love stand in the way of her lust for power, nor the very land she professes to love - even if it means plunging England into a long and bloody civil war.
In this unique work of imagination, Ian R. MacLeod has created a dazzling and truly original world.


About The Author
Ian R. MacLeod was born in, and has lived most of his forty years, around Birmingham. He is the author of The Great Wheel and a short story collection Voyages by Starlight, and his short fiction has appeared in Interzone, Asimov’s, and Fantasy and Science Fiction, and has been widely translated and anthologized. He is twice winner of the World Fantasy Award for his alternate history novella The Summer Isles and his short story The Chop Girl, and has been shortlisted for almost every major science fiction and fantasy award including the Hugo and the Nebula.


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But at Amazon.co.uk John Marco The Devil's Armour Pbk published March 2005 by Gollancz at £6.99 ISBN: 0 575 07629 1

LUKIEN
The Bronze Knight, champion to Akeela, king of Liiria. Until his betrayal drove Akeela to his death and tore the kingdom apart. Now he lives in the desert mountain fortress of Grimhold, consumed by guilt.
JAZANA CARR The Diamond Queen. She has ousted King Lorn from Norvor and now she is turning her greedy eye on Liiria, beset by chaos since the death of Akeela. The rape of Liiria will be a fitting vengeance on the man who jilted her;
BARON GLASS
Friend of Lukien, fellow exile from Liiria. When the news reaches Grimhold that his one-time lover is poised to attack Liiria he rides to the kingdom’s defence… and opens the door to hell.
For Baron Glass has torn out the dark heart of Grimhold; the Devil’s Armour. Wearing it he is invincible, but the armour carries a terrible curse of corruption and madness and sure enough Glass succumbs…
And it falls to Lukien to stop the Baron and rein in the evil that threatens to overwhelm the world.
Following on from the epic story of betrayal and madness, The Eyes Of God, John Marco’s new novel takes his readers ever deeper into his world of dangerous magics and hearts both false and true. It confirms his place as one of the rising stars of world fantasy.

'Marco is writing at the top of his form… a cracking good read' SFX

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Acorna's Triumph

But at Amazon.co.uk Anne McCaffrey Acorna's Triumph Pbk published March 2005 by Corgi at £6.99 ISBN: 0 552 15275 7

With Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Acorna has had many adventures in space; she has defeated slavers, a deadly international conspiracy, and the vicious alien Khleevi. She has also had to endure the loss of her beloved Aari, distant in both time and space.
Now, finally, Aari has returned, and together they can finish rebuilding their home world. But Aari is oddly changed, to the point where he barely remembers Acorna - much less their love - and his actions grow more and more sinister...
As Acorna tries to stop a vicious criminal from destroying innocents, a new complication arises. Sensing the Linyaari weakness, the deadly Khleevi return, determined to take back the planet - for good. In this dark time, it will take all of the unicorn girl’s courage and determination to rescue Aari and stop the alien menace once and for all.

‘Colourful characterizations, lots of fast-paced action, and a decided sense of menace… entertaining fare indeed’ Booklist on the Acorna series
About The Author
Anne McCaffrey was born on April 1st in the year of the fire tiger and has been writing about Pernese dragons for thirty years. This does not necessarily make her an expert on other dragons but she has diligently exposed herself to the 'lesser breeds without the law.' She lives in County Wicklow, Ireland and has replaced travelling the World with surfing the Internet and the web.


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Todd McCaffrey

But at Amazon.co.uk Todd McCaffrey Dragonsblood Published April 2005 by Bantam at £16.99 ISBN: 0-593-05361 3
A New Novel of Pern
With an introduction by Anne McCaffrey

A deadly plague has begun to wipe out the dragons and fire-lizards, leaving mankind no defence against the deadly Thread which has just begun to fall in the Third Pass. Tantalized by a song that seems to suggest that Lorana can find out hove to heal the dragons, the Harper Kindan and Lorana race against time to solve the clues that Wind Blossom left behind.
Can they find the cure in time to save Lorana’s queen, Arith, and the rest of the dragons? If they don’t, there will be no dragons left, and all life on the planet will be devoured.
And how could Wind Blossom, Pern’s last geneticist, know of a peril 400 Turns after her death?
Millions of readers have followed book by book the evolution of one of science fiction’s most popular series. Now, continuing the legend of the dragons of Pern, comes the first solo Pern novel from Anne McCaffrey’s son, her approved heri to Pern.
As Anne says in her introduction, ‘Dragonsblood is a good yarn, fitting perfectly into the Pern series, yet something I don’t think I would have thought up myself. Enjoy, as I did, another point of view about Pern’


About The Author
Todd McCaffrey is a licensed pilot and software engineer living in Los Angeles. Todd took up writing full-time in 2002 and hasn’t looked back. Dragonsblood is his first solo Pern novel. He is also the author of several books, including a Pern novel, Dragon’s Kin, which he co-wrote with his mother.


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Myrren's Gift

But at Amazon.co.uk Fiona McIntosh Myrren's Gift Pbk published January 2005 by Orbit at £7.99 ISBN: 1-84149-373 2

When Wyl Thirsk, General of the Morgravian Legion, is forced to watch the torture of Myrren, a young woman accused of witchcraft, it seems little enough comfort to speed her passing. But Myrren is grateful for even this small mercy and promises Wyl a gift. He thanks her but dismisses the notion - what could this poor, doomed girl have to give him?
It is only years later that Wyl, shorn of his friends and allies, betrayed by his king, and forced to make an impossible choice, remembers the dying words of the young woman about to burn for the crime of witchcraft. As his enemy’s sword draws closer, Wyl finally understands the meaning of Myrren’s gift, and he wonders how one act of kindness could have unleashed such evil ...
Gripping the reader from the very first page, Myrren’s Gift marks Fiona McIntosh as one of fantasy fiction’s most gifted storytellers.



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Robert Newcomb

But at Amazon.co.uk Robert Newcomb The Scrolls of the Ancients Pbk published July 2005 by Bantam at £6.99 ISBN: 0 553 81455 9

The spellbinding fantasy that began with The Fifth Sorceress and The Gates of Dawn continues ...
Tristan and his twin sister, Shailiha, are the Chosen Ones, long prophesied to unite the opposing magics of the dark Vagaries and the benevolent Vigors. With the destruction of the Gates of Dawn, it would appear that the ravaged kingdom of Eutracia has been given the chance to heal itself - and the Chosen Ones have been granted the opportunity to fulfil their destiny under the tutelage of wizards Wigg and Faegan.
But Fate would have it otherwise. For there is another who unknowingly possesses magic in his blood - magic that, in the wrong hands, could unleash unspeakable evil. To find this unsuspecting soul and understand the threat that now faces them, the Chosen Ones and their allies begin a quest that takes them deep into the mysterious Chambers of Penitence, and across the Sea of Whispers to the sacred Isle of Sanctuary.
They are not alone in searching. Krassus, devoted servant of the Vagaries, has dispatched ships of demonic slavers to scour the coast of Eutracia, take people captive and bring them to the island fortress of the Citadel, where evil dreams become living nightmares.
Aided by Tyranny, a pirate as fierce as she is beautiful, Tristan and Shailiha must destroy the slavers’ fleet and rescue the ill-fated pawn of magic, now imprisoned in the Citadel. For Krassus seeks to awaken the magic in his blood and imbue him with dark enchantments from the mysterious Scrolls of the Ancients - transforming him into an instrument of evil the likes of which the world has never known ...

Praise for The Chronicles of Blood and Stone
'Really fabulous… The Chronicles of Blood and Stone is an excellent adventure in High Fantasy' SF Site
`He puts his heroes through hell... Newcomb has a talent for exploring the darker, more brutal aspects of human suffering’ SFX
`Robert Newcomb is a writer who has precisely what it takes to deliver a complex and sweepingly conceived adventure that painstakingly avoids all the wearisome clichés of the genre . . . Newcomb’s impressive narrative skill is such that the pages turn very quickly indeed . . . The world created here is fastidiously realised, with much astonishing detail, and Newcomb is a name to watch’ Good Book Guide
`An undoubtedly impressive debut ... it has a dark magnificence in many of its set pieces of slaughter and magic . . . Newcomb has a real gift for describing violent action and intense emotional states; he puts his hero through a series of ordeals as upsetting as they are thrilling. Tristan wins, as we always expect him to, and then Newcomb gives us a slingshot ending that implies fascinating sequels of ever escalating wonder and terror’ Roz Kaveney, amazon.co.uk
`What a fantastic read. Fantasy novels can be hit and miss but this one is a definite hit. Robert Newcomb writes with a boldness and originality rarely seen in first novels. Reminiscent of authors such as Goodkind and Jordan, Newcomb introduces us to a world where magic and wonder coexist with darkness, treachery and sex. He isn’t afraid to make his characters suffer, and believe me they do, as he fearlessly pushes the boundaries of imagination . . . What I loved most about this novel was the uncertainty, you are never really sure how it will all end, and, when you think you do know, you are proved completely wrong’ Outland
`These personifications of light and dark are beautifully and vividly drawn . . . impressive . . . sweeps you through a noble landscape full of detail’ SFX
`In the school of Terry Goodkind, this is American fantasy in all its glory . . . driven along at breakneck speed’ Guardian
`Well written, captivating . . . Robert Newcomb is likely to be fantasy’s next big author’ Enigma
‘In the tradition of Terry Goodkind and Robin Hobb, a thrilling d6but fantasy novel and the first book in a sweeping, epic trilogy full of magic, adventure and wonder’ Publishing News
`An intelligent debut . . . headed for bestsellerdom’ Kirkus Reviews
‘Newcomb may be a newcomer to fantasy writing but it doesn’t show in this surprisingly original doorstopper .. . leaves you wanting more’ Publishers Weekly
`Well-written and compelling’ Library Journal
`Newcomb’s The Fifth Sorceress - boldly touted by its publishers as ‘The Epic Fantasy of the Year’ - may be just that. Strictly for adults, it is an impressive, extremely brutal and engrossing high-fantasy tome in which no character -no matter how seemingly critical to the story line - is invincible. It has all the ingredients of both a stand-alone blockbuster and the solid foundation for an important new fantasy series’ www.barnesandnoble.com

About The Author
In His Own Words…
While growing up in a rural, upstate New York town of only seven hundred, becoming a novelist was the last thing on Robert Newcomb’s mind. Graduating from a small high school class of thirty students, he then did a brief stint at Southampton University, England, under the guidance of The American Institute for Foreign Study. After earning a degree in economics from Colgate University, it was off to work in the family concern of more than seventy-five years - a pair of third-generation Ford automobile dealerships which he eventually came to successfully own and run.
Tiring of the auto business, he sold the concerns in 1997 and moved to Florida to get away from it all, trading in his suits for T-shirts. Still unsure of a new career path, it was at this point his wife dared him to write the book that he had always threatened to. Armed with his laptop and what he thought might be a new idea idea, he finally finished his first work. The end result was an epic fantasy named The Fifth Sorceress, which started a bidding war between major New York houses, claiming what is often referred to as the largest total first-time fantasy deal, (a trilogy), ever offered in the U. S.
No one was more stunned than he was.
Mr. Newcomb continues to live in sunny Florida, and is hard at work on the third of the novels. When he is not writing, his hobbies include good scotch, better cigars, the martial arts, and going to Florida beaches to sit and do absolutely nothing. Well, not quite nothing - (see the aforementioned scotch and cigars.) His wife, Dr. Joyce E. Newcomb, PhD., is a practicing neuropsychologist, and novelist in her own right.


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Terry Pratchett
The Last Hero

But at Amazon.co.uk Terry Pratchett The Last Hero Pbk published December 2004 by Gollancz at £6.99 ISBN: 0 575 07377 2

A Discworld Fable Illustrated by Paul Kidby
Now available in paperback with 16 pages of all-new illustrations
'The Last Hero is a 40,000 word, true Discworld novel that fits in with the other twenty-six books in the sequence. It's just that it has an extra dimension: some parts of it are written in paint!' Terry Pratchett
He’s been a legend in his own lifetime
He can remember the great days of high adventure
He can remember when a hero didn’t have worry about fences and lawyers and civilisation.
He can remember when people didn’t tell you off for killing dragons.
But he can’t always remember, these days, where he put his teeth . . .
He’s really not happy about that bit.
So now, with his ancient sword and his new walking stick and his old friends - and they’re very old friends - Cohen the Barbarian is going on one final quest. He’s going to climb the highest mountain in the Discworld and meet his gods. He doesn’t like the way they let men grow old and die.
The last hero in the world is going to return what the first hero stole. With a vengeance. That’ll mean the end of the world, if no one stops him in time . . .

`An awesome, yet comic, mission to save all Discworld’ Daily Telegraph
`A fable? Perhaps. Fabulous? Certainly’ The Times
`Those who get to know Terry Pratchett’s world soon understand why the likes of A. S. Byatt are fans. His characters are as eccentric yet richly human as any of Dickens’s . . . but he’s immensely funnier’ Waterstones Books Quarterly
`A hilarious return to the fantasy-satirising spirit of the earlier Discworld novels’ Dreamwatch

About The Author
Terry Pratchett is Britain's bestselling living novelist and lives behind a (very upmarket) keyboard in Wiltshire, where he answers letters in a desperate attempt to find time to write. He used to grow carnivorous plants, but now they've taken over the greenhouse and he avoids going in.
He says he doesn't want to get a life after all, because it feels like he's already trying to lead three. He is having a new conservatory built for the carnivorous plants, because they deserve it.


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Christopher Priest

But at Amazon.co.uk Christopher Priest The Glamour Pbk published June 2005 by Gollancz at £7.99 ISBN: 0 575 07579 1

Welcome to the world of the glamour.
The glamour is the unsuspected underworld to our normal lives, seductive and sinister, peopled by those who can never be seen. It exists on the edge of reality, full of doubt, behind a veil of invisibility.
But is the invisibility real,
Or is it merely a state of not being noticed?
This is the story of two young people who fall in love while trying to escape from the glamour. Richard Grey is a television news cameraman, his career shattered by terrorist outrage, who has to piece his life together from old but unreliable memories. Susan Kewley, a graphic artist, is torn between Grey and another man, one deeply embedded in his introspective world of invisibility.

'Priest's control is masterly' New Statesman
`Told in a variety of voices, with a dawning sense of the evils of his special gift; and with twists of plot that make it a satisfying piece of psychological horror, this is a compelling and haunting novel.’ Publishers Weekly
‘Thoroughly engrossing; highly recommended’ Library Journal
‘Read it… It will change the way you see the world. And yourself’ Time Out

About The Author
Christopher Priest is the author of nine previous novels and two collections of short stories. His last novel, The Prestige, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction end the World Fantasy Award, and was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clark Award. He lives in Hastings with his wife and twin children.


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Sean Russell
The Shadow Road

But at Amazon.co.uk Sean Russell The Shadow Road Published January 2005 by Orbit at £17.99 ISBN: 1841491918
The Swans' War Book Three
The stunning conclusion of The Swans' War
After the King of Ayr died without naming a successor, a century of enmity destroyed the one kingdom, se the mighty families of the Renne and the Wills fought to determine the crown in a bitter storm of treachery and blood. But now the decades of hatred have woken the unquiet river spirits from their timeless sleep, and revived a feud more deadly than any conflict of man.
As alliances shift and loyalties are tested in the harsh civil war between the tow great families, each determined to destroy the other, Toren Renne still fights for peace, hoping to stop the age-old war. But betrayals ad double-crosses rack the Renne and the Wills, even as a larger threat arises. For the dark knight Hafydd has made a sinister alliance that leads him to secrets hidden for eons, including one that could destroy them all. What began as a struggle for a crown has become a fight far more perilous, for woken by the wars of man and nagar, even Death himself is preparing to leave his fell kingdom and walk the world again. And if the door to his dread domain cannot be shut, the feud between the Renne and the Wills and even the ancient wars of the nagar will be as nothing compared to the coming doom.
The Shadow Road is the eagerly-awaited conclusion to Sean Russell’s epic tale of the Swans’ War.

Praise for Sean Russell
'A master of intelligent fantasy - subtle, well-crafted and gripping' Stephen Donaldson
‘A perfectly plotted beautifully written fantasy’ Publishers Weekly Starred Review
‘Magic and mystery blend in abundance with an intricate cast of characters. The plot, like the River Wynnd itself, sweeps the reader into unpredictable and unexplored fantasy territory. An engrossing read’ Robin Hobb
‘Fascinatingly plotted, with life-sized characters, and developments hinted at rather than displayed full-blown… Splendid.’ Kirkus Reviews
‘The kind of epic fantasy that I love to read’ Kate Elliot
‘Wonderful’ Locus


About The Author
Sean Russell was born in Toronto, Canada in 1952 and now lives in Vancouver


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