This is an exciting re-imagining of the early years of the boy who would become King Arthur John Matthews has imagined a quartet of books under the title Red Dragon Rising of which this is the first volume We meet Arthur Merlin the Questing Beast the Green Knight & the mysterious Nine women who rule the castle of Avalon with its ever-shifting rooms & prophetic bronze mirror There are horrific enemies such as Amangons & the hideous Fir Bolg & stalwart companions in the shape of the four Eldest the shape-shifting Salmon Stag Eagle & Blackbird & there is Mabon the shining golden boy-god whom Arthur & his companions must rescue from an underground dungeon which quenches his powers He must also achieve the four Hallows of Albion of which gaining the Sword of Ice & Fire is the first quest ...

Book One in a new hard-hitting contemporary fantasy saga Marius Winter doesn’t walk the road of the shaman-warrior alone He has powerful allies in the Other Realms & in ordinary reality His spirit guides are a Lakota war-chief & medicine man First In Front; Tigre a powerful feminine spirit who appears as a white tiger; & Burt a spirit raven who channels an old Jewish bookie from the Bronx Now Marius is targeted by a powerful sorcerer In the battle for the souls of his friends & lover he must storm the gates of the underworld & fight through the Seven Demi-Demons of Hell to the deepest dungeons to confront Belial himself ...

Marius Winter doesn&t walk the road of the shaman-warrior alone He has powerful allies in the Other Realms & in ordinary reality His spirit guides are a Lakota war-chief & medicine man First In Front; Tigre a powerful feminine spirit who appears as a white tiger; & Burt a spirit raven who channels an old Jewish bookie from the Bronx Now Marius is targeted by a powerful sorcerer In the battle for the souls of his friends & lover he must storm the gates of the underworld & fight through the Seven Demi-Demons of Hell to the deepest dungeons to confront Belial himself! ...

THE SHANNARA CHRONICLES
- NOW A MAJOR TV SERIESVolume one in the classic bestselling series
- from one of the all-time masters

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1 in a NEW EPIC FANTASY SERIES by 28-times New York Times & international best seller David Weber set within his Bahzell Bahnakson War God universe A swordsman who has been robbed of his past must confront an evil wizard with a world at stake Know thyself Its always good to know who you are but sometimes thats a little difficult Kenhodan has no last name because he has no past or not one he remembers anyway What he does have are a lot of scars & a lot of skills some exhilarating & some terrifying & a purpose Now if he only knew where he&d gotten them & what that purpose was Wencit of Rm the most powerful wizard in the world knows the answers to Kenhodan&s questions but he can&t or won&t share them with him Except to inform him that he&s a critical part of Wencit&s millennium-long battle to protect Norfressa from conquest by dark sorcery Bahzell Bahnakson champion of Tomank doesnt know those answers & the War God isn&t sharing them with him Except to inform Bahzell that the final confrontation with the Dark Lords of fallen Kontovar is about to begin & that somehow Kenhodan is one of the keys to its final outcome Wulfra of Torfo doesn&t know those answers either but she does know Wencit of Rm is her implacable foe & that somehow Kenhodan is one of the weapons he intends to use against her assuming she can&t kill both of them first But in the far northern port city of Belhadan an eleven-year-old girl with a heart of harp music knows the answers to all of Kenhodan&s questions & dares not share them with anyone even the ancient wild wizard who loves her more dearly than life itself It&s not easy to face the future when you can&t even remember your own past but if saving an entire world from evil sorcerers demons devils & dark gods was easy anyone could do it ...

It was a day like any other for Dara Brighton a promising young college student until three strangers knocked on her door looking for a unique sword & destroyed her life! A modern day fantasy series from the creators behind Ultra & Girls! Praised as the fusion of Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Kill Bill! ...

Dara brighton has discovered more information about the three powerful strangers who murdered her family Armed with this knowledge & the mystical sword her first order of business is to find the one who murdered her sister & make him pay ...

His name is Knossos With the power to manipulate earth he is one of the most powerful beings alive & he has only one weakness The Sword Helping to create it was his first mistake Killing the mother of Dara Brighton the Sword's current wielder may be his last! ...

Three powerful siblings entered Dara Brighton's home & brutally murdered her family right before her eyes With the help of a powerful sword & her two friends she has vowed to exact revenge on the three Dara's epic quest concludes in this final volume with her last target Malia the air-goddess who murdered her father! Dara has already fought Malia's brothers
- the water-god Zakros & the earth-god Knossos
- but Malia's power over air isn't the only thing that makes her more formidable than her siblings!

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The Penwith Peninsula in Cornwall is where the land ends In The Swordfish & the Star Gavin Knight takes us into this huddle of grey roofs at the edge of the sea at the beginning of the twenty-first century He catches the stories of a whole community but especially those still working this last frontier the Cornish fishermen These are the dreamers & fighters who every day prepare for battle with the vast grey Atlantic Cornwall & its seas are brought to life mixing drinking & drugs & sea spray moonlit beaches & shattering storms myth & urban myth The result is an arresting tapestry of a place we thought we knew; the precarious reality of life in Cornwall today emerges from behind our idyllic holiday snaps & picture postcards Even the quaint fishermen's pubs on the quay at Newlyn including the Swordfish & its neighbour the Star turn out to be places where squalls can blow up & down again in an instant Based on immersive research & rich with the voices of a cast of remarkable characters this is an eye-opening dramatic poignant account of life on Britain's most dangerous stretch of coast Praise for Hood Rat 'A gripping novelistic immersion' Louis Theroux'A must-read' Owen Jones' Britain's Gomorrah' Independent ...