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"An absolute treat, deliciously ludic, to be read with a big smile on your face throughout."—Nicholas Lezard, Guardian AT THE END-OF-LONDON-SEASON soiree, the young Hungarian scholar-dilettante Janos Batky is introduced to the Earl of Gwynedd, a reclusive eccentric who is the subject of strange rumours. Invited to the family seat, Pendragon Castle in North Wales, Batky receives a mysterious phone-call warning him not to go. But he does, and finds himself in a bizarre world of mysticism and romance, animal experimentation, and planned murder. His quest to solve the central mystery takes him down strange byways-old libraries and warehouse cellars, Welsh mountains and underground tombs.
Each of the Travelers returns home to learn the truth about their origins before being reunited for a final, ineveitable confrontation with Saint Dane, whose efforts to control Halla are destroying its very foundations.
A challenging novella of from the horrific mind of Jonathan Butcher. A girl, abused all her life, finds a way to escape with vengeance on her mind.
Bobby Pendragon is a seemingly normal and somewhat reluctant 14- year-old boy who is swept into an amazing five-year quest.
Join Bobby Pendragon once again in his continuing saga of magic and danger. This time he and Uncle Press must stop an underwater war!
A year after the death of their son, Dan and Kelly are visiting Aokigahara, the infamous Japanese forest. Dan knows of its past as the place where souls come to die, to commit suicide either through hopelessness, debt, or love. Kelly does not, but all that changes when the forest's ghosts begin to reveal themselves.
This candid, colorful memoir as told in the composer's own voice begins with Copland's Brooklyn childhood and takes us through his years in Paris, the creation of early works, years as the leader of young composers in New York City, Tanglewood and around the world."
When the colonial writer George Isaacs died in Adelaide in 1876, he was quickly dispatched to the West Terrace Cemetery and buried without pomp. Such was the end of the overlooked author of the first novel published in South Australia. Despite the availability of rich primary sources, his significance has been overlooked until now.
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"Pendragon has all the hallmarks of a traditional historical adventure story . . . However, there is also intellectual heft to this story, with its themes of myth-making and the nature of power." Antonia Senior THE TIMES Here is the beginning of a legend. Long before Camelot rose, a hundred years before the myth of King Arthur was half-formed, at the start of the Red Century, the world was slipping into a Dark Age... It is AD 367. In a frozen forest beyond Hadrian’s Wall, six scouts of the Roman army are found murdered. For Lucanus, known as the Wolf and leader of elite unit called the Arcani, this chilling ritual killing is a sign of a greater threat. But to the Wolf the far north is a fo...