The acclaimed fantasy author debuts a new epic adventure series—a "raw, violent, and gritty" tale that "blurs the lines between hero and villain" ( Booklist ).You can't change your fate, so throw yourself into battle. You'll either win the day, or wake up drinking mead in the halls of your ancestors. That's what Finn's people believe.But Finn wants to live. When his settlement is massacred by a hostile nation, Finn ...

A traveling mercenary finds himself at odds with a merciless king in this historical fantasy series debut.Dug Sealskinner is a down-on-his-luck mercenary traveling south to join up with King Zadar's army. But he keeps rescuing the wrong people. First Spring, a child he finds scavenging on the battlefield, and then Lowa, one of Zadar's most fearsome warriors, who has vowed revenge on the king for her sister's execution.Now Dug's on the wrong side of the thou...

The outrageously thrilling West of West trilogy comes to an action-packed close in Where Gods Fear to Go -- a gritty epic fantasy journey in which a mismatched group of refugees battle animals and monsters, an unforgiving land and each other as they cross a continent to fulfill a prophecy.Battling across the Shining Mountains, the questers discover a land more terrifying than they ever could've imagined--and they've fought thunder lizards.All the w...

The David Gemmell Award-shortlisted author of Age of Iron returns with the final book in his West of West trilogy, in which a mismatched group of refugees must battle monsters, an unforgiving land and each other as they cross a continent to fulfil a prophecyBattling across the Shining Mountains, the questers discover a land more terrifying and filled with more dangerous creatures than they could ever have imagined. The tentatively allied Wootah and Calnian...

Leaders are forged in the fires of war in the second volume of the acclaimed historical fantasy epic, following Age of Iron.Iron Age warriors Dug and Lowa captured Maidun castle and freed its slaves. But now they must defend it.A Roman invasion is coming from Gaul, but rather than uniting to defend their home, the British tribes go to battle with each other—and see Maidun as an easy target.Meanwhile, Lowa's spies infiltrate Gaul, discovering t...

Warrior queens and Roman invaders do battle in the final volume of this historical epic fantasy trilogy.Caesar's soldiers have murdered, massacred and pillaged their way through Gaul. Now they loom on the far side of the sea, ready to descend upon Britain—with them are an unstoppable legion of men twisted by dark magic.Somehow Queen Lowa must repel the invasion, although her best general is dead and her young druid powerless. She faces impossible odds, but w...

The David Gemmell Award-shortlisted author of Age of Iron returns with the second book in his epic West of West trilogy, in which a mismatched group of refugees must battle animals and monsters, an unforgiving land and each other as they cross a continent to fulfill a prophecy.Welcome to the Badlands. . .Newly and uneasily allied, two tribes from different worlds set off across the Ocean of Grass. Their mission is to fulfill a prophecy and take Ottar...

Watson provides professional and amateur musicians, and music lovers generally, with a complete survey of Beethoven's chamber music and the background to each individual work - the loyalty of patrons, musicians and friends on theone hand; increasing deafness and uncertain health on the other. Attention is paid to the influence of such large-scale compositions as the Eroica Symphony and Fidelio on the chamber music of his middle years and theMissa Solemnis and the...

LEGENDS AREN'T BORN. THEY'RE MADE.Dug Sealskinner is a down-on-his-luck mercenary traveling south to join up with King Zadar's army. But he keeps rescuing the wrong people.First Spring, a child he finds scavenging on the battlefield, and then Lowa, one of Zadar's most fearsome warriors, who has vowed revenge on the king for her sister's execution.Now Dug's on the wrong side of the thousands-strong army he hoped to join -- and worse, Zadar has bloodthirsty druid magi...

You die when you die . . .You can't change your fate -- so throw yourself into battle, because you'll either win or wake up drinking mead in the halls of your ancestors. That's what Finn's people believe.But Finn wants to live. When his settlement is massacred by a hostile nation, Finn plus several friends and rivals must make their escape across a brutal, unfamiliar landscape, and to survive, Finn will fight harder than he's ever fought before.**Th...

The second book in Angus Watson's epic Iron Age fantasy trilogy.Leaders are forged in the fires of war.br>Iron Age warriors Dug and Lowa captured Maidun castle and freed its slaves. But now they must defend it.A Roman invasion is coming from Gaul, but rather than uniting to defend their home, the British tribes go to battle with each other -- and see Maidun as an easy target.Meanwhile, Lowa's spies infiltrate Gaul, discovering the Romans have...

The David Gemmell Award-shortlisted author of Age of Iron returns with the second book in his epic West of West trilogy, in which a mismatched group of refugees must battle animals and monsters, an unforgiving land and each other as they cross a continent to fulfill a prophecy.Welcome to the Badlands. . .Newly and uneasily allied, two tribes from different worlds set off across the Ocean of Grass. Their mission is to fulfill a prophecy and take Ott...