When he returns home after fighting in the English Civil War, Fenlander Tom Swainson is full of hope for a New Age of equality where the rights of commoners will be protected, as promised by his old commander, Oliver Cromwell. But although the hamlet where he lives was untouched by the fighting, he finds that much has changed during his absence. His wife is with child by his friend, Matthew Hobday, and his livelihood is threatened by the 'Venturers', who wish to enclose and drain the Fens....

There is, perhaps, nothing within the sphere of human operations which more affect the present and future generations, either for good or evil, than a faithful narration of history and biography. But the effects, either for better or worse, depend pretty much on the comments and conclusions of the historian and biographer themselves. He may have an unprejudiced mind, he may chronicle the events of a nation faithfully and correctly, and he may be capable of delineating the mighty strokes an...

‘Out of field, out of fen, out of forest we roseputting fear behind us. Foe fled before us:hard-handed death-dealers, wolf-howling warriors,fierce in fealty; our swords glittered in the sunlight . . . .’Edward the Confessor is dead, England is at peace and Hereward, son of Eorl Leofric, returns from exile to his ancestral lands. But peace is short-lived and when Norman invaders murder his foster-brother,...

When ten-year-old Ellie is taken from her parents' farm, the consequences endanger a society unknown to the modern world. Her abductor belongs to a relict population of indigenous Tasmanians who live deep in the South West Wilderness as they and their ancestors have done for millennia, avoiding all contact with the modern world, and while Ellie learns to assimilate into his culture, her presence threatens to destroy him and all his people.

To its first people, Trouwerner was the world. They lived there according to the seasons and ancient traditions, as their ancestors had done for countless generations. Then the island was discovered by Europeans. It became 'Van Diemen's Land', and everything changed.Through the life of one man and his kin, this series of short stories chronicles the fate of the aboriginal Tasmanians from the first sighting of a sail in 1792 to their internment on Flinder's Island in 1835.

When Tark discovers salt crystals on the edge of the lake that is the centre of his people's lives, it presages disaster. Forced to flee alone after fire and flood ravage his home, he comes to a land of plenty across the desert but it is already occupied by the xenophobic Valley People. He learns to assimilate into their culture but when the survivors of his own clan arrive he is faced with an irresolvable dilemma. Whichever side he chooses, he will betray people he loves.Shrortlis...

When the narrator's abusive father sells her to a mysterious stranger, a new exciting world opens. Her new master, Reynauld Sely, is a man of many talents: alchemist, historian, possessor of arcane secrets, and member of a Guild whose quest is the pursuit of Truth. He is eager to share his knowledge and she is willing to learn. Yet this is a time in which the boundaries between science and magic are poorly defined and both may be interpreted as witchcraft . . .Set in the Fens durin...

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**In the bleak northern crown of the world, war is coming. The first in the Echoes of the Fall series, The Tiger and the Wolf is an epic fantasy novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky.‘Addictively brilliant’ – John Gwynne, author of Malice**Maniye hides a deadly secret. Her father is the chieftan of the Wolf clan, whose members can shift into wolves. Her mother was the queen of the Tiger clan, whose members can take the form of a tiger. Maniye can become both.

BOOK ONE IN THE GROUNDBREAKING SERIES, THE WARS OF LIGHT AND SHADOWA powerful, layered weaving of myth, prose and pure imagination – Curse of the Mistwraith opens an epic fantasy series perfect for fans of The Dark Tower and Earthsea.Let each who reads determine the good and the evil for himselfAthera is besieged by the Mistwraith, which blights the land and dims the mysteries guarded by the last fugitives of the old bloodlines.But from a prophecy springs hope...

The long-awaited second book of the fourth story arc – Sword of the Canon – in the epic fantasy series, the Wars of Light and Shadow.Lysaer’s unstable integrity lies under threat of total downfall, and as his determined protector, Daliana will face the most frightening decision of her young life.Arithon, Master of Shadow, is marked for death and still hunted, when his critical quest to recover his obscured past entangles him in a web of deep intrig...

A richly textured, darkly evocative fantasy set in a beautifully realised fantasy world, the Saramyr trilogy tells the story of an empire that rules over a land being overwhelmed by evil.An evil that comes from within the empire's centre, a sect of magicians close to the throne intent on killing any child born with magical powers. But now the empress has given birth to just such a child and revolution is brewing.Akin to the works of Robin Hobb, this is a hugely involving fa...