The Claws Of The Earth Part Ii

The adventures continue in B.’s Claws of the Earth: The Library of Menthok-Sikh. Now that Mintor is crowned King, the dangerous quest for knowledge about the Blades of Weayland and the Claws of the Earth continues. The Dog and Bino travel to an ancient temple and encounter trouble. The prophesied nemesis, the one true god, appears in the south-east of the realm, almost causing another war. In the empire of Maoeté the Hooded One is discovered, and a dangerous fight against him begins. Civil War starts early in the Deep South, and the quest for the Claws of the Earth continues. With engaging description of the unforgiving terrain, gripping tensions and and charming characters, readers of fantasy will be drawn to this next instalment in the series

B. once more draws readers into the action-packed world of treachery, danger and magic in this fourth instalment of the gripping The Claws of the Earth series. Mintor and his companions continue their quest south to find the Island of Weayland’s Keep, but will they reach the Claws of the Earth in time? With the black-armour swarming their land, threatening to crush the empire beneath a black tidal wave of destruction, the friends’ quest seems near impossible to complete. Queen Riolany makes an unexpected startling discovery in Korlot, but what is Buralco up to? Meanwhile, events in the Eastern Kingdom threaten to spiral out of control. Can anything stand in the way of the wizard, Evan Whitestiller, and halt him in fulfilling his destiny?

The quest for the Claws of the Earth continues in B.’s eagerly awaited sequel, The Claws of the Earth: Trouble in the South. The empire face dangers from every side as Rimyar leads a tribal uprising in the South to retake their stolen homelands. The illusive Evan Whitestiller sets up shop in the Eastern Kingdom. Soldiers of the cross menace the realm. All the while the Hooded One and his black-robes continue to pose a deadly threat to civilisation… King Mintor and his friends must find out what Evan Whitestiller is up to, for the fate of the realm and the eastern Kingdom may depend on this information. In the Empire the imperials face a difficult decision: form a truce with Rimyar’s desert rebels to fight against Hodulu, the Hooded One, and his black robes or face the real danger of total destruction. B. weaves a complex plot combining magic, mystical creatures, rebellion, religion and war. Readers are treated to a detailed insight into the minds of the main characters as they battle against fear, politics, injury and death. B. manages to skilfully handle parallel plotlines and a vast array of characters, in order to create a novel which is a truly intriguing read.

The 'if' of death is certain. The 'when' is unknown. It is the 'why' that really gets people's interest ... From a rare and deadly amniotic avalanche to a victim of roasted peanuts ... The bestselling author of The Cause of Death and The Quick and the Dead returns with more stranger-than-fiction stories of death, disease and murder - as well as new perspectives on high-profile cases, including the disappearance of Ben Smart and Olivia Hope, the trial of Mark Lundy, and the ill-fated journey of Ansett Flight 703.

An extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, in the time of a dying sun, when our present culture is no longer even a memory. Severian, a torturer's apprentice, is exiled from his guild after falling in love with one of his prisoners. Ordered to the distant city of Thrax, armed with his ancient executioner's sword, Terminus Est, Severian must make his way across the perilous, ruined landscape of this far-future Urth. But is his finding of the mystical gem, the Claw of the Conciliator, merely an accident, or does Fate have a grander plans for Severian the torturer . . . ? This edition contains the first two volumes of this four volume novel, The Shadow of the Torturer and The Claw of the Conciliator.

Presents scholars, students and general readers with the major fiction for adults, much of the best of juvenile fiction, and a selection of the educational and occasional writings of Maria Edgeworth. MARIA EDGEWORTH was born in 1768. Her first novel, Castle Rackrent (1800) was also her first Irish tale. The next such tale was Ennui (1809), after which came The Absentee, which began life as an unstaged play and was then published (in prose) in Tales of Fashionable Life (1812), as were several of her other stories. They were followed in 1817 by the last of her Irish tales, Ormond. Maria Edgeworth died in 1849. Edited with an introduction and notes by Marilyn Butler.