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Castle Torm is going to fall. Its master is dying, its people in despair. Its only hope is Allyso, last of the Blood of Torm.
Candle Iron won the (fantasy, sf ad horror)Aurealis Award for the Best Long Children's Fiction of 2001. | |  | | Captain Sunrise
Harry Opaldown worked hard to become worthy of his love, but when he returned to claim her she'd changed her mind.
Miss Amanda Jones is furious when her carriage is held up by the bushranger calling himself Captain Sunrise, and even more so when he takes her diamonds. Meanwhile, her old swain Harry Opaldown returns expecting to marry her.
Amanda has moved on to thoughts of a more advantageous match. This angers Harry and he decides to get Amanda's diamonds back.
Mary Downie is willing to help him with this enterprise. Harry hesitates to use a serving girl in this way but, as Mary observes, "Using's what folk do..."
Captain Sunrise is a novella set in Colonial Australia and now avai | |  | | Fernseed for Fairysight
Fantasy poetry
Poems with retro-Victorian rhyme and meter. | |  | | Gold's Bride
Wife for sale!
When Jeremiah Gold buys the beautiful Garnet from her sot of a husband, he intends only to save her from degradation. Married by a convict parson, Jeremiah takes his bride to his remote selection, only to find Garnet fighting him at every turn. Fury soon turns to love and desire, but will either of them realize before it's too late?
The date is 1830, the place the colony of New South Wales. Lively Garnet Perry has been sent from England to marry Edward Landis. Edward proves both elderly and impotent, and his terrible old mother engineers a situation that sees Garnet offered illegally for sale. Her new owner is settler Jeremiah Gold, who has come to Sydney Town in search of a hard-working wife, and who persuades a convict parson to marry them.
Jeremiah's supposition that Garnet is experienced leads to a disastrous wedding night and Garnet's infamous temper erupts. Determined to tame his wife, Jeremiah sets her to work helping clear land for his new farming venture.
Garnet escapes back to Sydney Town, but finds herself in even deeper trouble. Her ignominious return to Jeremiah sets the scene for a series of confrontations, but eventually, Garnet comes to love her stubborn husband. She would do anything to take back the bitter words between them, but now it seems too late. Can a marriage bought at auction ever be worth the price?
From where she perched, Garnet could not hear the sounds of blows or the heavy panting of the men, but she could see the staggering steps and the reeling back and forth. Her nails bit into her palms as she watched the crazy scene, but before she could formulate any plan to help her husband, even if she had been in range, the fight ceased abruptly. The man had pulled out a pistol and was holding it at Jeremiah’s head.
Garnet’s breath came in panting gasps, but she could do nothing. She crouched like a frightened animal and stared, terrified in case any incautious sound or moveme | |  | | Heather & Heath
Glen Heather: the beautiful house that haunts three generations
Glen Heather was established in the 1830s by Hector Campbell and his bride Ness. Hector sees the property as his chance to gain standing in society, while Ness loves it for its beautiful self. Love of Glen Heather echoes down four generations until Alice, great-granddaughter of Hector and Ness, must make a difficult choice between love and honour. | |  | | Jack Russell: Dog Detective. Dog Den Mystery
Meet Jack Russell; the detective with the nose for crime!
Round and round and round.
The paws are faster than sound.
Round and round, round and round, round and …
I was running my ninety-fifth lap of the boring backyard. There was nothing else to do, except sleep in my basket and chase sparrows.
Then Sarge came home.
‘We’re getting a transfer, Jack,’ he said.
Round and round and … ZOOOOP!
I skidded to a stop. I wagged my tail and did the *paw thing. Sarge isn’t the brightest biscuit in the pack, but he knew that meant—
Great! Where are we going? Is Aun | |  | | Knight Protector
Someone is out to get the Princess of Braveria, and it's Simon's job to protect her. If she'll let him.
Someone is out to get the Princess of Braveria, and it's Simon's job to protect her. If she'll let him. All the knights and dragons are spoiling for a fight, so it's up to Simon to save the world. Again.
| |  | | Knightfall
King Kevin wants a champion. So does the Dragon King. Bookerstaff wants an apprentice and Becca wants a friend. Reba wants someone to boss and Peggy wants a meal. They all want Simon, but Simon wants to go home!
| |  | | Lilly of Mirryam
Life in the pocket kingdom of Mirryam was happy until the invasion... suddenly it was up to young Lilly and her friend, Jedket, to save their land.
It was quite a peaceful invasion, as invasions went. Duke Bezzal and his men trooped into the castle hallway, looked about, curled their lips, then called a special meeting with King Donathan and his advisor.
'How can they do that?' asked Lilly as Col led the crowd of men into the Throne Room. They jingled and jangled as they walked, for all of them wore smart uniforms hung with medals and chains.'This is your kingdom, not theirs. Isn't it up to you to call a meeting?'
'They don't seem to think so,' said King Donathan. 'I may as well let them have their own way, since they' | |  | | Matt the Mage - First Spells
Parramatta Wheatslump is eleven years old, and lives on Starvation Station, somewhere in Australia, with his parents, Merv and Raelene. This is not a promising habitat for a boy who was born to be a mage... Maybe that's why Matt ends up halfway to Yewrope with a disguised camel, an Eyerish mermaid and a trail of mayhem bigger than himself... To be published soon by Banana Books, Matt the Mage is a funny fast-moving adventure stories for people whose spirits are bigger than they are.
It was daylight by now, and the two bats tried to hide their eyes under their wings. That was probably why they missed seeing the waterspout. The first thing Matt knew about it was when a splash of water fell on his furry head. Was he back on Starvation Station with Raelene dripping water from a washcloth on his face? An astonished chitter from Bertie shocked him awake.
The water was salty, and it was spraying rather than dripping. And as he noticed this, the basket lurched and tilted and hoisted into the air.
"What is it?" gasped Matt. "An upside down waterfall?"
"I think it's a w | |  | | Pride: Bridgeover Sundown
PRIDE; BRIDGEOVER SUNDOWN. At seventeen, Glen Steele's life is full of myths and misses, and he feels the paternalistic government of modern times has robbed him of his destiny. The Steele family myth calls for boys to be men by the time they're seventeen. Soldiers, settlers, lovers and losers march in his lineage, but Glen is still at school, and even his losses are second hand. Glen yearns for adventure and rites of passage, so when his sister goes on her honeymoon, he borrows her car, a state-of-the-art Bradman Pride, and hits the road for the Outback Highway. At first, the experience is liberating, but soon Glen realises nothing has changed. The outback has been tamed by the straight red road and the automated servomats he encounters at regular intervals. It's all too easy… until – the next town fades off the map, and the servo isn't there. Disoriented, Glen finds his way to the ghost town of Bridgeover, where the adventure begins.
Gallipoli. May 20th, 1915.
Arthur bleeds onto the sand. Not great gouts from a severed artery or the prim red line of a kitchen cut, but a dark, creeping blot like an incoming tide. He knows, through a haze of pain, that this is the grim kind of tide that will cut him off forever from the spit of life he was walking on this morning.
He's seventeen, and he knows he's going to die.
The blood thickens in the heat, binding him to his resting place like a new umbilical, and soaking into the sand.
He waits for stretcher bearers (they are going to come too late) and wonders ho | |  | | Replay
This time round, I am a human girl and Harry is a dog. This is inconvenient, because my parents didn't really want a dog with a jutting eyebrow fringe and a shaggy, untrimmed beard. Nor did they want a dog that cost five hundred dollars. "A pedigreed Schnauzer!" I said in despair when I recognised him that morning at the agricultural show. "Why did you have to be a pedigreed Schnauzer, Harry? I mean - why did you have to be a dog?" So begins the tale of Harry and Aelfthryth, who were born in the 11th Century...
TRACK 1. AUSTRALIAN OVERTURE. (2007.)
This time round, I am a human girl and Harry is a dog. This is inconvenient, because my parents didn't really want a dog with a jutting eyebrow fringe and a shaggy, untrimmed beard. Nor did they want a dog that cost five hundred dollars.
A pedigreed Schnauzer! I said in despair when I recognised him that morning at the agricultural show. Why did you have to be a pedigreed Schnauzer, Harry? I mean - why did you have to be a dog?
Harry looked sheepish. His beady little eyes peered out from underneath that peculiar fringe. Sorry, Aelfthryth. | |  | | Spinning Pearls
More fantasy poems
A companion to Fernseed for Fairysight | |  | | The Case of the Disappearing Dog
Jilly loves Old Butterpaws... but he is sometimes more than she can handle. When OB disappears, she feels guilty, but years later the mystery remains. Then weird things begin to happen...
Jilly is puzzled. Her dog, Old Butterpaws, has been missing for months. Ever since Jilly first saw him, as an unconscious puppy on her back step, Butterpaws has been strange. When he was at home, there were messes and noises. (Perfectly understandable). Now that he's not there, there are messes and noises too. (Very scary.)
What can be happening? Why did Butterpaws vanish and where is he now? Jilly is determined to get to the bottom of the mystery of the disappearing dog. |
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The Tale of Bowen Book One
by Peter Jessop
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 The first instalment of The Tales of Bowen unfolds a mesmerizing anthology of narratives intricately woven together by a grand overarching storyline, set against the enchanting backdrop of the mystical realms of Dagonfell. |
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Protectors of Klairn
by Erin Elder
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 The first book in the series takes place on Klairn, a post apocalyptic, yet provincial world where an elite core of Protectors keep watch over those who would cause harm. Becoming a Protector of Klairn is about as hard as making the Olympics on Earth |
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