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		<title>The Children of Gods and Fighting Men</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[An Irish historical fantasy adventure that intertwines traditional mythology with the tenth-century wars in Ireland.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>The first in a gripping new historical fantasy series that intertwines Irish mythology with real-life history, <i>The Children of Gods and Fighting Men</i> is the thrilling debut novel by Shauna Lawless.</b> <i>They think they&#8217;ve killed the last of us&#8230;</i>981 AD. The Viking King of Dublin is dead. His young widow, Gormflaith, has ambitions for her son &#8211; and herself &#8211; but Ireland is a dangerous place and kings tend not to stay kings for long. Gormflaith also has a secret. She is one of the Fomorians, an immortal race who can do fire-magic. She has kept her powers hidden at all costs, for there are other immortals in this world &#8211; like the Tuatha Dé Danann, a race of warriors who are sworn to kill Fomorians.Fódla is one of the Tuatha Dé Danann with the gift of healing. Her kind dwell hidden in a fortress, forbidden to live amongst the mortals. Fódla agrees to help her kin by going to spy on Brian Boru, a powerful man who aims to be High King of Ireland. She finds a land on the brink of war &#8211; a war she is desperate to stop. However, preventing the loss of mortal lives is not easy with Ireland in turmoil and the Fomorians now on the rise&#8230;<b>Reviewers on <i>The Children of Gods and Fighting Men</i></b>: &#8216;Lawless blends fantasy with historical fiction to great effect.&#8217; <b><i>SFX</i></b> &#8216;A novel that celebrates the extraordinary history and cultural traditions of Ireland while giving voice to the women who helped shape it. Highly recommended.&#8217; <b>Lucy Holland</b> &#8216;An excellent read.&#8217; <b>Mark Lawrence</b> &#8216;<i>Highlander</i> meets <i>The Last Kingdom</i>&#8230; I was hooked from page one.&#8217; <b>Anthony Ryan</b> &#8216;Gripping and beautiful. A Celtic <i>Last Kingdom</i> with wild magic and fierce heroines.&#8217; <b>Anna Smith Spark</b> &#8216;A beguiling blend of fantasy, history, and politics.&#8217; <b>D.K. Fields</b> &#8216;A vividly written story that makes the ancient past feel contemporary.&#8217; <b>Joseph O&#8217;Connor</b> &#8216;Rife with atmosphere and armies, magic and compelling characters, it swept me along and refused to be put down.&#8217; <b>H.M. Long</b> &#8216;An epic historical fantasy that weaves myth and history into a sprawling tale of magic, intrigue, and war. Absorbing and richly detailed.&#8217; <b>Ian Green</b> &#8216;With all the complex political machinations of A Song of Ice and Fire and the bloody battles of The Warlord Chronicles, it&#8217;s ideal for fans of both.&#8217; <b>Stephen Aryan</b> &#8216;An atmospheric journey into a thrilling historical fantasy world.&#8217; <b>R.J. Barker</b></p>
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		<title>The Children of D&#8217;hara</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>In this first collected volumes of the series (1-5), Terry Goodkind returns to his epic <i>New York Times</i> bestselling SWORD OF TRUTH saga. </p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>Richard Rahl and Kahlan Amnell confront an apocalyptic nightmare in this irresistibly tense, utterly terrifying, near-thousand-page return to Terry Goodkind&#8217;s 26-million-copy bestselling Sword of Truth world.</b></p>
<p>The insatiable hunger of the Golden Goddess&#8230;</p>
<p>The irresistible power of a Witch&#8217;s Oath&#8230;</p>
<p>A fracture in the world of life&#8230;</p>
<p>An opening in the world of death&#8230;</p>
<p>Richard Rahl and Kahlan Amnell face the perfect storm.</p>
<p><i>The Children of D&#8217;Hara</i> picks up immediately after the conclusion of the Sword of Truth series in one breathtakingly compelling, powerful, blockbuster novel.</p>
<p><i>Previously published in five parts: The Scribbly Man, Hateful Things, Wasteland, Witch&#8217;s Oath, Into Darkness.</i></p>
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		<title>The Hood</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The second book in Lavie Tidhar's ambitious Anti-Matter of Britain Quartet - takes on the myth of Robin Hood and his merry men in a viscerally entertaining, ominously subversive and poetically profane remixing of the myths and legends that shaped our nation.</p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>God bless you, England, on this glorious Year of Our Lord, 1145. </h2>
<p>Things are definitely not right in Nottingham. Rebecca, daughter of a Jewish money-lender, has a sense for it.</p>
<p>A mad monk schemes to resurrect the Christ from body parts. A bone harpist murders creatures of legend for a price. A fae creature binds its wings and embraces a new God and his son.</p>
<p>And don&#8217;t even mention the Hood. The Man in Green. The Prince of Thieves. The tick-tock taker of the ten-toll tax.</p>
<p>What hope have the series of sheriffs sent to hold the peace?</p>
<p>It&#8217;s the forest, you see. Sherwood. Ice Age ancient, impenetrable, hiding a dark and secret heart. But hearts, no matter how black, no matter how hidden, are not immune to change. The old world is dying&#8230; and a terrifying new one is waiting to take its place.</p>
<p>Rebecca senses an opportunity. But how far is she willing to go, and what price &#8211; because there is always a price &#8211; will she have to pay?</p>
<p><i>The Hood</i> is Lavie Tidhar&#8217;s narcotic reweirding of an ancient English myth, a tale stitched together from legends lost to time, a tale told and retold, reworked and renewed for each passing century. A tale, reader, for today.</p>
<p>&#8216;A wild, inventive tapestry of myth and magic, with a wry sense of humor. Tidhar&#8217;s writing is wonderfully vibrant&#8217; Silvia Moreno-Garcia, bestselling author of <i>Mexican Gothic</i></p>
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		<title>Dogs of War</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>A bio-engineered dog fights for its life and its right to life. From the Arthur C. Clark award-winning author of <i>Children of Time</i>.</p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>A bio-engineered dog fights for its life and its right to life. From the Arthur C. Clark award winning author of <i>CHILDREN OF TIME</i>. </b></p>
<p><b>My name is Rex. I am a good dog. </b></p>
<p>Rex is also seven foot tall at the shoulder, bulletproof, bristling with heavy calibre weaponry and his voice resonates with subsonics especially designed to instil fear. With Dragon, Honey and Bees, he&#8217;s part of a Multiform Assault Pack operating in the lawless anarchy of Campeche, Mexico. A genetically engineered Bioform, he&#8217;s a deadly weapon in a dirty war. All he wants to be is a Good Dog. And to do that he must do exactly what Master says and Master says he&#8217;s got to kill a lot of enemies.</p>
<p>But who, exactly, are the enemies? What happens when Master is tried as a war criminal? What rights does the Geneva Convention grant weapons? Do Rex and his fellow Bioforms even have a right to exist?</p>
<p><b>And what happens when Rex slips his leash? </b></p>
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		<title>Cixin Liu&#8217;s Sea of Dreams</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Faced with the inevitable devastation and heat death of their planet, humankind must use their final breaths to fight for existence. Cixin Liu's 'Sea of Dreams' is now realised as a graphic novel for the first time.</p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>An international collaboration involving 26 writers and illustrators from 14 different countries have transformed 15 of Cixin Liu&#8217;s &#8211; &#8216;China&#8217;s answer to Arthur C. Clarke&#8217; (<i>New Yorker</i>) &#8211; award-winning stories into graphic novels.</b></p>
<p>It was the Ice and Snow Arts Festival that lured the low-temperature artist to Earth. Drawn by the beauty and technical skill of the sculptures displayed, the extraterrestrial visitor longed to collaborate and share its own art.</p>
<p>But while humans learnt to craft ice into exquisite ephemera, the low-temperature artist&#8217;s civilisation mastered the manipulation of whole worlds to create artworks &#8211; drawing on the seas and ice caps, and cooling their temperature to beautiful effect.</p>
<p>Faced with the inevitable devastation and heat death of their planet, humankind must use their final breaths to fight for existence. But the artist will only speak to one human: Yan Dong, the ice sculptor whose beautiful work first drew its eye.</p>
<h2>Praise for Cixin Liu:</h2>
<p>&#8216;Your next favourite sci-fi novel&#8217; <i><b>Wired</b></i></p>
<p>&#8216;Immense&#8217; <b>Barack Obama</b></p>
<p>&#8216;Unique&#8217; <b>George R.R. Martin</b></p>
<p>&#8216;SF in the grand style&#8217; <b><i>Guardian</i></b></p>
<p>&#8216;Mind-altering and immersive&#8217; <b><i>Daily Mail</i></b></p>
<p>&#8216;A milestone in Chinese science-fiction&#8217; <b><i>New York Times</i></b></p>
<p>&#8216;China&#8217;s answer to Arthur C. Clarke&#8217; <b><i>New Yorker</i></b></p>
<p><b>Winner of the Hugo and Galaxy Awards for Best Novel</b></p>
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