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(English edition: Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft (Dungeons & Dragons) / Wizards RPG Team / 9780786967254 [Wizards of the Coast (WC), 05/18/2021]) Explore the horrors of Ravenloft in this campaign sourcebook for the world’s greatest roleplaying game.   Terror stalks the nightmare realms of Ravenloft. No one knows this better than monster scholar Rudolph Van Richten. To arm a new generation against the creatures of the night, Van Richten has compiled his correspondence and case files into this...

War breaks out on Muiria between the kingdoms of Partha and Zeiglon. The wood elves send Prince Aedith and a delegation to the Emperor Zachary, but the mission fails and the emperor, armed with the evil Staff of Adois, pushes forward in a full-scale attack. The Young wizard, Celedant and his bonded dragon, Azimuth set out on a mission to unite the dwarvan clans against the growing threat as the first small step in a grander plan. The Staff of Adaman, an instrument of good, is miraculously brou...

Doris Lessing, one of England's finest living novelists, invites us to imagine a mythical society free from sexual intrigue, free from jealousy, free from petty rivalries: a society free from men. An old Roman senator, contemplative at his late stage of life, embarks on what will likely be his last endeavour: the retelling of the story of human creation. He recounts the history of the Clefts, an ancient community of women living in an Edenic, coastal wilderness, confined within the valley of an...

Prince of Thorns is the first volume in a powerful new epic fantasy trilogy, original, absorbing and challenging. Before the thorns taught me their sharp lessons and bled weakness from me I had but one brother, and I loved him well. But those days are gone and what is left of them lies in my mother's tomb. Now I have many brothers, quick with knife and sword, and as evil as you please. We ride this broken empire and loot its corpse. They say these are violent times, the end of days whe...

Pregnant with their child. Hunted for her life. Will Dareena and her mates finally break the dreaded curse? Or will they succumb to the dark forces closing in around them?Return to Dragonfell one last time for this final installment in the Dragon’s Gift Trilogy.

‘I slip my hands down past the small of her back and clench her tightly. She gasps as I hoist her up off the ground. But then her legs are around my waist and she’s kissing me as if she’s been starved of me for too long.’Verity is trapped with the Dark God, Sadal, who is intent on destroying Alnembra with the aid of his demons and Bloodbane witches. With Verity lost to the enemy, Altair must find allies within the Fae realm who are willing to defy one of the old gods.The war rages and Altair is...

New epic fantasy in the grand tradition—including a never-before-published Song of Ice and Fire story by George R. R. Martin! Fantasy fiction has produced some of the most unforgettable heroes ever conjured onto the page: Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Barbarian, Michael Moorcock’s Elric of Melniboné, Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Classic characters like these made sword and sorcery a storytelling sensation, a cornerstone of fantasy fiction—and an inspiration for a new generation of...

Bastet knows better than to fall for her ex, and yet she can't seem to help herself.The last person Bastet expects to connect with while at a speed dating event is her ancient ex, but as soon as they cross paths, it seems inevitable that she'll fall for his charms all over again.But she isn't the only one who wants Ptah, and when he fails to turn up for their date, she knows something is desperately wrong.Can she save him before it's too late?Bastet is book seven in the Speed Dating with the Den...

A knightly fairy tale of royalty and dragons, of midwives with secrets and dashing strangers in dark inns. Taking the original French legend as his starting point, The Story of Silence is a rich, multilayered new story for today’s world – sure to delight fans of Uprooted and The Bear and the Nightingale. “Utterly enchanting”Publishers Weekly There was once, long ago, a foolish king who decreed that women should not, and would not, inherit. Thus when a...

'Fantasy as it ought to be written' George R.R. Martin The final instalment of Robin Hobb’s Sunday Times best-selling series The Rain Wild Chronicles. Dragon blood and scales, dragon liver and eyes and teeth. All required ingredients for medicines with near-miraculous healing powers. The legendary blue dragon Tintaglia is dying of wounds inflicted by hunters sent by the Duke of Chalced, who meanwhile preserves his dwindling life by consuming the blood of the dragon’s poet Sel...

Available for the first time in one volume, this is the definitive collection of Tolkien’s five acclaimed modern classic ‘fairie’ tales in the vein of ‘The Hobbit’, fully corrected and reset for this edition and all beautifully illustrated in pencil by the award-winning artist, Alan Lee. The five tales are written with the same skill, quality and charm that made The Hobbit a classic. Largely overlooked because of their short lengths, they are finally together in a volume which reaffirm...

Discover the late Ursula Le Guin's passionate and enthralling story of a young boy sent to a school of wizardry to learn the ways of magic in the opening quartet of the Earthsea story.'One of the literary greats' Margaret Atwood'The deepest and smartest of writers. Her words are always with us. Some of them are written on my soul' Neil GaimanA Wizard of Earthsea * The Tombs of Atuan * The Farthest Shore * TehanuGed is but a goatherd on the island of Gont when he comes by his strange powers ove...

The second in a series of tales about the clans of fearless Vikings and mystical Sirens who face each other in a neverending battle over their greatest source of life: the sea. A young merman struggles to master his powers over magic—and to keep secret a forbidden relationship . A Viking is convinced that a mermaid murdered his eldest son seeks revenge against the world beneath the waves. Two races at war, their battles savage, bloody, and ultimately tragic—for their fates are intertwined far m...