In the Empire of the Saviours, the People are forced to live in fortified towns. Their walls are guarded by an army of Heroes, whose task is to keep marauding pagans out as much as it is to keep the People inside. Several times a year, living Saints visit the towns to exact the Saviours' tithe from all those coming of age - a tithe often paid in blood. When a young boy, Jillan, unleashes pagan magicks in an accident, his whole town turns against him. He goes on the run, but what hope can there be when the Saviours and the entire Empire decide he must be caught? Jillan is initially hunted by just the soldiers of the Saint of his region, but others soon begin to hear of his increasing power and seek to use him for their own ends. Some want Jillan to join the fight against the Empire, others wish to steal his power for themselves and others still want Jillan to lead them to the Geas, the source of all life and power in the world. There are very few Jillan can trust, except for a ragtag group of outcasts. His parents threatened, his life in tatters, his beliefs shaken to the core, Jillan must decide which side he is on, and whether to fight or run ...

Empire of the Saviours

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Dalton, A J

Fantasy

Gollancz

Tithe of the Saviours

The gods will see you brought down. The spirits of your ancestors will have their revenge upon you. The Saviours will drain you of your very soul. In claiming a place in the world, mortals have won many enemies for themselves. The ancient gods are jealous and conspire against them. The King of the Dead looks to lead his armies into the land of the living. In their own realm, the mighty Declension watches and waits, as events begin to unfold precisely as they had always planned. Jillan and his companions are beset on all sides, yet are plagued by self-doubt and internal division.

Tithe of the Saviours (Chronicles of/Cosmic Warlord 3)

An innocent child is spirited away during an attack on a palace. A remote temple is desecrated, its priests slaughtered and its relics plundered. An ancient enemy stirs. One by one, the gods begin to fall. . . As chaos descends upon the kingdom of Dur Memnos, its leader, Saltar, has no choice but to pursue his son's kidnappers. Meanwhile, his wife Kate and her followers fight to preserve the realm, but are apparently powerless against the dark magic at work. Saltar is drawn inexorably towards a wintry fastness in the north, where a terrible secret awaits. Can one lost soul tip the balance when the gods use the earth for a battlefield? Necromancer's Betrayal is A J Dalton's second work of metaphysical fantasy. It gives us a world of epic scale as a backdrop to the intrigues and magic of the darker side of the human psyche. It is told with a vividness normally only expected of film. The action and pace leave the reader breathless, exhilarated and hungry for more. "I don't know how A J Dalton's done it! He's not only surpassed his first book, but the very genre itself." Paul Rhinebeck "The power of A J Dalton's writing left me shaken and inspired. I don't think I'll see the world in the same way again." Kate Sultrow

Necromancer's Betrayal: Book Two of the Flesh and Bone Trilogy

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WINNER OF THE BRITISH FANTASY AWARDS 2018 - NON-FICTION.2 of the papers have been nominated for the BSFA Awards 2017: Kim Lakin-Smith and Juliet McKenna.JULIET MCKENNA'S PAPER SHORTLISTED FOR THE BSFA AWARDS 2017SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH FANTASY AWARD NON-FICTION 2018 "Gender identity and sexuality in Current Fantasy and Science Fiction" is the first Call for Papers of Academia Lunare, the non-fiction arm of Luna Press Publishing.The papers explore how society, as reflected in real life, literature, movies, TV, games and cosplay, is currently dealing with gender identity and sexuality in speculative fiction, asking an important question: do we have a problem?Featuring papers from Juliet E McKenna, Kim Lakin-Smith, Cheryl Morgan, A J Dalton, Jyrki Korpua, Hazel Butler, Lorianne Reuser, Anna Milon, Rostislav Ku&#778;rka and Alina Had mbu.

Gender Identity and Sexuality in Current Fantasy and Science Fiction

Literature & Fiction

Butler, Hazel

History & Criticism

Luna Press Publishing

He saw dragons everywhere, and that was why they’d put him in a secure unit. They told him there was no such thing as dragons. But he’d seen unprovoked attacks on the street, violence break out in an apparently quiet bar, rage overtake people on crowded pavements, and supposed peace-keepers use shocking degrees of force. In such moments, the beasts revealed themselves. They could be glimpsed louring from beneath ridged brows, snarling in the corner of your eye and leering between your rapid and confused blinks. You had to be quick, mind, and know what to look for. But once you knew about them, it was somehow harder for them to convince you that you’d imagined what you’d seen, that you’d been mistaken, or that it had all been some trick of the light. Once you knew about them and properly believed in them, it seemed they had less power over you, less ability to blind you to them and less general impossibility. What really worried him, though, was whether they suspected he saw them. And if they began to suspect, what might they then do to him?

The Book of Dragons

Genre Fiction

Kristell Ink, Grimbold Books

The Book of Witches

Dalton-West, Nadine

Hunter, Isabella

Kristell_Ink

"Contains secret lore, forbidden magicks and exquisite seductions. At last!" - Kate Sultrow What if I offered you the words to conjure a demon? And what if that demon could provide you with everything you'd ever wanted? Shall I whisper the words now? Come on. What harm can it do? This new collection brings together the writing talents of prize-winning fantasy author A J Dalton, Nadine Dalton-West (friend to gods and demons), Isabella Hunter (champion of the unchampioned), Michael Conroy (scion of the Ninth House), Matt Beeson (right hand of the Guardian of Mizeroth), Nozomi Okumura (disembodied dramaturge), Gabriel Wisdom (High Lord of the Lower Realm), JES Simpson (eldritch scribbler), Elyn Joy (First Handmaiden of the Proto-cosmos) and J.McDonald (Canadian). "Dangerous, delicious and delightful devilry!" - Carl Rhinebeck

The Book of Demons

Wisdom, Gabriel

JOY, Elyn

Conroy, Michael

Beeson, Matt

Okumura, Nozomi

Simpson, JES

McDonald, J.

Mythology & Folk Tales

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