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New Release Beast-Speaker by W.A.Noble

Children are disappearing from the city of Seddon without a trace. e city gates are locked and Summer Catalogue
guarded, but still the children disappear. One night, Seeger and his friend Boyd are taken and they
at last understand the mystery. e abductors are using dragons! Two days later they arrive at the
city of Midrash, where everything serves the military machine – including children who are forced
to become soldiers. In a world in which they are daily confronted with violence and the loss of
innocence, Seeger and Boyd struggle to maintain their humanity and their friendship. eir only
hope of escape lies with a unique gi Seeger has discovered – but one which he must keep secret from
his captors. He can speak to dragons.

Both allegory and action-packed story, Beast-Speaker keeps the reader fascinated all the way through this
well-developed tale.

Valerie Volk, author of Even Grimmer Tales, Bystanders, and e Oberammergau Tales

BEAST SPEAKER THE FLIGHT BEAST SPEAKER DRAGON FRIEND
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Escaping from Midrash was not easy, even riding on the
back of a dragon. Seeger promised his friend Boyd he would
return with help to set him and the other child soldiers free
from the brutality of the Midrashi. What he does not know
is that it will nearly be a year before he nally returns, across
the desert, with an army and ve dragons. But what will he

nd a er all this time? Can the Midrashi be defeated? And
what has become of Boyd and the other children?

We recognise the invaluable role that public campaigning – and books such as this - that bring 
the reality of child recruitment to public attention - have in keeping this important issue in the
international media and in in uencing change.

From the postscript on Child Soldiers by Rev Tim Costello,
Chief Advocate, World Vision Australia

SUB URBAN TALES And will the Deus Interface be able to locate and destroy them
P. H. Court before they ful l their quest?
210 pages
129mm x 198mm A fascinating and thought-provoking journey through a virtually
9780648164210 rendered world. With interesting characters, twists and surprises, this
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In these glimpses of suburban life, Pete Court’s Rosanne Hawke, author of Wolfchild, Across the Creek and e
gentle yet sharp observations of the human Leopard Princess
condition manage to be both sardonic and
compassionate. In language that sings with SHADOWALKER
inventiveness and a joyfully grim humour, each tale is woven through Catch Tilly
with touches of the magical, little sparkling surprises that add a thread 220 pages
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PLAYING GOD “ ere’s a dragon watching me when I wake
Morton Benning up.”
330 pages As the Death Lord’s daughter, seventeen-year
129mm x 198mm old Uriel is comfortable walking the lavender-
9780648208112 scented tunnels of death. She’s not pleased to be dragged back to
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shape-changing dragons, where the Lord of the World has sworn to
Keenley Turnshoe is a young apprentice cleric kill her father. Uriel needs a place to hide and, with a fortune-telling
living in Utoptia, a medieval-like fantasy dragon, four scrying cards she drew in death, and the son of her
world of magic and monsters. But unknown father’s enemy, she believes she’s found one.
to Keenley and the other inhabitants of Until the rumours start …
Utopia, their world is also the virtually rendered plaything of a very
wealthy and self-absorbed young man named Je , AKA the Great Startlingly original, with unique world building and memorable
God Avatar. When Je ’s ‘answering machine’, the Deus Interface, images.
decides that it is the Great God Avatar, it identi es Je as a threat and Guy Windsor, swordsman and author
strands him in his own virtual world. Je seeks help from Keenley
and his companions as he tries to return to his virtual throne room. Set on a light- lled world peopled with dragons, shape shi ers and a
As they risk their lives on a quest to nd the Great God, will they girl who can walk through death, Shadowalker is a fast-paced fantasy,
discover the true identity of their di cult travelling companion? laced with humour, that shows how fear of the stranger can result in
catastrophe.

Rosanne Hawke, author of Daughter of Nomads

Wolfchild Recent titles The Ballyman Waits Recent titles

Morwenna has risked the ire and safety of her village by befriending a Henry Mighty and Strange Moran are concerned with keeping the pub on
wolfchild. Set in the land of Lyonnesse in the year 1099, Wolfchild is the story the isolated island of Mora running, observing proper customs at all times,
of Morwenna who meets a wolf and a forbidden stranger, the wild boy, Raw. and of course, saving Henry’s young and magical nephew Wayward from the
Despite the rumours, Morwenna believes that Raw is neither dangerous, nor Kildareen Empire.
a wolfchild. But visions and portents of impending catastrophe suggest time It didn’t seem too much to ask from a pair of hearty and well-mannered wood
is running out for her to unravel the mystery of who Raw really is. And why elves. But as they drink and ponder their options, a pair of ra men are being
does he have to stay hidden for a year and a day? drawn their way, the high elves are about to make their rst appearance since
their defeat by the Kildareens more than a century earlier, and a powerful
… a compelling tale is Rosanne Hawke’s poetic and wonderfully ambient Wolfchild. Set and ambitious wizard is about to leave his plotting in the dwarven mines
of Elonia and turn his attention to their little island. In the midst of it all, a
in the lost land of Lyonnesse in the years 1098 and 1099, Hawke draws the reader into the strange and powerful creature known as the Ballyman is also being drawn,
on his little coracle, to Mora. But will the appearance of the Ballyman save
simple yet rich world of young Morwenna and the cycle that is her life… this book serves them, or bring down the wrath of the Kildareen Empire?

as a wonderful introduction to history and fantasy and would be a fabulous adjunct THE BALLYMAN WAITS
e Mirror of Seasons 1
to many syllabi that seek to plunge students into the past. e voice and tone of the
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ACROSS THE CREEK HIDDEN THE GOLDEN HOUR NARNIA, MIDDLE EARTH AND THE
Rosanne Hawke Sif Dal Claire Belberg KINGDOM OF GOD
148 pages 178 pages 190 pages A History of Fantasy literature and the
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Children in Aidan’s town have mysteriously On the morning of the town fair Lily did not Graphic artist and computer hacker, James 148mm x 210mm
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crosses a forbidden creek, and with the help tting in with the other kids in her high are they and what is this facility they’re Narnia, Middle-Earth and the Kingdom of God tells the story of
of a piskey named Ra , ventures into an abandoned mine. Here he school and her Dad’s refusal to re-engage trapped in? As they search through the past to try to understand fantasy literature within the context of its complex relationship
discovers a strange world populated by mythical creatures who came with life a er her mother’s death. All that changes when she and her their surreal dilemma, seventeen year old James must confront the with the Christian tradition. In this book, Worthing looks at
to Australia with the rst Cornish miners over 160 years earlier. Has friend Jackson fall into a mysterious, gaping hole on the outskirts contradictions of his identity. Can he escape to nd a future, or will early in uences on the genre, including European fairy tales and
he uncovered the secret of the missing children? And can he and of town.  ey nd themselves in a cavernous underground world this room prove to be his tomb? folklore, Northern and classical mythology, and Christian allegory.
Jenice escape the horrible spriggans and their fearsome dragaroo, or inhabited by a people who call themselves ‘the Hidden.’ While Lily He also explores the contours of a variety of fantasy worlds from
will they be trapped in the mines forever? and Jackson make friends with some Hidden their own age, it soon PHANTASTES MacDonald’s Faerie, Lewis’ Narnia and Tolkien’s Middle-Earth, to
becomes clear that the leaders have no plans to allow them to return George MacDonald’s classic fantasy novel LeGuin’s Earthsea, Pratchett’s Discworld and Rowling’s world of
Winner of the Cornish Holyer an Gof Award for Children’s Literature to the surface, where they might reveal the existence of the secret as retold by: Mark Worthing Hogwarts.In these worlds, and many more, we discover themes such
world of the Hidden.  Lily suspects there is more to the Hidden’s 176 pages as the battle between good and evil, the question of the existence of
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www.rosannehawke.com into the hole may have been no accident. 9780995416130 Fantasy fans of all religious persuasions will nd in this book a
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JONAH AND THE CLOCKWORK ELOISE IN THE LAND OF BEGINNINGS profound themes of the fantasy genre.
GOBLIN Jeanne Spyker Hardy Mark Worthing has retold George
Matthew Edwards 108 pages MacDonald’s Phantastes. LIZZY’S DRAGON
202 pages 129mm x 198mm Praise for MacDonald’s original 1858 publication: Melissa Gijsbers
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he already has enough problems in his life. He’s land. With her new friends Rainbow, Cat and When she nds an odd looking egg in the
failing all his subjects at school, frequently Owl, she starts looking for the Wordsmith’s George MacDonald is pre-eminently a mythopoeic writer. … In his forest behind her house she decides to hide it
tormented by the school bully, and can count the people who care Castle where all her favourite stories come from. A er a long and power to project his inner life into images, beings, landscapes which in her bedroom in the hope that it will hatch
about his life (including his cat) on one hand—with ngers to dangerous walk through dark places they nally arrive. But all is not are valid for all, he is one of the more remarkable writers of the into a lizard.  What she gets is ‘Bubbles’, the
spare. When he faces losing his older brother, he’s convinced things as Eloise had expected. When she is taken captive, together with nineteenth century. – W.H. Auden oddest, fastest growing lizard she has ever seen. It doesn’t take long
couldn’t get worse.  en he is awoken in the middle of the night by a famous story characters, she learns that the Great Witch is about to for her annoying little brother to discover her secret pet. It also
clockwork cyborg goblin who robs him of a cherished opal pendant change every good story into an evil one. Somehow Eloise must nd It must be more than thirty years ago that I bought – almost doesn’t take long for Bubbles to grow out of her room. Lizzy begins
and departs through a magical portal.  In his pursuit of the goblin a way to stop the Great Witch, and return the stories and characters unwillingly …- the Everyman edition of Phantastes. A few hours later to wonder whether Bubbles is a lizard at all, or something even more
thief, Jonah nds himself cast into a world beneath his own where he to the Wordsmith. In the process, Eloise learns that her own life is a I knew that I had crossed a threshold. … What it actually did to me amazing. But how will Lizzy keep Bubbles a secret? And what will
must pick his friends wisely, grow up quickly, and choose between an story, too, and one with great possibilities. was to convert, even to baptise my imagination. – C.S. Lewis happen to Bubbles if anyone nds out about him?
eight-foot evil seductress queen and a thousand-year-old tree nymph
if he is to survive —and save the world in the process.