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Sara Douglass
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Sara Douglass is the pseudonym of Sara Warneke. Sara worked as a nurse for several years and completed three degrees, culminating in a PhD in early modern European history. She now teaches both medieval and early-modern history at the University of Bendigo. Her first fantasy adventures, The Axis Trilogy, had an overwhelming response from booksellers, readers and critics (StarMan won the 1996 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel) and she has now established herself as one of the most popular fantasy writers in Australia. You can visit Sara's website at www.saradouglass.com/. |
The Axis Trilogy:
The Wayfarer Redemption:
The Crucible:
The Troy Game:
Darkglass Mountain:
Other books by Sara Douglass:
One of the Australian Online Bookshop's most popular authors, Sara Douglass has written some of Australia's best fantasy of recent years including (click on the title to go to the bookshop and order the book)
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Book One of The Axis Trilogy ISBN: 0732258650 |
BattleAxe is a superbly written heroic fantasy novel of the Eddings/Donaldson school - and number one in The Axis Trilogy.
Terror grips the country of Achar when it is beset by terrifying wraith-like creatures from its northern wastes. Is it Achar's traditional foe, the Forbidden, returned to wreak vengeance, or has the prophecy of the Destroyer finally come to pass with a more destructive enemy altogether?
Fierce storms and climactic havoc confirm the worst fears of the Acharites. A terrible being with supernatural powers seems intent on laying waste not only Achar but all of the people of Tencendor.
And only one person can overcome the Destroyer - the 'Son of Love and Song' who, according to the Prophecy, must unite all of Tencendor. But who is this Son of Love and Song? Is he amongst them?
Time is running out…
BattleAxe is Sara Douglass' brilliant debut fantasy novel and the first in what has become a highly successful trilogy.
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Book two of The Axis Trilogy ISBN: 073225129X The second fabulous book in the dazzling Axis Trilogy. |
Under his father's tutelage, Axis embraces his powers as Icarii Enchanter and moves to unite the three races of Tencendor. Backed by his army and the Icarii strike force, Axis sweeps south through Achar towards Faraday and a final bloody confrontation with Borneheld and the Seneschal.
On the way Axis faces uncertainty and treachery. Someone in his camp appears determined to betray him - and what is the traitor's connection to the Dark Man who serves Gorgrael's cause?
Above all, Axis must come to terms with the disturbing enigma of Azhure. Ancient Icarii legends have sprung to life and now walk at her heels, and even Axis finds himself unable to resist the entanglements of her mysteries.
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Book three of The Axis Trilogy ISBN: 0732251591 Winner of the 1996 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel |
As Axis prepares to unite Tencendor, Gorgrael launches a devastating invasion, freezing the realm under a crippling layer of ice and blackening the skies with Gryphon.
Armies gather in the north for the coming war, and Faraday moves east to replant the ancient forests of Tencendor. Yet Axis' only hope is Azhure, who lies helpless on the Island of Mist and Memory, struggling to accept WolfStar's inheritance.
Enveloping all looms the promise of treachery - treachery that threatens to strike into the very heart of Axis and Azhure's family.
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Book one of The Wayfarer Redemption ISBN: 0732259398 |
Forty years have passed since Axis defeated Gorgrael. Now, tensions threaten to tear apart both Tencendor and the SunSoar clan. Acharites are unhappy with the new order, and want their King back. As Rivkah and Magariz's son, Zared, prepares to seize back the Achar crown, a SunSoar is murdered. By who? Drago SunSoar, disinherited of his Icarii powers, has long harboured resentment and bitterness. Now he is ready once again to ally himself with the enemy in order to dispossess StarSon Caelum of his birthright. This time, he intends to succeed . . .
As Axis' family tears itself apart, something abominable threatens from beyond the Star Gate.
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Book two of The Wayfarer Redemption ISBN: 0732259568 |
The Timekeeper Demons burst through the Star Gate to invade Tencendor, destroying the Gate and the magic of the StarDance in the process. Terrifying and cruel, they have come with only one purpose - to see Qeteb destroy the StarSon and Tencendor forever. Enchanters and gods alike are helpless as the Demons lay waste to the land. Zared and Askam must put aside their differences and unite to save their people, as the need to find a Sanctuary for them all becomes ever more urgent. The StarSon must eventually become the hunted in the maze - only he who has the courage to endure death can learn the secrets of the ancient Enemy ... but who will it be?
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Book three of The Wayfarer Redemption ISBN: 0732265290 |
Tencendor is dead and only the StarSon can help it live again ... but Qeteb is hungry for life and power ...
The Timekeeper Demons have destroyed the Star Gate and the magic of the StarDance. Terrifying, bitter, cruel, they have resurrected Qeteb and will now destroy the StarSon and Tencendor forever. But can the Enchanters and gods do anything without the StarDance, or must they stand aside in the face of the Demons' power? Is Drago all he says he is, or is he still the traitor many believe him to be?
The exciting finale to The Wayfarer Redemption will have you on the edge of your seat as Sara Douglass takes you on an unpredictable journey through a wasted Tencendor.
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Book one of The Crucible ISBN: 0732265711 |
1348...and the black pestilence decimates Europe. Corpses pile high in streets, crops rot in the fields, infants are left to suckle at the decomposing breasts of their dead mothers.
But this creeping death is only a harbinger of the horror to come: as the Church is torn asunder demons escape from Hell to scurry across the face of the earth.
1377...and the Archangel Michael sends Brother Thomas Neville on a mission across Europe to find the means to thrust the demons back beyond the doorway of Hell. But it has been thirty years, and the minions of Satan have had more than enough time to prepare.
As Thomas Neville encounters angels and demons, saints and witches, he comes to realise that the armies of God and Satan are arraying themselves for the final battle...and that his soul is to be the battleground.
We now live in the aftermath of that battle, but are we sure who won?
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Book two of The Crucible ISBN: 0732264545 |
The Demon-King wears the crown of England.
And only a man strong enough to resist love can defeat him. Casting aside his vows to the Church, and protected by the powerful Duke of Lancaster and his son Hal Bolingbroke, Thomas Neville is now free to pursue his quest for Wynkyn de Worde's casket.
But Richard II is subtle and cunning, and moves swiftly against Neville and Bolingbroke, destroying both their families and using his minions to drive the realm towards bloody rebellion.
Only Neville's wife Margaret can help, but Neville knows he cannot fully trust her. And what of Bolingbroke who, as the months go by, reveals ambitions far greater and deadlier than Neville ever realised? As does Joan of Arc in France, Neville learns that those he trusts the most are also those who hide the most devastating of secrets.
As Neville inches closer and closer to the casket, he discovers that opening it might well release a greater horror across earth than the one he wishes to thrust back into hell.
Some mysteries were never meant to be revealed, and the darkest of them all is the ancient secret of the angels.
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Book three of The Crucible ISBN: 0732265347 |
The battle for mankind's soul draws to its terrible conclusion - and it is far worse than anything Thomas Neville had thought possible.
The angels have been scheming for aeons, and they intend to allow neither Thomas Neville nor Hal Bolingbroke to spoil their triumph. Where Neville thought to have choice, he finds only despair; where he thought to find love, he finds only the angels' entrapments.
England is reeling under supernatural plagues and treachery-driven rebellions. Bolingbroke must raise his sword against friend and foe alike to save his throne and unite his kingdom behind him. Mary, Bolingbroke's wife, watches and waits, knowing her husband wants her dead, yet also intuitively understanding that her role in the unfolding drama may well be the strangest of all.
Mankind's fate rests on the outcome of three battles: Agincourt, where Bolingbroke challenges Philip for Catherine and for France; the sacrificial ground before Joan's pyre, where Neville must choose between his love for Margaret and the will of the angels; and the Field of the Angels itself - Heaven, where Christ watches...and waits...
This final book of The Crucible trilogy demonstrates Sara Douglass' rich imagination and confirms her place as one of the world's great storytellers.
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Book one of The Troy Game ISBN: 0732271649 |
Evil awaits in the heart of the labyrinth...
Theseus bested the Minotaur with the aid of Ariadne, Mistress of the labyrinth. So when Theseus betrays her, Ariadne turns her wrath upon him and all his world, and catastrophe strikes the Mediterranean. Thera explodes, Atlantis sinks below the waves, poisons fill the air, tidal waves inundate nations, entire peoples are destroyed.
Amid the chaos, the great city of Troy falls, undone as much by Ariadne's revenge as by Greek cunning. Among the scattered Trojans wanders one man, Brutus, who carries with him the Troy Game, the greatest secret the western world has ever known. And Ariadne wants it - badly. As do her wicked daughter-heir successors.
The Greek goddess, Artemis, appears to Brutus and offers him a splendid and powerful future if only he can resurrect the Troy Game. Hungry for power and a home for his people, Brutus accepts her challenge. And so the Troy Game begins, far from the Aegean world, on the shores of the Thames in ancient Britain.
But the malevolent Minotaur, Asterion, has escaped death and seeks to destroy the Game completely. And Cornelia, Brutus' strange, unknowable wife, trails death in her wake.
Everywhere lurks Ariadne's legacy of hatred, carrying western Europe into a maelstrom of darkness.
From one of the world's greatest storytellers comes the first stunning instalment of The Troy Game, an epic spanning 3000 years and the history of one of the world's greatest cities - London.
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Book two of The Troy Game ISBN: 0732271649 |
The Troy Game lives - but can anyone control it?
For 2000 years the Troy Game has survived Asterion's murderous attempts to find Brutus' Trojan kingship bands. Admitting defeat, Asterion must allow the rebirth of the Game's creators ... To lead him to the magic, golden lands of Troy.
Now, two millennia after Genvissa and Brutus founded the Game, they find themselves reborn into a vastly different world, a world where they are separated by the ambitions and hatreds engendered by the approaching Norman invasion of England. They discover that Cornelia has also returned, apparently even more determined than ever to thwart them. And Coel has been reborn at her side, but this time with a sword in his hand.
Yet Brutus and Genvissa's most deadly enemy may be the Troy Game itself. Left on its own for 2000 years, the game has changed. Become devious. Become alive.
And Asterion, abroad in Anglo-Saxon London is desperate to find it.
From one of the world's greatest storytellers comes the second stunning installment of The Troy Game, an epic spanning 3000 years and the history of one of the world's greatest cities - London.
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Book three of The Troy Game ISBN: 0732271584 |
It is the seventeenth century, and once more the players of the Troy Game are drawn into its intricate dance.
Restoration London becomes the field of the most desperate battle yet. The Troy Game is determined that in this life nothing should go wrong, and so it plots and manipulates. But it cannot outmanoeuvre Asterion, who has constructed in a back alleyway a nightmarish lair which rises from the rear wall of the bone house of St Dunstan's-in-the-East. It is here that he manages the ultimate trickery in order to obtain the kingship bands, the Game and Cornelia-reborn, Noah Banks; nothing, in this life, shall stop him.
Except Ariadne. The ancient Darkwitch has risen from the dead, and she brings with her a terrible secret that will not merely tear both the Game and land apart, but devastate any chance for Noah and her lover, Brutus, to be together.
In a city devastated by both plague and fire, an even greater disaster is enacted as the most powerful Darkwitch in history rises to destroy the hopes of all who would defeat the minotaur. In the glittering glory of the restoration court of Charles II, nothing and no-one is as they seem.
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Book four of The Troy Game ISBN: 073227155X |
The final book of The Troy Game is set during World War II, specifically during the Blitz in London.
Jack Skelton (once Brutus, once William, once Louis) has arrived back in London after a three hundred year absence. He has come home to end it once and for all - to complete the Troy Game and to win Noah away from Weyland.
Of course, nothing ever goes to plan for Brutus-reborn, does it?
Jack arrives home on the eve of war. He takes up residence in the mysterious Copt Hall (or Copped Hall) in Epping Forest - slightly put out by the presence within the hall of an even more mysterious, and thoroughly irritating, valet called Malcolm. He is even more perplexed by the reclusive Grace - Noah and Weyland's daughter - in whom Malcolm seems peculiarly interested.
But most of all Jack is disturbed by the sense of something 'wrong' with London. Something 'different'. Something shadowy and labyrinthine hanging over the ciy that has nothing at all to do with the Troy Game itself.
And Grace is the only other person who can perceive it.
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Book one of Darkglass Mountain ISBN: 9780732282882 |
THE LAND OF TENCENDOR IS NO MORE. BUT NOT EVERYONE IS DEAD.
Many Icarii survive in the courts abroad, while StarDrifter SunSoar, father to Axis, lives within the corrupt Palace of the First in Coroleas. Not even the Star Dance is as dead as the Icarii Enchanters had believed, for a strange race living in the frozen northern wastes can still hear, and use, the music of the heavens.
Other ghosts from the past wait in the shadows. The Skraelings once again gather in the north. Far across the Widowmaker Sea a pyramid broods and plots revenge on those who had once thought to destroy it. To the east, at the edge of the world, an ancient serpent god uncoils, sending an unwilling woman to be the bride of the enigmatic Lord of Elcho Falling.
As men, Icarii, ice wraiths and ancient gods gather for war, a legend rises from the dead – Axis SunSoar, come to regain his heritage and the Star Dance, and to battle new dangers across a vast, mysterious land.
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A mystical stand-alone novel set in an ancient middle-eastern fantasy world. ISBN: 0732257492 |
Tirzah, a female glass worker, is forced into slavery and transported to the southern realm of Ashdod, an area determined by mathematician-magicians called the Magi.
The Magi have discovered a geometrical formula that can propel them into Infinity (immortality). This formula is expressed in physical terms in the form of a special type of pyramid called Threshold.
However, when the Magi start building Threshold, they unwittingly unleash a dark and malignant power called Nzame, who seizes control over Threshold, the Magi, and almost the entire population of Ashdod.
Tirzah escapes with Boaz, the Master Magus, and a number of slaves. In hiding, they regroup and Boaz learns the secrets that will enable him to confront Nzame in a final and startling conclusion to the story.
Beyond the Hanging Wall |
A book written for younger readers than the other books but can still be enjoyed by older readers ISBN: 0733601693 |
"For the first time Garth had an intimation of what awaited him down the shafts of the Veins. 'How long do they have to survive down there, Father?' Joseph's dark eyes were haunted. 'For as long as it takes them to die, Garth. If a man is sentenced to the Veins, then it means he is sentenced to death...'" Young Garth Baxtor has a special gift, one that aids understanding, soothes hurts and encourages healing. When Garth is sent to the horrific confines of the Veins for three weeks of service, he discovers a horrifying secret. Together with his father and the mysterious marsh girl, Ravenna, Garth sets out to right a terrible wrong.
The Betrayal of Arthur
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A non-fiction book about the Arthur legends This book is now out of print. However, BiblioQuest International may be able to locate a secondhand copy. ISBN: 0732909864 |
A prophecy of a golden age, a magic sword and a chosen one...
This is the legend of King Arthur...or is it?
From the manuscripts of a twelfth-century English cleric to a New York bestseller, tales of King Arthur and his court permeate our world. But where did the stories start and how much is true? Were Guenevere and Lancelot traitors? Was Merlin a wise man or a magician? And was King Arthur a great and glorious king or a tragic man doomed from conception?
Sara Douglass, a leading writer of fantasy, pierces the heart of this legend. A scholar and academic in medieval history, she explores the fascination, manipulation and permutations of this captivating myth that has intrigued the western world for centuries.
The Betrayal of Arthur is an enchanting exploration of Arthurian legend, twentieth-century sensibilities and the medieval mind.