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This is an ingenious, passionate and more than slightly loopy fantasy, with vividly evoked landscapes of dangerous deadly beauty and ultimate disgust; the flawed self-hating Neville is as intriguing a character as Douglass has given us. -- Roz Kaveney
Praise for previous books in The Axis Trilogy:
‘BattleAxe is the best Australian fantasy novel I’ve experienced to date.’
Martin Livings, Eidolon
‘Enchanter is utterly enthralling and unputdownable.’
Karen Brooks, OzLit
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Compressed page edges are marked. Over 1kg packed, extra postage may be required to some destinations. Seller Inventory # 037992
Book Description Condition: Good. 584 pages. Seller Inventory # 1281537
Book Description Hardback. Condition: Good. The Black Plague. The Pestilence. Disease and death haunt every town and village across 14th century Europe and none are immune from its evil. Some see the devastation of their world as a sign from God for Man's wickedness.But Brother Thomas Neville sees this swath of death as something much more. Neville is a man beset by demons. Or is it angels? He has had a visitation from none other than the Archangel Michael, who commands Thomas to a mission. This mission will take Neville across the length and breath of the continent in a desperate bid to find the means to stop the minions of Satan who have found a doorway out of Hell and are preparing to venture forth, to try and seize this world in preparation for an assault on Heaven itself.As Thomas Neville encounters angels and demons, saints and witches, he comes to realize that the armies of God and Satan are arraying themselves for the final battle.and that his soul is to be the battleground.The question is, has Neville picked the truly good side? Heavy; dj. 584 pages. Seller Inventory # 1405009
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 900 g; VIII, 504 pp., includes glossary, illustrated endpages. Colour illustrated dustwrapper. Slight wear to base of boards, and to the top edge of the dustwrapper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; Science Fiction & Fantasy; ISBN: 0732265185. ISBN/EAN: 9780732265182. Inventory No: 0210970. Seller Inventory # 0210970
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. VIII, 504 pp., includes glossary, illustrated endpages. Colour illustrated dustwrapper. Slight wear to base of boards, and to the top edge of the dustwrapper, age toning of the page edges. Abrasion of the folds of the wrapper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; Science Fiction & Fantasy; ISBN: 0732265185. ISBN/EAN: 9780732265182. Inventory No: 0208885. Seller Inventory # 0208885
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 900 g; VIII, 504 pp., includes glossary, illustrated endpages. Colour illustrated dustwrapper. Slight wear to base of boards, and to the top edge of the dustwrapper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; Science Fiction & Fantasy; ISBN: 0732265185. ISBN/EAN: 9780732265182. Inventory No: 0208021. Seller Inventory # 0208021
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover. 584 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Harper Collins, Moss Vale, NSW, Australia, 2000. First Edition. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in very good condition and comes in very good dust jacket. Minor edgewear to boards. Lightly tanned pages. Dust jacket has minor bumping to edges. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: They teeter on the edge of hell the select priests who do the will of the angels.Reveal this secret to any other and you can be sure that the angels themselves will ensure your death So each single priest named by the angels has been told before being entrusted with the horrifying responsibility. These priests have made the lone journey to the Cleft there to perform certain duties .incantations to ensure that the spawn of angels and humans do not wreak havoc on earth. Wynkyn de Worde has undertaken the journey from Rome to Nuremberg over one hundred times but now the plague ravages Europe and this time his health too fails. A visitation from the Archangel Michael ensures that another will follow Wynkyn but in the decade between succession will the godless fill the land . *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; ISBN: 0732265185. ISBN/EAN: 9780732265182. Inventory No: 11100285. Seller Inventory # 11100285
Book Description Hardback. This is a used book in good condition, meaning that it shows signs of wear but has no major defects.Most of our images are sourced automatically, so the book cover shown might be different to the edition we have in stock. Seller Inventory # 19438054
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. True first edition, first printing, hardcover. Black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Decorated endpapers. 584 pages. Near Fine with pages tanned and short wrinkle on the spine (at the S in Sara), in a fine, mylar-covered dust jacket. SIGNED (signature only) by the author on the title page. NOT ex-library. NOT a remainder. Bubble wrapped and shipped in a box. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 141744