Jonathan-Thomas Meriweather, a graduate student, part-time janitor, and would-be rock guitarist, is transported to a fantastical world, populated by sentient animals, to help the tortoise wizard Clothahump defeat the evil raiders that destroyed the town of Pelligrew.
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It’s springtime in Styria. And that means war. There have been 19 years of blood. The ruthless Grand Duke Orso is locked in a vicious struggle with the squabbling League of Eight, and between them they have bled the land white. While armies march, heads roll, and cities burn, behind …

‘Without the Keys, something terrible will happen. Something that cannot be undone. And with them, I might bring an end to the riddle of the Prophecy and my strange part in it.
‘If Alice and I are on conflicting sides of the Prophecy, the Keys would be dangerous in her hands, …

The Neverending Story (German: Die unendliche Geschichte) is a German fantasy novel by Michael Ende, first published in 1979. The standard English translation, by Ralph Manheim, was first published in 1983. The novel was later adapted into several films.
The majority of the story takes place in the parallel world of …

Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork – not the old fashioned, grubby pushing and shoving, but the new, fast football with pointy hats for goalposts and balls that go gloing when you drop them. And now, the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match, without …

Tales From The Perilous Realm by JRR Tolkien, adapted by Brian Sibley
Four dramatised stories, each reflecting an aspect of what Tolkien himself called ‘The Perilous Realm of Faerie’.
Dragons, magic and hobbits abound in Tolkien’s wonderful adventures.
Michael Hordern narrates, with Brian Blessed, Paul Copley, Nigel Planer, Alfred Molina and Sorcha Cusack …

You know your life is bad when you miss your days as a poison taster. . .
With her greatest enemy dead, and on her way to be reunited with the family she’d been stolen from long ago, Yelena should be pleased. But though she has gained her freedom, she can’t …

Choose: A quick death…or slow poison.
About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve. She’ll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace, and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia.
And so Yelena chooses to become a food taster. But the chief …

Alcatraz Smedry doesn’t seem destined for anything but disaster. On his 13th birthday, he receives a bag of sand, and his life takes a bizarre turn. This is no ordinary bag of sand…so it’s too bad that Alcatraz doesn’t keep a closer eye on it. It is quickly stolen by the Evil Librarians, who secretly rule the world by spreading misinformation and suppressing truth. The bag of sand will give the Evil Librarians the edge thy need to achieve world domination. Alcatraz must stop them…by infiltrating the local library, armed with nothing but eyeglasses and a talent for klutziness.