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A misunderstanding, a stolen communing stone, and a missing Oracle. Things in the village of Mintus are not looking good these days. Even more so now that the task of finding the Oracle and aiding the village has fallen into the least capable hands to be found. Six misfits and a cursed donkey. If this band of oddballs can complete their task they might just save the village and break a curse along the way. That is if they don't kill each other first.

In darkness, she walks the labyrinth. Confused. Lost. But not alone. In the Paris of 1970, the hippie revolution has yet to crash land and Minnette searches hungrily for a way to enlightenment. She finds it. Or she finds something and the path of her life is set. But, by the beginning of the 21st Century, Minnette is haunted by the shades of recurring dreams and recurring memories, unsure whether the city around her is as solid as it appears. She looks back on her life’s search — and on that a winter’s evening in Toledo when, for a moment, the gates to another world may have opened — and feels the defeat of a life thrown away. But something moves in the shadows, something that comes closer each evening. Combining a mind-spinning vision of another reality just a step away from our own with searing character study and sensual, impressionist prose, In Dreams the Minotaur Appears Last is the latest novel from the author of the ground-breaking anti-novel Vitus Dreams and the acclaimed short story collection, High City Walk.

An explorer dreams of a sea and a land beyond that can be found on no map … A naval officer becomes lost inside maps of his own making, his wife lost inside her pleas that someone search for her husband … And, as a singer struggles to make sense of the ordinary things around her, a hitman is trapped in an endless bid to escape … Meanwhile, two complete strangers plod through their day-to-day lives as they pour their hearts into writing a novel — but which one is the fictional character and which the author? An ever-shifting kaleidoscope, by turns moving and funny, intense and tender, Vitus Dreams draws you into a place where our basic assumptions about the real and the concrete are shattered to leave us with no choice but to rely on instinct and the people around us, if they exist.

Ruined by the 1929 stock market crash, Tristram finds himself penniless and stranded in Budapest, friendless and far from home. He's given a last chance to save himself-simply deliver an old locket to be repaired. But in a near miss road accident, the locket vanishes and he finds himself on the streets. Befriended by the suave but dissolute Voit, Tristram becomes convinced the locket has been stolen by the ruthless Attar Nox and he and Voit try to steal it back. The robbery goes wrong and Tristram finds himself on the run. Along the way, he meets Alba, Nox's fiancee and former prisoner. As they find temporary refuge in a small basement flat, Tristram is haunted by spectres past and present and, when their safety is finally shattered by the appearance of an unexpected ghost from his past, he is forced deeper into a quest that is stranger and more challenging than Tristram realises. Blending echoes of Celtic myth and Grail legend with an undercurrent of Alchemical thought, A Locket of Hermes is a spiritual quest towards a deeper reality, a deeper sense of self.

A young woman walks, walks, walks... always in search of the wondrous hidden in the everyday. When she at last enters a place of marvels just a step away from the mundane world, she discovers that the urge to keep searching is carrying her towards a climactic and extraordinary transmutation. Part Alchemical fable, part celebration of the transformative power of the Imagination, 'Marietta Merz' weaves a spell that lingers long after the story ends. Originally appearing as a key story in the highly acclaimed collection, High City Walk, 'Marietta Merz' is a limited edition pamphlet illustrated with original drawings.

Honza Pernath’s life is barren. The person he loves is gone and his friends, even his dreams, say she will not return. When a chance meeting sets him on a search for his lost love, the path is neither straight nor easy and Honza comes to doubt everything, including the one he searches for. A single image—a star rising over the sea—calls him on, but that image is more than it seems and as Honza nears its source, his search reveals more than he could have imagined. A sequel to the mysterious and beautiful short story, ‘Marietta Merz’ (now an illustrated chapbook), Child of the Black Sun is an exploration of the living symbols at the core of everyday life; a visionary evocation of the internal journey.

An act of betrayal rends Liatrix from her downtrodden life in the Lower-Realm, leaving her scarred and trapped in a realm where discovery of what she is, means death. Until a chance encounter with an elf named Alvar offers her an opportunity to gain an ally and take revenge upon those who wronged her. Her obsession for revenge sets them on a path filled with danger and bloodshed. Leading each to question the decisions that brought them together and the feelings that have begun to develop between them.

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