William Nicholson

Andre bok i Ildvind-trilogien, som forteller om tvillingene Tårnfalk og Frimann og den dumme, men trofaste Mumpo. Lykke og harmoni hersker i bystaten Aramant etter at vindsangerens stemme har kommet på plass, men det er andre farer som truer: Det krigerske Herredømmet er på stadig jakt etter nye slaver, og overmanner enkelt innbyggerne i det fredelige Aramant. Bare Tårnfalk slipper unna. Herredømmets slavehold er på samme tid både humant og grusomt: Alle slaver får arbeide med noe de kan eller liker, men samtidig velges et medlem fra hver familie som gissel for å sikre at ingen rømmer. Skjer det, vil gislene brennes levende. Mumpo blir gladiator, og stortrives med å endelig få heltestatus. Frimann får jobb som gjeter, en stilling som gir ham mye frihet - blant annet til å utvikle evnene sine. Når Tårnfalk kommer til byen, kommer tvillingenes telepatiske evner til god nytte, og sammen legger de planer for å frigjøre slavene.

Profeten Ira Haver har ledet mantfolket mot Hjemlandet, og de har trosset farer og fristelser på veien. Ingen veit hva som venter dem når reisa er over, men Tårnfalk frykter det, siden det eneste sikre er at mora hans kommer til å dø. Heile tida øker ildvinden i styrke, den eneste krafta som er sterkere enn den grusomme Moraen. Dette er tredje og siste bok i Ildvindtrilogien.

Første bok i Ildvind-trilogien. Livet i bystaten Aramant er gjennomregulert, med klare klasseskiller: Hver familie får sin status avgjort av hvor godt familiemedlemmene gjør det ved den årlige eksamenen. Tårnfalk haver hater dette systemet, og gjør en dag grundig opprør. Hun blir nødt til å flykte, og får vite at dersom hun finner vindsangerens stemme og setter den på plass i den gamle skulpturen midt i byen, vil byen bli fri fra ondskapen som holder Aramant i sin hule hånd. Sammen med tvillingbroren Frimann og klassens idiot Mumpo drar hun for å finne det som skal til for å redde byen og familien sin. Det blir en farefull og omskiftelig ferd som skildres med stor varme og nydelig språk. En pageturner med dramatikk, raske spenningsskift og iboende sivilisasjonskritikk med appell til eldre lesere så vel som til de som ikke vanligvis foretrekker fantasy. Fra ca. 10 år.

Noman is the brilliant and compelling epic climax of The Noble Warriors Trilogy. In a fortress-monastery on an island live the legendary warriors of the Nomana. The age of theNoble Warriors is over. But questions about the Nomana remain unanswered... until now. An epic fantasy of far-reaching significance.

Bron is a thirty-year-old writer living in London, a seemingly incurable heartbreaker and dodger of commitment. He is fascinated by the symbolist artist Paul Marotte and has made the artist the center of a book he is writing about love at first sight. Bron goes to his friend's country house to work in solitude but encounters the beautiful, enigmatic Flora. Suddenly the theme of his book takes on a completely new, intensely personal dimension as Bron becomes dangerously smitten by the aloof beauty. Fast-paced, brilliantly crafted, and intellectually stimulating, The Trial of True Love is a captivating exploration of the nature of love, its elusiveness, and most of all, the universal human need to find it.

Cool, clear-eyed, and bluntly cynical, the young narrator of The Society of Others embarks on a journey without a destination. He hitchhikes through Europe only to find himself in a mystifying country where terrorists are inexplicably after him, and so is a sinister government. In a surreal landscape where people are shot to death without reason and social control runs deep, he must learn who to trust-and what to stand for. Fast paced and provocative, a gripping philosophical thriller, The Society of Others is an ingenious meditation on the nature of contemporary innocence and identity.

How well do we know the people we marry? Is it wrong to decide it's time to be honest? Is love enough to save a family? In The Retreat from Moscow, William Nicholson, the celebrated author of Shadowlands, tells the powerful story of a husband who decides to be truthful in his marriage, and of the wife and son whose lives will never be the same again. Edward and Alice have been married for thirty-three years. He is a teacher at a boys school, perfectly at home with his daily crossword and lately engrossed in reading about Napoleon's costly invasion of Moscow. She is an observant Catholic, exacting and opinionated, and has been collecting poems about lost love for a new anthology. Jamie, their diffident thirty-two year old son, is visiting for the weekend when Edward announces he has met another woman. With the coiled intensity of Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing and the embracing empathy of Edward Albee's best family dramas, The Retreat from Moscow shines a breathtakingly natural light on the fallout of a shattered marriage.

A visually electrifying trilogy by William Nicholson, who is best known as a Hollywwod screenwriter. Contains Vol.1, The Wind Singer; Vol.2, Slaves of the Mastery; Vol.3, Firesong.

The Manth people have left the ruined Mastery to seek their homeland, in the face of starvation, blizzards and the evil of the Morah. Only Ira Hath can lead them there, but she is growing weaker.

This is the second part of the Wind on Fire trilogy, sequel to 'The Wind Singer', Winner of the Smarties Gold award.

The people of Aramanth have been enslaved by the army of the Mastery. If they disobey their masters, a member of their community is burned in an iron cage before their eyes.