When his mother dies in a flitter crash, eighteen-year-old Ishmael Horatio Wang must find a job with the planet company or leave the system-and NerisCo isn't hiring. With credits running low, and prospects limited, he has just one hope…to enlist for two years with a deep space commercial freighter. Ishmael, who only rarely visited the Neris Orbital, and has never been off-planet alone before, finds himself part of an eclectic crew sailing a deep space leviathan between the stars.

Join the crew of the SC Lois McKendrick, a Manchester built clipper as she sets solar sails in search of profit for her company and a crew each entitled to a share equal to their rating.

Queen Lyrna has survived the bloody siege of Alltor. Now she must rally her troops and take back the capital from the Volarian invaders. But driving her hated enemy out of the Realm will not satisfy her lust for vengeance — she wants to pursue them across the ocean and burn their empire to ashes. To do so, she must place her faith in the Seventh Order: men and women who wield terrible powers, born of the Dark itself.

Vaelin Al Sorna would sacrifice his life for his queen — and may yet have to. Only by unmasking the Volarians’ mysterious Ally can the tide of war be turned. To this end, Vaelin must travel deep into the icebound north, in search of a man who cannot die — and he must do it without the aid of his blood song, which has fallen ominously silent…

Queen of Fire is the epic conclusion to the acclaimed Raven’s Shadow series, by New York Times bestselling author Anthony Ryan.

Queen Lyrna has survived the bloody siege of Alltor. Now she must rally her troops and take back the capital from the Volarian invaders. But driving her hated enemy out of the Realm will not satisfy her lust for vengeance — she wants to pursue them across the ocean and burn their empire to ashes. To do so, she must place her faith in the Seventh Order: men and women who wield terrible powers, born of the Dark itself.

Vaelin Al Sorna would sacrifice his life for his queen — and may yet have to. Only by unmasking the Volarians’ mysterious Ally can the tide of war be turned. To this end, Vaelin must travel deep into the icebound north, in search of a man who cannot die — and he must do it without the aid of his blood song, which has fallen ominously silent…

Queen of Fire is the epic conclusion to the acclaimed Raven’s Shadow series, by New York Times bestselling author Anthony Ryan.

In Silver Wood, the animals live together peacefully, fearing only the violence of Man. But the oldest, wisest animals know that one day a human rescuer will join them and grow up to save the green and pleasant places of the world. One crystal-clear Christmas Eve the legend begins to come to life.

Brock the badger finds a baby boy abandoned in the snowy woods. As he grows up among the animals, Nab's destiny becomes clear: he is the one who will journey across the land to gather one by one from their Elflord guardians the three Faradawn, the magical essences of life itself. Only when he has them will he be prepared for his final confrontation with the very face of evil.

But even with the help of his animal friends, and of the golden-haired Beth, his only human companion, Nab’s quest has become a race against time, for Man in his folly is moving with terrible speed towards his own destruction.

‘A blend of Tolkien and Watership Down unfolded in masterly style. Ford not only writes superbly, his intimate knowledge of animals and the countryside shines through every page… a sensitive, exciting and engrossing novel which puts the author among the first rank of contemporary English novelists’

MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS

‘Comparisons between Ford’s first novel and Watership Down as well as with the fantasies of Tolkien, are inevitable. But this enchanting fable stands as a creation even more pertinent to our times than those honoured works… the author’s artistry has created a parable for our time’

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

There is little of the overt fantastic in this great, bloody sprawl of a novel, in which tortured souls follow twisting paths through WWII Shanghai; rather, there is a gradual stretching of the ordinary to the extraordinary. And eventually all those twisted paths converge at the final, dreadful performance of Quin's Shanghai Circus.