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Victoria Goddard
Thrice-cursed bard and warrior-elf Tamsin wakes up in Elfland after what might or might not have been his death, healed and hale for the first time in millennia. Somewhat confused…
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What the gods want, they take. Sometimes the gods take a mortal to be their beloved. The stories say those left behind should rejoice. Pali’s sister Sardeet was taken by…
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People create new opportunities and conditions in response to change, and these responses are influenced by gender and age. This collection examines responses to development and social and political change…
One death, two victims - one seen, one hidden A thrilling rollercoaster, combining a multi-layered crime drama with an emotionally charged family saga, Still Small Voice looks at a fractured…
A retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice set in a mostly-real modern London …Behind the corners of our world, there is magic. As the Lord of Ysthar, Raphael…
Magic is out of fashion. Outlaws make their own. Jemis Greenwing has seen his father’s reputation vindicated, been acknowledged as Viscount St-Noire from his mother’s side, slain a dragon, and…
Magic is out of fashion. Murder, like romance, is always a possibility. The journey home from Orio City was supposed to be straightforward. Avoid being captured by brigands or agents…
In the cities along the river Ihil, the nomad tribes of the Middle Desert are almost as legendary as the gods. Sardeet is the youngest daughter of the Bandit Queen…
A middle-class tribesman from a proverbially remote province of the Empire, Cliopher Mdang has persisted against all odds to end up as unofficial head of the world’s government. He is…
University students. Bear baiting. Unexpected relations. Wild magic. Literary criticism. Kittens. And always that whisper from the highwaymen of the Arguty Forest that someone’s death is on the line …
A retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice set in a mostly-real modern London. Behind the corners of our world, there is magic. But no matter how powerful you…
Magic is out of fashion. Outlaws make their own. Jemis Greenwing is somewhere in the middle, not that this helps when he’s arrested for the murder of a dragon and…
What the gods desire, they take.
When the gods take a person, there is not much one can do about it, even if there seems something strange and terrible about…
Artorin Damara is the Last Emperor of Astandalas and present Lord Magus of Zunidh. He is respected as a great mage, revered as a living god, regarded as the embodiment…
Artorin Damara, last Emperor of Astandalas, is in need of a new secretary.
It has been three years since he woke from a magical coma caused by the collapse of…
Magic is out of fashion.
Except, obviously, at Winterturn.
Winterturn in Ragnor Bella is a holiday for family, feasting, and a few religious festivities.
Jemis Greenwing and Mr. Dart are…
Someone always leaves.
That’s what Tovo has been saying to anyone who asks him why his great-nephew Kip Mdang isn’t at his side, isn’t fulfilling the tasks and obligations of…
Before the Fall of the Empire of Astandalas, the Red Company was legendary. A dozen or so years after that cataclysm, they have almost faded into myth.
Pali Avramapul may…
An impulsive word can start a war.
A timely word can stop one.
A simple act of friendship can change the course of history.
Cliopher Mdang is the personal secretary…
Friends by chance--or is it fate?
Damian Raske and Jullanar Thistlethwaite are about as different as can be. Damian is a young swordsman, dreaming of being the best in the…
Northwest Oriole is a land of small countries and many universities, where scholarship is greatly regarded. Choosing a school is thus a matter of great weight, no matter your rank…
Murder, like romance, is always a possibility.
The journey home from Orio City was supposed to be straightforward. Avoid being captured by brigands or agents…
Cliopher Mdang has been appointed Viceroy of Zunidh by his beloved Radiancy, the Last Emperor, who has now left him behind in the Palace to safeguard the world during his…
Victoria A. Goddard
Breaking new ground in Mediterreanean anthropology, this book rejects the discipline’s traditional focus on honour and shame in small face-to-face communities, and suggests instead that gender and sexuality interact with…
Victoria Goddard (Goldsmiths University of London UK)
Magic is out of fashion. Good manners never are, especially not when your neighbours are hiding both international crime and a mermaid.
East of the Sun … West of Astandalas … As far away from anywhere as it is possible to be and still be civilized, there is tower. To its east…
A promise is a promise … Portia MacArthur is possibly the best courier in the galaxy. Severely scarred from a training accident, she prefers the solitude of space to social…
Magic is out of fashion. Gambling is merely illegal. Neither law nor common sense has ever stopped anyone in Ragnor Bella from making-or breaking-their fortunes at the table, at the…
Magic is out of fashion. Gambling never is, especially not with both Jemis Greenwing and a dragon in the neighbourhood.
Models matter and have material effects on the lives of people. They emerge and change in historical, social and cultural conjunctures that operate at different scales and promote different subjective…
Winner of the Society for the Anthropology of Work book prize 2017
This volume presents a global range of ethnographic case studies to explore the ways in which - in…
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