Ian Irvine
A vengeful sorcerer. A haunted thief-girl. If she fails, she dies.
Karan, a sensitive whose family is cursed by madness, is compelled by honour to steal an ancient magical device and take it to the Magister. But it's the treacherous Mirror of Aachan, and hidden within it is a deadly secret.
Llian, a brilliant but naïve Tale-spinner, uncovers a 3,000-year-old mystery too dangerous to be revealed and is expelled
...The terrifying Merdrun are invading – and the world no longer has an army.
Karan and Llian fled to the future to save their gifted nine-year-old daughter, but two days later Sulien far-sees the Crimson Gate reopen. The Merdrun are back, this time for good. And Santhenar, after the 160-year Lyrinx War and the decade of chaos that followed, is in ruins.
Within days, its greatest cities fall to the most deadly
...The world of Santhenar has fallen
Most of the old allies are dead or captured, and the conquering Merdrun are carving Skyrock into a gigantic tower, with a sapphire-clad tunnel at its base. Is it a horrific new weapon to cleanse the world, so they can take it for their own? Only their arch-sorcerer, the sickening, life-drinking magiz, Dagog, knows.
Karan, Flydd and their broken allies have only thirty days to find
...4) Thorn Castle
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The orphan Tamly and his best friend Kym are as different as fire and snow.
Kym has magic coming out of her fingers, and Tamly has none at all.
When their village is threatened by bad magic this unlikely pair will need to use their combined talents to steal the Book of Spells from the evil sorcerer Lord Harshax.
Fantastically illustrated by DM
...5) Black Crypt
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Meadowhythe has lost its magic, but Kym has a plan to get it back.
She and her friends Mel and Tamly must creep into the heart of the mountain, then down a crevasse deep enough to swallow them forever, to the crypt where Shardax the sorcerer buried his enemies.
They had better not be afraid of dead things though...
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...Over a million copies of Ian Irvine's fantasy novels sold.
Runcible and Mariam are in desperate trouble, for Lord Shambles has returned, stronger than ever. Once he finds the lost Citadel of Magic there will be no defence against his dreadful sorcery. And with it he plans to take over the world of Iltior, then drive Earth back to the Dark Ages.
To stop Lord Shambles, the children must defy his Night Stalkers, journey
...7) Giant's Lair
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Evil does not die. It merely sleeps – awakening when we least expect it.
Meadowhythe is again in danger – evil magical forces are growing stronger every day. Giants, flesh-eating birds and powerful sorcerers lie in wait for Tamly, Kym and Mel.
And this time they may not win.
Fantastically illustrated by DM Cornish.
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...Over a million copies of Ian Irvine's fantasy novels sold.
Tamly's Birth Foretelling said he would be a danger to magic, and it seems to be true.
The sorcerer brothers Harshax and Krushax are hunting him down – but for what terrible purpose?
It will take all Tamly's courage to face his enemies and thwart their evil plan.
Fantastically illustrated by DM Cornish.
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...Thurkad has fallen and Karan, driven into madness by a forbidden spell, is left for dead.
Her dearest friend, Llian the Tale-spinner, is abducted by the renegade Aachim leader, Tensor, who plans to use the Twisted Mirror for an act of millennial vengeance. And he knows how to take advantage of Llian's fatal weakness – his hunger for his own Great Tale.
But Karan is determined to recover and rescue Llian, and the
...10) Tribute to Hell
"tribute to Hell" is set in the Elder Days of a new fantasy world explored in detail in the trilogy, the tainted Realm.to ensure Greave pays for his crime and redeems himself, his god, K'nacka, holds hostage Greave's little sister. And Greave has to steal the Graven Casket for the god.Greave knew he had to do it, but he was not going to survive, and neither was his little sister...
Nish, his battered little troop and his few surviving allies are trapped on the Range of Ruin by the God-Emperor's mighty army.
Nish's only choices are a humiliating surrender to his father or a suicidal fight to the death. Yet Nish and Maelys have to fight, and somehow they have to win, for the beautiful world of Santhenar is in peril and no one else can save it.
Stilkeen, an all-powerful shape-shifting being from
...Over a million copies of Ian Irvine's Three Worlds novels sold.
A collection of original short and long stories, and novellas, set in Ian Irvine's internationally bestselling Three Worlds epic fantasy universe.
The Price of Freedom. Tensor leads his troubled people to Santhenar to attack his Charon enemies. But can the Twisted Mirror show true? Or will it betray him? A long short story.
The Harrows. Dare Lita
...After ten years of servitude, Nish is still held in the blackest dungeon of the maimed God-Emperor, his corrupt father.
With the sorcerous quicksilver tears, Gatherer and Reaper, the God-Emperor controls all magic and is remaking the world in his depraved image. Now he wants Nish to be his lieutenant, to become as foul as he is. But the malevolent God-Emperor executed the only woman Nish has ever loved and, even faced with
...Over a million copies of Ian Irvine's fantasy novels sold.
On a freezing winter's night, Lord Shambles shatters the tower where the children are learning magic.
Runcible, Mariam and their friends run for their lives. All Iltior now lies in the dreaded sorcerer's hands and, as soon as he steals the children's unique magic, he will attack Earth.
As they are hunted across Iltior, Runcible realises that there is
...15) Chimaera
In a few minutes of overwhelming violence, the Council's air-dreadnought fleet has destroyed Fiz Gorgo's defences.
Flydd, Irisis and their small band of rebels are to be executed in a brutal aerial spectacle designed to reinforce Chief Scrutator Ghorr's power and majesty.
Nish is their one remaining hope. But Nish is trapped in a burning watchtower, and hunted by both the scrutators and his tormented former lover,
...For 3,000 years the Forbidding protected Santhenar from the savagery of the Void. Now Rulke has broken it open.
And the ultimate clash of an aeons-long war erupts. As alien lords battle Rulke to gain control of the Way Between the Worlds, and abominations from the Void ravage the land, can Mendark and Yggur overcome their mutual hatred and stand together to seal the Way?
In this final hour, will Karan find the courage
...The war has been raging for a hundred years ... and humanity is close to defeat.
Santhenar is locked in conflict with the lyrinx – intelligent, winged predators from the Void who are desperate to gain their own world. And despite the development of mechanical battle clankers, and mastery of the crystals that drive them, humanity is losing. The enemy is destroying its nodes of magical power, one by one.
Tiaan,
...The allies are trapped on Mistmurk Mountain and the God-Emperor guards every way of escape.
There's only one chance left: for demure little Maelys to confess to a crime she has not committed, though if she does it must turn her friends against her. And even if they can escape through the perilous shadow realm, the God-Emperor's armies will hunt them to the ends of the world.
Nish, Flydd and Maelys have no choice but
...19) Tetrarch
The Aachim have invaded with an irresistible fleet of battle constructs – and their embittered leader, Vithis, demands half the world.
Santhenar, on its knees after a hundred years of war against the lyrinx, is in no position to resist. But even if the Council of Scrutators agrees to Vithis's demands, can anything satisfy his thirst for vengeance?
Tiaan, now feeling utterly betrayed, is hunted through the abandoned
...20) Dark Is the Moon
Rulke the Great Betrayer has escaped from the Nightland, his prison for the last thousand years.
And he has a weapon no one has ever seen before – a massive, magic-powered iron construct. As he amasses a conquering army the other age-old wizards scatter in urgent quests, for the only way to defeat Rulke is to rediscover long-lost spells banned during the Forbidding.
Llian the Tale-spinner, desperate to create
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