In a world where humans are held as slaves by the half-Dragon Drakes and their lifespan is determined by their Master’s temper, Annah and Aerik have lived extraordinary lives.
Aerik has risen from nothing to become a leader of the human resistance, while Annah has discovered powers that no human has ever possessed before – the magic of the Forgesong. With great events in motion throughout the Drake Empire, these former slaves may hold the power to shape their people’s future in ways they had never imagined.
With hope of finding a way to smuggle slaves to freedom, Aerik begs Darendall, the last free human city, for an alliance. But the power struggle within the slave resistance has reached a fragile junction. In order to preserve everything he has worked so hard to build, Aerik must choose between the comfort of the familiar and the slim chance of finding a future.
Annah is running for her life from the Drake frontlines and finds herself without a purpose for the first time in her life. Her Master, Kelkh, knows they can’t keep running forever, but where could he take his ward where she would be safe from persecution and danger? With no other options, Kelkh sets his sights on Darendall, the last place Annah and her magic might be accepted. If they can make it there alive.
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Pub date: Feb 2012
RRP: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-921526-16-9
Extent: 220 pages
Binding: B+ Format paperback
Category: Science Fiction/
Young Adult
Myke Mollard's
An A-Z of
Australian Bush Creatures
Fom Abalone to Zebra Finch, and the hundreds of creatures in between, this delightfully crafted book explores Australia's amazingly varied fauna shown in its natural habitat.
Over 400 land, sea and air-born creatures are organised alphabetically using a mixture of common, scientific and aboriginal names. Each A-Z plate also explores Australia's varied landscapes.
SPEAKING SECRETS
Pub date: February 2012
ISBN: 978-1-921526- 18-3
Extent: 180 pages
Size (mm): 135 x 210mm
Binding: B+ Paperback
Category:Sexuality,
Sociology, Media
Speaking Secrets explores voicelessness and the media. It explores personal sexuality secrets and, through a series of interviews what happens when these secrets become public property.
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Speaking Secrets explores voicelessness and the media. It explores personal sexuality secrets and, through a series of interviews what happens when these secrets become public property. Some of the subjects are well known - others not - but each of them has reached out publicly via the media to tell and retell their stories. Each is emblematic of a disenfranchised group. Each represents, or has experienced a different societal taboo, be it rape, race, gender, homosexuality, physical disability, disease, child abuse, sexual reassignment. And in each instance, they were silenced or repressed in some way by entrenched institutional values.
e interview subjects are: Rachael Wallbank (sexually reassigned lawyer who took on Commonwealth and won), Liz Mullinar (former international casting agent), Lyn Austin (first Stolen Generation person to receive victim compensation for sustained abuse), David Cunningham (disabled NSW Greens' Party convenor), Jan Ruff-O'Herne (WW11 survivor from the notorious Japanese Virgin Brothels in Java), Jenny Mendick (breast cancer survivor, gagged by the Australian Breast Cancer community for her stand on prosthesis), Russel Sykes (psychologist son of Dr Roberta Sykes, conceived during the pack rape of his mother), Dorothy McRae-McMahon (second-in-charge of the Uniting Church of Australia when she announced she was gay), and a Melbourne lawyer whose book, When She Was Bad about the systematic sexual abuse she sustained at the hands of her uncle, was published under the pseudonym Arabella Joseph.
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