Motherstone
10 best books like Motherstone (Maurice Gee): Watership Down, The Book of Jhereg, The Luminaries, The Changeover, The Sword of Shannara Trilogy, The Fionavar Tapestry, Holy Sister, Grey Sister, Calico Captive, A Stitch In Time
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Set in England's Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage and survival follows a band of very special creatures on their flight from the intrusion of man and the certain destruction...
| Author | Steven Brust |
| ISBN | 0441006159 |
A welcome addition to any fantasy fan's library, The Book of Jhereg follows the antics of the wise-cracking assassin Vlad Taltos and his dragon-like companion through their first three adventures: Jhereg, Yendi, and Teckla. From his rookie assassin days to his selfless feats of heroism, the dauntless...
| Author | Eleanor Catton |
| ISBN | 0316074314 |
It is 1866, and young Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men who have met in secret to discuss a series of unexplained events: A wealthy man has vanished, a prostitute has tried...
| Author | Margaret Mahy |
| ISBN | 0140365990 |
Carnegie medal-winning supernatural romance from Margaret Mahy.
The face in the mirror. From the moment she saw it, Laura Chant knew that something dreadful was going to happen. It wasn’t the first time she’d been forewarned. But never before had anything so terrible happened. The horrifyingly...
| Author | Terry Brooks |
| ISBN | 0345453751 |
THE SWORD OF SHANNARA: Long ago, the world of Shea Ohmsford was torn apart by war. But the half-human, half-elfin, Shea now lives in peace - until the forbidding figure of Allanon appears, to reveal that the long dead Warlock Lord lives again
THE ELFSTONES OF SHANNARA: Ancient evil threatens...
| Author | Guy Gavriel Kay |
| ISBN | 0006479502 |
In the three novels that make up the Fionavar Tapestry trilogy collected in this omnibus edition (The Summer Tree, The Wandering Fire, and The Darkest Road), five University of Toronto students find themselves transported to a magical land to do battle with the forces of evil. At a Celtic conference,...
| Author | Mark Lawrence |
| ISBN | 0008152403 |
The third instalment in a brilliant fantasy series from the international bestselling author of Prince of Thorns
Nona Grey’s story reaches its shattering conclusion in the third instalment of Book of the Ancestor.
They came against her as a child. Now they face the woman.
The...
| Author | Mark Lawrence |
| ISBN | 0008152349 |
Second novel in the brilliant series from the bestselling author of Prince of Thorns.
In Mystic Class Nona Grey begins to learn the secrets of the universe. But so often even the deepest truths just make our choices harder. Before she leaves the Convent of Sweet Mercy Nona must choose her path...
| Author | Elizabeth George Speare |
| ISBN | 0618150765 |
In the year 1754, the stillness of Charlestown, New Hampshire, is shattered by the terrifying cries of an Indian raid. Young Miriam Willard, on a day that had promised new happiness, finds herself instead a captive on a forest trail, caught up in the ebb and flow of the French and Indian War.
It is a...
| Author | Penelope Lively |
| ISBN | 0749707895 |
Always, since she was quite small, Maria had been extremely confused between what she had imagined and what was real, so much so that she had learned to keep quiet about a good many things in case they turned out... to be part of the imaginings... Perhaps this is why she doesn't tell anyone about the mysterious...
| Author | Carolyn Weber |
| ISBN | 0849946115 |
A "girl-meets-God" style memoir of an agnostic who, through her surprising opportunity to study at Oxford, comes to a dynamic personal faith in God.Carolyn Weber arrives for graduate study at Oxford University as a feminist from a loving but broken family, suspicious of men and intellectually hostile...
| Author | Stan Nicholls |
| ISBN | 0575074876 |
Combining the acclaimed trilogy of books, Bodyguard of Lightning, Legion of Thunder, and Warriors of the Tempest, plus a new short story previously only available in a small press anthology, this is the entire story of Stryke and his band of Orcs. Fantasy's bad guys finally get their own say in this fast...
| Author | Alan Duff |
| ISBN | 0824816846 |
I found this to be quite brilliant in its rather simplistic albeit solid and believable plot. Vivid characters and violence. Puts you in the mind of both criminal and survivalist who longs for a better present. Bringing their mentality and morals to the forefront to give you a true representation of...
| Author | Murray Ball |
| ISBN | 1852864222 |
Ball grew up in New Zealand before spending some years in Australia and South Africa. As a young man he worked for the Dominion newspaper in Wellington and the Manawatu Times before becoming a freelance cartoonist and moving to England, where he found work with publishers DC Thomson, of Dundee.
He...
