Books with title Clash of Kings

The furnaces of Ebon burn day and night, melting ores for weapons. Throughout the land, bonfires are lit as Ebonites pay homage to the Cauldron’s Dark Flame. The land’s midnight sky glows like sunrise. Ebon prepares for war as myths and legends from ages past take on flesh and walk the land. The Worms of Bal Malin soar the skies, the ancient fortress of Min Brock rises from the ashes, Storytellers from Claire weave tales of power – and now two mighty warriors arise, both claiming the dread title of Gor King. A clash of kings is inevitable, and only one can emerge victorious.“In mad times such as these,” Lassiter offered with one last look at the ridgeline, “sometimes the sane thing to do is be mad yourself.” Mälque risked a quick glance as they rolled past the corpse of his brother. “Ain’t nothin’ but dyin’ out here today.” In a softer voice, as if offering a prayer or reciting a prophecy of his own demise, he added: “Nothin’ but dyin’ everywhere you look.”Yet when all hope is lost, a whisper comes.The War of Whispers rages.

A Christmas story about a lonely old widower. Since his wife died, old Mr Hegarty has lived alone, with just his cat Cat and dog Jacko for company. The last in the street before the wharves and warehouses, his house is one of the few that remain in the area. Most of them have been pulled down and replaced by building sites full of cranes, concrete girders and men in hard hats. Mr Hegarty passes them on his way to the old Lane, whose busy market and cafe are an enduring refuge in an ever-changing world. It is in the Lane that Mr Hegarty finds himself one Christmas Eve, enjoying the cheerful bustle, before returning home in the dark. It seems like it will be just another quiet, uneventful Christmas for the lonely old widower. But then, in the middle of the night, he hears a faint crying that leads him to a disused church and a very special discovery. Susan Hill is the author of "Air and Angels", "Mrs de Winter", "The Woman in Black", "Can it be True?" (winner of the Smarties Book Prize), "The Glass Angels", "Septimus Honeydew", "Friends Next Door", "A Very Special Birthday", "Beware Beware", "The Walker Book of Ghost Stories" and "The Christmas Collection". John Lawrence is a winner of the Francis Williams Book Illustration Award, and has twice been shortlisted for the Emil/Kurt Maschler Award, for "Emily's Own Elephant" and "A New Treasury of Poetry". He has also illustrated "Watership Down" and "Christmas in Exeter Street".