Dwarves and Rooks

Dwarves and Rooks PDF Author: Ray McCarthy
Publisher: Corvids Press
ISBN: 1801020809
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 245

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Celtic Otherworld XI Marion gets a contract from the Aés Sidhe to investigate the murder of a Dwarf Chief on the Reservation. Yet though her adoptive mother, Alice, is the Minister responsible, Alice has gone on a horse riding holiday on the Peacestead at Asgard. Obviously the Empress Megra has been told, but generally it must be secret. Alice wasn’t expecting Marion to bring her staff. Marion has been practising shape-changing with her new cloak. This is the fourth of six “Marion and the Rooks” books. The cover is based on “The Valkyrie and the Raven” by Fredrick Sandys. This is the corrected Spring 2024 edition. Approximately 50,000 words.

Dwarves and Rooks

Dwarves and Rooks PDF Author: Ray McCarthy
Publisher: Corvids Press
ISBN: 1801020809
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 245

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Book Description
Celtic Otherworld XI Marion gets a contract from the Aés Sidhe to investigate the murder of a Dwarf Chief on the Reservation. Yet though her adoptive mother, Alice, is the Minister responsible, Alice has gone on a horse riding holiday on the Peacestead at Asgard. Obviously the Empress Megra has been told, but generally it must be secret. Alice wasn’t expecting Marion to bring her staff. Marion has been practising shape-changing with her new cloak. This is the fourth of six “Marion and the Rooks” books. The cover is based on “The Valkyrie and the Raven” by Fredrick Sandys. This is the corrected Spring 2024 edition. Approximately 50,000 words.

The Seven Talismans

The Seven Talismans PDF Author: Ray McCarthy
Publisher: Corvids Press
ISBN: 1801021716
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Jorath is hardly adult but hopes to find the Talismans of the High Lords. They must do something to fight the people that want to eradicate their tribe. Set in a mediaeval style fantasy word with no ship’s clocks or black powder, this story is based on a novelization completed in 1992. The sequel was nearly completed in 1996 and now is called ‘The White Fire Stones’. Both stories can be read on their own. The cover is based on ‘Pauvre Fauvette’ (1881) by Jules Bastien-Lepage. About 55,300 words.

The Legal Talent

The Legal Talent PDF Author: Ray McCarthy
Publisher: Corvids Press
ISBN: 1801021368
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Talent Universe Series 6 Maisie finally has to do the Legal training suggested some years earlier. Why is there a sudden urgency? Is it because someone shot at a delegation from Morglun? The start of this story is set almost three years after “The Master’s Talent”. With a nod to Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and also Ursula Le Guin. The photo montage is “Capitol by Night”. Summer 2024 revision. About 53,700 words.

The Mission's Talent

The Mission's Talent PDF Author: Ray McCarthy
Publisher: Corvids Press
ISBN: 1801022313
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 375

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Talents Universe 7 This novel is set about four years after the events of “The Legal Talent.” Maisie has just returned from Morglun yet has to assemble an unusual “First Contact” mission to Andromeda with the support of the Arch Chancellor and the Military. The cover image is a photomontage. About 80,100 words

The Apprentice’s Talent

The Apprentice’s Talent PDF Author: Ray McCarthy
Publisher: Corvids Press
ISBN: 1801021317
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 678

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Talents Universe 1 Mei Zhen Kelly is a twenty-three year old computer programmer from Belfast working in Dublin for nearly three years. She’s talented and very dedicated to her work. People think she’ll go far, now that she’s had her second major promotion. Only her Chinese mother called her Mei Zhen, her official name. Her parents died while she was at university and now everyone calls her Maisie. Wrapped up in her personal issues, she doesn’t pay a huge amount of attention to the news of the alien starship appearing at the edge of the Solar system. About 160,450 words

Conspiracies and Rooks

Conspiracies and Rooks PDF Author: Ray McCarthy
Publisher: Corvids Press
ISBN: 1801020779
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Celtic Otherworld VIII Marion is now a Student Guard. Tony and Sorcha settle into the town house and make friends. Why does the shopkeeper not want the Guards to catch the thieves? This is the second of six “Marion and the Rooks” books. The cover is based on the portrait of May Sartoris by Frederic Leighton. This is the corrected Spring 2024 edition. About 88,900 words.

Under the Stone of Destiny

Under the Stone of Destiny PDF Author: Ray McCarthy
Publisher: Corvids Press
ISBN: 1801020701
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Celtic Otherworld I Four teenagers are trying to end the ruinous war. They are a human, a runaway Elf Princess, a Dryad Mage and a Dwarf Wizard. Or at least that’s what Caoimhghín (Kevin), the student Magus thinks they are. Most of the action is on a legendary Celtic Otherworld, in Magh Meall where all the Tuath Dé live. Out of food and close to despair in the mountains they are told to wait for another companion by Corbie, the rook Familiar of Dean David, from the Magi College. The cover is edited from a detail of “Miranda, The Tempest” by John William Waterhouse. Under the Stone of Destiny was originally written during July & August 2015 with parts in 1996. This is the corrected Summer 2024 edition. About 78,200 words.

The Master’s Talent

The Master’s Talent PDF Author: Ray McCarthy
Publisher: Corvids Press
ISBN: 180102135X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 499

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Book Description
Talents Universe 5 Maisie has returned from her visit to Tellus (Earth). Maisie is reaping the results of her foolishness. How can she teach class and be the Emperor’s Emissary on a “First Contact” Mission? How can she put off any public announcement about her relationship with Olef? Though the last part of the Maisie Trilogy (The Apprentice’s Talent, The Journeyman’s Talent) and book 5 of the “Talent’s Universe”, it’s best read after “The Solar Alliance” and “Starship Chief”. Summer 2024 revision. About 114,850 words.

The Black Dwarf

The Black Dwarf PDF Author: Thomas Jonathan Wooler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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The Journeyman's Talent

The Journeyman's Talent PDF Author: Ray McCarthy
Publisher: Corvids Press
ISBN: 1801021325
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 566

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Talents Universe 2 Maisie is no longer an Apprentice, but a Journeyman studying to be a Master, three times over, at the Circle College for Talent, 80,000 light years from Earth, on Caemoria. But on a visit to Laramos city to sign a contract for her full spectrum colour system she narrowly escapes being murdered. Why does she want to own a Flitter? Why was the Mogul of House Funathim assassinated? Summer 2024 version What will she spend her rapidly growing quantity of credits on? How has Earth managed to build a fusion powered starship without Talent? Maisie thinks it’s a bad sign that Earth has named them the ‘Valkyrie Class’ and that Russia, China, Europe and USA have all switched their military budgets to co-operate and build Valkyries, all managed by the Solar Alliance. The Wildgrave Plonnis seeks to understand by questioning Maisie while helping her to spend her new found wealth. She’s still the only Tellurian to ever leave the Solar System till the first Valkyrie ‘jumps’ just beyond the Kuiper belt. The cover is a photo-montage by Michael Watterson. About 132,000 words