About the Author

Graeme K. Talboys was born in Hammersmith. He has had nine works of non-fiction published (on museum education, drama, and matters spiritual) and written more than a score of novels. The first of those (written when he was seventeen) was lost on a train. The next two (written in his early twenties) he wishes had been. Thankfully, hes had considerably more success with writing since then with short stories, poems, and many novels published. His previous jobs have included market gardener, shelf stacker, pot boy, sandwich maker, and factory floor maintenance operative (broom provided). As an adult his first job was acting, followed by teaching Drama and English. Some of his pupils still speak to him. He later worked in museums where he felt right at home among the ancient, broken objects. He now lives in Scotland.

Reviews

"A first class adventure which moves with a pace and panache rarely seen these days. If you like good future fantasy youll love this." -- Michael Moorcock, author

"The sense of a landscape, full of cultures, histories and life lived is as vivid and compelling as it is in Ursula le Guins Earthsea novels." -- Nimue Brown, co-creator, Hopeless, Maine

"An evocative future fantasy. Graeme K. Talboys has created engaging characters who live on in the reader's mind long after the last page has been turned." -- Susan Murray, author, The Waterborne Blade