Mary Gentle

A magnificent and gritty dream of the 15th century, a stupendous canvas soaked in blood, magic and tears. Shortlisted for the 2001 Arthur C. Clarke Award and winner of the British SF Association's Award for Best Novel.

A Secret History

In a nameless city situated somewhere between the past and the future, the wicked Rat Lords rule over their human slaves, and only Prince Lucas of Candover and Zari have what it takes to battle them. Original.

Rats and Gargoyles

Cartomancy

A humorous fantasy epic follows a pivotal time in the lives of the Orcs, a brawny race whose ruthless fighting abilities and lower intellectual capacities invariably place them on the front lines of battle. Original.

A Fantasy with Attitude

Grunts!

Golden Witchbreed

Black Opera

The Architecture of Desire

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A Sundial in a Grave

A science-fiction novel featuring Casaubon and White Crow, characters from Rats and Gargoyles and Architecture of Desire. London is dying, the streets squalid and hostile, the temperature soaring. In an apartment smelling of toast and cat urine, four people meet.

Left to His Own Devices

Teenaged Holly finds a strange coin which leads her and her friend Chris into strange adventures with the magical people of the Hollow Hills.

A Hawk in Silver

Scholars and Soldiers

THE LAWS OF PHYSICS ARE MEANT TO BE OBEYED. Aeris Warren-Finch is NASA's Acting Director of the New Earth Object Lab, overseeing the transit of a large unidentified object past Earth's orbit. She's trained and worked all her life for this. She couldn't be more ready. But the object changes trajectory. What was one object becomes three, seven, nineteen. Nineteen different modules land across the planet. When the nearest module creates a dome and leaves Aeris stranded within its confines, she's left to wander in search of safety. But things are stranger than she could have guessed, and she soon discovers she's not the only one wandering the alien landscapes under the domes. Alongside her 105-year-old great-grandmother, a displaced imam, the President of the United States and her bodyguard, Aeris must find a way home before they run out of water, food and ideas. The question is: when every direction reveals new and strange geographies, which way is the right way to go?

The Landing

In a city in which a mixed population of Rat people, humans, and intelligent animals are ruled by the Rat-King, a motley group of human rebels, aided by a powerful magus, White Crow, sets out to stop a strike that threatens to plunge the world into an apocalyptic nightmare

The dramatic conclusion to Ilario: The Lion's Eye! Fleeing a surprise treacherous murder attempt, the former King's Freak and would-be painter Ilario has run to Carthage, the city-state under perpetual darkness, in search of freedom. But strange plots are afoot, and a tenuous, complicated alliance with a bookseller-turned-spy will lead Ilario from the shrouded land into tense negotiations and intrigues in seductive, mercurial Venice, from a fraught return to Iberia to a final confrontation with family . . . and destiny.

A Story of the First History, Book Two

Ilario: The Stone Golem

'We are so often a disappointment to the parents who abandon us . . . ' Ilario is born hermaphrodite, a true genetic chimera. Found abandoned on the steps of a chapel of the Green Christ, in one of the minor Iberian kingdoms, on a freezing snowy night, Ilario is fostered by Federico, an impoverished Iberian noble, who plans to gift Ilario to the king, hoping to gain favour at court. At the age of 15, Ilario joins King Roderigo as the King's Freak, but while learning the ways of the court, Illario has another lesson to study: abondonment and betrayal. For Rosamunda, Ilario's birth mother, has arrived - and the secret of Ilario's shameful birth must be kept hidden, lest the resulting scandal ruin Rosamunda's husband, Videric, the king's most powerful advisor. When Ilario is freed by the king, he/she is summoned by Rosamunda. And when her attempt to murder her child fails, Rosamunda whispers 'Run . . . ' And Ilario does . . . across the Mediterranean, to Carthage.

The Lion's Eye

Ilario

The White Crow, one-time Soldier-Scholar of the Invisible College and a practioner of Hermetic science and magic, and Baltazar Casaubon, architect and lover, a man not too particular about his personal hygiene, are two of Mary Gentle¿s finest creations. The worlds they stride across range from the Renaissance city where aristocratic rats rule the human servant class, to a near-future London where chaos is come again. They are two of the most powerful players in the games of magic and politics, and the most colourful. This volume brings together three brilliantly imaginative, powerful and disturbing tales - Rats and Gargoyles, The Architecture of Desire and Left to His Own Devices - and the linked short fiction and confirms Mary Gentle as one of the foremost writers of dark and visionary fantasy.

White Crow

Les fils de la sorcière

Mercenaries in lace and steel roam the countryside and the heads of criminals are impaled on London Bridge. The characters' relationships are played out in the shadow of the hangman's rope. Sequel to Rats and Gargoyles.

Les Carthaginois assiègent Dijon, et le roi-calife en personne est venu assister à la chute de la Bourgogne. Prisonniers d'une cité hivernale pilonnée par les machines de guerre ennemies, où il ne reste rien à manger à moins de commencer à dévorer les bébés, Cendres et ses hommes n'ont plus d'espoir... Mais ce serait oublier les leçons de l'Histoire : " Cendres ne perd jamais ! "

Tome 4, La dispersion des ténèbres

Le livre des cendres

In a world not unlike fiteenth century mediaeval Europe . . . For the beautiful young woman Ash, life has always been arquebuses and artillery, swords and armour and the true horrors of hand-to-hand combat. War is her job. She has fought her way to the command of a mercenary company, and on her unlikely shoulders lies the destiny of a Europe threatened by the depredations of an Infidel army more terrible than any nightmare. Ash is guided by voices. They may come from her God, or from a source infinitely stranger . . . ASH: A SECRET HISTORY marks the full-flowering of the talent of one of the world¿s most acclaimed writers of fantasy.

Mary Gentle

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