Foolish girl! You claim to be my priestess? How hard can it be to fetch a simple loop of iron?You have held my torc in your hand twice… Each time it has slipped through delicate fingers.There was a moment when a thought might have brought you to me, but instead, you fling yourself halfway around the world and lose the torc in the bargain!For an instant you held it, and I believed we might both be free of the Serpent, but you will need him now, and other allies besid...

How long have the stars been the same?Longer than weary eyes may count.Tonight, a wanderer burns on the surface of Khusu's pool, and soon all other lights will seem pale.How many ages have rolled since the gods have seen a sail from the world beyond? The rising sun shall rob them of their isolation.My time is coming. They called me fool, but none have known my pain. The pattern shifts; neither man nor god may know its final weaving.What some call madness,...

Drawing on a deep and long-term first-hand engagement with major labels in the early years of the 21st century, this book sheds new light 'behind the scenes', at a time of drastic and far-reaching transformation. Refreshingly, it centres not on artists and the most powerful decision-makers but on everyday experiences of work and back-office corporate employees.Doing so reveals the internal activities and conflicts that, while hidden from public view, enable processes of change: fro...

Johnathan has an uncanny ability to fix things, almost anything, except his very religious and very erratic mother. As his mother’s episodes become more worrisome, he sets out to his hiding space in a magical cave, while making a new friend from a group of gypsies passing through his sleepy town. The arrival of a stranger sets off a chain of events that leads John and his new friend Lu into a magical dimension that reveals his family secrets.