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‘This is fantasy writ large in runes of fire and power, where magic crackles in the air and the forces of evil are ever ready to plunge the world into deepest night…the ultimate banquet of sorcery’Northern Echo

Get ready for the final volume in the ultimate epic fantasy series The Dreamers, by Voyager’s much loved team…..

The attacks of the dreadful insect queen known as the Vlagh have been repelled in three of the Elder Gods' realms. Now, only the land ruled by the Goddess Aracia remains for the Vlagh to send her hordes to attack. But while the Gods, their younger avatars and their human comrades have emerged victorious from all previous encounters, this time the Goddess herself may be their greatest foe – she craves worship and hates the idea of being replaced by a younger God when her time comes to an end…and that time is approaching fast. Volcanoes and floods, blue fire and fields of false gold, nothing has stopped the Vlagh from making new and improved creatures of the Wasteland that are too canny for the old tricks and pose an even bigger threat. With the Misty Lady controlling the Dreames and Aracia out of control, the fate of the Land of Dhrall has never before been in such peril. A magical, on-the-grandest-scale, action-packed, totally engaging and characterful fantasy novel and conclusion to a titanic series.

Reviewed in the June issue

A celebration of David and Leigh Eddings!

After 26 years of writing, 24 novels including 8 consecutive number ones, 7 series covering more than 7 millennia, in the words of Joy Chamberlain their editor for over 16 years, we take a look at the Eddings lives and how it has brought them to where they are now….Browsing idly in a bookshop, David Eddings noticed that the copy of The Two Towers, the second volume of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, in his hand was in its 73rd printing. He was so impressed he determined to write fantasy stories of his own, stretching the limits laid down by Tolkien, whom Dave affectionately calls ‘Poppa’. Back home, he pulled out the map he’d been goofing off doodling and began building a world, the world of the Belgariad and the Malloreon. The rest is history. Dave never made a secret, with his business contacts, that Leigh played a large role in the creation of his work. He wanted the dual authorship – David and Leigh Eddings – of his books credited from the start, but his US publisher objected that sales would be damaged. Once he had become absolute master of the fantasy genre, however, having kept millions of readers hooked on the books -- they go back and read them again and again -- Dave insisted on the name change. Since the publication of Belgarath the Sorcerer in 1997, Eddings has been David and Leigh Eddings.With his wife Leigh’s input, Eddings produces epic fantasy with a distinctive and witty overlay of realism. Dialogue and detail lend the books immediacy and a sense of actually knowing the characters. David firmly believes that ‘No man understands how a woman’s mind works,’ and that without Leigh’s input, the female characters so important in all Eddings books simply would not work.David Eddings is self-effacing on the subject of his success. ‘I’m never going to be in danger of getting a Nobel Prize for literature,’ he says. But he has a strong background in the discipline of literature and bases his work in secretly profound ways on archetypes and old written traditions. As he writes in the introduction to The Rivan Codex, ‘Since what is called “epic fantasy” descends in an almost direct line from medieval romance, my studies of Chaucer and Malory gave me a running head start in the field.’Settled now in Carson City Nevada, David has conjured up several immensely absorbing worlds. Eddings says, ‘To be honest about it, I write because I have to write,’ and possibly that’s why his books feel so alive and relevant.

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