This story his about a young boy who finds himself in the palace of the Pharaoh Akhenaten and Queen Nefertiti. He his a stone carver who carves beautiful things to be placed in the Pharaoh's tomb for the afterlife. There is a lot of discussion about the Pharaoh's worship of the Sun God, Aten, as ...
Rusti, a young nomad, lives on the fringes of the warrior horde of Tamburlaine the Great, a powerful ruler whose brutality is legendary. The horde and its leader are merciless, sweeping through Asia, crushing and destroying as they pass.In the course of his first real battle, Rusti captures an el...
Pepper fell on his face and peered over the coping. “Are you a ghost?” The scaffolding was sagging away from the stonework, a crevasse of darkness separating captain from captain’s steward. “Come up! Come up here!” “God’s garters, boy, if I move a muscle, this whole wicker basket will fall apart....
The back of her neck grew hot and sore, as if a starched apron had chafed it. Now the Calliope would be taken away, just like the store; just like school. . . . Of course the Calliope had an owner. Paddle steamers are not thrown away like apple cores, into the long grass of a riverbank. Apparentl...
Am I to collect animals to decorate a room? To entertain babies? For slaves to walk them on a lead?’ Ibrim pressed himself against me. I put an arm around his shoulders, but we were reeds in front of a howling wind. I had never seen my father so angry. ‘Are there to be no temples for my crocodile...
As dark as the void of Space, MCC’s extraordinary eyes, in flight from Mrs Povey’s, glanced up the stairwell and caught sight of Ailsa curled up behind the banister. ‘Go to bed, Ailsa,’ he said, and Mrs Povey swivelled angrily in her chair. ‘Go to bed, Ailsa.’ ...