Table of Contents

The Departure, Cartethia, The Trumpeters, The Woodcutters, The Awakening, The Book, The Valley is Born, The Palace, The Vote, The Written Word, Molmyg and Selme, Arolan’s Plan, The Blue Rose, The Harbour, Three Blessings, Council Meeting, Thaia’s Fury, The Adviser, Mim’s Revenge, The Adviser Advises,The Great Dune, Elin’s Offer, The Palace Cannon, Arolan Insists, Peace Mission, The Cliff Cave, The Court Sentence, The Barrier, The Plain Of Nagur, Weeping Wound Chasm, The Mongrel-Child, The Forest, In Search of Allies, Slad, Featherbrow, The Final Pages, Prison, The Battle, The Boundary Oak, Poryg, Aome’s Plan, The Guardian of the Book, Father and Son, Tekin, Sand People, The Black Owl, Up and Down, Night in the Forest, Betrayed, Escape, Reunion, The Sacrifice, Into the Deep

About the Author

Irene Black graduated from Manchester University with a psychology degree in the 1960s. She worked as a research psychologist at the Ministry of Defence and at Surrey University, also in Australia at Melbourne University and in New York, where she was part of a research team at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, working on the Apollo Space Project.
After her return to England she began to teach, ultimately becoming Head of Modern Languages at Glebelands School in Cranleigh, Surrey. Holidays were spent annually accompanying her husband on work-related visits to India.
In 1999 a spinal injury forced her to give up teaching, enabling her to concentrate on her research and writing. From then on she spent prolonged periods of time living and working in India and pursuing her interest in Indian temple arts.
In 2006 she graduated from De Montfort University with an MA research-based degree in South Asian Arts. Her 'specialist subject' is a group of 12th and 13th century temples in Southern Karnataka.
Irene has won a number of national and international prizes for short stories, poetry and articles. She has written three novels, two based in India and Noontide Owls, a fantasy novel. She has also written a biography of her parents, who brought 100 Jewish boys out of Nazi Germany, and an introduction to Hindu temple architecture. More information can be found on her website at www.ireneblack.co.uk .