Items20The creator’s order
  1. 1Dragonhaven (2007)Dragonhaven (2007) 4.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2007Raising an orphaned dragon turns conservation from an abstract cause into feeding schedules, secrecy and exhausting shared work. The staff at Smokehill must decide how to protect a creature whose needs do not fit existing law or public assumptions. Jake’s talkative account gives this modern-world…0
  2. 2Chalice (2008)Chalice (2008) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2008A beekeeper unexpectedly becomes responsible for helping bind a damaged estate together through ritual and attention to its land. Mirasol must work with an established Circle whose formal roles do not guarantee trust. The interest is in the practical and emotional maintenance behind a functioning…0
  3. 3The City We Became (2020)The City We Became (2020) 6.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2020New York’s boroughs acquire human embodiments whose different loyalties cannot simply be folded into one convenient identity. Their need to act together turns arguments about race, neighbourhood and belonging into the mechanics of the fantasy. The city is made through relationships and cultural…0
  4. 4The Bone Ships (2019)The Bone Ships (2019) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2019A ship crew treated as disposable must learn discipline, shared skills and a different understanding of loyalty under a new captain. The work of sailing makes cooperation visible before it can become a grand ideal. Scarce dragon bones and a culture organised around war give the mission its wider…0
  5. 5Last First Snow: A Novel of the Craft Sequence (2015)Last First Snow: A Novel of the Craft Sequence (2015) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2015Redevelopment negotiations put homes, livelihoods and sacred commitments into conflict in a magically powered city. A lawyer, a priest and powerful property interests cannot treat agreement as a matter of getting the right person into office. The question is who has standing when a neighbourhood’s…0
  6. 6Thessaly: The Complete Trilogy (The Just City, The Philosopher Kings, Necessity) (2017)Thessaly: The Complete Trilogy (The Just City, The Philosopher Kings, Necessity) (2017) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2017This volume collects The Just City, The Philosopher Kings and Necessity. Athena’s attempt to realise Plato’s ideal society makes education, assigned work, consent and the status of labouring robots into arguments with consequences. The experiment is examined rather than offered as a ready-made…0
  7. 7Ogress and the Orphans (2022)Ogress and the Orphans (2022) 6.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2022A declining town turns against a generous outsider while its orphans struggle to make kindness visible. Food, books and the work of keeping people alive carry the argument about what neighbours owe one another. This children’s fantasy uses a storyteller’s voice to show how suspicion can undo…0
  8. 8Unraveller (2022)Unraveller (2022) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2022In a society where hatred can become a literal curse, undoing harm requires more than identifying an obvious villain. Kellen and Nettle encounter people and arrangements that must deal with what remains after a curse is lifted. Their work makes care, accountability and the limits of one gifted…0
  9. 9Mammoths at the Gate (2023)Mammoths at the Gate (2023) 7.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2023Mammoths at the Gates brings Chih home to an abbey in mourning, where relatives and the monastic community disagree over a dead person’s remains. Who may preserve a life, and whose account takes precedence, become practical questions at the gate. A short Singing Hills novella whose force grows with…0
  10. 10A Deadly Education (2020)A Deadly Education (2020) 8.1/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2020At a school where survival depends on stored magic, useful skills and alliances, generosity has an immediate cost. El’s choices test whether she can escape the logic that sorts privileged students from disposable ones. The first Scholomance book begins a longer examination of collective safety,…0