Deep in the Amazon forest, a family have lost their seven-year-old child, stolen by the mysterious "Invisible People", the tribe which has never been seen. Through ten years their search for him takes them into the cruel beauty of the Brazilian jungle, with its mythical and magical powers.

A Time of Justice. The city of Cengarn is under siege. Armies both astral and physical are massing for and against the goddess Alshandra who seeks to prevent the birth of one fate-bound child. It falls to the dweomermaster Jill and her allies to protect the child's human mother, Princess Carra--and Deverry's already foretold future--by magic and by might. But as the warrior Rhodry wings toward the battle on dragonback he cannot know that soon he will face his ancient enemy, Alshandra...

The first of a two-volume story continuing that of the world created in "Tigana". The empire of Sarantium is beset to east and west but Valerius II wishes to take back the western lands which gave birth to the empire he now rules. The master mosaicist, Caius Crispus, is called upon to play a role.

This is the strange, compelling story of Roger Bacon. Ambitious, impatient, mutinous, Bacon was a man of his times with a vision reaching far beyond even our own day. Subject to the harsh, narrow confines of Church-dominated "science", Bacon dared to venture into the deep waters of theory, risking deadly accusations of heresy and black magic. Against a vividly realised backdrop of thirteenth-century England, Paris and Rome, James Blish wrote an engrossing account of this lonely...