Exploring the essence of fear, this book delves into the primal instincts that arise in the face of the unknown. It captures the feeling of an unseen presence that invokes a deep-seated dread, manifesting in the shadows of everyday life. As the narrative unfolds, it examines how fear can creep into our consciousness, challenging characters to confront their innermost anxieties and the darkness that lurks just beyond perception.
When John, Jack, and Charles return to the Archipelago of Dreams, they encounter an apparent splintering of Time itself and set off on a new quest in which success and failure each carry a high cost.
A celebration of the remarkable life and reign of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II From young princess to internationally revered head of state, Queen Elizabeth has always fascinated and intrigued. This fully updated commemorative edition celebrates and remembers the glorious reign of Britain's longest-serving and much cherished monarch.
With the Archipelago of Dreams in the hands of the Echthroi and the link to the Summer Country lost, the Grail child, Rose Dyson, the new Cartographer, Edmund McGee, and the Caretakers Emeritus seek to rebuild the Keep of Time but face a terrible new enemy who was once an ally. Illustrations.
Our most travelled monarch covered well over 1,000,000 miles and visited 117 countries during her reign. From New Zealand to Barbados, we look back at Queen Elizabeth's most memorable Commonwealth visits.
The concluding chapters of the Starchild series are finally here, alongside the serial Obscuro and a prequel to the bestselling novels Here, There Be Dragons and The Search for the Red Dragon. This new tale, The Thin Man and the Queen of Stars, expands the Imaginarium Geographica universe. Additionally, readers can enjoy collaborative pieces from various writers and artists in the feature Tales from the TwoPenny Inn, enriching the collection with diverse storytelling and artistic contributions.
John and Jack are mystified when they discover a cryptic warning on a medieval manuscript—a warning that is not only addressed to them, but seems to have been written by their friend, Hugo Dyson. But before they can discover the origins of the book, Hugo walks through a door in time—and vanishes into the past.In that moment, the world begins to change. Now, the Archipelago of Dreams and our world both suffer under the reign of the cruel and terrible Winter King. Dark beasts roam the countryside, and terror rules the land.John and Jack must travel back in time—from the Bronze Age to the library in ancient Alexandria to the founding of the Silver Throne—to find the only thing that can save their friend and restore both words. The solution lies in the answer to a 2,000-year-old mystery: Who is the Cartographer?
The Winter King's Shadow, having gained control of the doors from the Keep of Time and of an army of Dragon Shadows, plans to use the turmoil of World War II to conquer worlds, but all Caretakers, past and present, come together to stop him, using some unlikely weapons
"'The Crusade has begun'..."There's an old myth in the Archipelago," he went on softly, shaking his head. "A legend, really...I recall it mentioned a Crusade, but those events happened seven centuries ago. We always thought it was only a story."It has been nine years since John, Jack, and Charles had their great adventure in the Archipelago of Dreams and became the Caretakers of the Imaginarium Geographica. Now they have been brought together again to solve a Someone is kidnapping the children of the Archipelago. And their only clue is a mysterious message delivered by a strange girl with artificial "The Crusade has begun." Worse, they discover that all of the legendary Dragonships have disappeared as well.The only chance they have to save the world from a centuries-old plot is to seek out the last of the Dragonships -- the Red Dragon -- in a spectacular journey that takes them from Sir James Barrie's Kensington Gardens to the Underneath of the Greek Titans of myth. With friends both familiar and new, they will travel through an extraordinary landscape where history, myth, and fable blend together to tell the oldest story in the world. And along the way, the Caretakers of the Geographica will discover that great deeds alone do not make heroes, and that growing up may be unavoidable...but growing old doesn't have to be.
An atlas of imaginary places leads to a fantastic adventure.
