Pretenders to the Throne of GodArthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller returns to a world steeped in magic and the Tyrant Philosophers' campaign to bring reason, logic and 'perfection' to it. As the Palleseen's campaign to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world rages on, Eres Ffenegh "the City on the Back of a Crab" is the next state slated for conquest. But its citizens won't give up sovereignty easily. The siege has dragged into winter and the

an infamous warrior with a bloody past

spurred on by his love of Greek heroes and romantic poetry

I could not put it down' Anya Bergman

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with a background more sheltered than most

is a "registrar of madness

Meet Oswald Hendryks Cornelius

things will not get better

We follow Lenny through a period of great creativity - prize-winning tv programmes

En route to the garrison town of Isca

it'll be me setting the trap

intriguing act of imagination