As usual I have a long list of people to thank, starting with my wonderful editors, Jennifer Hershey and Diana Gill. Sean Stewart, Tim Holman at Orbit, Kate Elliott, and Ian Dennis. My wife, Karen, who does everything to give me time to work. A special thanks to Rose Klinkenberg, who kept telling me I needed the character who later became Theason Hollyoak (and even suggested the name). And Jill and Walter at White Dwarf Books, of course.
SEAN RUSSELL is rapidly establishing himself as one of the strongest and most important of the new epic fantasists. His previous works include the River Into Darkness books (The Compass of the Soul, Beneath the Vaulted Hills); the Moontide and Magic Rise books (Sea Without a Shore, World Without End); and the novels Gatherer of Clouds and The Initiate Brother, as well as The One Kingdom and The Isle of Battle, books one and two in his epic fantasy trilogy the Swans’War. Mr. Russell lives in British Columbia with his family.You can visit his website at www.sfsite.com/seanrussell.
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THE ONE KINGDOM
Book One of the Swans’War
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Russell, Sean.
The isle of battle / Sean Russell.
p. cm.—(Swans’war ; bk. 2)
ISBN 0-380-97490-8
FIRST EDITION
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