The Last of the Sky PiratesFifty years after the floating city of Sanctaphrax was swept away, the Edgeworld has changed. For the worse. Cruel shrykes control the great Mire Road whilst slave labour is endemic. When a young apprentice knight academic, Rook, sets out on a perilous journey through the Deepwoods, he meets a mysterious stranger living with the banderbears and is propelled right into the middle of a dangerous adventure in which a small group of fighters must

they seek refuge on the nearby island of Mona

But before long Killigrew and the Bullivants are prisoners of the feared Tsarist secret police

so it was back to old-fashioned legwork

And maybe once in a career

When Tom starts at Styles Grange Boarding School he knows he will feel a little lonely

one of the few men in the National Guard whom the General trusted completely

He bought the dead man's suit

but his exploits have drawn the eye of another god

nectarines and secrets

a fire in a glass foundry that has claimed two lives

Occasionally you're doing it for justice

There is a stamp of a cat on the front end paper presumably made by a previous owner and bearing no relation to the book