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Al MacBharrais is both blessed and cursed. He is blessed with an extraordinary white moustache, an appreciation for craft cocktails – and a most unique magical talent. He can cast spells with magically enchanted ink and he uses his gifts to protect our world from rogue minions of various pantheons, especially the Fae. But he is also cursed. Anyone who hears his voice will begin to feel an inexplicable hatred for Al, so he can only communicate through the written word or speech apps. And his apprentices keep dying in peculiar freak accidents. As his personal life crumbles around him, he devotes his life to his work, all the while trying to crack the secret of his curse. But when his latest apprentice, Gordie, turns up dead in his Glasgow flat, Al discovers evidence that Gordie was living a secret life of crime. Now Al is forced to play detective – while avoiding actual detectives who are wondering why death seems to always follow Al. Investigating his apprentice’s death will take him through Scotland’s magical underworld, and he’ll need the help of a mischievous hobgoblin if he’s to survive.

There’s only one Al MacBharrais: Though other Scotsmen may have dramatic mustaches and a taste for fancy cocktails, Al also has a unique talent. He’s a master of ink and sigil magic. In his gifted hands, paper and pen can work wondrous spells. But Al isn’t quite alone: He is part of a global network of sigil agents who use their powers to protect the world from mischievous gods and strange monsters. So when a fellow agent disappears under sinister circumstances in Australia, Al leaves behind the cozy pubs and cafes of Glasgow and travels to the Dandenong Ranges in Victoria to solve the mystery. The trail to his colleague begins to pile up with bodies at alarming speed, so Al is grateful his friends have come to help—especially Nadia, his accountant who moonlights as a pit fighter. Together with a whisky-loving hobgoblin known as Buck Foi and the ancient Druid Atticus O’Sullivan, along with his dogs, Oberon and Starbuck, Al and Nadia will face down the wildest wonders Australia—and the supernatural world—can throw at them, and confront a legendary monster not seen in centuries.

Thanks to his relationship with the ancient Druid Atticus O’Sullivan, Oberon the Irish wolfhound knows trouble when he smells it—and furthermore, he knows he can handle it. When he discovers that a prizewinning poodle has been abducted in Eugene, Oregon, he learns that it’s part of a rash of hound abductions all over the Pacific Northwest. Since the police aren’t too worried about dogs they assume have run away, Oberon knows it’s up to him to track down those hounds and reunite them with their humans. For justice! And gravy! Engaging the services of his faithful Druid, Oberon must travel throughout Oregon and Washington to question a man with a huge salami, thwart the plans of diabolical squirrels, and avoid, at all costs, a fight with a great big bear. But if he’s going to solve the case of the Purloined Poodle, Oberon will have to recruit the help of a Boston terrier named Starbuck, survive the vegetables in a hipster pot pie, and firmly refuse to be distracted by fire hydrants and rabbits hiding in the rose bushes. At the end of the day, will it be a sad bowl of dry kibble for the world’s finest hound detective, or will everything be coming up sirloins?

Set in a magical world of terror and wonder, this novel is a deeply felt epic of courage and war, in which the fates of these characters intertwine—and where ordinary people become heroes, and their lives become legend.

SOLDIER AND AVENGER
Daryck is from a city that was devastated by the war with the Bone Giants, and now he and a band of warriors seek revenge against the giants for the loved ones they lost. But will vengeance be enough to salve their grief? DREAMER AND LEADER
Hanima is part of a new generation with extraordinary magical talents: She can speak to fantastical animals. But when this gift becomes a threat to the powers-that-be, Hanima becomes the leader of a movement to use this magic to bring power to the people. SISTER AND SEEKER
Koesha is the captain of an all-female crew on a perilous voyage to explore unknown waters. Though Koesha's crew is seeking a path around the globe, Koesha is also looking for her sister, lost at sea two years ago. But what lies beyond the edges of the map is far more dangerous than storms and sea monsters. . . . In this sequel to A Plague of Giants, these characters and more will become the voices of a new generation bringing hope and revolution to a war-torn world.

There's nothing like an impromptu holiday to explore the birthplace of modern civilisation, but when Atticus and Oberon pursue a book-stealing Egyptian wizard - with a penchant for lamb - to the land of the pharaohs, they find themselves in hot, crocodile-infested water. The trip takes an even nastier turn when they discover the true nature of the nefarious plot they've been drawn into. On the wrong side of the vengeful cat goddess Bast and chased by an unfathomable number of her yowling four-legged disciples, Atticus must find a way to appease or defeat Egypt's deadliest gods - before his grimoire-grabbing quarry uses them to turn him into mincemeat.

Аттикус О'Салливан – последний из друидов. Он ведет мирную жизнь в Аризоне, имеет небольшой магазин оккультных книг и в свободное время меняет обличие, чтобы поохотиться со своим ирландским волкодавом. Соседи и покупатели видят в нем обаятельного татуированного ирландца двадцати одного года, когда ему, на самом деле, уже более двадцати одного века. А еще он черпает свои силы прямо из земли, обладает острым умом и еще более острым волшебным мечом, известным как Фрагарах, Ответчик. К сожалению, один озлобленный кельтский бог хочет во что бы то ни стало заполучить этот меч. Он веками преследовал Аттикуса, и, наконец напал на след. Теперь Аттикусу понадобятся все силы, а также помощь невероятно соблазнительной богини смерти, его друзей, вампиров и оборотней, сексуальной барменши, одержимой ведьмой Хинду и немного старой доброй ирландской удачи. Ох несладко придется тем, кто станет у него на пути.

Аттикус О‘Салливан, последний из друидов, не сильно беспокоится о ведьмах. Тем не менее, он делает реверанс местному ковену, планируя подписать с ним выгодное обеим сторонам соглашение о ненападении, когда внезапно количество ведьм в Темпе, Аризона, увеличивается в четыре раза за одну ночь. И новые девушки не просто плохие, они злобные, и имеют за спиной тёмную историю участия в ВМВ на стороне Германии. С учётом падшего ангела, пирующего над телами местных школьников, толпы вакханок, захвативших с собой из Вегаса присущую им атмосферу смертоносного декаданса, и опасной, но сексуальной кельтской богини огня, добивающейся его расположения, Аттикусу сложно выкроить время для охоты на ведьм. Но при поддержке своего магического меча, соседского гранатомёта и вампира-адвоката, Аттикус готов прошвырнуться по городу и продемонстрировать ведьмам, что они выбрали для сглаза не того друида.

В этом мире скандинавский бог грома Тор – не простодушный хвастливый драчун. Он разрушил бессчетное количество жизней, истребил множество невинных душ. По прошествии столетий викинг-вампир Лейф Хельгарсон наконец-то готов свершить месть и он просит своего друга Аттикуса О’Салливана, последнего из друидов, помочь ему справиться с этим северным злом. Более двух тысячелетий Аттикус придерживался своей излюбленной стратегии выживания: держаться подальше от мечущего молнии божества. Но теперь аризонский городок Темпе, избранный им для тихой жизни, как назло становится ареной противостояния: разгорается война между вампирами, а русские охотники на демонов, зовущие себя Молотами Бога, подливают масла в огонь. И вот, несмотря на множество предвещающих беду знамений, Аттикус и Лейф отправляются к северным равнинам Асгарда, где в содружестве с оборотнем, колдуном и армией инеистых великанов вступят в решающую эпическую битву с валькириями, тёмными богами и с самим Тором — молотоносным убийцей, властителем молний..

This wee story, told from Granuaile’s point of view, takes place concurrently with the events of HAMMERED, book three of The Iron Druid Chronicles. It is available for free on the author's website.

Druid Atticus O’Sullivan hasn’t stayed alive for more than two millennia without a fair bit of Celtic cunning. So when vengeful thunder gods come Norse by Southwest looking for payback, Atticus, with a little help from the Navajo trickster god Coyote, lets them think that they’ve chopped up his body in the Arizona desert.

Atticus O’Sullivan is back in an all-new, action-packed, laugh-out-loud novella from the author of The Iron Druid Chronicles. Two-thousand-year-old Atticus may have outwitted and outfought everyone from Odin to Bacchus, but in this eBook original, he’s about to discover what comes around when you go around messing with gods. Six years into the training of his beautiful apprentice, Granuaile, a large crow swoops down and transforms into none other than the Morrigan, a goddess who insists that Atticus come with her at once. He must leave his apprentice behind, along with his Irish wolfhound, Oberon—and he must also leave his sword. The…

Ancient Druid Atticus O’Sullivan has had plenty of adventures during his long life, and in “The Chapel Perilous” he shares one of them with his apprentice, Granuaile. He lays out the true story of the quest for the Holy Grail, in which he was personally involved—and the events of which are quite different from the Christian tale most people know today. While on an errand for Ogma to recover the Dagda’s Cauldron, Atticus confronts evil at a mysterious chapel, takes the first steps to becoming the Iron Druid, and learns the shocking truth about goblin fashion choices. He was, of course, in terrible peril.