Bøger af Christopher Mitchell

The nightmare has begun... but where is the Black Dragon?After a thousand years, the Eternal Enemy has breached the Great Walls, devastating great swathes of the City. Thousands lie dead, while the survivors huddle behind the old and decaying walls of the inner defences.With the greenhides on one side, and the corrupt and cruel regime of the ruling Gods on the other, the people of the City await their end.All that stands in the way is a disgraced Champion, a tortured God and two Mortals from a forgotten legend...

The War of Vengeance has begun; the Rahain have invaded the Empire, and the fate of the world hangs in the balance.Keir Holdfast, elder son of Daphne and Killop, is always in trouble. Already an accomplished vision mage at 16, his life is turned upside down with the news that he also shares the same powers as his aunt, the infamous fire mage who brought down the old empire.Can he learn how to harness his powers in service of the new empire, or will his arrogance lead to his downfall?Hundreds of miles from the fighting, within the depths of the Sanang forest, a visitor arrives with a message for a family of hedgewitches; a message that will transform their lives, and change the destiny of the Magelands forever.

The Empire has lived in peace for 16 years, but trouble is brewing behind the Grey Mountains, where the renegade nation of Rahain prepares; arming itself for a long-awaited war of vengeance.Karalyn, the 18 year old daughter of two war heroes, is trying to find a place for herself in the world. Her own powers were deemed so dangerous she spent much of her childhood in exile.Now, the lure of the Imperial Capital and the prospect of service to the Empress is pulling her out of isolation and into the affairs of the world.Hundreds of miles to the south, within the repressive land of Rahain, Lennox trains for the war to come. He and his comrades-in-arms, the children of slaves stolen from another land, have been trained as soldiers their entire lives for one purpose......to bring the Empire to its knees.

The four highland clans have fought each other for as long as history remembers.Killop & Keira, the twins of fire have grown up amid constant tribal warfare, each destined to become the champions of their clan.As Keira’s powers have grown, so too have her people’s expectations of her.When their homeland is invaded in an overwhelming attack aimed at the destruction of their culture and the enslavement of their families, together can they unite the clans to defend their land?Or will the old rivalries tear them apart?

Daphne Holdfast is a young captain assigned to defend an isolated fort far behind enemy lines.Promoted due to her family’s connections and mistrusted by the garrison’s officers, Daphne must find the strength to unite her troops and repel the advancing enemy hordes.She has one advantage – she is an elite vision mage, endowed with supreme fighting skills.Can Daphne learn to master her growing powers before the enemy attack?Or will her first command be her last…?

It's time for someone to pay. Keira lies shackled and alone, surrounded by soldiers while the smoke rises from the poisoned ruins of the city she was forced to destroy.Condemned as a war criminal by the King of the Holdings and reviled by the rest of the world, she is a prize weapon - a tool in the hands of her Rahain captors.But no more.Keira knows she must escape……or die trying.Killop has escaped the dungeons of the Rahain and fled into the mountains.All he desires is to begin his search for Daphne, but his people are crying out for a leader to free them from their chains of servitude.Can he ignore their pleas and leave Rahain to look for the woman he loves?Or will he stay, and lead his people in their fight for freedom before they are destroyed?He cannot do both……and time is running out.

A God - lost in his own creation.Endowed with the power of the five mage-lines, the God-Emperor cuts his way through the Star Continent, destroying everything in his path in order to gather the last of the surviving mages.At the other end of the world a great fire mage sits in a tavern drinking whisky. Having fought the Emperor once before and lost, Keira is home at last. Forsaking her powers, she wants nothing more to do with the troubles of the world.But when her friends decide to fight back against the Emperor, Keira must make a choice.Should she take on a god to save the world?Or drown her memories in whisky?

Armed conflict may appear to be in long term decline, but the intractability and destructiveness of contemporary conflicts make conflict resolution as urgent and necessary as ever.

Gestures of Conciliation examines the ideas, assumptions and theories that underpin how leaders of parties in intractable conflicts begin and sustain a process of peacemaking by offering to their adversaries 'olive-branches' - in more modern terms symbolic gestures, concessions, tension-reducing moves or confidence-building measures.