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Ian Irvine

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Ian Irvine is a marine scientist who has developed some of Australia's national guidelines for the protection of the marine environment and still works in this field. He is married with four grownup children and lives in northern NSW.
Ian has written twenty-seven novels, including fantasy, eco-thrillers and books for children. His Three Worlds fantasy series, comprising The View from the Mirror, The Well of Echoes and Song of the Tears, has sold over a million copies and the books are published in many languages. He has also written an eco-thriller trilogy about catastrophic climate change, Human Rites (recently updated in a new edition), plus twelve novels for children in the Runcible Jones and Sorcerer's Tower quartets and the wacky, humorous adventure fantasy of his new series, Grim and Grimmer.
Ian's latest story, a novella, is Tribute to Hell, in Legends of Australian Fantasy. His next fantasy novel is Vengeance, Book 1 of The Tainted Realm, and his next book for children is Grim and Grimmer 3, The Desperate Dwarf.

Available Books by Ian Irvine

Vengeance by Ian Irvine

Vengeance
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780733629426
RRP: $19.99

In Cython's underground slave camps, only the timid and obedient survive but Tali is neither of these. In Cython, having magic means the death penalty, and Tali s gift is swelling out of her control. Though no slave has ever escaped, Tali must, for she has sworn to bring her mother s killers to justice. She meets Rix, a nobleman, and together they flee through a land at war, pursued by enemie...

Grim and Grimmer 04: The Calamitous Queen by Ian Irvine

Grim and Grimmer 04: The Calamitous Queen
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781862918610
RRP: $16.99

The time has come. It's now or never for Ike. Will he discover the secret of his missing parents? Will he be able to help Pook free the Collected children? Have Mellie's parents been horribly burned alive by Emajicka's minions? And will Spleen and Nuckle fi nally get to eat Ike's innards? All the answers are coming in The Calamitous Queen. Brace yourselves for a wild ride!...

Grim and Grimmer #3: Desperate Dwarf by Ian Irvine

Grim and Grimmer #3: Desperate Dwarf
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781862918603
RRP: $16.99

It's not easy to be a hero when your bum is the size of an airship and you're bobbing around the ceiling, mocked by a host of angry dwarves. Mellie has stolen the unluckiest charm in Wychwold and can't get rid of it. Pook, who has an insane plan to rescue the Collected children, is demanding Ike's help. The demons Nuckl, Spleen and Tonsil are after Ike's innards. And the Fey Qu...

Grim and Grimmer #2: The Grasping Goblin by Ian Irvine

Grim and Grimmer #2: The Grasping Goblin
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781862918597
RRP: $16.99

Second in a four-book fantasy adventure by the author of the popular Sorcerer's Tower series. The hilarious sequel to Book 1, The Headless Highwayman. The Nightmare Queen has hidden the Book of Grimmery. Without it, Grimmery will fall and its people will become slaves. To find the book, Ike and Mellie need a goblin spell from the forbidden land of Gobbeloon. But Ike makes a disastrous blunder...

Grim and Grimmer 01: The Headless Highwayman by Ian Irvine

Grim and Grimmer 01: The Headless Highwayman
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781862918580
RRP: $16.99

The Fey Queen, Emajicka, is stealing the children of Grimmery for her Collection. She bathes in their nightmares to relieve her own. There is one nightmare she wants most of all. If Ike had stayed home that Tuesday, he would not have betrayed a princess or robbed a murderous queen. He would not have been tied to an insane imp desperate to eat his liver. He certainly would not have floated across a...

Runcible Jones 01: The Gate To Nowhere by Ian Irvine

Runcible Jones 01: The Gate To Nowhere
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143301585
RRP: $16.95

Welcome to the fantastical world of Iltior! Meet: Runcible Jones and Mariam Orpiment: Two almost normal children stuck at Grindgrim Academy, the worst school in the country. Parsifoe and Ulalliall: A shambling magician and her arrogant, age-old transportal. Thandimanilon and Lars Sparj: The charmingly wicked Dark Lady and her villainous consort. Sly, slippery Sleeth and sad-eyed Tigris: Two...

Runcible Jones 04: The Backward Hourglass by Ian Irvine

Runcible Jones 04: The Backward Hourglass
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143302964
RRP: $19.95

After every defeat Lord Shambles returns stronger than before, and more determined to punish humanity. Having crushed resistance on Iltior, he now moves the war to Earth. An Earth which is on the verge of collapse. Unfortunately, Earth's leaders refuse to believe that magic exists. Only Runcible Jones and his friends know that Shambles has caused all this havoc. Only Runcible can stop him. Wh...

Song of the Tears 02: Curse on the Chosen by Ian Irvine

Song of the Tears 02: Curse on the Chosen
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143002505
RRP: $23.95

THE ALLIES ARE TRAPPED on Mistmurk Mountain and the God-Emperor guards every way of escape. There's only one chance for freedom: for demure little Maelys to confess to a crime she has not committed, though if she does it will turn all her friends against her. And even if they can flee through the perilous shadow realm, the God-Emperor's armies will hunt them to the ends of the world. Ni...

Song of the Tears 03: The Destiny of the Dead by Ian Irvine

Song of the Tears 03: The Destiny of the Dead
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143002512
RRP: $23.95

NISH, HIS BATTERED LITTLE TROOP and his few remaining allies are trapped on the Range of Ruin by the God-Emperor's mighty army. Nish's only choices are a humiliating surrender to his father or a suicidal fight to the death. Nish has to fight, and somehow he has to win, for the beautiful world of Santhenar is in peril and no one else can save it. Stilkeen, an all-powerful shape-shifting be...

The Sourcerer's Tower 3: Black Crypt by Ian Irvine

The Sourcerer's Tower 3: Black Crypt
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781862916609
RRP: $9.99

Tamly is determined to get his magic back and begins to study day and night, but without success. After a period of peace, the evil brothers have returned, and this time Tamly and his friends must face the undead in the reeking Black Crypt in an attempt to save their village once again....

The Sourcerer's Tower 4: Wizardry Crag by Ian Irvine

The Sourcerer's Tower 4: Wizardry Crag
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781862916616
RRP: $9.99

Tamly is kidnapped and the brothers try to force him to help them raise their Master. Tempting him with promises of magical abilities, they eventually blackmail him into doing what they want. Then Tamly must summon all of his courage to face his ultimate enemy-with no magic at all....

The Sorcerer's Tower 1: Thorn Castle by Ian Irvine

The Sorcerer's Tower 1: Thorn Castle
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781862916586
RRP: $9.99

Tamly lives with his uncle the broom maker and dreams about adventure, though he spends his whole life sweeping. But when the village's magic starts to go wrong, Tamly, the only person who can't do magic, might be the only one who can save them all....

The Sorcerer's Tower 2: Giant's Lair by Ian Irvine

The Sorcerer's Tower 2: Giant's Lair
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781862916593
RRP: $9.99

When the village's Book of Spells is stolen, the evil that Tamly had stopped returns-and it's even stronger. It is up to him and his friends to undertake a difficult journey, solve the riddle and retrieve their precious spell book from the evil Master....

The View From The Mirror 1: A Shadow On The Glass by Ian Irvine

The View From The Mirror 1: A Shadow On The Glass
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140271966
RRP: $24.95

Once there were Three Worlds, each with its own human species. Then fleeing out of the void came a fourth species, the Charan. They were desperate, on the edge of extinction. They changed the balance between the worlds forever......

The View From The Mirror 3: Dark Is The Moon by Ian Irvine

The View From The Mirror 3: Dark Is The Moon
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140276817
RRP: $24.95

Volume 3 of the acclaimed 'The View from the Mirror' quartet continues the action begun in 'A Shadow On The Glass' and 'The Tower On The Rift'. Rulke the Great Betrayer is free at last to use the deadly construct he has spent a thousand years perfecting. To succeed he needs just one thing - Karan's unique sensitive talent. Karan and her lover Llian are lost in the Nig...

The View From The Mirror 4: The Way Between The Worlds by Ian Irvine

The View From The Mirror 4: The Way Between The Worlds
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140276824
RRP: $24.95

There is a dark full moon one mid-winter's day. The fortelling has come to pass. Rulke the Charan is unstoppable now. Karan is held captive in desolate Carcharan tower. Rulke plans to use her to find the Way between the Worlds. On the mountainside below, the allies await their fate. Karan's lover, Llian, is in chains, falsely accused of betraying her to the enemy. As the dark moon rises,...

The Well Of Echoes 1: Geomancer by Ian Irvine

The Well Of Echoes 1: Geomancer
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140292329
RRP: $23.95

Tiaan, a lonely crystal worker, is using a new crystal when she begins to have extraordinary visions. The crystal has woken her talent for geomancy, the most powerful of the Secret Arts, and the most perilous. Geomancy is a magic that humanity's allies and enemies alike are desperate to control, but it is deadly to the user. Falsely accused of sabotage by her rivals, Irisis, Tiaan flees for h...

The Well Of Echoes 2: Tetrarch by Ian Irvine

The Well Of Echoes 2: Tetrarch
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140292336
RRP: $23.95

Santhenar is on its knees. The war with the alien lyrinx drags on, and humanity is losing it, but there is worse to come. The Aachim have invaded with an irresistible force: a fleet of battle constructs. Cursing humanity for the loss of Aachan and his own clan, the embittered Aachim leader, Vithis, demands half the world in reparation. The council is in no position to resist. But even if they agr...

The Well Of Echoes 4: Chimaera by Ian Irvine

The Well Of Echoes 4: Chimaera
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143002956
RRP: $24.95

All resistance has been crushed. In a few minutes of overwhelming violence the Council's air-dreadnought fleet has destroyed Fiz Gorgo's defences. Xervish Flydd, Irisis and their allies have been condemned to die in a brutal aerial spectacle designed to reinforce Chief Scrutator Ghorr's power and majesty. Nish is their one remaining hope. But Nish is trapped in a burning watchtower, an...



Vengeance by Ian Irvine

Vengeance
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780316072847
RRP: $19.95

Both haunted by a murder they witnessed as children, Tali and Rix meet by chance and join forces against a legendary villain in this new fantasy novel from the author of The View from the Mirror. Original. 50,000 first printing....



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Human Rites 01: The Last Albatross by Ian Irvine

Human Rites 01: The Last Albatross
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780731813827

In the 1950s, the British carried out atomic bomb testing at Maralinga. Afterwards they blew up 23 kilograms of plutonium with explosives, then left the fragments lying in the South Australian desert. Thirty years later, two students, Ryn and Hercus, decided to steal a huge piece of plutonium - one of the deadliest substances on the planet - and bury it in a backyard. It is years after the prank....

Human Rites 02: Terminator Gene by Ian Irvine

Human Rites 02: Terminator Gene
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780731813841

The world is still disintegrating in the face of environmental disaster but now it is also under threat from a deadly gene that could wipe out humanity....

Human Rites 03: The Life Lottery by Ian Irvine

Human Rites 03: The Life Lottery
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780731813834

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Runcible Jones 02: And The Buried City by Ian Irvine

Runcible Jones 02: And The Buried City
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143302940

The world is in crisis, for power is disappearing from Earth's power stations as soon as it is made and the best scientists in the world don't know why. Does it mean that the war is beginning - a war that the government doesn't know about and wouldn't believe if it was told? A war where the enemy, Lord Shambles, attacks Earth with sorcery against which it has no defence? Only two ...

Runcible Jones 03: And The Frozen Compass by Ian Irvine

Runcible Jones 03: And The Frozen Compass
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143302957

Join Runcible Jones as he prepares for the ultimate battle! On a freezing night, Lord Shambles shatters the tower where the children are learning magic. Runcible, Miriam and their friends all run for their lives. All of Iltior now lies in the dreaded sorcerer's hands and, as soon as he steals the childrens' magic unique magic, he will attack Earth. As they are hunted across Iltior, Runci...

Song Of The Tears 01: Torments Of The Traitor by Ian Irvine

Song Of The Tears 01: Torments Of The Traitor
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143002499

After ten years of servitude, Nish is about to be released from the blackest prison of his corrupt father, the maimed God-Emperor, Jal-Nish Hlar. Using the sorcerous Profane Tears, Gatherer and Reaper, Jal-Nish has crushed all opposition and is remaking Santhenar in his depraved image. The Oppressed peoples of the world see Nish as a messianic figure, the Deliverer, who promised long ago to retur...

Terminator Gene by Ian Irvine

Terminator Gene
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780731810499

Sequel to 'The Last Albatross', this is an exciting eco-thriller that builds on 'The Last Albatross' but is even better. Security knocks at the door and Irith Hardey's world is torn apart. Her mother, Jemma, is arrested for an unspecified crime and disappears. Irith, a young gene researcher, is thrown onto the streets. With nothing but the clothes on her back, she fights to s...

The Destiny of the Dead: Song of the Tears by Ian Irvine

The Destiny of the Dead: Song of the Tears
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780670041909

Nih, his battered little troop and his few remaining allies are trapped on the Range of Ruin by the God-Emperor's mighty army. Nish's only choices are a humiliating surrender to his father or a suicidal fight to the death. Yet Nish has to fight, and somehow he has to win, for the beautiful world of Santhenar is in peril and no one else can save it. Stilkeen, an all-powerful shape-shif...

The Last Albatross by Ian Irvine

The Last Albatross
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780731810444

In the 1950s the British carried out atomic bomb testing at Maralinga. Afterwards they blew up 23 kilograms of plutonium with explosives, then left the fragments lying around in the desert. Thirty years later, two students, Ryn and Hercus, decide to steal a huge piece of plutonium - one of the deadliest substances on the planet - and bury it in the backyard. It is 2010, twenty years after the p...

The Last Albatross by Ian Irvine

The Last Albatross
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780731810451

In the 1950s the British carried out atomic bomb testing at Maralinga. Afterwards they blew up 23 kilograms of plutonium with explosives, then left the fragments lying around in the desert. Thirty years later, two students, Ryn and Hercus, decide to steal a huge piece of plutonium - one of the deadliest substances on the planet - and bury it in the backyard. It is 2010, twenty years after the p...

The Life Lottery by Ian Irvine

The Life Lottery
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780731810512

Irith Hardey's life is out of control . . . The world's climate is in chaos. Rising seas have flooded out half a billion people. Hundreds of millions of refugees are pouring into the west, the global economy is collapsing and democracies are being crushed by the anti-refugee Yellow Armbands. But there is worse to come. In a desperate attempt to avert the coming ice age that will wipe out...

The Song Of Tears 1: Torments Of The Traitor by Ian Irvine

The Song Of Tears 1: Torments Of The Traitor
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780670041886

After ten years of servitude, Nish is about to be released from the blackest prison of his corrupt father, the maimed God-Emperor, Jal-Nish Hlar. Using the sorcerous Profane Tears, Gatherer and Reaper, Jal-Nish has crushed all opposition and is remaking Santhenar in his depraved image. The Oppressed peoples of the world see Nish as a messianic figure, the Deliverer, who promised long ago to retu...

The Song Of Tears 2: The Curse On The Chosen by Ian Irvine

The Song Of Tears 2: The Curse On The Chosen
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780670041893

The allies are trapped on Mistmurk Mountain and the God-Emperor guards every way of escape. There's only one chance for freedom: for demure little Maelys to confess to a crime she has not committed, though if she does it will turn all her friends against her. And even if they can flee through the perilous shadow realm, the God-Emporer's armies will hunt them to the ends of the world. Nish...

The View From The Mirror 2: The Tower On The Rift by Ian Irvine

The View From The Mirror 2: The Tower On The Rift
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140276800

War rages across Santhenar as its powerful forces pursue the Mirror of Aachan. A desperate Tensor, leader of the Aachim people, flees with it into the wilderness, taking the brilliant young chronicler Llian with him. Only Karan, sensitive and with a trouble heritage, can save Llian, though she's not sure that she can even help herself. Will the mirror betray them all in the end ......

The Well Of Echoes 3: Scrutator by Ian Irvine

The Well Of Echoes 3: Scrutator
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140292343

The node has failed, rendering humanity's battle clankers and the Aachim's constructs useless. The battle has been lost. Now hordes of alien lyrinx are swarming out of the tar pits of Snizort, intending to fall upon the survivors and destroy them to the last man. Tiaan, crippled and unable to walk, is held prisoner by a vengeful Vithis, who is determined to extract her geomantic secrets f...

The Well Of Echoes 3: Scrutator by Ian Irvine

The Well Of Echoes 3: Scrutator
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780670912285

'Scrutator' is the third book in the highly acclaimed 'Well Of Echoes' quartet, which explores the world of the 'View From The Mirror' series some two hundred years later....

The Well Of Echoes 4: Chimaera by Ian Irvine

The Well Of Echoes 4: Chimaera
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780670041190

All resistance has been crushed. In a few minutes of overwhelming violence the Council's air-dreadnought fleet has destroyed Fiz Gorgo's defences. Xervish Flydd, Irisis and their rallies have been condemned to die in a brutal aerial spectacle designed to...

Vengeance by Ian Irvine

Vengeance
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780733624278

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Well Of Echoes 1: Geomancer by Ian Irvine

Well Of Echoes 1: Geomancer
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780670912261

The Tale of the Three Worlds. Tiaan, a lonely crystal worker, picks up a mysterious cry for help from Minis and abandons everything to save him. Captured by the alien lyrinx, she is used in their hideous flesh-forming experiments. She escapes and flees to Tirthrax, greatest peak on the Three Worlds, where a nightmare awaits her . . ....

Well Of Echoes 2: Tetrarch by Ian Irvine

Well Of Echoes 2: Tetrarch
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780670912278

The Tale of the Three Worlds. Tetrarch is the sequel to 'Geomancer', and the second book in the 'Well Of Echoes' trilogy. The Aachim have invaded Santhenar with a fleet of constructs. Blaming humanity for the loss of Aachan, they demand half the world. Humankind, facing defeat by the alien lyrinx, is in no position to resist. Humanity's future rests in the hands of: Tiaan, w...



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