Elfgift
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The January cover of BfK features an illustration from No More Television!, the latest title from Philippe Dupasquier who is the subject of this month's Authorgraph. The book is published by Andersen Press and we're grateful to them for their help in using this on our front cover.
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A feud-riven Ancient Britain, and a life of rags, shacks, gruel, smoke, cold, killing and rape, set the scene for this tale of dynastic strife. A dying king bequeaths his crown to Elfgift, a bastard spawned from his coupling with an elven mother. The three athelings immediately initiate a treacherous and serpentine espionage, each against the other and all against Elfgift. When the Valkyrie-like Jarnesaxa comes to the aid of Elfgift, and the youngest of the athelings embarks on a vengeance-seeking trance journey into the ghost world, the forces of the supernatural enter the fray. This is a bleak, bloody and enthralling book in which harrowing violence and gloomy fatalism vie with glimpses of eerie beauty. Being a 'Point Fantasy' title, the indeterminate ending suggests that we'll be visiting the participants in this powerfully told tale again.
