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A truly enchanting tale about differences and the joy of finding your true family. Alexis Deacon is one of Booktrust's ten best new illustrators, and his previous title, Beegu, was the New

After an evil sorceress casts a spell, a community is sent into a tailspin, fighting for survival. Book one of the graphic novel series, featuring gripping action, supernatural mystery, and magical fantasy worlds where fifty souls battle in a contest to become the ruler of an island. A stunning fantasy epic unlike any other! The chief matriarch is dying. Drawing her last breath, she declares a contest: let fate decide the one worthy to rule. Fifty souls are summoned in the night; fifty souls bound to the same fate. But this is no ordinary trial, and they'll soon discover that the stakes are higher than any of them could have imagined! Representing Alexis Deacon's Geis Vol. I: A Matter of Life and Death and Geis Vol. 2: A Game Without Rules in a brand-new format with a stunning new cover.

Fantastic new story from an iconic picture book creatorThere’s a new king in the land, but he’s a child!The people say he must go to King School, but the king hates wearing heavy robes and remembering difficult rules.So the king says, “NO!”And he takes the people into the forest and shows them a different way to be king….A brilliant new story from the internationally acclaimed author of Beegu and Slow Loris.

The widely-anticipated conclusion to Alexis Deacon's fantasy series has finally arrived, bringing more action, tragedy and magic than ever before in a brand-new format.The dramatic and hotly anticipated conclusion to Alexis Deacon's original Geis trilogy, featuring new branding and a format designed to sit alongside Curse of the Chosen Volume 1. As the great chief matriarch lay dying, she gave one final decree: Upon her death there would be a contest. Having no heir of her own blood she called on the Gods. Let fate decide the one truly worthy to rule in her place. The rich, the strong, the wise, the powerful; many put forward their names in hope of being chosen. But when the night came... only fifty souls alone were chosen. As Io's quest reaches its deadly and dramatic conclusion, things are not all as they seem in the sorceress' game for the right to rule. Still trapped inside the torturous nightmares within the castle, who will remain in the battle for the throne, and which of the ch

The second volume of Geis picks up right where the first graphic novel concluded: with the contenders divided against their will and thrown deeper into the mysterious game. Can the alliances of power