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Little Fur is a creature from another age, half elf and half troll. She lives in a secret wilderness, hidden within an ancient city, healing and caring for the little creatures who come there, and tending her beloved magical trees, the Old Ones.

An engrossing collection of stories from one of Australia's most loved fantasy writers and creator of the acclaimed Obernewtyn Chronicles. A girl is sent across the world to discover her destiny in the dark tunnels of the Metro. Another seeks a lost sister in a park where winter lasts forever. A young man fulfils a dying wish. A mother works magic to summon a true princess for her son. A man seeks an ending to his story. An old man goes in search of his shadow. This is a world of desire and transformation, the real and the not real, from the queen of modern fantasy.

Merlin wakes to a world that is utterly changed. She has no memory aside from a name whispered to her by one of the strange voices in her mind and the knowledge that she is being hunted. She is determined to learn what happened to her and to her world, but the way forward is full of pitfalls, and she is swept up by the renegade Scatterlings and drawn into their rebellion against the all-powerful Citizen Gods.

Perchance to Dream is an origin story to Isobelle Carmody's new book, Comes The Night, and tells the story of Anna whose estate set up and operates the Sleep Research Institute, and introduces the compelling Nicholas. The story was first published in the multi-award-winning collection Dreaming Again, edited by Jack Dann and published in 2008 by Harper Collins. Having written the story, Isobelle could never put the work she had created to bed. The dreamscape beckoned and led her to write Comes the Night.

One wakeful night in the aftermath of his mother’s death, Jack enters a land devoid of color or scent. Here he meets the tragic laughing beast and Alice, a strange girl with a secret. Will Jack escape before the terrifying wolvers find him? Or is he destined to be trapped in the Greylands forever? Only the cats know.