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The street-nick Tom must find the source of the great river Thair and perhaps learn the secret of his own strange powers… The assassin Dewar must redeem himself… The Prime Master desperately seeks the cure for bone flu – a mysterious and deadly malady that is striking down the talented in Thaiburley’s highest Rows… Kat, the renegade nick, forms an uneasy alliance with her sister Charveve, and the two lead the Tattooed Men through the dark streets of the City Below in search of the Soul Thief: the evil monster that murdered their mother and consigned both girls to the gladitorial hellhole known as the Pits… Welcome back to Thaiburley, the City of 100 Rows, the City of Dreams… where the nightmare has only just begun…

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"Whates's assured prose, slick pacing and inventive imagination make for a gripping read. City of Dreams & Nightmare is the work of a born storyteller.A"" - The Guardian"

Whates's assured prose, slick pacing and inventive imagination make for a gripping read. City of Dreams & Nightmare is the work of a born storyteller.A - The Guardian

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Ian Whates lives in a comfortable home down a quiet cul-de-sac in an idyllic Cambridgeshire village, which he shares with his partner Helen and their pets. His first published stories appeared in the late 1980s, but it was not until the early 2000s that he began to pursue writing with any seriousness, joining the Northampton SF Writers Group in 2004. In 2006 Ian launched the acclaimed independent publisher NewCon Press. Ian is currently a director of the British Science Fiction Association and has chaired the organisation since Spring 2008.

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