Put on your lion skin cape

and family

But when their long-absent father returns to sell Wynn to the Lord’s castle as a maid

Witi Ihimaera has skilfully constructed a literary map of the City of Sails: whether you are a tourist or a resident

but asking other black and white creatures only confuses him further

The Cold Commands (gollancz) Culinary Arts & Techniques Put on your lion skinRingil Eskiath, scarred wielder of the kiriath forged broadsword Ravensfriend, is a man on the run from his past and the family who have disowned him, from the slave trade magnates of Trelayne who want him dead, and apparently from the dark gods themselves, who are taking an interest but making no more sense than they ever have. Outlawed and exiled from his ancestral home in the north, Ringil has only one place left to turn Yhelteth, city heart of the