Richard Cowper — Road To Corlay

Futura Publications 1986 Paperback, 186pp. PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN The Drowning, the great rising of the seas, had left Britain as seven island kingdoms; a thousand years later, their people occupied a medieval world dominated by the Church Militant. To the ancient city of York came Old Peter theTailspinner and the Boy, Tom, whose unearthly piping could bring men joy and sorrow beyond imagining. It wasTom's martyrdom on the walls of York that established a movement that would sweep the world, and a message of hope - the legend of the White Bird of Kinship. THE ROAD TO CORLAY Twenty years on, the Kin are many, and their persecution by the Church ferocious. And from a misty time before the Drowning others watch in helpless fascination as the wing beat of the White Bird is heard across the world to come. (ISBN: 9780708881958). Fair.