The Wind Singer: Part 3

By WILLIAM NICHOLSON, Illustrator MARK EDWARDS

"Sagahog! Pompaprune! Saga-saga-HOG!"

Bowman Hath lay in bed listening to the muffled sounds of his mother oathing in the bathroom next door. From far away across the roofs of the city floated the golden boom of the ball in the tower of the Imperial Palace: mmnang! mmnang! It was sounding the sixth hour, the time when all Aramanth awoke.

Bowman opened his eyes and lay gazing at the daylight glowing in the tangerine curtains. He realised that he was feeling sad. What was it this time? He thought to himself. He looked ahead to the coming day in school, and his stomach tightened, the way it always did; but this was a diferent feeling. A kind of sorrowing, as if for something lost. But what?

Publisher: Mammoth, $14.95 Age group: 12-14 years