THE SWORD OF SHANNARA is the first volume of the classic series that has become one of the most popular epic fantasy tales of all time.

The first volume in the A Song of Ice and Fire trilogy which tells of the treachery, greed and war threatening the Seven Kingdoms south of the Wall. In a world scarred by battle and catastrophe, it describes the deeds of a people locked in conflict and the legacy they will leave their children.

Garion and his companions have the Orb of Aldur, carried by an innocent young boy, and must return it to its rightful home on the pommel of the sword in the Great Hall on the island of Riva. As they journey across the lands, Murgo soldiers and Grolim sorcerers try to stop them.

Three years have passed since Garion's killing of the evil God Torak and his marriage to Ce'Nedra. He is now Overlord of the West, slowly learning how to cope with the duties of a king. When the Orb warns him to beware Zandramas the Voice of Prophecy reveals that the Dark Prophecy still exists.

Legends tell how Belgarath the sorcerer and his daughter Polgara defeated the evil God Torak, imprisoning him in an endless sleep. But now a priest of Torak is racing to his God with the Orb of Aldur and is racing to reawaken him. Belgarath and Polgara are on his trail. With them is Garion, a simple farm boy.

The first book in the epic Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series, reissued with a stunning new cover.