Contents

Cover

Dedication

Chapter One

Banished

Chapter Two

Selene and the Map of the Gods

Chapter Three

To Batter and Smoke the Cliffs Beneath the Horns

Chapter Four

Selene, Born of the Moon and Whale

Chapter Five

Laying Off and Waiting There

Chapter Six

Selene and the Sacrifice of the Gods

Chapter Seven

Rabbit Island

Chapter Eight

Selene and the Time for Feasts and Stories

Chapter Nine

Ennish and the Gods

Chapter Ten

Singing and Telling Ennish His Story

Chapter Eleven

Trade and Tribute

Chapter Twelve

Why the Gods Were Angry

Chapter Thirteen

Survivors of Hornish

Chapter Fourteen

Twelve Days North and Three Days East

Chapter Fifteen

The Old Man’s Story:
(1) Catching a Kahawai in the Garden

Chapter Sixteen

The Gods Must Have Been Helping

Chapter Seventeen

Flint and Steel and Knife

Chapter Eighteen

The Old Man’s Story:
(2) The Cannon Ball

Chapter Nineteen

Under the Wooden Map

Chapter Twenty

The Old Man’s Story:
(3) The Significance of the Tree

Chapter Twenty-One

Abundance

Chapter Twenty-Two

Petra’s Story: The Secret of the Diggers

Chapter Twenty-Three

The Old Man’s Story:
(4) How Many You Need to Survive

Chapter Twenty-Four

A Dark and Secret Thing

Chapter Twenty-Five

Five of Them and Twenty-Three Sheep

Chapter Twenty-Six

The Old Man’s Story:
(5) Something Dark in Larish

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Something Beyond Ordinary Misery

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Our Mind is a Curious Thing

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Invention and Possession

Chapter Thirty

The Old Man’s Story:
(6) “Of what is past, or passing, or to come.”

Chapter Thirty-One

If I Am

About the Author

Acknowledgements