title: The Early Tales of Snow and Oakham
author:  Philip Chavanne 
description: "A sprawling novel encompassing mystery, magic and myth, religion, rejuvenation and rebirth, growing up, growing oldand dying ... with sudden and unexpected explosions of action. It owes much to pulp Westerns, surrealism, utopian fantasiesand the bizarrely tortured character-driven tales of John Irving...(Chavanne) clearly wants his work to be approached as serious literature, and there's no reason it shouldn't be... A highly compelling novel.... An exhaustively ambitious work." <br> <span> </span>-Alaska Dispatch News
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  **Magyk**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Book 1 of Septimus Heap
  
  
  ### **by Angie Sage**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  **1**
  
  
  **Something in the Snow**
  
  
  Silas Heap pulled his cloak tightly around him against the snow. It had been a
  long walk through the Forest, and he was chilled to the bone. But in his
  pockets he had the herbs that Galen, the Physik Woman, had given him for his
  new baby boy, Septimus, who had been born earlier that day.
  
  
  Silas drew closer to the Castle, and he could see the lights flickering
  through the trees as candles were placed in the windows of the tall narrow
  houses clustered along the outside w