title: A Little Knowledge: The Split Worlds - Book Four
author:  Emma Newman 
description: "Emma Newman has built a modern fantasy world with such lan and authority her ideas of why and how the seemingly irrational world of Fairy works should be stolen by every other writer in the field. Her characters are complex and troubled, courageous at times, and foolhardy. This book of wonders is first rate."Bill Willingham, Eisner Award-winning creator of <i>Fables</i>
zlib_text: EMMA NEWMAN
  ANY OTHER NAME
  BOOK 2 OF
  THE SPLIT WORLDS
  
   
  For the Alchemist 
  
   
  1
   
  Sam knew it was a terrible idea, but once he realised he had to go back to Exilium his course was set. It
  was like the time he and Dave decided to see who could drink the most tequila without throwing up or
  passing out. As they matched each other shot for shot he knew it was stupid – perhaps even dangerous –
  but once they’d had the idea it was impossible to ignore. It was like a cannon already fired; something was
  bound to be broken, it was just a matter of what.
  As he walked out of King’s Cross station and looked down the Euston Road, Sam doubted his plan. It
  wasn’t much of one anyway: go to the last place the blonde girl had been seen and look for something…
  weird. The television appeal from her family was still raw in his thoughts. If he hadn’t been watching the
  news over breakfast he’d be at work now, perhaps even successfully putting the events of the last few
  weeks behind him and doing what the Sor