Author(s): Jack Lasenby

New Zealand titles - children

2002 NZPost Children's Book Awards finalist, Senior Fiction section.

Ish is introduced to Lutha's Headland; a cruel and primitive society driven by fear and superstition. He quickly distrusts a quality in Lutha and her beautiful lieutenant Kalik.
Ish wishes to escape but realises he cannot go alone - as this would mean leaving behind a group of terrorised children. In this novel Jack Lasenby weaves in threads of ancient myths, religions and folk tales from cultures as diverse as Ancient Persia and old Russia. His inventiveness reminds us how vital the power of story-telling is, and how it creates a sense of history, community and identity for all.

Kalik is the fourth and final volume in the Travellers Quartet - the other titles are Because We Were the Travellers, Taur and The Shaman and the Droll.

All four have been finalists in the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards Senior Fiction category, and Taur was the category winner in 2000.