This is a handy and colourful illustrated guide to reading, writing and understanding ancient Egyptian names, epithets, titles and phrases. The Egyptians believed that the creator god Ptah brought the world into being by naming everything in it. Names had great power, and kings often over-wrote their own names on the monuments of earlier rulers. A person's name was a vitally important part of them, and the Egyptians were very concerned that their names should be recorded, remembered and spoken. Criminals and those who had fallen out of favour could be punished - wiped out of history - by having their names destroyed or defaced. The hieroglyphic script provided a beautiful, flexible and expressive means to write the names of humans, gods and animals. Angela McDonald explains the meanings of Egyptian personal names and how they were made up (Rameses = 'Ra has given birth to him') and demonstrates how they were written in different ways to convey various shades of meaning. Royal and divine names are always given special treatment. The Egyptians were not always formal, and nicknames were common. Even the names of pet animals are recorded in tomb paintings.

For the last ten years, Bishop Oirion Hennen has been struggling to pick up the pieces of his life after having been lost for a year with no memory of what happened to him. When he and his partner are called to Brosten and asked to investigate a series of murders, things begin to unravel. His paranoid restlessness is soon proved to be well founded.

Novels of Shannon Series; Not all vampires are evil and not all priests are holy. This is a lesson that Father Oirion is about to learn. Crashed on the cost of a forbidden and magically isolated continent Oirion must put aside his suspicions and work with the mysterious Shannon for the sake of the other survivors, but that does not mean he has to like it. This is an epic fantasy with everything from vampires to Druids; orcs, to fairies; This is a story where necromancers and priests become allies, and angels become men.

Novels of Shannon Series; Shannon and Theo search for Ivan and Oirion, desperate to rescue them from Xen-Sha and rejoin the others. With Gerome closing in and local lords after them, those who continue to travel together must pull on deeper magics than they have yet. They must come to accept one another, as well as accepting the magics they each hold themselves. With the Barrier and escape almost within reach, it seems they are blocked at every turn. Even Shannon questions if escape is possible.

War has risen against Gerome. Ezeer rising in revolt was bad enough, but Tharadon Lords has done so as well. Furious, Gerome sends assassins to take down the Bear of Ezeer and he personally leads his army to Awens. Nothing will stand in his way for crushing the rebellion and making an example of Awens and its king. But neither king, not that of Ezeer nor that of Awens stands alone.

A selection of 17 papers from the first Symposium of "Current Research in Egyptology", held in Oxford in 2000. The Symposium was held to foster communication and exchange of ideas among students of Egyptology at UK institutions. The UK enjoys a wealth of Egyptological resources, but it is sometimes difficult for graduate students from different universities to interact. In many cases, the very diverse papers presented, constitute ongoing research, offering authors the opportunity to formulate the current state of their work, and to present it to a wider audience. Topics covered range from "Hysteria Revisited: Women's Public Health in Ancient Egypt" to "Papyrological Evidence of Travelling in Byzantine Egypt".