Ilse Witch

terry brooks

The first in a new five-book Shannara series. Set in a generation after "The Talismans of Shannara", "Ilse Witch" tells of a beautiful but twisted young woman who wields a magic as potent as that of Walker Boh, the last of the Druids.

Genres fantasyfictionepic fantasyscience fiction fantasyhigh fantasyadventurescience fictionmagicepicadult

464 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1,2000

Series

Voyage of the Jerle Shannara

This edition

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Published: October 2, 2000 by Earthlight
ISBN: 9780743209519
ASIN: 0743209516
Language: English

About the author

terry brooks

Terry Brooks was born in Illinois in 1944, where he spent a great deal of his childhood and early adulthood dreaming up stories in and around Sinnissippi Park, the very same park that would eventually become the setting for his bestselling Word & Void trilogy. He went to college and received his undergraduate degree from Hamilton College, where he majored in English Literature, and he received his graduate degree from the School of Law at Washington & Lee University.
A writer since high school, he wrote many stories within the genres of science fiction, western, fiction, and non-fiction, until one semester early in his college years he was given The Lord of the Rings to read. That moment changed Terry's life forever, because in Tolkien's great work he found all the elements needed to fully explore his writing combined in one genre.
He then wrote The Sword of Shannara, the seven year grand result retaining sanity while studying at Washington & Lee University and practicing law. It became the first work of fiction ever to appear on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list, where it remained for over five months.