Author: Susan Price
Publisher: Open Road Media Science & Fantasy
ISBN: 9781504021012
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 575
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A twenty-first-century corporation invades the domain of a warlike sixteenth-century Scottish clan in this "brilliantly imagined" time-travel adventure (Philip Pullman). The miraculous invention of a Time Tube has given Great Britain's mighty FUP corporation unprecedented power, granting it unlimited access to the rich natural resources of the past. Opening a portal into sixteenth-century Scotland, the company has sent representatives back five hundred years to deal with the Sterkarms, a lawless barbarian clan that has plundered both sides of the English-Scottish border for generations. Among the first of the company's representatives to arrive from the future, young anthropologist Andrea Mitchell finds herself strangely drawn to this primitive tribe of raiders and pillagers who, not surprisingly, view her as magical. As translator and liaison, she becomes enmeshed in the personal lives of these proud, savage folk, developing an especially strong emotional bond with Per, the handsome son of the ruthless Sterkarm chieftain, Toorkild. But the Sterkarms' welcome does not extend to the FUP corporate despoilers from the future--and soon a fragile agreement between the untamable Scots and the interloping "Elves" begins to crumble. Suddenly war looms on the horizon, and when treachery on both sides ignites a firestorm of violence, Andrea will have to choose where her loyalties truly lie: with her coldhearted employers or with the barbarous kinfolk of the man she has come to love. A winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize and a finalist for the Carnegie Medal, called "enthralling" by Philip Pullman, the author of the His Dark Materials novels, Susan Price's Sterkarm Handshake is a masterful blend of historical and science fiction critics have called "dazzling," "exciting," "memorable," "thought provoking," and "a thumping good page-turner."
Author: Susan Price
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780439978422
Category : Border reivers
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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The sequel to Susan Price's imaginative tour de force, The Sterkarm Handshake. The Time Tube is up and running again and this time FUP have a new plan - the Sterkarms who destroyed all their plans and invaded the twenty-first century last time will not get the better of them. This time they are the peacemakers with the ultimate weapon: love. But just how much faith can you put in a Sterkarm kiss? This is a brilliantly imagined novel that has everything: adventure, treachery, violence, intrigue and love. The Bookseller
Author: Susan Price
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504020995
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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A twenty-first-century corporation invades the domain of a warlike sixteenth-century Scottish clan in this “brilliantly imagined” time-travel adventure (Philip Pullman). The miraculous invention of a Time Tube has given Great Britain’s mighty FUP corporation unprecedented power, granting it unlimited access to the rich natural resources of the past. Opening a portal into sixteenth-century Scotland, the company has sent representatives back five hundred years to deal with the Sterkarms, a lawless barbarian clan that has plundered both sides of the English-Scottish border for generations. Among the first of the company’s representatives to arrive from the future, young anthropologist Andrea Mitchell finds herself strangely drawn to this primitive tribe of raiders and pillagers who, not surprisingly, view her as magical. As translator and liaison, she becomes enmeshed in the personal lives of these proud, savage folk, developing an especially strong emotional bond with Per, the handsome son of the ruthless Sterkarm chieftain, Toorkild. But the Sterkarms’ welcome does not extend to the FUP corporate despoilers from the future—and soon a fragile agreement between the untamable Scots and the interloping “Elves” begins to crumble. Suddenly war looms on the horizon, and when treachery on both sides ignites a firestorm of violence, Andrea will have to choose where her loyalties truly lie: with her coldhearted employers or with the barbarous kinfolk of the man she has come to love. A winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize and a finalist for the Carnegie Medal, called “enthralling” by Philip Pullman, the author of the His Dark Materials novels, Susan Price’s Sterkarm Handshake is a masterful blend of historical and science fiction critics have called “dazzling,” “exciting,” “memorable,” “thought provoking,” and “a thumping good page-turner.”
Author: Tom Holt
Publisher: Abacus
ISBN: 0748113517
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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'Read THE WALLED ORCHARD so you can tell your descendants, 'I was there when the historical novel started holding its head up with the rest of literature''. - WASHINGTON POST 'This book is a hilarious yet well-researached historical novel.' - HISTORICAL NOVEL REVIEW The hero is Eupolis, weary, cynical and believing only in comedy. The heroine is Athens, at the height of her schizophrenic glory. A startling mixture of comedy and tragedy, THE WALLED ORCHARD is the poignant, charming story of their turbulent relationship. With unforgettable characters and a powerful and moving story, THE WALLED ORCHARD is a wonderful evocation of life in Ancient Greece in the fifth century BC. Books by Tom Holt: Walled Orchard Series Goatsong The Walled Orchard J.W. Wells & Co. Series The Portable Door In Your Dreams Earth, Air, Fire and Custard You Don't Have to Be Evil to Work Here, But It Helps The Better Mousetrap May Contain Traces of Magic Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sausages YouSpace Series Doughnut When It's A Jar The Outsorcerer's Apprentice The Good, the Bad and the Smug Novels Expecting Someone Taller Who's Afraid of Beowulf Flying Dutch Ye Gods! Overtime Here Comes the Sun Grailblazers Faust Among Equals Odds and Gods Djinn Rummy My Hero Paint your Dragon Open Sesame Wish you Were Here Alexander at World's End Only Human Snow White and the Seven Samurai Olympiad Valhalla Nothing But Blue Skies Falling Sideways Little People Song for Nero Meadowland Barking Blonde Bombshell The Management Style of the Supreme Beings An Orc on the Wild Side
Author: Susan Price
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571381596
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 163
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In the darkest hour of a freezing Midwinter, a night-walking witch adopts a newborn baby and carries her off in her house on chicken legs. She names her Chingis and teaches her the Three Magics. She grows into such a powerful witch that she rouses the jealousy of Kuzma, the bear-shaman. The Czar of this cold realm fears his newborn son, Safa, will out do him, and so imprisons the baby at the top of a tall tower, to live and die there without ever glimpsing the real world. Loneliness and confinement drive him to rage and despair until Chingis hears the crying of his trapped spirit and frees him. But now their enemies unite against them, with steel and deadly magic. Chingis and Safa's fight for freedom will take them even through the Ghost World into the Land of the Dead. A timeless and atmospheric tale of fierce magic.
Author: Penny Dolan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 140880137X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 465
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A first book for middle school readers by the author of Little Troll finds young Mouse's privileged and carefree life shattered by his relocation at the hands of the villainous Mr. Button to grim Murstone Hall school, where Mouse receives help from an eclectic cast of characters while struggling to return to his family. Reprint.
Author: Celia Rees
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0747597340
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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Nominated for the Carnegie Medal 2011 Shakespeare in Love meets Twelfth Night - A gripping and evocative historical novel by bestselling Celia Rees
Author: Joan Lennon
Publisher: Birlinn
ISBN: 0857908472
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Skara Brae, Orkney, during the Neolithic period. The sun is dying, crops are failing and the local inhabitants fear that the end of the world is near. When a strange boy appears from nowhere, dressed in an odd silver suit - his 'silver skin' - the community is thrown into confusion. Who is he, where is he from, and why has he come? Is he a selkie or seal person, a mythical being believed to have magical powers? For Cait, herself an outsider in the community, the boy, Rab, arouses a strange fascination as she finds herself strangely drawn towards him. For Voy, the Old Woman, Rab represents the only hope for the sun's regeneration, but only if his silver skin is burnt in a huge sacrificial blaze. As the pyre is built, Rab must fight for his life if he is ever to be able to return to his own time. And if he succeeds, what will be the fate of the islanders he will leave behind?
Author: Susan Price
Publisher: Priceclan
ISBN: 9780992820459
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Praise for Nightcomers from Philip Pullman. "'Every tale shows the quality of the imagination, and the accuracy of the telling. What most impresses is the authority of Susan Price's voice: exact, rich or spare when necessary, able to evoke the Past without falsity, and the present without effort.'" (The Guardian.) "Nightcomers..." The beautiful and the uncanny... A beautiful Englishman drives his Italian mistress to suicide - but she pursues him even after death... A young blacksmith spends Midsummer's Night near an ancient mound, to 'shoe with silver the horses of those who come by'... In an echoing, eerie, out-of-hours mall, a lonely cleaner falls in love with a beautiful, hungry stranger... A family gather at a dying girl's bedside and, out of the night, something comes knocking at the window... A man walks home, on a freezing night, along lanes haunted by the Death-Dog... A young actor is offered a lift in a car silver sports car with the number, '130.' A holiday cottage holds memories of despair... And a ghost features in a gentle Christmas story. Eight eerie, haunting stories of the supernatural from an expert story-teller and award-winning writer.
Author: Susan Price
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781537792101
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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All life is sorrowful, but very, very sweet. Ice apples and firelight. Wolves, darkness and the road to the Ghost World. Ghost Spell, the fourth haunting book in the Ghost World Sequence. Under a freezing arctic sky, a wolf carries a dying baby to a village door. The villagers adopt him, naming him Vulchanok, 'Little Wolf.' He grows to be a happy child but, by night, the wolf enters his dreams. She leads him to the Ghost World and makes him a shaman. The villagers begin to fear him. Vulchanok becomes a lonely man. By night he looks for visions in a spinning ice-apple. He sees a beautiful, red-headed girl who is also alone. Taking up his goshawk skin, he flies to her window. Hundreds of miles away, the penniless orphans, Glev and Kristiana, live in the Czar's palace. Every day Glev searches for a nobleman to marry his sister and make them both rich while Kristiana remains alone in their room. A noblewoman must not be seen in public. Kristiana comes to love Vulchanok but to be with him she must shame and dishonour both herself and her brother. She must learn to work, though she has never lifted anything heavier than the page of a book. Can the love between Kristiana and Vulchanok survive Glev's anger and Vulchanok's enemies? If you enjoyed the Carnegie medal winning The Ghost Drum, then you'll enjoy this story of ice, firelight, love and revenge.
