Download or read book The Sterkarm Handshake written by Susan Price and published by Open Road Media Science & Fantasy. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."
Download or read book The Sterkarm Handshake written by Susan Price and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.”
Download or read book A Sterkarm Kiss written by Susan Price and published by Sterkarm. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The follow-up to the award-winning The Sterkarm Handshake: A woman's return to Scotland's barbaric past ensnares her in a web of intrigue, danger, and love. Andrea Mitchell once found acceptance and love among the Sterkarm clan in lawless 1500s Scotland when she gained access to Great Britain's past via the FUP Corporation's "Time Tube." Since her return to the present, she has been unable to readjust to twenty-first century life. So when the company's CEO, James Windsor, offers to send her back to the violent, colorful era--and her beloved Per Sterkarm--Andrea eagerly agrees. The past she reenters, however, is not the one she remembers. To avoid potential catastrophic effects on the future, FUP has sent her to a different dimension and an alternate sixteenth century. Here, she is a stranger to her former friends, including her onetime lover Per, who is preparing to marry a daughter of the hated Grannams, the Sterkarms' sworn enemies. But the union is part of FUP's insidious plan to plunder the past of its natural wealth. When the wedding goes brutally, tragically awry, Andrea finds herself caught in the middle, a pawn in a violent endgame devised by Windsor and his greedy cronies. And this time there may not be sanctuary for her among the proud, primitive folk she once admired--or even an escape forward to the future where she truly belongs. Susan Price's The Sterkarm Handshake was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize. In A Sterkarm Kiss, the Carnegie Medal-winning author once again ingeniously blends historical and science fiction in a masterful time-travel adventure as thrilling and unforgettable as its acclaimed predecessor.
Download or read book The Walled Orchard written by Tom Holt and published by Abacus. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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
Download or read book Ghost Drum written by Susan Price and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Silver Skin written by Joan Lennon and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?
Download or read book The Island at the End of Everything written by Kiran Millwood Hargrave and published by Chicken House. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ami lives on Culion, an island for people who have leprosy. Her mother is infected. She loves her home - but then islanders untouched by sickness are forced to leave. Ami's desperate to return before her mother's death. She finds a strange and fragile hope in a colony of butterflies. Can they lead her home before it's too late?
Download or read book The Dark Side written by Susan Price and published by Kingfisher. This book was released on 2007-09-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging collection of twenty-four spine-tingling stories draws on the best traditions of classic horror, from powerful myths and folktales to contemporary stories of man-made terrors. With contributions by writers of the caliber of Philip K. Dick, Stephen King, and Edgar Allan Poe, this is a truly chilling anthology.
Download or read book Master Thomas Katt written by Susan Price and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A childless old couple love their kitten so much, they decide to have him educated.They pay their vicar to teach Thomas his letters.But the vicar is a cruel man. He takes their money but he kills their kitten.Year after year he makes them work to pay Thomas' 'school-fees.'When he leaves for London, the vicar plays one last, cruel trick. He tells the old pair that their Thomas has run away to sea -- but that they will find him in London, at the Miching Mouse Inn. The vicar laughs to think of the old couple travelling to London to search for a man and an inn that don't exist.But when the old pair reach London, they have strange good luck...Based on an old folk-tale, this is a heart-warming tale by Susan Price, the award winning writer of 'The Wolf's Footprint' and 'The Ghost Drum.'(Originally published by A&C Black.)
Download or read book The Dragon s Apprentice written by James A. Owen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-01-06 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven years after the events of The Shadow Dragons, John, Jack and Charles are finally able to return to their beloved Archipedlago of Dreams. But even as their return is celebrated by old friends, new concerns shadow the reunion, namely the threat of Echthroi, the primordial Shadow, but, perhaps even worse, the apparent splintering of Time itself. Now, the Caretakers must fight against their most fearsome enemy ever and attempt to restore Time. They must journey through a forgotten door from the destroyed Keep of Time in order to seek out the Dragon's Apprentice. If they fail, it will mean the end of both of the worlds. But success will carry its own price - a price that may be too high even for the Caretakers to bear.
Download or read book Firebrand written by Gillian Philip and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The half-feral son of a Sithe nobleman is exiled to the mortal world of sixteenth-century Scotland during a time of religious wars and brutal witch-hunts.
Download or read book The Summer Season written by Julia Williams and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-06-23 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passions flare, secrets unravel and love blossoms in the heart of the summer season.
Download or read book Pastures New written by Julia Williams and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘An enjoyable, heartfelt read.’Closer Magazine Amy Nicholson never expected to leave London for the Suffolk countryside...
Download or read book The Drover s Dogs written by Susan Price and published by . This book was released on 2023-06-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten-year-old Sandy's childhood ends when his mother sells him to a farmer who half-starves and beats him. So he runs away for good, away from the farm and from home. Alone on the road, penniless, Sandy is lucky to find friends: Spot and Patch, two drover's dogs, who are making their way home all by themselves. With no idea where they are going, Sandy joins them, following them across Scotland, through a wild landscape of loch and mountain, to the Hebridean island of Mull in the West. When the dogs lead him to their croft, Sandy's deepest wish seems to have come true. He, too, has found a loving home. He is happier at Lachlan's croft than he thought he could be, until he discovers that he is not really wanted there at all. Unwelcome, he takes to the road again. But without his four-legged friends. Will he go through his whole life friendless and lonely? Susan Price is an acclaimed writer of books for the young. She has won the Carnegie medal and the Guardian Fiction prize and her books have been translated into many languages.
Download or read book Ghosts Ghouls and Other Nightmares written by Gene Kemp and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 1995-09 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chilling stories written by authors such as Phillipa Pearce, Ray Bradbury, and Joan Aiken. 10-14 yrs.
Download or read book The Sterkarm Handshake written by Susan Price and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having traveled to a sixteenth-century border clan in England through a tunnel created by a twenty-first-century company, Andrea must decide in which era she will live.
Download or read book Little Red Riding Hood and Other Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated retelling of three favourite nursery stories. Colin and Moira Maclean have together illustrated more than 50 books for children.
