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The time of peace is over. The time of war has begun. Bera is
struggling to reconcile her desire to be an ordinary woman with the
weight of her Valla duty to shape the future. Love and friendship
vie with her longing for freedom at sea on her beloved longboat.
Warned that Chaos is coming and that Vikings have taken her kin as
slaves, Bera realises her destiny is to follow them to Wolf Island,
a land that has abandoned the old gods. In a quest to save her
loved ones, Bera must use her smith's iron lore and the knowledge
of her Valla ancestors to follow an ancient path into a dark
labyrinth, where human time is meaningless. There, she confronts
her worst foe to finally bring peace - at the cost of a life. The
voyage that began with Sea Paths and continued with Obsidian ends
with Landfall, Bera's most dangerous and important journey of all.
A gripping Viking tale of one woman's courage, fighting old and new
gods amid the savage beauty of Ice Island: the second instalment of
The Book of Bera fantasy adventure series Bera, the Viking seer,
has been having visions. During the hard birthing of her daughter,
she feels the earth convulse, an upheaval that somehow links the
black bead of her necklace to the precious stone: Obsidian. As her
destructive visions start to become reality, she has no choice but
to set out for the Far North, to steal Obsidian and put it to use.
But Bera is not the only one who wants the stone - to what lengths
will she go to win it? Steeped in the life and beliefs of the Norse
peoples, this standalone second instalment in The Book of Bera
trilogy is a gripping, atmospheric adventure.
A talent for razor-sharp, satirical observation - Nigel Jenkins
Susie Wild's debut collection is a quirky mix in which tales of the
fantastic and the everyday are told with inimitable style and
flair. The deranged cravings of a mum-to-be lead to the accidental
poisoning of her co-worker in 'Pica'. Rob holidays in his bathroom
and dreams about his underage love interest in 'Aquatic Life'. The
poignant and subtle novella 'Arrivals' unfolds slowly, revealing a
mother and daughter in opposite corners of the planet, both
experiencing their own personal revelation.
The people of the lost English-Welsh border town Goregree are
losers and weirdos, sometimes pathetic, sometimes terrible. They
all long for something more, but are trapped by poverty, disease,
and addiction to a unique local drug.Inspired by the author's
hometown of Bridgend, Bad Ideas \ Chemicals follows a group of
20-somethings on a bad night out in a depressed, strange little
town. Markham started writing Goregree in his freshman year when
Bridgend was in the tabloids for suicides and everyone was telling
rotten jokes and a similar vein of gallows humour runs through this
nightmarish social satire.One of Goregree's residents, Cassandra
Fish believes she is out of this world, wearing her orange film-set
spacesuit daily in the hope that her absent parents will return and
take her back to her real planet. While she waits for that
particular lunar window to open, she accompanies her friends -
frustrated musician Francis, the only open mic player in the town
and the laddish, volatile Fox - from bar to nightclub to the absurd
dangers and darkness of the forest.As the young residents of the
town lurch from one disaster to another, the story of Goregree
itself comes into focus - a sad, dreamlike, hostile place, plagued
with a mysterious bug infestation and haunted by the memories of a
oncepromising future. A cracked, distorted mirror held up to the
Western world's many abandoned, alienating towns.In the space of a
night, the people of Goregree will drink, dance, take bad
chemicals, have bad trips, have bad ideas, and do unthinkable
things.
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The Lake (Paperback)
Bianca Bellova; Edited by Susie Wild; Translated by Alex Zucker
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R309
R251
Discovery Miles 2 510
Save R58 (19%)
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A dystopian page-turner about the coming of age of a young hero,
which won the 2017 EU Prize for Literature. A fishing village at
the end of the world. A lake that is drying up and, ominously,
pushing out its banks. The men have vodka, the women troubles, the
children eczema to scratch at. Born into this unforgiving
environment, Nami, a young boy, embarks on a journey with nothing
but a bundle of nerves, a coat that was once his grandfather's and
the vague idea of searching for his mother, who disappeared from
his life at a young age. To uncover the greatest mystery of his
life, he must sail across and walk around the lake and finally dive
to its bottom.
In Windfalls, Wild writes of fruit blown down by the wind, of
unexpected and unearned gains which renew the beauty and joy of
life. Here flying trampolines disrupt trains, apples carpet
gardens, the Balloon Girl rises and the red moon sinks. In a city
of ups and downs the Handkerchief Tree rare-blooms, fists and
knickers are flung, crestfallen angels consider dates, carnivores
go hungry, wedding vows are made and a pandemic honeymoon is
cancelled. These are also stories of heroines who fall or jump from
pedestals, taking risks in a world that is often dangerous for
women, but refusing to settle for the conventional. Wild continues
to bring us her refreshingly slant world view, whether unpicking
the domestic, the political or the environmental.
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