Nicola Griffith Książki

Olśniewająca powieść historyczna przedstawia drogę do władzy jednej z najpotężniejszych kobiet średniowiecza. W VII wieku w Brytanii małe królestwa łączą się i rozpadają, a nowa religia – chrześcijaństwo – zagraża starym pogańskim bogom. Hilda, najmłodsza bratanica króla, wyróżnia się błyskotliwym umysłem i naturalnym autorytetem. W przyszłości stanie się świętą Hildą z Whitby, ale na razie jest ciekawskim dzieckiem z nieugiętą wolą i wyjątkowym sposobem postrzegania świata. Jej wuj, Edwin z Northumbrii, dąży do władzy nad Anglami, wykorzystując wszelkie dostępne mu narzędzia, a Hilda zyskuje pozycję jako jego jasnowidz. Jej umiejętności są niezastąpione, ale mogą również prowadzić do niebezpieczeństw. Stawką jest życie Hildy, jej rodziny oraz ludzi, którzy pragną ją chronić. Hilda staje się centralną postacią w brutalnym i mistycznym świecie wczesnego średniowiecza, a autorka, Nicola Griffith, w klarownej prozie ożywia ten piękny, brutalny okres. Jej dzieło to pasjonująca podróż przez mroczne wieki, które stają się jasne i głęboko poruszające.

"The girl knows she has a destiny before she even knows her name. She grows up in the wild, in a cave with her mother, but visions of a faraway lake come to her on the spring breeze, and when she hears a traveler speak of Artos, king of Caer Leon, she knows that her future lies at his court. And so, brimming with magic and eager to test her strength, she breaks her covenant with her mother and, with a broken hunting spear and mended armour, rides on a bony gelding to Caer Leon. On her adventures she will meet great knights and steal the hearts of beautiful women. She will fight warriors and sorcerers. And she will find her love, and the lake, and her fate"--

The James Tiptree Jr Award-winning novel. Change or die. These are the only options available on the planet Jeep. Centuries earlier, a deadly virus shattered the original colony, killing the men and forever altering the few surviving women. Now, generations after the colony has lost touch with the rest of humanity, a company arrives to exploit Jeep - and its forces find themselves fighting for their lives. Terrified of spreading the virus, the company abandons its employees, leaving them afraid and isolated from the natives. In the face of this crisis, anthropologist Marghe Taishan arrives to test a new vaccine. As she risks death to uncover the women's biological secret, she finds that she, too, is changing - and realizes that not only has she found a home on Jeep, but that she alone carries the seeds of its destruction ...

She awoke in an alley to the splash of rain. She was naked, a foot-long gash in her back was still bleeding, and her identity implant was gone. Lore Van Oesterling had been the daughter of one of the world's most powerful families...and now she was nobody, and she had to hide. Then out of the rain walked Spanner, predator and thief, who took her in, cared for her wound, and taught her how to reinvent herself again and again. No one could find Lore now: not the police, not her family, and not the kidnappers who had left her in that alley to die. She had escaped...but the cost of her newfound freedom was crime and deception, and she paid it over and over again, until she had become someone she loathed. Lore had a choice: She could stay in the shadows, stay with Spanner...and risk losing herself forever. Or she could leave Spanner and find herself again by becoming someone else: stealing the identity implant of a dead woman, taking over her life, and creating a new future. But to start again, Lore required Spanner's talents--Spanner, who needed her and hated her, and who always had a price. And even as Lore agreed to play Spanner's game one final time, she found that there was still the price of being a Van Oesterling to be paid. Only by confronting her family, her past, and her own demons could Lore meld together who she had once been, who she had become, and the person she intended to be...

Nur wenn es brenzlig wird, fühlt sich die junge norwegische Selbstverteidigungs-Expertin Aud Torvingen lebendig - ihre Gefühle jedoch bleiben kalt. Das ändert sich, als die Kunsthändlerin Julia sie verzweifelt um Hilfe bittet, weil ihr Kollege ermordet wurde. Aud hat einen Verdacht - und setzt in der Gletscherwelt Norwegens alles aufs Spiel, um Julia aus größter Lebensgefahr zu retten.