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Unlock a magic that could save the world ... or destroy it. From bestselling, award-winning author Kiran Millwood Hargrave comes an epic new fantasy. When her sister vanishes after a mysterious earthquake, Ysolda sets off on a rescue mission. But these are dangerous times, and soon she is forced to strike a deadly bargain with the wolf queen herself. Join Ysolda and her loyal sea hawk as they embark on an epic quest to save her sister and unlock the earth's most powerful magic ... From the author of The Girl of Ink and Stars, Julia and the Shark and The Mercies, the Geomancer trilogy is a new modern classic for readers young and old. Kiran Millwood Hargrave is winner of the Wainwright Prize (in Sept 2023), the Waterstones Book Prize, and the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year.

From bestselling, award-winning author Kiran Millwood Hargrave comes an epic new fantasy about the magic of nature, the lure of power and the strength of love. In the lakes, the wolf queen sharpens her spear. In the mountains, an ancient girl opens an eye. In the forest, an orphan is summoned by the trees. Our story has begun ... Ysolda has lived her life in the shadow of the wolf queen's tyrannical rule but, safe in her forest haven, she has never truly felt its threat. Until one day when a mysterious earthquake shakes the land and her older sister Hari vanishes in its wake. Accompanied by her loyal sea hawk, Nara, Ysolda embarks on a desperate rescue mission. But when she is forced to strike a bargain with the wolf queen herself, she soon finds herself embroiled in a quest for a magic more powerful - and more dangerous - than she could ever have imagined ... This is the first in the Geomancer trilogy, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Julia and the Shark, The Mercies and The Girl of Ink and Stars.

Come with an Arctic fox on a breathtaking journey ... an enthralling story from the bestselling, award-winning creators of Julia and the Shark. With dazzling blue and black illustrations and presented as a deluxe hardback with tracing paper inserts, this is a perfect gift for 9+ fans of The Last Bear and A Wolf Called Wander. She was very tired. She lay down, her soft head on her soft paws. The sunset licked her face. The snow covered her like a blanket. Fox wakes, and begins to walk. She crosses ice and snow, over mountains and across frozen oceans, encountering bears and birds beneath the endless daylight of an Arctic summer, navigating a world that is vast, wild and wondrous. Meanwhile, Leila embarks on a journey of her own - finding her way to the mother who left her. On a breathtaking journey across the sea, Leila rediscovers herself and the mother she thought she'd lost, with help from a determined little fox. Based on the true story of an Arctic fox who walked from Norway to Canada in seventy-six days, a distance of two thousand miles, this compelling, emotional and beautifully illustrated story is the perfect gift for 9+ readers.

The gripping new novel from Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Mercies Strasbourg, 1518. In the midst of a blisteringly hot summer, a lone woman begins to dance in the city square. She dances for days without pause or rest, and as she is joined by hundreds of others, the authorities declare an emergency. Musicians will be brought in to play the Devil out of these women. Just beyond the city's limits, pregnant Lisbet lives with her mother-in-law and husband, tending the bees that are their livelihood. And then, as the dancing plague gathers momentum, Lisbet's sister-in-law Nethe returns from seven years' penance in the mountains for a crime no one will name. It is a secret that Lisbet is determined to uncover. As the city buckles under the beat of a thousand feet, she finds herself thrust into a dangerous web of deceit and clandestine passion, but she is dancing to a dangerous tune . . . Set in an era of superstition, hysteria, and extraordinary change, and inspired by the true events of a doomed summer, The Dance Tree is an impassioned story of family secrets, forbidden love, and women pushed to the edge.

Ostrov Vardo v nejzazším severovýchodním výběžku Norska postihla v roce 1617 katastrofální bouře, která zahubila většinu mužských obyvatel. V důsledku králova zájmu na posílení mocenského postavení církve se ostrov následně stal dějištěm odstrašujících krvežíznivých čarodějnických procesů. Sledujeme příběh dvou mladých žen, mezi nimiž se časem vyvine důvěrný přátelský vztah. Maren je obyvatelkou ostrova a představitelkou odvážné skupiny tamějších žen, jež tragická bouře přiměla vzít starost o obživu do vlastních rukou. Ursula je oproti tomu trochu zhýčkaná mladá městská dáma, která na ostrov přichází se svým novomanželem, komisařem Cornetem. Toho povolal až ze Skotska později neblaze proslulý krajský hejtman Cunningham a pověřil ho zvláštním posláním. Ursula se díky Maren učí nejzákladnějším dovednostem nezbytným pro život v těchto drsných končinách. Ale roztočí se kolotoč absurdních obvinění a Ursula s hrůzou shledává, že za nitky čarodějnických procesů tahá její manžel. Co když se pozornost nelítostného lovce čarodějnic obrátí na její nejmilejší přítelkyni Maren?

For readers of Circe and The Handmaid's Tale, Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Mercies is a story about how suspicion can twist its way through a community, and about a love that could prove as dangerous as it is powerful. Winter, 1617. The sea around the remote Norwegian island of Vardo is thrown into a reckless storm. A young woman, Maren, watches as the men of the island, out fishing, perish in an instant. Vardo is now a place of women. Eighteen months later, a sinister figure arrives. Summoned from Scotland to take control of a place at the edge of the civilized world, Absalom Cornet knows what he needs to do to bring the women of the island to heel. With him travels his young wife, Ursa. In her new home, and in Maren, Ursa finds something she has never seen before: independent women. But Absalom sees only a place flooded with a terrible evil, one he must root out at all costs...

Gothic, intoxicating, feminist and romantic - this is the breathtakingly imagined untold story of the brides of Dracula, by bestselling author Kiran Millwood Hargrave in her much-anticipated YA debut. They say the thirst of blood is like a madness - they must sate it. Even with their own kin. On the eve of her divining, the day she'll discover her fate, seventeen-year-old Lil and her twin sister Kizzy are captured and enslaved by the cruel Boyar Valcar, taken far away from their beloved traveller community. Forced to work in the harsh and unwelcoming castle kitchens, Lil is comforted when she meets Mira, a fellow slave who she feels drawn to in a way she doesn't understand. But she also learns about the Dragon, a mysterious and terrifying figure of myth and legend who takes girls as gifts. They may not have had their divining day, but the girls will still discover their fate...

Perfect gift for Christmas with beautiful foiled cover. Gothic, intoxicating, feminist and romantic - this is the breathtakingly imagined untold story of the brides of Dracula, by bestselling author Kiran Millwood Hargrave in her much-anticipated YA debut. They say the thirst of blood is like a madness - they must sate it. Even with their own kin. On the eve of her divining, the day she'll discover her fate, seventeen-year-old Lil and her twin sister Kizzy are captured and enslaved by the cruel Boyar Valcar, taken far away from their beloved traveller community. Forced to work in the harsh and unwelcoming castle kitchens, Lil is comforted when she meets Mira, a fellow slave who she feels drawn to in a way she doesn't understand. But she also learns about the Dragon, a mysterious and terrifying figure of myth and legend who takes girls as gifts. They may not have had their divining day, but the girls will still discover their fate...

Magický příběh od autorky Dívky z inkoustu a hvězd. Jednoho rána Mila zjistí, že její bratr Oskar zmizel. Jen tak by rodinu neopustil, a přesto se zdá, že odešel s tajemným cizincem, který se ve vesnici objevil po setmění. Když začne zjišťovat, kam mohl jít, dozví se, že zmizeli všichni chlapci… kromě jediného – mága jménem Rune. Mila a Rune se proto vydávají na neobyčejnou cestu zasněženou divočinou ovládanou vlčími smečkami. Najdou zmizelé chlapce a přijdou na to, proč vlastně odešli?

Každý z nás si na koži nesie mapu vlastného života, v spôsobe chôdze, dokonca aj v tom, ako rastieNajlepšia britská detská kniha roka 2017Od chvíle, keď na ostrov dorazil generál Adore, nikto nesmie prekročiť hranicu medzi Gromerou a zvyškom ostrova. To však Isabelle nebráni v tom, aby snívala, že raz preskúma každučký centimeter Zabudnutého územia, ktoré leží za hranicami. Keď zmizne jej najlepšia kamarátka, Isabella sa votrie do pátracej skupiny – je predsa dcérou kartografa. Navyše okrem máp vie čítať aj hviezdy, ktoré ju môžu doviesť až do zabudnutého srdca opusteného ostrova. No svet za mestskými hradbami je len pustatina plná príšer, kde pod vyschnutými riekami a dymiacimi sopkami spí príšera z legiend. Isabella čoskoro zistí, že zachraňovať bude musieť nielen stratenú dievčinu, ale predovšetkým samotný ostrov.

Dojemný příběh o statečnosti a ztrátě od autorky Dívky z inkoustu a hvězd Ami žije se svojí nemocnou matkou na ostrově, který je omýván mořem stejně modrým jako blankytná obloha. Miluje to tu a nikdy by ji nenapadlo, že bude muset tento ráj opustit. Příchod krutého generála Zamory ale vše změní. Z jeho rozhodnutí je na ostrově zřízena kolonie pro nemocné leprou a všichni zdraví lidé musí odjet pryč. Ami je převezena do sirotčince na jiný ostrov, ale nemyslí na nic jiného, než jak se dostat zpět…