Books with author Susan Price

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.”

Harken!This is the saga of Aslak Ottarssen, born a slave.Aslak, and his beloved sister, Astrid, are the children of a Norwegian farmer. Their mother was an English slave.Their father chooses to free Aslak. But Astrid remains a slave.Aslak promises that he will buy her freedom when he is a man and can earn enough silver. At fifteen, he goes viking to earn his fortune.Returning from sea, he finds that his father has died. Worse: his step-brothers have sold his sister.Furious, Aslak leaves his home forever, and calls on his ship-brothers to help him find and free his sister.He pursues Astrid across the North: a violent and dangerous place in the Viking Age. His hot temper leads to him being sold into slavery himself, in Jorvik, capital of England's Danelaw.But, captive among strangers, he finds unexpected help, faces death, sees a ghost — and meets still more danger.Can Aslak regain his own freedom and rescue his lost sister?

The Sterkarms have plundered the border between Scotland and England for generations. Suddenly intruders, calling themselves Elves, want the Sterkarms to stop their violent ways.The Elves, time travelers from the 21st century, have found a way back to the 16th century and plan to do their own plundering of the land's rich natural resources. Their only mistake is foolishly underestimating the Sterkarms themselves.For Andrea Mitchell, an anthropologist working among the Sterkarms, none of this matters. In love with Per-a young Sterkarm warrior--and feted as a beautiful Elf-May, she's never known such happiness in her own time.But when Per receives a deadly injury, Andrea's decision to take him into the 21st century to save him has explosive results. Per, seeing how powerful and destructive the Elves truly are, swears to keep them from his land forever. And in the bloody battle that ensues, Andrea must finally choose whose side she is on.The Sterkarm Handshake is a stirring tale of a clash of two cultures, beautifully told by master storyteller Susan Price.Books for the Teen Age 2001 (NYPL)

Time traveling corporate raiders target 16th-century Scotland—and face the legendary Sterkarm warriors—in this “enthralling . . . brilliantly imagined” series (Philip Pullman on The Sterkarm Handshake). James Windsor—leader of FUP, the twenty-first-century megacorporation that created a tunnel back to the past called the Time Tube—has no intention of giving up his plan to pillage resources from pristine sixteenth-century Scotland. Unfortunately for Windsor, the Sterkarm clan, who will do anything to protect their lands from invaders, continues to stand in his way. But if Windsor’s modern-day mercenaries, with their technology, rifles, and rocket launchers, can’t beat the primitive Sterkarm warriors, who can? And who could possibly understand the wild Scottish moors and the clan’s brutal ways better than the Sterkarms themselves? When FUP opens up a new portal, two universes of Sterkarms are pitted against each other, but anthropologist Andrea Mitchell—originally sent back in time by FUP to study the clan—will risk her life to save Per, the warrior she loves, and the community she has grown to call home. And when both sets of Sterkarms become wary of the twenty-first-century “Elves,” who shake on promises of friendship with one hand and commit murder with the other, they know there is only one way to protect their futures: join with the Grannams, and with each other, to destroy the tunnel, preventing the Elves from returning ever again. Perfect for fans of Outlander and Vikings, A Sterkarm Tryst is the epic conclusion to Susan Price’s award-winning Sterkarm Trilogy.

The sequel to Susan Price's imaginative tour de force, The Sterkarm Handshake. The Time Tube is back on-line, and FUP are back in the sixteenth century, out for all they can get from the moronic peasant-folk, the Sterkarms. The moronic peasant-folk who destroyed all their plans and invaded the twenty-first century last time around...But this time FUP have everything under control. This is a whole new bunch of Sterkarms, and they're not going to get out of hand. After all, this time they have the ultimate weapon - love. But do the Sterkarms see love quite the same way? Just how much faith can you put in a Sterkarm Kiss?

The Story CollectorPeople have told stories since the world began — and everybody has a story.Old Mr. Grimsby, retired and a widower, makes a hobby of collecting stories.He collects stories from his housemaid, and from the housemaid's grandmother, from an old soldier, and from a dying woman.Late one night, as he walks home past a churchyard, he's joined by a large black dog, a Churchyard Grim, which leads him out of this world to Heaven's Gate - and tells him a story to pass the time as they walk.And in Heaven, the Virgin Herself pours the tea and tells a tale...From the beginning to the end, we tell stories.Everybody has a story.The Story Collector is a collection of folk-tales, retold by the acclaimed writer, Susan Price. Here are old stories, wise stories, funny and sad stories, of life, death and rebirth; of loss and love.

It’s midsummer and midnight: the endless white night of the far north. Malyuta, a slave and hunter, feels richer than the Czar because he holds his first new-born, a son. He names the baby ‘Ambrosi’ which means immortal.Then comes Kuzma, the shape-shifting bear-shaman, who demands the baby from him. The child was born to Kuzma’s apprentice in witchcraft. “Give him to me,” says Kuzma. In return for the baby, he will make Malyuta rich or even return his youth.Malyuta refuses. All through the long summer night, he refuses. The hour of midnight passes and the shaman leaves but as he goes, he tells Malyuta that the baby he holds is a world-walker, a child of the Iron Ash, born to be a shaman. “Keep him, little man, and he will bring you misery!”Ambrosi grows into a beautiful, bright little boy, adored by his father. When Malyuta’s beloved wife dies, he finds comfort in his child.Every winter, Malyuta has to leave the village on hunting trips. He leaves Ambrosi behind in the care of his grandparents. At the end of each trip he hurries home, eager to see his son again but on each return finds the villagers fear Ambrosi more and more. The child is uncanny, they say. Malyuta must take him away.Malyuta leaves the village forever, taking Ambrosi with him. From then on, Ambrosi shares his father’s life and learns to be a hunter. In their small tent, in the vast frozen darkness of the arctic, Ambrosi dreams that a white bear comes to him. It is the bear-shaman, calling on him to follow his true nature.Ambrosi learns that there can be no peace for him until he accepts that he is a child of the Iron Ash and a world-walker. But he cannot bear to abandon the ageing Malyuta, whom he loves. He promises to become Kuzma’s apprentice after his father is dead.But the cruel bear-shaman is not prepared to wait. If Malyuta’s life is all that prevents Ambrosi becoming his apprentice, then Malyuta’s death will come soon.Is there any way that Ambrosi can protect his father and escape from the bear-shaman?If you like mythic tales with fascinating villains and vivid imagery, then you’ll love Susan Price’s stark classic.Buy Ghost Song to dream of the northlands today.

The Sterkarms have plundered the border between Scotland and England for generations. Suddenly intruders, calling themselves Elves, want the Sterkarms to stop their violent ways.The Elves, time travelers from the 21st century, have found a way back to the 16th century and plan to do their own plundering of the land's rich natural resources. Their only mistake is foolishly underestimating the Sterkarms themselves.For Andrea Mitchell, an anthropologist working among the Sterkarms, none of this matters. In love with Per -- a young Sterkarm warrior -- and feted as a beautiful Elf-May, she's never known such happiness in her own time.But when Per receives a deadly injury, Andrea's decision to take him into the 21st century to save him has explosive results. Per, seeing how powerful and destructive the Elves truly are, swears to keep them from his land forever. And in the bloody battle that ensues, Andrea must finally choose whose side she is on.The Sterkarm Handshake is a stirring tale of a clash of two cultures, beautifully told by master storyteller Susan Price. Books for the Teen Age 2001 (NYPL)