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Kiran Millwood Hargrave

    March 21, 1990

    Kiran Millwood Hargrave is a celebrated author whose work delves into the intricate connections between humanity and the natural world. With a keen eye for detail and lyrical prose, she crafts narratives that are both compelling and profoundly moving. Her style is marked by rich imagery and an ability to transport readers into worlds that are enchanting yet often stark. Hargrave explores themes of resilience, finding one's voice, and the enduring power of hope against adversity.

    Kiran Millwood Hargrave
    The Wolf Trials
    The island at the end of everything
    Leila and the Blue Fox
    Tom De Freston - I Saw This
    Julia and the Shark
    Geomancer: The Storm and the Sea Hawk
    • Geomancer: The Storm and the Sea Hawk

      An epic fantasy adventure from an award-winning author

      • 304 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      A captivating magic holds the potential to transform or annihilate the world in this second installment of the Geomancer trilogy. Kiran Millwood Hargrave weaves an epic fantasy that promises adventure and intrigue, appealing to fans of Philip Pullman and Katherine Rundell. With a storyline rich in suspense and the weight of destiny, this book is poised to become a classic, as noted by Garth Nix, further enhancing the series' allure for young readers and fantasy enthusiasts alike.

      Geomancer: The Storm and the Sea Hawk
      4.6
    • Julia and the Shark

      • 240 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      A captivating, powerful and luminous story from a bestselling, award-winning author about a mother, a daughter, and the great Greenland shark. With mesmerising black and yellow illustrations and presented as a deluxe hardback with tracing paper inserts, this is a perfect gift for 9+ fans of David Almond and Frances Hardinge.

      Julia and the Shark
      4.4
    • Tom De Freston - I Saw This

      • 192 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      I Saw This is a collaborative arts project by artist Tom de Freston, documentary filmmaker Mark Jones and Oxford-based academic Ali Souleman. Inspired by the Syrian war and the terrorist explosion that left Souleman blind, the project explores trauma and suffering, sight and memory, inner and outer worlds, and questions of hope, life and death.

      Tom De Freston - I Saw This
      5.0
    • 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.

      Leila and the Blue Fox
      4.3
    • The island at the end of everything

      • 256 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      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?

      The island at the end of everything
      4.3
    • Trial 1: Track a wolfTrial 2: Tame a wolfTrial 3: Train a wolfEira's always wanted to compete in the Wolf Trials. The winners become part of the Ryders, an elite group of warriors who ride gigantic sea wolves.There's only one problem: Eira can't take part, because her mother is the fearsome wolf queen.She won't let that stop her, though. Eira decides to disguise herself and compete... but will she succeed? Will she be recognised? And if she isn't, will she survive the Wolf Trials?

      The Wolf Trials
      4.0
    • The Mercies

      • 352 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      After the men in an Arctic Norwegian town are wiped out, the women must survive a sinister threat in this "perfectly told" 1600s parable of "a world gone mad" (Adriana Trigiani). Finnmark, Norway, 1617. Twenty-year-old Maren Magnusdatter stands on the craggy coast, watching the sea break into a sudden and reckless storm. Forty fishermen, including her brother and father, are drowned and left broken on the rocks below. With the menfolk wiped out, the women of the tiny Arctic town of Vardø must fend for themselves. Three years later, a stranger arrives on their shore. Absalom Cornet comes from Scotland, where he burned witches in the northern isles. He brings with him his young Norwegian wife, Ursa, who is both heady with her husband's authority and terrified by it. In Vardø, and in Maren, Ursa sees something she has never seen before: independent women. But Absalom sees only a place untouched by God, and flooded with a mighty evil. As Maren and Ursa are drawn to one another in ways that surprise them both, the island begins to close in on them, with Absalom's iron rule threatening Vardø's very existence. Inspired by the real events of the Vardø storm and the 1621 witch trials, The Mercies is a story of love, evil, and obsession, set at the edge of civilization. One of the Best Books of the Year USA Today Good Housekeeping

      The Mercies
      4.1
    • Geomancer: In the Shadow of the Wolf Queen

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      Unlock a magic that could change the world ... or destroy it. From bestselling, award-winning author Kiran Millwood Hargrave comes an epic new fantasy: 'This tale of adventure and magic is as brave as it is exciting' Independent 'Destined to be a classic' Garth Nix 'A stunning adventure' Cressida Cowell 'Pure joy to read' Jasbinder Bilan 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.

      Geomancer: In the Shadow of the Wolf Queen
      3.9
    • When Isabella's friend disappears, she volunteers to guide the search party. As a mapmaker's daughter, she's equipped with elaborate ink maps and knowledge of the stars, eager to navigate the island's forgotten heart. But beneath the mountains a legendary fire demon awakens, and her journey is fraught with danger ...

      The Girl of Ink & Stars (illustrated edition)
      3.9
    • A Secret of Birds & Bone

      • 240 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      In Renaissance Siena, a city ravaged by plague, Sofia's mother carves beautiful mementoes for the grieving from the bones of their loved ones. But one day, she doesn't return home. Sofia and her friends follow clues carved in bone until they find the terrible truth ...

      A Secret of Birds & Bone
      3.9
    • The Way Past Winter

      • 256 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      When Milas brother disappears, she believes hes been enchanted by the Bear, a shapeshifting stranger of legend who sought shelter at their home. Mila and her sisters follow the trail into the frozen North, determined to bring their brother home.

      The Way Past Winter
      3.9
    • An artist's intensely personal reckoning that delves deep inside the making of art, and explores the value of facing, and depicting, the darkest of horrors.

      Wreck
      3.6
    • The gripping new novel from the &i;>Sunday Times&/i> bestselling author of &i;>The Mercies, The Dance Tree&/i> is a transporting story of lust, family secrets and women under the eye of the Church.

      The Dance Tree
      3.7
    • The girl of ink & stars

      • 240 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      When Isabella's friend disappears, she volunteers to guide the search party. As a mapmaker's daughter, she's equipped with elaborate ink maps and knowledge of the stars, eager to navigate the island's forgotten heart. But beneath the mountains a legendary fire demon awakens, and her journey is fraught with danger ...

      The girl of ink & stars
      3.7
    • The deathless girls

      • 400 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      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... "The Deathless Girls is exquisitely written, as we have come to expect from Millwood Hargrave, but it is also riveting, intoxicating, and utterly unputdownable." - Louise O'Neill

      The deathless girls
      3.5
    • A love story that will last a lifetime Erica and Laure meet on the steps of the Sacré-Coeur in Paris, 1978. Erica is a student, relishing her first summer abroad before beginning university at home in England. Laure is studying for her PhD at the Sorbonne, drinking and smoking far too much, and sleeping with a married woman. The moment the two women meet the spark is undeniable: but their encounter turns into far more than a summer of love. It is the beginning of a relationship that will define their lives and every decision they have yet to make . . . Erica and Laure's love story spans decades, marriage, children, secret trysts, and the agonising changes - both personal and political - that might mean they can be together, after all. But when life brings them within touching distance again, will they be brave enough to seize a future together? Almost Life is a story of longing for the paths not taken, and the almost lives we live.

      Almost Life
    • A deeply moving love letter from an artist to his wife as they struggle with the loss of multiple pregnancies, exploring how powerful bonds transform as lovers become family.

      Strange Bodies
    • Leila und der blaue Fuchs

      Eine faszinierende Geschichte über die Suche nach dem eigenen Platz in der Welt - Bildgewaltige All-Age-Geschichte ab 11 Jahren

      • 256 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      Über Grenzen hinweg Polarfuchs Miso läuft durch eine Welt, die wild, weit und wundersam ist. Leila und ihre Mutter folgen Miso auf dem abenteuerlichen Weg durch das endlose Eis der Arktis. Schon bald begegnen sich Leila und der Polarfuchs – und geraten dadurch beide in höchste Gefahr … Eine berührende Geschichte über die Wildnis und die Grenzen unserer Welt Eine außergewöhnliche Geschichte mit All-Age-Charakter der preisgekrönten Autorin Kiran Millwood Hargrave . Einfühlsam wird das Thema Migration aus der Sicht eines Kindes dargestellt. Verknüpft mit den Themen Tiere , Umwelt , Familie , Natur und Freundschaft wird dieses Abenteuer kindgerecht und warmherzig für Leser*innen ab 11 Jahren erzählt. Die atemberaubenden Illustrationen mit blauer Schmuckfarbe von Tom de Freston machen das Buch zu einem Highlight mit Klassikerpotenzial und zeigen, wie viele Geheimnisse das unendliche Eis und die Tiefe des Ozeans bergen. Ein wahres Kunstwerk! Für Fans von Wunder und Rico , Oskar und die Tieferschatten . Dieser Titel ist bei Antolin gelistet.

      Leila und der blaue Fuchs
      4.0
    • Der Tanz der Frauen

      Roman

      • 384 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      Straßburg, im glühend heißen Sommer 1518: Mitten in der Stadt beginnt eine Frau zu tanzen. Tagelang, ohne Unterbrechung. Hunderte folgen ihrem Beispiel und die Obrigkeit ruft verzweifelt den Notstand aus. Außerhalb der Stadtgrenze spürt die schwangere Lisbet noch nichts von dem Aufruhr. Doch als ihre Schwägerin Nethe aus der Verbannung auf den Hof zurückkehrt, beginnt auch unter Lisbets Füßen der Boden zu beben. Was verbirgt Nethe? Welche Sünde hat sie begangen, für die sie sieben Jahre lang Buße tat? Lisbet gerät in ein tückisches Netz aus Täuschung und heimlicher Leidenschaft – und tanzt schon bald selbst zu einer unheilvollen Melodie.

      Der Tanz der Frauen
      4.0
    • Na krídlach búrky

      • 304 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      Napínavý druhý diel dobrodružnej trilógie o mágii prírody, vábení moci a sile lásky od Kiran Millwood Hargrave, oceňovanej autorkyNapínavý druhý diel dobrodružnej trilógie o mágii prírody, vábení moci a sile lásky od Kiran Millwood Hargrave, oceňovanej autorky bestsellerov Leila a modrastá líška a Júlia a ospalý žralok, očarí nielen mladších čitateľov. Ysolda po stretnutí s nebezpečnou vlčou kráľovnou utečie a spolu s princeznou, ktorá sa vzoprela matke, cestuje na chrbte obrovského morského vlka. Na výprave k Drakarskému štítu prekonáva nebezpečné nástrahy divočiny. S vernou orliačicou Narou po boku spoznáva neznáme miesta, stretáva nových ľudí aj starých známych a nebojácne pokračuje v hľadaní legendárnej mágie, ktorá dokáže zmeniť svet...alebo ho zničiť?

      Na krídlach búrky