The Sterkarm Handshake by 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.
Susan Price has loved folk-lore and mythology since she was a child, and these ancient stories have had a major influence on her work. She is an acclaimed author of over 60 books, which have been translated into many languages, including Japanese, Chinese and Russian. She has written for almost every age-group, and has won several awards, including the Carnegie and the Guardian, and has been short-listed for the Whitbread. She is a founder member of the Authors Electric Collective (Find them on-line.) Vist her Amazon Author Page to find out more about her books, and links to her website and blogs.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781504021012 |
| ISBN 10 | 1504021010 |
| Title | The Sterkarm Handshake |
| Author | Susan Price |
| Series | Sterkarm |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Open Road Media |
| Year published | 2016-07-26 |
| Number of pages | 575 |
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