![]() ![]() ![]() With her stolen hunting spear and mended armour, she is an unlikely hero-not a chosen one, but one who chooses. So, brimming with magic and eager to test her strength, she breaks her covenant with her mother and sets out on her bony gelding for Caer Leon. And when she hears a traveler speak of Artos, king of Caer Leon, she decides her future lies at his court. ![]() She grows up in the wild wood, in a cave with her mother, but visions of a faraway lake drift to her on the spring breeze, scented with promise. She left all she knew to find who she could be. A queer Arthurian masterpiece for the modern age. It is wreathed about by smoke and flame and steam, and the steam forms images: in white, woods with a woman and a stone and a sword about the trees, shading to orange, is an figure with a spear on a horse a fort gate and box palisade, and over all, flying up in the smoke towards the author’s name, two birds. ![]() The main image is of a great hanging bowl of black iron with inlaid figures and great bronze escutcheons for the hanging hooks. On the cover, the background is charcoal, shading to black at the bottom, with the author’s name at the top is orange-red and the title, at the bottom, and ‘from the author Hild’ in white. Image description: A book, Spear by Nicola Griffith. Winner of the LA Times Ray Bradbury Prize. ![]()
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