Bøger af Susan Price

"You love me, don't you, Jonnie?""You'd better love me."P>I didn't mean to hurt you. I just get scared. I've got nobody but you."And you're alive.""I love you, Jonnie. I'll never let you go. I love you to death."The Industrial Revolution blackens the countryside.Women and children hack at coal underground and drag loaded tubs like animals.Rattle is one of them: a dirty, pipe-smoking, swearing collier-wench who dresses and swaggers like a boy.But Rattle is in love with Jonathan Turner, a young farmer and a prim, God-fearing Methodist.Rattle is determined to have him. But he's already married.To a vengeful ghost.

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?

Kenelm is an Atheling, a prince of the Blood-Royal.A descendent of the god, Woden. His uncle is the King.Kenelm had thought to live his life as a warrior: fighting, feasting and marrying a beautiful princess.But his uncle gave him to a monastery, to live and die as a Christian monk.Kenelm feels betrayed but is bound by his oath of loyalty to his king. So he digs the monastery's vegetable garden and dreams of the life he might have had.Then comes a message from the king. He has a mission that only Kenelm can undertake.Kenelm must carry a royal message into the dark wood.To the Wolf Sisters.

Kenelm is an Atheling, a prince of the Blood-Royal. A descendent of the god, Woden. His uncle is the King. Kenelm had thought to live his life as a warrior: fighting, feasting and marrying a beautiful princess. But his uncle gave him to a monastery, to live and die as a Christian monk. Kenelm feels betrayed but is bound by his oath of loyalty to his king. So he digs the monastery's vegetable garden and dreams of the life he might have had. Then comes a message from the king. He has a mission that only Kenelm can undertake. Kenelm must carry a royal message into the dark wood. To the Wolf Sisters As beautiful, fierce and terrifying as Nature itself. Originally published by Scholastic as part of their Point Horror series.

Linnet begs his mates to cut off his head, so his children can carry it with them on the road.It's 1770 and Linnet lies dying beside the 'stinking ditch' he has helped to dig for miles. His last desperate wish is for his children to go home to his mother, whom they have never seen. But how are they to reach her safely, without money or knowing the way?His work-mates think it's fever-talk but still... A promise to a dying mate is a serious thing. So, when the children start their long walk, they carry their father's head with them, wrapped in his old work-shirt.But what use is a dead man's head when the children meet danger and difficulty?The head opens its eyes and tells stories.Stories have power.Almost as much power as a father's love.Susan Price has won the Carnegie medal and the Guardian prize and her many books have been sold around the world. She has a life-long love of folk-tale and legend and has published several collections of retellings.

A red squirrel...A stone squirrel...a stone squirrel of red carnelion runs up and down a tree, cracking nuts.For every nut the squirrel cracks, she must tell a story.Gold nuts, glass nuts, nuts of paper, nuts of copper...When the poison nut is cracked, what story is let loose?Tales of love...Tales of adventure...Tales of danger and magic...Which nut will you crack?Which story will you hear?A beautiful collection of retold folk-tales featuring bold, brave heroines.Susan Price is an acclaimed writer for young people. She has won many awards, including the prestigious Carnegie medal and the Guardian prize.

Sarah's Gran Gornal is a witch.So is her Uncle Bryan.Sarah's parents won't let her have a dog because of the cost of feeding it and taking it to the vet.Uncle Bryan says he'll make her one that won't need food or the vet.He makes her a bone-dog. Sarah finds she can make it do anything she wants.Even bad things that she knows she shouldn't do...And Sarah starts to enjoy her new-found power...

Zoe wants her dead boyfriend back.She's heard all about Elizabeth Beckerdyke. About her being a witch. About her speaking to the dead.Maybe she can raise the dead too?So Zoe goes knocking on the witch's door.Duncan is homeless, a rough sleeperHe's looking for a new life. He fears the witch and he fears for Zoe.Elizabeth Beckerdyke wants to prove her power.But can she control what she leads back from the land of the dead?A dark, disturbing novel of the occult by the award-winning author of The Sterkarm Handshake

Under a freezing Arctic sky, a wolf carries a baby to a remote village.Taken in by the villagers and named 'Vulchanok' or 'Little Wolf', the lost baby grows into a happy little boy.But night after night, his dreams are walked by his rescuer, the wolf-witch. She leads him to the Ghost World and makes him a shaman.The villagers begin to fear him and he grows into a lonely man -- until a young wolf-witch comes from the forest and claims him as her mate.But Vulchanok longs for more human company and, by firelight, looks for visions in the spinning of an ice-apple.In a distant city he sees a lovely girl as lonely as himself, imprisoned in a small room. Shrugging on his falcon skin, he flies to find her.When a falcon drums its wings against her window, Kristiana opens it -- and is astonished when the hawk lights on the floor and turns into a man. She and Vulchanok are soon in love.But Kristiana's brother, Glev, will never allow her to marry a dirty northern huntsman -- and Vulchanok's wolf-wife is fiercely jealous.Can the lovers survive the hatred and jealousy surrounding them?A Gothic RomanceBook 4 of the Ghost World sequence

Horror by night in the Royal latrine...A fast flight to Rome by demon horse...A saint humbled by a mere carpenter...A fisherman lured by a mermaid...And fifteen other folk-tales and legends...Told by award-winning writer Susan Price, who published her first book with Faber at the age of eighteen, here tales from the time when Pagan first met Christian.

Ten-year-old Sandy's childhood ends when his mother sells him to a farmer who half-starves and beats him. Sandy's life as a 'bonder' is unbearable. He runs away home but his mother makes him return- to another beating.So he runs away for good, away from the farm and from home.Alone on the road, penniless, Sandy is lucky to find friends: Spot and Patch, two drover's dogs, who are making their way home all by themselves.With no idea where they are going, Sandy joins them, following them across Scotland, through a wild landscape of loch and mountain, to the Hebridean island of Mull in the West.When the dogs lead him to their croft, Sandy's deepest wish seems to have come true: he, too, has found a loving home.He is happier at Lachlan's croft than he thought he could be, until someone spitefully tells him that he is not liked or wanted there at all. Unwelcome, he takes to the road again. But without his four-legged friends. Will he go through his whole life friendless and lonely? Susan Price is an acclaimed writer of books for the young. She has won the Carnegie medal and the Guardian Fiction prize and her books have been translated into many languages.

Azalin's class go on a school trip to another planet.The planet Earth.Once on Earth, Azalin runs away.Her dream is to be a 'tronic when she grows up -- to be one of the special people who maintain the systems that keep the man-made planet of Newarth alive.But just before they left for Earth, she was told that Newarth already has all the 'tronics it needs. She will have to be a store-keeper instead. And she is to be 'sporting' about it.Azalin doesn't want to be a store-keeper. And she doesn't want to be sporting.So she runs away. She phones home to say that she'll come back when she's allowed to be a 'tronic.But life on Earth isn't as safe and ordered as life on Newarth.Alone on Earth, Azalin has no idea how much danger she's in.Especially when she wanders into the 'no-go' zone called 'The Rookery.'Even the Earth Police won't go there...Azalin comes down to Earth. But will she ever go back to home on Newarth?

ELFGIFT, the elf's get and the Goddess' darling, fights to keep his throne.If he loses, he loses everything: crown, love and life.Elfgift's Christian half-brother, Unwin, will never be satisfied untilElfgift is dead. He vows that, on capturing Elfgift, he will hand him to his Danish allies to be sacrificed to Odin. The sacrifice of the blood-eagle.It's a gruelling war, but Elfgift is sustained by the love of the Goddess he fights for...until he asks that the life of his brother, Wulfweard, be spared.Wulfweard's life is owed to Odin and the Goddess tells him he must choose: will he have Her at his side, or his brother?A brief truce, to celebrate Jul and Christ's Mass, ends in brutal treachery. Elfgift falls into Unwin's power. Will the Goddess now come to his aid or has She deserted him?A Dark-Age, Gothic fantasy.First published by Scholastic.

Paul loves beautiful girls and poetry. He's courageous enough to recite sonnets to the Hell's Angels in the Hailstone Inn. So when Zione, black and gorgeous, appears in his audience, he's well pleased. When she invites him into the yard, he doesn't hesitate. But in the yard, Zione calls up green fire and things become very strange... Waking in a strange bed is, for him, nothing new but he's never found himself sharing one with a dragon before. A small dragon, but still. A dragon. It turns out Zione is a sorceress and she's kidnapped Paul to perform poetry for a big poetry lover./ A poetry lover who's devoured almost the whole of the Oxford Book of Poetry. In the most literal sense. Can Paul survive the performance? Can he win back to his beloved lost world of pubs, pints and crisps? A light-hearted fantasy of poetry, sorcery, dragons -- and wrapping paper.

Would you recognise a killer hidden within the ranks of your own loving family?ANNABELLEhas long searched for a man who will love her and believes she has found him in Douglas Clokey. They marry and she is thrilled to find herself at the heart of the kind of loving family she never had.But her teenage step-daughter doesn't like Annabelle at all...LIV, Douglas' daughter, has always known herself to be the most important woman in her father's life. With Annabelle's arrival, suddenly that's no longer true and Liv isn't happy about it at all...VAL, Douglas' ex-wife, has always maintained that she is 'over him, ' but she takes a great interest in his new marriage.A quiet village and an ordinary family -- until extraordinary violence is unleashed. Who will survive it?If you like dark humour, audacious plotting and bad women, then you'll love Susan Price's witty, scary novel.Buy Bad Girl and learn how to be really bad today!Susan Price is the acclaimed author of The Sterkarm Handshake, for which she won the Guardian prize, and its sequels, A Sterkam Kiss and A Sterkarm Tryst.

"In the darkest hour of a freezing Midwinter, a night-walking witch adopts a newborn baby and carries her off in her house on chicken legs. She names her Chingis and teaches her the Three Magics. She grows into such a powerful witch that she rouses the jealousy of Kuzma, the bear-shaman. The Czar of this cold realm fears his newborn son, Safa, will out do him, and so imprisons the baby at the top of a tall tower, to live and die there without ever glimpsing the real world. Loneliness and confinement drive him to rage and despair until Chingis hears the crying of his trapped spirit and frees him. But now their enemies unite against them, with steel and deadly magic. Chingis and Safa's fight for freedom will take them even through the Ghost World into the Land of the Dead."--

"You love me, don't you, Jonnie?"The Industrial Revolution blackens the countryside.Women and children hack at coal underground and drag loaded tubs like animals. "You'd better love me."Rattle is a dirty, pipe-smoking, swearing collier-wench who dresses and swaggers like a boy.She's in love with Jonathan Turner, a young farmer and a prim, God-fearing Methodist. "I love you, Jonnie. I'll never let you go."Rattle is determined to have Jonathan.But he's already married.To a vengeful ghost."I love you to death."

Ten-year-old Sandy's childhood ends when his mother sells him to a farmer who half-starves and beats him.So he runs away for good, away from the farm and from home.Alone on the road, penniless, Sandy is lucky to find friends: Spot and Patch, two drover's dogs, who are making their way home all by themselves.With no idea where they are going, Sandy joins them, following them across Scotland, through a wild landscape of loch and mountain, to the Hebridean island of Mull in the West.When the dogs lead him to their croft, Sandy's deepest wish seems to have come true. He, too, has found a loving home.He is happier at Lachlan's croft than he thought he could be, until he discovers that he is not really wanted there at all. Unwelcome, he takes to the road again. But without his four-legged friends.Will he go through his whole life friendless and lonely?Susan Price is an acclaimed writer of books for the young. She has won the Carnegie medal and the Guardian Fiction prize and her books have been translated into many languages.

The young witch, Shingebiss, believes she can 'spell' the Czar and make him save her beloved Northlands from destruction. In her innocence, she little understands that the Imperial Palace is a place of treachery and murder, ruled by a madman with a mind like 'a broken mirror, reflecting all things crookedly.' At first the Czar takes Shingebiss for an angel, sent to him by God, and welcomes her. But none of her spells seem able to blunt his greed and cruelty. And Shingebiss has a rival at court who hates her - the English wizard, Master Jenkins, who pretends to the Czar that he can summon demons. Fearing that Shingebiss will unmask him, Master Jenkins plans to be rid of her. He tells the Czar that he can make him an Elixir of Immortality. The most potent ingredient is the blood of an angel. The Czar orders the elixir made immediately. Can Shingebiss save the Northlands? Can she save her own life? An intense, Gothic fantasy. Susan Price is an acclaimed writer for young people. The first book in the Ghost World sequence, The Ghost Drum, won the prestigious Carnegie medal.

ELFGIFT. The elf's get and the Goddess' darling fights to keep his throne. If he loses, he loses everything: crown, love and life. Elfgift's Christian half-brother, Unwin, will never be satisfied until Elfgift is dead. He vows that, on capturing Elfgift, he will hand him to his Danish allies, to be sacrificed to Odin. The sacrifice of the Blood-Eagle.It's a gruelling war, but Elfgift is sustained by the love of the Goddess he fights for -- until She asks for the life of his brother, Wulfweard. Wulfweard's life is owed to Odin, the Goddess tells him. He must choose. Will he have his brother at his side, or his Goddess? A brief truce, to celebrate Jul and Christ's Mass, ends in brutal treachery. Elfgift falls into Unwin's power. Will the Goddess come to his aid. Or has She deserted him? Part Two of a Gothic, Dark Age fantasy.

Azalin's class go on a school trip to another planet.The planet Earth.Once on Earth, Azalin runs away.Her dream is to be a 'tronic when she grows up: one of the special people who maintain the systems keeping the man-made planet of Newarth alive.But just before leaving for Earth, she was told that Newarth already has all the 'tronics it needs. She will have to be a store-keeper instead. And she is to be 'sporting' about it.Azalin doesn't want to be a store-keeper. And she doesn't want to be sporting.So she runs away. She phones home to say that when she's allowed to be a 'tronic, she'll come back.But, alone on Earth, Azalin has no idea how much danger she's in. Life on Earth isn't as safe and ordered as life on Newarth.Especially when she wanders into the 'no-go' zone called 'The Rookery.'Even the Earth Police won't go there...Azalin comes down to Earth. But will she survive to home to Newarth?

Midsummer midnight: the endless white night of the far north.Malyuta, slave and hunter, names his first born son 'Ambrosi' because it means 'Immortal.'Then comes Kuzma, the bear-shaman, who claims the baby as his apprentice. He promises Malyuta riches or even the return of his youth, if he will give up his new-born son.Malyuta refuses, throughout the long night. The bear-shaman leaves, at last, declaring that keeping the baby will bring Malyuta nothing but misery.It is never wise to anger a shaman. Kuzma watches as Ambrosi grows...Can Ambrosi escape the bear-shaman? Can he protect his father from the Kuzma's revenge?Book Two of the Ghost World sequence, which began with Ghost Drum and continues with Ghost Dance.

The young witch, Shingebiss, believes she can 'spell' the Czar and make him save her beloved Northlands from destruction.In her innocence, she little understands that the Imperial Palace is a place of treachery and murder, ruled by a madman with a mind like 'a broken mirror, reflecting all things crookedly.'At first the Czar takes Shingebiss for an angel, sent to him by God, and welcomes her. But none of her spells seem able to blunt his greed and cruelty.Shingebiss has a rival at court who hates her -- the English wizard, Master Jenkins, who pretends to the Czar that he can summon demons.Fearing that Shingebiss will unmask him, Master Jenkins plans to be rid of her. He tells the Czar that he can make him an Elixir of Immortality. The most potent ingredient is the blood of an angel.The Czar orders the elixir made immediately.Can Shingebiss save the Northlands? Can she save her own life?An intense, Gothic fantasySusan Price is an acclaimed writer for young people. The first book in the Ghost World sequence, The Ghost Drum, won the prestigious Carnegie medal.

Midsummer midnight: the endless white night of the far north.Malyuta, slave and hunter, names his first born son 'Ambrosi' because it means 'Immortal.'Then comes Kuzma, the bear-shaman, who claims the baby as his apprentice. In return for his son, he promises Malyuta riches or even the return of his youth.Malyuta refuses, throughout the long night. The bear-shaman leaves, at last, declaring that keeping the baby will bring Malyuta nothing but misery.Thwarted, Kuzma vents his spite on a family of reindeer herders, cursing them with being 'wolves by darkness.' In the far north, the winter night is six months long. The reindeer people soon long to be released from their curse.Ambrosi grows into a beautiful, bright little boy, joining his father on hunting trips into the wilderness. Into their tent, lost in the vast Arctic darkness, comes the bear-shaman. He summons Ambrosi to be his apprentice.Ambrosi says he will: when his ageing father dies. But the cruel bear-shaman will not wait. If only Malyuta's death prevents Ambrosi becoming his apprentice, then Malyuta will soon die.Malyuta tells the reindeer people that he will free them from their curse if they kill Malyuta.In their wolf-shapes, they set out on the hunt.Can Ambrosi protect his father and escape the bear-shaman?Book Two of the Ghost World sequence, which began with Ghost Drum and continues with Ghost Dance.

"I'll see you home," said the dog.Old Mr. Grimsby collects stories as a hobby. He writes down stories told him by his maid and by her grandmother, Mrs Naylor. He listens to stories at the bedside of the dying Mrs. Riley.A hero of Waterloo, Sergeant Lamb, will tell him stories if paid with pairs of old trousers.Because everybody has a story.Walking home late one night, Mr. Grimsby finds the Churchyard Grim pacing at his side- the Grim, the ghostly dog that guards the graveyard and its dead.The Grim tells him a story as it leads him to Heaven's Gate. There he finds Sergeant Lamb also waiting for the gate to open, and the Sergeant tells another story to pass the time.Once inside the gate, there's Mother Mary and She has a story to tell too. She even coaxes a story from Mr. Grimsby.Everybody has a story.If you like the old stories, the wise, haunting, poetic and funny old stories passed down for hundreds of years, then you'll love Susan Price's tales within tales, of the stories and the people who told them.

Here are nine powerful stories written by acclaimed, award winning author, Susan Price. Voices whisper in a graveyard...'Who weeps on my grave, who keeps me from sleep? - Is it you who unearths me to this cold rain, this dark, this wind and all its grief?'A lost sister speaks in a dream...'She said,"I'm on Mow Top. But you won't find me now. Don't look. Forget me."A supermarket is haunted by a murdered baby... Footsteps climb the stairs of a darknened cottage... A voice whispers in a museum...Nine short, haunting stories of the supernatural, of loss and longing, of those who walk between this world and the next...Review'...The opening tale is...creepy, to the extent that the words crawl like cold fingers down your back.'Mow Top' is heartbreakingly sad... This is how it works in real life. Children see ghosts and tell us. We reassure them, and ourselves, that there are no such things...'The Familiar' is all about the cost of power, and cuts deep.The final story, 'Overheard in a Museum', is a thing of beauty, like the ship itself. You can feel the swell of the sea beneath you as you read. It speaks of a distant era and reminds us that objects so often outlast people by a long, long time. Except that the ship is not an object - it's the spirit of an age. - Rosalie Warren on Awfully Big Blog Adventure Reviews

Praise for Nightcomers from Philip Pullman.'Every tale shows the quality of the imagination, and the accuracy of the telling. What most impresses is the authority of Susan Price's voice: exact, rich or spare when necessary, able to evoke the Past without falsity, and the present without effort.'(The Guardian.)Nightcomers...The beautiful and the uncanny...A beautiful Englishman drives his Italian mistress to suicide - but she pursues him even after death...A young blacksmith spends Midsummer's Night near an ancient mound, to 'shoe with silver the horses of those who come by'...In an echoing, eerie, out-of-hours mall, a lonely cleaner falls in love with a beautiful, hungry stranger...A family gather at a dying girl's bedside and, out of the night, something comes knocking at the window...A man walks home, on a freezing night, along lanes haunted by the Death-Dog...A young actor is offered a lift in a car silver sports car with the number, '130.'A holiday cottage holds memories of despair...And a ghost features in a gentle Christmas story.Eight eerie, haunting stories of the supernatural from an expert story-teller and award-winning writer.

Hauntings: nine spooky stories written by an award-winning, expert story-teller.Stories written to haunt, 'to be poignant and evocative, persistently and disturbingly present.'Praise for HAUNTINGS'Susan Price understands well that the ghost story form may be used to move readers and question their prejudices about the nature of appearance, as well as to frighten delightfully. She never settles for cheap effects and writes beautifully of relationships between young and old.' The Daily Telegraph.'This collection... has a depth of emotion that is at times disturbing.' Magpie, 1998A ghostly boy stands in a dark farm-yard, staring at the lit windows of the farmhouse kitchen.An old man, living alone in a farmhouse surrounded by modern estates, sees spirits dancing on an ancient hillside.A bullied schoolgirl finds a protector - at a price.A writer listens to the telling of a dream - and can't sleep easily after.A poltergeist joins a couple in their home...An elderly couple are woken nightly by the return of their young neighbour - who was murdered. Yet still she comes home late...An ancient wood emerges from the lamposts and walls of a city...And a spiritual medium is exposed as a trickster.Hauntings...