Mary Gentle Boeken

There Is More Than One History Of The World...In the mid-fifteenth century there was Burgundy, the jewel of Europe - opulant and powerful, the undisputed center of an uncivilized world.In an epoch of war and madness there was Ash. A girl born in mud and dung, she slew her first men while only eight. Scarred and ravaged, but still beautiful, she rose up to lead a great mercenary army before the age of twenty - and followed a sacred voice wise in the bloody ways of battle to a pinnacle unattainable to even the most potent of legends.In a time when empires and alliances shifted like sand - when Mithras the bull was worshiped freely alongside the Christ - a great cloud arose out of Africa to darken the sun. The Visgoths came with their terrible machines - powered by magic or a science unknown to this day - and aimed their irresistible might toward the rich Burgundian prize, wrenching the wheel of civilization in an unknown and unexpected direction. And with their coming, one incomparable warrior raised on Destiny's ash heap became more than anyone thought one woman could be.

Mary Gentle is one of Britain's most outstanding writers of imaginative fiction, able to move seamlessly from science fiction to fantasy within the same story. Following on from the success of ASH, 1610: A SUNDIAL IN A GRAVE and the omnibus volumes WHITE CROW and ORTHE, comes CARTOMANCY, the definitive collection of Mary Gentle's short fiction. CARTOMANCY includes the stories from SOLDIERS AND SCHOLARS as well as a number of tales previously unpublished in book form, all with new afterwords and topped and tailed with a specially revised version of her split story 'Cartomancy'.

This is the first story collection by the fantasy author of Golden Witchbread. The collection includes two previously unpublished novellas - Beggars in Satin and The Knot Garden.

An astonishing new historical epic fantasy from the author of ASH.

Born a true hermaphrodite, Ilario has lived as the king's freak in the Iberian kingdom of Tarraconensis. All Ilario wants is to be one of the first - and best - Renaissance painters. In order to do so, Ilario must embark on a quest to escape the wrath of the court.

SF novel (alternate history of London) with The White Crow and Causaubon, characters from Rats & Gargoyles and The Architecture of Desire. Contents:* Left To His Own Devices* Black Motley * What God Abandoned * The Road To Jerusalem

In 17th-century London two powerful magicians--the White Crow and her husband the Lord-Architect Casaubon--are embroiled in a deadly game of politics and magic. Only drawing upon long-forsaken talent will save them from "justice". A critically acclaimed work comparable to that of Ursula LeGuin and Frank Herbert.

For the beautiful young woman Ash, life has always been arquebuses and artillery, swords and armour and the true horrors of hand-to-hand combat. War is her job. She has fought her way to the command of a mercenary company, and on her unlikely shoulders lies the destiny of a Europe threatened by the depredations of an Infidel army more terrible than any nightmare.

Existuje víc než jedna historie světa... V brutální epoše krveprolití a zázraků, kdy temná magie vymazala z oblohy slunce, spočívá osud celé západní Evropy a Afriky - a snad i celého světa - v rukou válečnice jménem Ash. Dosud neporažené legie kartaginské armády plení evropská království. Pod bezslunečným nebem stojí v cestě vizigótským hordám a jejich legendární otrocké generálce Faris osamělé Burgundsko. Hluboko na nepřátelském území se nachází živoucí kamenná modla, vládno ucí děsivou mocí, která musí být zničena, má-li někdo přežít, bytost, která našeptává do duše Ash, vede ji všemi vojenskými taženími, a kterou mohou slyšet právě jen Ash a její nepřítelkyně - její dvojče. Existuje však ještě větší nebezpečí, které číhá v Kartágu, hrozba, která vytvořila kamennou modlu a utvářela život Ash. Cílem jejích vražedných piklů je konečné vyhlazení a vymazání Burgundska z povrchu zemského. Neboť jádrem všeho je Burgundsko - nejbohatší kořist v Evropě a klíč k ovládnutí světa -, klenot, který je cílem kartaginské invaze. Kronika pojednávající o království na zemi, které bylo - a nebylo - a o životě jeho největší válečnice

V epoše válek a šílenství žije Ash, dívka zrozená v blátě a hnoji, která poprvé zabíjela když jí bylo osm. Ve dvaceti, zjizvená a zohavená stojí v čele obrovské armády... svět paralelní historie, kde zuří osudový konflikt mezi Burgundskem a Vizigoty, ktří ovládají mocnou magii...