Description
A hypnotic historical fantasy with gorgeous and unusual literary prose, from the captivating author of The Fourth Island. Everyone knows of the horses of Iceland, wild, and small, and free, but few have heard their story. Sarah Tolmie's All the Horses of Iceland weaves their mystical origin into a saga for the modern age. Filled with the magic and darkened whispers of a people on the cusp of major cultural change, All the Horses of Iceland tells the tale of a Norse trader, his travels through Central Asia, and the ghostly magic that followed him home to the land of fire, stone, and ice. His search for riches will take him from Helmgard, through Khazaria, to the steppes of Mongolia, where he will barter for horses and return with much, much more. All the Horses of Iceland is a delve into the secret, imagined history of Iceland's unusual horses, brought to life by an expert storyteller.
A hypnotic historical fantasy with gorgeous and unusual literary prose, from the captivating author of The Fourth Island.
About the Author
Sarah Tolmie is the author of the Tordotom novella The Fourth Island (2020), the poetry collection The Art of Dying (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018), the 120-sonnet sequence Trio (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015), and the chapbook Sonnet in a Blue Dress and Other Poems (Baseline Press, 2014). She has published two novels with Aqueduct Press, The Little Animals (2019) and The Stone Boatmen (2014), as well as two short fiction collections, Two Travelers (2016) and NoFood (2014). She is a medievalist trained at the University of Toronto and Cambridge and is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Waterloo.
Book Information
ISBN 9781250807939
Author Sarah Tolmie
Format Paperback
Page Count 112
Imprint St Martin's Press
Publisher St Martin's Press
Weight(grams) 126g
Dimensions(mm) 202mm * 127mm * 10mm
A hypnotic historical fantasy with gorgeous and unusual literary prose, from the captivating author of The Fourth Island.
About the Author
Sarah Tolmie is the author of the Tordotom novella The Fourth Island (2020), the poetry collection The Art of Dying (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018), the 120-sonnet sequence Trio (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015), and the chapbook Sonnet in a Blue Dress and Other Poems (Baseline Press, 2014). She has published two novels with Aqueduct Press, The Little Animals (2019) and The Stone Boatmen (2014), as well as two short fiction collections, Two Travelers (2016) and NoFood (2014). She is a medievalist trained at the University of Toronto and Cambridge and is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Waterloo.
Book Information
ISBN 9781250807939
Author Sarah Tolmie
Format Paperback
Page Count 112
Imprint St Martin's Press
Publisher St Martin's Press
Weight(grams) 126g
Dimensions(mm) 202mm * 127mm * 10mm
