Spear, Nicola Griffith
Spear, Nicola Griffith
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Spear

Author: Nicola Griffith

Narrator: Nicola Griffith

Unabridged: 5 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/19/2022

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

This program is read by the author and includes a bonus PDF of detailed notes.

A spellbinding and subversive queer recasting of Arthurian myth by the legendary author of Hild

The girl knows she has a destiny before she even knows her name. She grows up in the wild, in a cave with her mother, but visions of a faraway lake come to her on the spring breeze, and when she hears a traveler speak of Artos, king of Caer Leon, she knows that her future lies at his court.

And so, brimming with magic and eager to test her strength, she breaks her covenant with her mother and, with a broken hunting spear and mended armour, rides on a bony gelding to Caer Leon. On her adventures she will meet great knights and steal the hearts of beautiful women. She will fight warriors and sorcerers. And she will find her love, and the lake, and her fate.

Nebula and Lambda Award-winning author Nicola Griffith returns with Spear, a glorious queer retelling of Arthurian legend, full of dazzling magic and intoxicating adventure.

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor.com.

About Nicola Griffith

Nicola Griffith (she/her) is a dual UK/US citizen living in Seattle. She is the author of award-winning novels including Hild and Ammonite, and her shorter work has appeared in Nature, New Scientist, New York Times, etc. She is the founder and co-host of #CripLit, holds a PhD from Anglia Ruskin University, and enjoys a ferocious bout of wheelchair boxing. She is married to novelist and screenwriter Kelley Eskridge.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Alix on July 19, 2022

if you haven't read Griffith......i almost envy you, because oh my god, one of the greats. this is one of my new favorites from her, and stunning reclamation of the arthurian mythos. the thing that has lingered with me, months and months after reading it, is the sheer sensory joy of it. peretur is so......more

Goodreads review by BJ on March 14, 2023

I’m not much for sword and sorcery, have never been deeply compelled by Arthurian romance, and am not particularly excited by the endless retellings and revisionings that clog our imaginative literature—but a good book is a good book. And this is a wonderful book. Exquisitely written, fierce, ground......more


Awards

  • Shelf Awareness Best Books of the Year
  • The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
  • Nebula Awards - Nominee