Susan Price: 7 books

The Ghost Drum: Book 1 of The Ghost World Sequence Winner of the prestigious Carnegie Medal 407kb    147 pages In the freezing, endless darkness of northern Midwinter, a shaman knocks at the door of a tiny wooden house where a slave-woman has given birth to a baby girl. When...

Ghost Dance Book 3 of The Ghost World Sequence The Northlands are dying… A great and powerful Czar, to prove he is a great and powerful Czar, needs fur to wear and to give as gifts. He needs timber to build palaces, churches, ships. So the Czar sends his men to the...

A book of retold folk-tales, by Carnegie Medal winning author, Susan Price.Everybody has a story.Sergeant Lamb, an old soldier who fought at Waterloo, tells of a soldier how found his way to Heaven and God’s chair…Mrs. Riley, a dying woman, tells the story of a murdered girl whose hair strung...

Here, for the first time, are the three books of the Ghost World Sequence, The Ghost Drum, Ghost Song and Ghost Dance, in one volume. Against a setting of Arctic cold, darkness, starlight and the brilliant jewel colours of folk-art, these are fantastical, cruel fairy-tales of shamans, shape-shifters,...

A bad summer, and the crops didn’t grow. Now winter is coming. Everyone is hungry. People are searching for nettles and acorns. Elka and her little brother Daw huddle under their blankets, trying to keep warm. Elka is too hungry to sleep. Awake in the dark, she listens to her parents whispering. “I...

Ghost Song: Book 2 of the Ghost World Sequence 164 pages   381 kb At white midnight, on the endless midsummer night of the far north, Kuzma the bear shaman, enters a house in a remote village. Only Malyuta, a slave and hunter, is awake, standing watch over his new-born...

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