Runemarks

By: Joanne Harris

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Paperback | 2 August 2012

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Seven o'clock on a Monday morning, five hundred years after the End of the World, and goblins had been at the cellar again. Maddy Smith has always been an outsider. In a world ruled by the harsh and puritanical Order, she is shunned for the strange birthmark on her left hand. Not only does it make Maddy deformed in the eyes of her village, it also casts the dark suspicion of witchcraft over her. For this is no ordinary birthmark - it is a runemark, a sign of the old gods. In fact, Maddy can do things that no-one else can, things that could be called magic. But not until she meets the old traveller One-Eye, an outsider like herself, does she learn what power she really has, and what she will be asked to do with it. In "Runemarks", Joanne Harris uses her keen imagination to create a world not unlike our own - if it had been shaped by the Vikings instead of the Romans - and colours it with her familiar blend of rich imagery and gritty realism. A disenchanted world, where the gods died long ago and the legends faded away. Can Maddy bring them back to life?

Industry Reviews

"Loved Runemarks...a core fantasy much like the stories of David Eddings or Terry Brooks, with a cool twist on Norse mythology" -- Stephenie Meyer "An inventive, moving and witty novel that is hard to put down" TES "If the likes of Philip Pullman's Northern Lights had you bewitched, then Runemarks is certainly worth a read." Heat Magazine "Joanne Harris, best known as the author of Chocolat, is good at beginnings and pay-offs: each of the chapters in this nine-part fantasy epic has a punchy finish that makes you want to read on...Especially enjoyable are Harris's aphorisms, her satire of joyless piety, and the comically irreverent vernacular spoken by a dissolute goblin and the trickster god Loki" The Sunday Times "She is so terrific, she can write about anywhere, anything, anyone." Daily Telegraph

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