Matrix
ISBN : 9781785151910
Seventeen-year-old Marie, too wild for courtly life, is thrown to the dogs one winter morning, expelled from the royal court to become the prioress of an abbey. Marie is strange - tall, a giantess, her elbows and knees stick out, ungainly. At first taken aback by life at the abbey, Marie Finds purpose and passion among her mercurial sisters. Yet she deeply misses her secret lover Cecily and Queen Eleanor. Born last in a long line of women warriors and crusaders, women who flew across the countryside with their sword fighting and dagger work, Marie decides to chart a bold new course For those she now leads and protects. She will bring herself, and her sisters, out of the darkness, into riches and power. Matrix is a bold vision of female love, devotion and desire from one of the most adventurous writers at work today.
The Island of Missing Trees
ISBN : 9780241435007
"A wonderfully transporting and magical novel that is, at the same time, revelatory about recent history and the natural world and quietly profound." William Boyd. "This is an enchanting, compassionate and wise novel and storytelling at its most sublime." Polly Samson. "A brilliant novel - one that rings with Shafak's characteristic compassion for the overlooked and the under-loved, for those whom history has exiled, excluded or separated. I know it will move many readers around the world, as it moved me." Robert Macfarlane "A wise novel of love and grief, roots and branches, displacement and home, faith and belief. The Island of Missing Trees is balm for our bruised times." David Mitchell.
