Anna North

America Pacifica is an island hundreds of miles off the coast of California, the only warm place left in a world in the grip of a new ice age. Darcy Pern is seventeen; her mother has gone missing, and she must uncover the truth about her disappearance--a quest that soon becomes an investigation into the disturbing origins of America Pacifica itself and its sinister and reclusive leader, a man known only as Tyson. America Pacifica invites comparison to the work of Margaret Atwood and China Mieville, to Cormac McCarthy's The Road for its the touching child-parent relationship, and to Stieg Larsson's Millenium trilogy for its implacable, determined central character.

A colony of moss does not express preferences for certain people, living or dead. But if such a colony of moss did decide to reveal its favourites, let us just say You might be surprised.In 2018, a young forensic scientist, homesick and adrift in the North of England, is heading to a coroner's office to identify a body.In 50 BCE, a female druid is travelling to a city in the South where she will appear before the new king.And underfoot, all along, a teeming colony of moss is opening its wet mouth, waiting.In this wonderfully strange, multi-layered story, the unexpected discovery of an ancient bog body becomes a pinprick of light in the depths of humanity's history.

In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women are routinely hanged as witches, her survival depends on leaving behind everything she knows. She joins up with the notorious Hole in the Wall Gang, a band of outlaws led by a preacher-turned-robber known to all as the Kid. Charismatic, grandiose, and mercurial, the Kid is determined to create a safe haven for outcast women. But to make this dream a reality, the Gang hatches a treacherous plan that may get them all killed. And Ada must decide whether she's willing to risk her life for the possibility of a new kind of future for them all. Featuring an irresistibly no-nonsense, courageous, and determined heroine, Outlawed dusts off the myth of the old West and reignites the glimmering promise of the frontier with an entirely new set of feminist stakes. Anna North has crafted a pulse-racing, page-turning saga about the search for hope in the wake of death, and for truth in a climate of small-mindedness and fear.

En 1890, en el Lejano Oeste, Ada tiene diecisiete años, está a punto de casarse y el futuro le sonríe: quiere a su prometido y le encanta trabajar como aprendiz de partera. Pero, al cabo de un año de matrimonio, no se queda embarazada. Las mujeres estériles son sospechosas de brujería y condenadas a la horca. Para sobrevivir, tendrá que dejarlo todo e iniciar una nueva vida. Ada se une a una famosa banda de forajidas liderada por un predicador convertido en ladrón, conocido como Kid, carismático, ambicioso y grandilocuente, que quiere crear un refugio seguro para mujeres marginadas. Sin embargo, para hacer realidad este sueño, la banda trama un peligroso plan y Ada tendrá que decidir hasta qué punto está dispuesta a arriesgar su propia vida y la de sus compañeras. Proscrita, tercera novela de Anna North, es un extraordinario neowestern feminista. «Ya tenemos una considerable tradición –ha declarado la autora– que se pregunta qué dejaron fuera los libros de Historia de los Estados Unidos que estudiábamos en el colegio. Y creo que los novelistas empezamos a dar respuestas.»

Gripping and provocative, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark tells a story of fame, love, and legacy through the propulsive rise of an iconoclastic artist. “It’s hard for me to talk about love. I think movies are the way I do that,” says Sophie Stark, a visionary and unapologetic filmmaker. She uses stories from the lives of those around her—her obsession, her girlfriend, and her husband—to create movies that bring her critical recognition and acclaim. But as her career explodes, Sophie’s unwavering dedication to her art leads to the shattering betrayal of the people she loves most. Told in a chorus of voices belonging to those who knew her best, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark is an intimate portrait of an elusive woman whose monumental talent and relentless pursuit of truth reveal the cost of producing great art, both for the artist and for the people around her.

Sophie Stark es una joven cineasta llena de talento pero también una experta en manipular emocionalmente a los que la rodean para conseguir una buena película. Es capaz incluso de engañar a su hermano o de traicionar a su propio marido con tal de hacer una buena película. Al utilizar sus vidas para sus propias historias consigue destruir, en nombre del arte, sus relaciones más íntimas.Vida y muerte de Sophie Stark nos hace comprender los sacrificios que a veces exige la profesión artística pero trata también del aislamiento y las obsesiones que se dan a menudo entre los artistas. La novela nos habla, a través de las personas que la quisieron, de las extrañas relaciones que se dan entre la realidad y la ficción y de cómo los creadores muy a menudo manipulan su propia vida para concebir sus obras sin importarles demasiado las consecuencias.