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Smile of the Wolf

Smile of the Wolf

by TimLeach (Author), Tim Leach (Author), Tim Leach (Author)

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    Paperback 2019

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Synopsis

The Times Book of the Month.

Tenth-century Iceland. In the darkness of midwinter, two friends set out on an adventure but end up killing a man.

Kjaran, a travelling poet who trades songs for food and shelter, and Gunnar, a feared warrior, must make a choice: conceal the deed or confess to the crime and pay the blood price to the family. For the right reasons, they make the wrong choice.

Their fateful decision leads to a brutal feud: one man is outlawed, free to be killed by anyone without consequence; the other remorselessly hunted by the dead man's kin.

Set in a world of ice and snow, Smile of the Wolf is an epic story of exile and revenge, of duels and betrayals, and two friends struggling to survive in a desolate landscape, where honour is the only code that men abide by.

'Smile of the Wolf bares its fangs from the first page. Like a medieval tapestry, the storytelling is rich with imagery. Readers will be lured spellbound into this lyrical and evocative Icelandic saga. It deserves huge success' DAVID GILMAN.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 352
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Head of Zeus
Published: 07 Mar 2019
ISBN 10: 1788544129
ISBN 13: 9781788544122
Book Overview:

A new novel from a prize-nominated rising star set in the merciless landscape of tenth-century Iceland.


Media Reviews
'Smile of the Wolf bares its fangs from the first page. Like a medieval tapestry, the storytelling is rich with imagery. Readers will be lured spellbound into this lyrical and evocative Icelandic saga. It deserves huge success' David Gilman.
'A thoughtful, literary take on a world that is more often depicted in a boy's adventure way. The focus in Leach's book is not on the fighting, but on the strange, inescapable logic that makes the fighting inevitable' The Times.
'An epic story of exile and revenge set in the snows of Iceland' Sheffield Telegraph.
'A poetic, absorbing narrative with many of the same qualities as the medieval Icelandic sagas that it echoes and reimagines' Sunday Times.
'Through him we understand the pitiless code of honour which drives almost everyone in the story to destruction - we understand, and we care' Historical Novel Society.
Author Bio

Tim Leach is a graduate of the Warwick Writing Programme, where he now teaches as an Assistant Professor. His first novel, The Last King of Lydia, was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize.