Böcker av Tim Murgatroyd

MyrmidonâEUR(TM)s lead literary title for 2024 is an epic rendering of ChinaâEUR(TM)s Taiping Rebellion and the early years of Californian winemaking, a story of passion, racial bigotry, hope and redemption.

Yorkshire, 22nd Century AD. A hard-won peace reigns in Baytown. Michael Pilgrim, the Protector of the North, struggles to bring progress to his community. But clouds of war gather. Rumours travel north: There is trouble in paradise. A new plague threatens the immortal Overlords, the "Beautifuls" of the Five Cities. Those who arrogantly believed themselves above nature are now suffering a grotesque reversal. Now it is they who face the question: Who would you sacrifice to live forever? Can Michael Pilgrim and his friends seize this one slim chance to rid humanity of the monstrous Five Cities? Everything depends on impossible odds-and on a tiny pearl of power.Pilgrim City concludes the Pilgrim Trilogy, a richly poetic voyage through a frightening and plausible future. "A poignant vision of the best and worst of human nature, where hope never dies."Praise for Tim Murgatroyd's Pilgrim Trilogy'Peopled with characters who have the mad and detailed oddness of the gargoyles that peer down from York Minster. It is Mad Max meets John Bunyan meets The Handmaid's Tale' -The York Press'Vividly drawn' -Publishers Weekly'Uniquely captivating...compelling... pages turn fast in this adventurous dystopian novel' -Foreword Reviews'Outlandishly and pleasurably inventive' -Abi Curtis, author of Water & Glass

Five years have passed since Michael Pilgrim defeated ruthless Pharaoh Jacko. All goes well in Baytown. Even the Five Cities seem to have lost interest in driving 'primitives' to extinction.But storms gather . . .Michael Pilgrim is lost, hundreds of miles from home. His one ally: a dangerous enemy. Can they survive with half Scotland baying at their heels?Seth Pilgrim is lost, a slave and an outcast. His sole reason to live is revenge. Then chance encounters challenge him to live better in a world of grotesque change.Averil Pilgrim and Helen Devereux are lost, drawn into the deranged politics of the Five Cities.Can they find their way home?PILGRIM LOST is the poetic second book in the epic Pilgrim Trilogy set in a frightening and plausible future. A world of bizarre characters blighted by humanity's folly, where hope never dies.

The Netherlands, Spring 1943. When her glittering career as a ballerina is cut short by a dancing injury, Elise Van Thooft-Noman, rebellious daughter of a powerful Dutch Nazi, flees to an isolated island off the coast of Holland. Here she meets Pieter Goedhart, reluctant village schoolmaster and Resistance fighter.