Spear

Winner of the L.A. Times Ray Bradbury PrizeNominated for the 2022 Nebula Award for Best Novel[A] queer Arthurian masterpiece for the modern era.-Los Angeles TimesA pleasure to follow [and] a lovely flexing of Griffiths strengths in short form. -The New York Times Book ReviewSpectacular-Ive been waiting years for this book to exist. -Maria Dahvana Headley, author of Beowulf: A New TranslationIf Le Guin wrote a Camelot story, I imagine it would feel like Spear: humane, intelligent, and deeply beautiful. Its a new story with very old bones, a strange place that feels like home. -Alix E. Harrow, author of A Spindle SplinteredA Shelf Awareness Best of the Year pickA Vulture Best Fantasy of the Year pickShe left all she knew to find who she could be . . .She grows up in the wild wood, in a cave with her mother, but visions of a faraway lake drift to her on the spring breeze, scented with promise. And when she hears a traveler speak of Artos, king of Caer Leon, she decides her future lies at his court. So, brimming with magic and eager to test her strength, she breaks her covenant with her mother and sets out on her bony gelding for Caer Leon.With her stolen hunting spear and mended armour, she is an unlikely hero, not a chosen one, but one who forges her own bright path. Aflame with determination, she begins a journey of magic and mystery, love, lust and fights to death. On her adventures, she will steal the hearts of beautiful women, fight warriors and sorcerers, and make a place to call home.The legendary author of Hild returns with an unforgettable hero and a queer Arthurian masterpiece for the modern era. Nicola Griffiths Spear is a spellbinding vision of the Camelot weve longed for, a Camelot that belongs to us all.