Susann Cokal, Author . BlueHen $25.95 (389p) ISBN 978-0-399-14753-1
Sprawling, spiritual and crudely sensual, Cokal's debut novel is neither for the weak of heart nor the faint of stomach. In 14th-century France, in the village of Villeneuve, a town beset by plague witnesses a miracle: a young virgin takes her...
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Susann Cokal, Author . Unbridled $23.95 (416p) ISBN 978-1-932961-06-5
This steamy historical novel (Cokal's second, after Mirabilis
) chronicles the adventures—sexual and otherwise—of its consumptive, red-haired heroine, Famke, from her childhood in a late 19th-century Copenhagen orphanage to her fate...
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Susann Cokal. Candlewick, $22.99 (576p) ISBN 978-0-7636-6694-1
“I have always loved a fairy tale.” So says Ava Bingen, a young seamstress in the palace of the fictional Scandinavian city of Skyggehaven. Dark and bloody fairy tales inform this dense, 16th-century narrative, richly layered with multiple...
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Susann Cokal. Candlewick, $22.99 (496p) ISBN 978-1-5362-0959-4
This immersive retelling of “The Little Mermaid” follows Sanna, a half-landish mermaid who leaves her flok to seek her human mother. Advised by the ancient, riddle-tongued sea witch Sjældent, Sanna is bound for the castle ruled by ageless and unkind
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