Runemarks

The major fantasy debut from bestselling author Joanne Harris, now in paperback.

Seven o'clock on a Monday morning, five hundred years after the end of the world, and goblins have been at the cellar again. Not that anyone would admit it was goblins. In Maddy Smith s world, order rules. Chaos, old gods, faeries, magic all of these were supposedly vanquished centuries ago. But Maddy knows that a small bit of magic has survived. The ruinmark she was born with on her palm proves it and makes the other villagers fearful and suspicious that she is a witch.

But the mysterious traveler One-Eye sees Maddy s mark not as a defect, but a destiny. And Maddy will need every scrap that One-Eye can teach her about runes, cantrips, and glamours every ounce of magic she can command if she is to survive that destiny.

* Harris creates a glorious and complex world replete with rune-based magical spells, bickering gods, exciting adventures and difficult moral issues. Publishers Weekly, Starred