I’m teaming up with Phinney Books in Seattle to bring you signed books for the holidays. Only this year we have SOMETHING SPECIAL to offer: buy a signed, personalised hardcover or paperback of Hild, and get the ENTIRE AUD TRILOGY—also signed and personalised!—for only an additional $10!! (plus shipping).
Read moreMore Hild-inspired pictures from readers.
Read moreThis is Part Five of the story of my doctorate—the who, why, when, what, and how of it—based on questions from readers on this blog, Facebook, and Twitter.
Read moreI’ve just added a new picture to the Hild fan art page—a sun-dappled Hild sitting by her pool wearing many of her…
Read more“You were magnificent, I think, but hidden: a black hole at the heart of history. We can trace you only by your gravitational pull.” This essay first appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, September 2015.
Read moreI’m hard at work on Menewood, aka Hild II. So here are a bunch of cat pictures, that is, cats with Hild, followed by some Hild fan art. Some of these you will have seen before, some are new.
Read moreSchool, at all levels, is where we learn what’s important. The Open Syllabus Project offers a tool to look at the intellectual judgements embedded in our education.
Read more“Nicola Griffith works a special brand of literary magic…a stunning blend of real history and soaring imagination…steeped in the language and customs of early Britain.” More fab reviews from the UK.
Read moreFrom the Guardian: “A magnificent and convincing portrayal of a strange, wild, beautiful world.”
Read moreToday is my birthday. Tomorrow, Hild is out in paperback in the UK. The best present you could give me? Go buy it!
Read moreYou were magnificent, I think, but hidden: a black hole at the heart of history. We can trace you only by your gravitational pull…
Read moreOut in six weeks, October 1: a luscious, newly-typeset paperback edition of Hild. At 640 pages, it’s even more capacious…
Read moreI couldn’t be at University Bookstore for Independent Bookstore Day when they had that great pretend-you’re-Hild poster board, so I popped in yesterday and had a go…
Read moreFor Independent Bookstore Day, visitors to University Bookstore in Seattle get their Hild on!
Read moreA long and juicy discussion of Hild by four critics who don’t always agree.
Read moreFor $250 I will name a character after you in the second Hild novel, Menewood. The money will go towards Stories for Chip, a literary tribute to Samuel R. Delany.
Read moreSnippets of news from the last few days, including nuns, Menewood, Topeka Library, and more.
Read moreI might read from the beginning of Hild II when I’m at Queen Anne Books with Patricia Bracewell tomorrow. Show up and see: Thursday 16th April, 7 pm.
Read moreTo celebrate the new season of Game of Thrones, the fabulous radio wizards at To the Best of Our Knowledge are running “Getting Medieval (Update)” in which me, GRRM, and others talk about blood, belief, and battle axes.
Read moreOn Thursday, 16th April at 7 pm, I’m doing an event at Queen Anne Book Company. I’ll be in conversation with Patricia Bracewell, author of The Price of Blood.
Read moreAnglo-saxon remedy kills MRSA. Breguswith knew a thing to two…
Read moreI’ve lost count of the number of readers who have suggested I look like one of the protagonists of my books, as illustrated on their covers. The first time it happened was with Slow River. I was surprised, but then came The Blue Place*, and Stay, and I became progressively less surprised. With Hild I expected it.
Read moreFrom: Robert Just wanted to email you and let you know that I just finished reading Hild and I absolutely loved it. …
Read moreTwo things. The American Library Association has announced its official list of Notable Books 2014, selected by the Reading List Council. They picked…
Read more* This post contains spoilers for Hild and Hild II * From: Diane My book club just had a discussion about Hild. It…
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