All the Horses of Iceland [Paperback]

ANew York TimesBest Fantasy of 2022!

All the Horses of Icelandis a slim and beautiful chronicle in the tradition of Naomi Mitchison and Ursula K. Le Guin. &The result is a sorcerous journey through hospitality and enchantment. The New York Times

A hypnotic historical fantasy with gorgeous and unusual literary prose, from the captivating author ofThe Fourth Island.

Everyone knows of the horses of Iceland, wild, and small, and free, but few have heard their story. Sarah TolmiesAll the Horses of Icelandweaves their mystical origin into a saga for the modern age. Filled with the magic and darkened whispers of a people on the cusp of major cultural change,All the Horses of Icelandtells the tale of a Norse trader, his travels through Central Asia, and the ghostly magic that followed him home to the land of fire, stone, and ice. His search for riches will take him from Helmgard, through Khazaria, to the steppes of Mongolia, where he will barter for horses and return with much, much more.

All the Horses of Icelandis a delve into the secret, imagined history of Iceland's unusual horses, brought to life by an expert storyteller.

Sarah Tolmie is the author of the Tordotom novellaThe Fourth Island, the poetry collectionsCheckandThe Art of Dying, the 120-sonnet sequenceTrio, and the chapbookSonnet in a Blue Dress and Other Poems. She has also published the novelsThe Little AnimalsandThe Stone Boatmen,as well as the short fiction collectionsTwo TravelersandNoFood. She is a medievalist trained at the University of Toronto and Cambridge and is a Professor of English at the University of Waterloo.

ANew York TimesBest Fantasy of 2022!

All the Horses of Icelandis a slim and beautiful chronicle in the tradition of Naomi Mitchison and Ursula K. Le Guin. &The result is a sorcerous journey lÃ.