Holdfast Books In Order
- Walk to the End of the World (1974)
- Motherlines (1978)
- The Furies (1994)
- The Conqueror’s Child (1999)
Sorcery Hall Books In Order
- The Bronze King (1985)
- The Silver Glove (1988)
- The Golden Thread (1989)
Novels
- Dorothea Dreams (1986)
- The Kingdom of Kevin Malone (1993)
- The Ruby Tear (1997)
Collections
- Listening to Brahms (1978)
- The Vampire Tapestry (1980)
- Music of the Night (2001)
- Stagestruck Vampires (2004)
- Snackreads Generations 1 (2016)
Plays
- Vampire Dreams (2001)
Non fiction
- Strange Seas (2002)
- My Father’s Ghost (2002)
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Suzy McKee Charnas Books Overview
The Furies
In Book One of the Holdfast Chronicles, Aldera the Messenger, along with all other women, is a slave. In Book Two, Aldera the Runner lives in two worlds, both consisting entirely of women. Now In Book Three, The Furies, Aldera the Conqueror leads an army back over the mountains, hoping to end the tyranny and free the salves she left behind.
The Conqueror’s Child
25 years after the landmark publication of Walk to the End of the World, Suzy McKee Charnas has completed her epic tale of the Holdfast. The Fems were slaves of the men in the Holdfast. When Alldera escaped her slavery, she led a band of rebels to build a world where women rule. Now Sorrel, Alldera’s daughter, joins her mother. She brings with her a young boy she has adopted. The Conqueror’s Child completes an epic history of life and love and the war between men and women which will stand for generations to come.
The Bronze King
Weird things began to happen, Tina noticed, right after the explosion in the subway. Stuff was disappearing ordinary things like the closet doorknob and Tina’s best sneakers, highly improbable ones like the kitchen linoleum, and most amazing of all, the great bronze statue of King Jagiello in Central Park. The three punky guys who kept turning up, with their chains and wrist straps and jackets lettered ‘Prince of Darkness’ across the back, were obviously part of the terror. But it wasn’t until Tina met the old street fiddler Paavo that she understood the menace that threatened the city and her own role in the terrifying struggle that lay ahead as an evil power from another dimension challenged her world. Here is a brilliant and compelling fantasy, which builds irresistibly from its everyday beginnings at a subway station on Manhattan’s West Side to an epic battle in Central Park. Music and magic conspire together as Tina, her new friend Joel, and the ancient wizard Paavo join forces to defeat an awesome enemy.
The Silver Glove
Fourteen year old Valentine Marsh has always known about her grandmother’s remarkable magic powers. Val hasn’t let her belief in Granny Gran’s sorcery affect her everyday life at home and school, until the day she receives a phone call and a magic silver glove from her grandmother that brings her two worlds together with a crash. A powerful wizard has come to Earth to steal human souls, and Gran has been chosen to defeat him. Val can’t believe that the wizard is actually masquerading as smooth talking Dr. Brightner, her new school psychologist. But when her mother becomes a pawn in his deadly scheme, Val finds the courage to join Gran’s fight. Together, armed with magic and the illuminating power of love, they face Brightner’s seductive and dangerous illusions. Guided by instinct and urged on by fear, Val uses The Silver Glove to aid her in her mission a mission to save not only her family but even the world from the forces of doom.
The Golden Thread
Magic is nothing unusual to Valentine Marsh. But when she and her friends join hands to make a wish on New Year’s Eve, even Val marvels at the ring of energy and light they mysteriously create. Since her magical grandmother is lying near death in a hospital, Val can only assume that this power of the Comet Committee, as they come to call themselves, is her own. When Val is assigned to host foreign exchange student Bosanka Lonat at school, the Comet Committee’s purpose becomes clear to her. Bosanka has come to America in search of her estranged relatives, and she believes that the Committee has the power to reunite them. Disturbing things begin to happen, and Val suspects that she’s dealing, not with a typical European teenager, but with someone who is capable of great evil. Together with Joel, Barb, and Lennie, Val tests her courage and magical powers to fight against the terrifying tragedy that faces them all.
Dorothea Dreams
A reclusive artist is visited by a dying friend, a ghost from the past, and an angry boy with hostages at his mercy; the outside world imposes brutal demands that she must meet with courage and imagination, to avert disaster. ‘Spunk and intelligence…
excitement anchored in character.’ Kirkusstarred review’Weaves an element of fantasy throughout its realistic story, with sensitive, memorable characters and a compelling plot. A winner.’ Coast Book Review Service’You’ll be enthralled…
A superb novel about art, death, and courage.’ Aboriginal Science Fiction
The Kingdom of Kevin Malone
To escape the abuse of his now dead father, Kevin Malone has created his own magical world, the Fayre Farre, and he is Prince Kavian. Amy, a former classmate, arrives in the final days before the epic battle between Prince Kavian and his nemesis. A sure winner which will be enjoyed by readers who may be overwhelmed by high fantasy. Children’s Book Review Service
The Vampire Tapestry
Edward Weyland is far from your average vampire: not only is he a respected anthropology professor but his condition is biological rather than supernatural. He lives discrete lifetimes bounded by decades of hibernation and steals blood from labs rather than committing murder. Weyland is a monster who must form an uneasy empathy with his prey in order to survive, and The Vampire Tapestry is a story wholly unlike any you’ve heard before.
Stagestruck Vampires
The scary, lush, and complex stories of a seminal fantasy author are presented in this retrospective collection. In ‘The Unicorn Tapestry,’ a therapist finds herself transformed by a client who may be a vampire. A young girl discovers the pitfalls of puberty and an animal nature in ‘Bo*obs’; an unlikely shaman finds protection in an unwilling ally in ‘Peregrines’; and in the dark retelling of the two fairy tales ‘Beauty and the Op ra or The Phantom Beast,’ a tempestous maestro meets his equal. Also included are two of Charnas’s essays, ‘Art Is Long,’ an insightful and entertaining look at the unusual process of writing a four book trilogy, and ‘The Stagestruck Vampire,’ an autobiographical look at the author as a playwright.
My Father’s Ghost
‘My Father’s Ghost‘ is a wise woman’s look at a ‘failed’ father daughter relationship how it hurt, how it healed, and how, ultimately and in unexpected ways, the problem father became the daughter’s strength. My Father’s Ghost will be an inspiration to anyone who is dealing with a parent’s aging or approaching death, and fans of this splended writer will find her at her best here.’ Sarah Smith, author of A Citizen of the Country ‘In My Father’s Ghost Suzy McKee Charnas reveals a father daughter relationship at levels recognized only by the heart…
she communicates the fears and wishes that surround dying in a personal and uplifting story. I recommend this book to all.’ Daniel Hays, author of My Old Man and the Sea ‘My Father’s Ghost is a thoughtful, sad and loving study of the life and death of a brilliant and troublesome man. You’ll be glad you read it. Tony Hillerman When Suzy McKee Charnas realized that her father could no longer care for himself on his own, she invited him to come live in the old adobe ‘in law’ cottage beside her own in New Mexico. My Father’s Ghost skillfully traces a parent child relationship inverted by the changes of aging. Over the last seventeen years of her father’s life as she drove him to the grocery store, to the bank, or picked him up off the floor after he had fallen Charnas struggled to understand this man whose former artistic ambition seemed to hang like a shadow over his old age. She reflects on the difficulties inherent in their situation even as she reveals that her father’s inability to care for himself afforded them the opportunity to bridge a gap that might easily never have been mended. A moving portrait of the last chapter in a father daughter relationship and of the divide between the person we are in our youth and who we become in our old age, My Father’s Ghost will resonate deeply with anyone facing old age or caring for an elderly loved one.
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