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Manda Scott

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Manda Scott is an award-winning novelist, host of the international chart-topping Accidental Gods podcast and co-creator of the Thrutopia Masterclass.

Best known for the Boudica: Dreaming series, her previous novels have been short-listed for the Orange Prize, the Edgar, Wilbur Smith and Saltire Awards and won the McIllvanney Prize.

Her latest novel ANY HUMAN POWER is a 'seismic' Mytho-Political thriller which lays out a Thrutopian road map to a flourishing future we’d be proud to leave to the generations that come after us.

Welding the power of intergenerational connection to combat the sting of death and the vicious vengeance of a dying establishment, it opens the doors to a new way of being.

Dream Deeply. Rise up Strong. Change is Coming!
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Manda Scott The sequel to Any Human Power: Currently entitled 'All the Wild Islands' after the Illya Prigogine quote: “When a complex system is far from equilibri…moreThe sequel to Any Human Power: Currently entitled 'All the Wild Islands' after the Illya Prigogine quote: “When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have a capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order.”

Change is coming. How do we build towards a future we'd all be proud to leave as our legacy - while the establishment flails around ever-more violently as it crumbles into insignificance? (less)
Manda Scott There are a great many strong women in this book. Ines Picaut is the Captain of police in Orleans who has to solve the assassination at the heart of t…moreThere are a great many strong women in this book. Ines Picaut is the Captain of police in Orleans who has to solve the assassination at the heart of the story - an old, old woman with an uncertain identity is found dead in a way that reflects back to the second world war.

And so there are also characters in the war: Sophie Destivelle is an assassin, one of the 'equipes de tueurs' mentioned by John Goldsmith in his book, 'The Accidental Agent'. Goldsmith was in the Special Operations Executive and his book is a gold mine of information, some of it entirely unique. Amongst his throwaway nuggets is a paragraph about these 'equipes' whose sole reason for existence was to assassinate men and women who had betrayed the Resistance to the occupying German army.

He says this: "Pierre, the man who betrayed me…had been assassinated by one of the Resistance's teams of trained killers – equipes de tueurs – within three days of my arrest… The killer teams normally did no other form of Resistance work and were therefor above suspicion. Their numbers included harmless-looking, under-developed students and one or two anaemic girls. I got the impression that the weaker thy looked the more deadly they were."

Once in a while, there's an explosion of ideas, and a character arrives more or less fully formed. Sophie was one of these - a nurse who is also an assassin. We follow her through the war and on towards the present day.

One of her counterparts is a woman we come to know as Celine, an English woman of similar age and similar competence, who is trained by the SOE and parachuted into France. They are very, very different women: Sophie is working class French while Celine is an English aristocrat a (moderately) closeted lesbian. But they become friends and their friendship is part of the core dynamic that drives the book forwards. (less)
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“We all make mistakes in our youth of which we are ashamed. The difference is that the rest of us can forgive the child we were and believe in the honour of the adult we have become. - Gwyddhien”
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“It is in my mind that a people faced with death or slavery as their only choices are not readily going to relinquish war. - Longinus Sdapeze”
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“Romans! They think women and children are fit sacrifices in war and anything less than crucifixion smacks of leniency. And they call us barbarians. - Longinus Sdapeze”
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Aug. 15-Oct. 15 Group HF Series

Welsh Princes Series: Here be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman- 3 books
 
  6 votes, 20.7%

Boudica Series: Dreaming the Eagle by Manda Scott- 4 books
 
  6 votes, 20.7%

King Raven Series: Hood by Stephen R. Lawhead- 3 books
 
  3 votes, 10.3%

William Marshall Series: The Greatest Knight by Elizabeth Chadwick- 5 books
 
  3 votes, 10.3%

The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy- 3 books
 
  2 votes, 6.9%

Guinevere Trilogy: Guinevere by Sharan Newman- 3 books
 
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The Josephine Bonaparte Collection: The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. by Sandra Gulland- 3 books
 
  2 votes, 6.9%

Warlord Chronicles Series: The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell- 3 books
 
  1 vote, 3.4%

Temeraire Series: His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik- 8 books
 
  1 vote, 3.4%

The D'Artagnan Romances: The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas- 7 books
 
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Asian Saga: King Rat by James Clavell- 7 books
 
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message 12: by Donna

Donna Manda,
Thanks for the friendship on Good Reads. I have entered the giveaway for INTO THE FIRE. Fingers crossed.
Donna


message 11: by W.

W. Tinkanesh Hi, Manda! I sent you a private message. Have a Fantastic Friday and a Wonderful Weekend!
W.


message 10: by W.

W. Tinkanesh Of course, I might also pre-order a copy of 'Into the Fire' and enter the other giveway. Whatever I do, I am still planning to attend one of your book signings.
(two comments when I could have written everything in one? I definitely need coffee! :D)


message 9: by W.

W. Tinkanesh I just entered the Goodreads giveaway for 'Into the Fire'. It's ok if I don't win, because I'm planning to attend one of your book signings.


J.E.J. Fern Thank you!


message 7: by Manda

Manda Scott Thank you.... glad to meet you (just finishing ABSOLUTION, sequel to NO GOOD DEED, which you may remember from an age ago. Hope you enjoy the Roman spy thriller series: they were enormous fun to write...


message 6: by W.

W. Tinkanesh Hi, Manda! You've written some of the best crime fiction I've ever read! Good to meet you here! Have a great weekend! W.


message 5: by Manda

Manda Scott Judith wrote: "Manda, I loved your comment in historical fictionistas. You sound like my kind of HF writer. You've been on my list to review but I haven't gotten to you. Any chance of getting an ARC and maybe doi..."

Absolutely - can you mail me a snail mail address (manda at mandascott dot co dot uk)

would be delighted to have a review on your site - and an interview...

very many thanks

Manda


Judith Starkston Manda, I loved your comment in historical fictionistas. You sound like my kind of HF writer. You've been on my list to review but I haven't gotten to you. Any chance of getting an ARC and maybe doing an interview with the review. You can look at what I did with Bruce Macbain's Roman mystery both review (http://www.judithstarkston.com/review...) and interview (http://www.judithstarkston.com/review...) on my website.


message 3: by Manda

Manda Scott Hi people - I only really just discovered GoodReads- looking forward to endless book recommendations...


message 2: by Simon

Simon Thanks for looking me up, Manada.


message 1: by Dana

Dana Davis Thanks for the friend request, Manda. Loved your Boudica series! Happy writing! www.danadaviswriting.com


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