- Title:
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Run to the Western Shore
- Written by:
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Tim Pears
- Read by:
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Ciaran Saward
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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4
- Duration:
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4 hours 55 minutes
- Published:
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November 28 2023
- Available Date:
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November 28 2023
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781038657404
- Genres:
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Fiction; Historical Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Award winning author
Set in Britain in AD 72, Run to the Western Shore tells the story of a young Roman slave, Quintus, and Olwen, daughter of the chief of a local tribe, from award-winning author Tim Pears.
Britain, AD 75.
Quintus, long exiled from his people, has travelled great odysseys in the retinue of a powerful Roman. Though a citizen of nowhere, is a man of reason, fluent in many languages. Olwen, imperious tribal royalty, is rooted in her native land – a volatile warrior, fiercely attached to the natural world.
Given away by her father as part of a peace treaty, Olwen flees during the night, taking Quintus with her. Hunted by an army, the two make their way across the country, living off the land, heading for the western shore…
Written in spare but evocative language, Run to the Western Shore is a tale of quest and struggle, but also an ode to the land and a love story about the reconciliation of opposites in times of need.
'Pears is a wonderful storyteller with a truly remarkable sense of time and place.' (on The Redeemed)
Scotsman
'Pears’s prose, with its sensuousness and subtlety, is a fine vehicle for the intelligent, unsentimental tale he tells.' (on In The Light of Morning)
Sunday Times