By Neil Gaiman

Bestselling and masses enjoyed writer Neil Gaiman, whose novel American Gods has been tailored right into a significant tv sequence, brings vividly to lifestyles the tales of Norse mythology that experience encouraged his personal amazing writing during this no 1 Sunday Times bestseller

The nice Norse myths are woven into the cloth of our storytelling – from Tolkien, Alan Garner and Rosemary Sutcliff to Game of Thrones and surprise Comics. also they are an concept for Neil Gaiman's personal award-bedecked, bestselling fiction. Now he reaches again via time to the unique resource tales in an exhilarating and bright rendition of the good Norse stories. Gaiman's gods are completely alive at the web page – irascible, visceral, playful, passionate – and the stories hold us from the start of every thing to Ragnarok and the twilight of the gods. Galvanised via Gaiman's prose, Thor, Loki, Odin and Freya are impossible to resist forces for contemporary readers and the crackling, really good writing calls for to be learn aloud round an open hearth on a freezing, starlit night.

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