Turquoiselle, Tanith Lee [100 best novels of all time .TXT] 📗

darkness, but the sea.Emerald near the narrow shoreline, curving over into outer ocean. And there thewaves were a single thing, a glistening sheet of turquoise.

But it was not turquoise, of course. Not much is what it seems.Some things are not even – what they are.

About the Author

Tanith Lee was born in North London (UK) in 1947. Because herparents were professional dancers (ballroom, Latin American) and had to livewhere the work was, she attended a number of truly terrible schools, and didn’tlearn to read – she is also dyslectic – until almost age 8. And then onlybecause her father taught her. This opened the world of books to Lee, and by 9she was writing. After much better education at a grammar school, Lee went onto work in a library. This was followed by various other jobs – shop assistant,waitress, clerk – plus a year at art college when she was 25-26. In 1974 thismosaic ended when DAW Books of America, under the leadership of Donald AWollheim, bought and published Lee’s The Birthgrave, and thereafter 26of her novels and collections.

Since then Lee has writtenaround 95 books, and over 300 short stories. 4 of her radio plays have beenbroadcast by the BBC; she also wrote 2 episodes (Sarcophagus and Sand)for the TV series Blake’s 7. Some of her stories regularly get read onRadio 4 Extra.

Lee writes in many styles inand across many genres, including Horror, SF and Fantasy, Historical,Detective, Contemporary-Psychological, Children and Young Adult. Herpreoccupation, though, is always people.

In 1992 she married thewriter-artist-photographer John Kaiine, her companion since 1987. They live onthe Sussex Weald, near the sea, in a house full of books and plants, with twoblack and white overlords called cats.

Books by Tanith Lee

A Selection from her 93 titles

The Birthgrave Trilogy (The Birthgrave; Vazkor, sonof Vazkor, Quest for the White Witch)

The Vis Trilogy (The Storm Lord; Anackire; The WhiteSerpent)

The Flat Earth Opus (Night’s Master; Death’s Master;Delusion’s Master; Delirium’s Mistress; Night’s Sorceries)

Don’t Bite the Sun

Drinking Sapphire Wine

The Paradys Quartet (The Book of the Damned; TheBook of the Beast; The Book of the Dead; The Book of the Mad)

The Venus Quartet (Faces Under Water; Saint Fire; ABed of Earth; Venus Preserved)

Sung in Shadow

A Heroine of the World

The Scarabae Blood Opera (Dark Dance; PersonalDarkness;

Darkness, I)

The Blood of Roses

When the Lights Go Out

Heart-Beast

Elephantasm

Reigning Cats and Dogs

The Unicorn Trilogy (Black Unicorn; Gold Unicorn;Red Unicorn)

The Claidi Journals (Law of the Wolf Tower; WolfStar Rise, Queen of the Wolves, Wolf Wing)

The Piratica Novels (Piratica 1; Piratica 2;Piratica 3)

The Silver Metal Lover

Metallic Love

The Gods Are Thirsty

Collections

Nightshades

Dreams of Dark and Light

Red As Blood – Tales From the Sisters Grimmer

Tamastara, or the Indian Nights

The Gorgon

Tempting the Gods

Hunting the Shadows

Sounds and Furies

Also Publishedby Immanion Press

The Colouring Book Series

Greyglass

To Indigo

L’Amber

Killing Violets

Ivoria

Cruel Pink