Sun Horse, Moon Horse

10 best books like Sun Horse, Moon Horse (Rosemary Sutcliff): The Lightest Object in the Universe, The Wine-Dark Sea, The Offing, Rules for Visiting, Ark, This Rough Magic, Tramp for the Lord, Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child, The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors, The Lost Language of Plants: The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicine to Life on Earth

The Lightest Object in the Universe
AuthorKimi Eisele
ISBN1616207930
If the grid went down, how would you find someone on the other side of the country? How would you find hope?

After a global economic collapse and failure of the electrical grid, amid escalating chaos, Carson, a high school teacher of history who sees history bearing out its lessons all around...
AuthorRobert Aickman
ISBN0749301724
From Publishers Weekly
Since his death several years ago, British writer Aickman's reputation has continued to grow among connoisseurs of the horror story. Unlike much of the current form, full of blood, monsters and melodrama, Aickman's stories achieve a quieter, more subtle and, in several...
The Offing
AuthorBenjamin Myers
ISBN1526611317
After all, there are only a few things truly worth fighting for: freedom, of course, and all that it brings with it. Poetry, perhaps, and a good glass of wine. A nice meal. Nature. Love, if you're lucky.

One summer following the Second World War, Robert Appleyard sets out on foot from his Durham...
Rules for Visiting
AuthorJessica Francis Kane
ISBN0525559221
A beautifully observed and deeply funny novel of May Attaway, a university gardener who sets out on an odyssey to reconnect with four old friends over the course of a year.

At forty, May Attaway is more at home with plants than people. Over the years, she's turned inward, finding pleasure in...
Ark
AuthorVeronica Roth
On the eve of Earth’s destruction, a young scientist discovers something too precious to lose, in a story of cataclysm and hope by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Divergent trilogy.

It’s only two weeks before an asteroid turns home to dust. Though most of Earth has already...
This Rough Magic
AuthorMary Stewart
ISBN0060747471
When Lucy Waring's sister Phyllida suggests that she join her for a quiet holiday on the island of Corfu, young English Lucy is overjoyed. Her work as an actress has temporarily come to a halt. She believes there is no finer place to be "at liberty" than the sun-drenched isle of Corfu, the alleged locale...
Tramp for the Lord
AuthorCorrie ten Boom
ISBN0515089931
For the past twenty years Corrie ten Boom has crisscrossed the globe, slept in more than a thousand different beds, and lived out of suitcases...all to fulfill her God-given mission to tell people everywhere that Jesus Christ is reality, that He Lives, that He is Victor.

This remarkable woman...
Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
AuthorLaura Cumming
ISBN1501198718
Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez Laura Cumming shares the riveting story of her mother’s mysterious kidnapping as a toddler in a small English coastal village—and how that event reverberated through her own family and her art for decades.

In the...
AuthorDavid George Haskell
"Here is a book to nourish the spirit. The Songs of Trees is a powerful argument against the ways in which humankind has severed the very biological networks that give us our place in the world. Listen as David Haskell takes his stethoscope to the heart of nature - and discover the poetry and music contained...
AuthorStephen Harrod Buhner
ISBN1890132888
This could be the most important book you will read this year. Well-known author, teacher, lecturer, and herbalist Stephen Harrod Buhner has produced a book that is certain to generate controversy. It consists of three parts: A critique of technological medicine, and especially the dangers to the...
The Last Conversation
AuthorPaul Tremblay
What’s more frightening: Not knowing who you are? Or finding out? A Bram Stoker Award–winning author explores the answer in a chilling story about identity and human consciousness.

Imagine you’ve woken up in an unfamiliar room with no memory of who you are, how you got there, or where...
Rotherweird
AuthorAndrew Caldecott
The town of Rotherweird stands alone - there are no guidebooks, despite the fascinating and diverse architectural styles cramming the narrow streets, the avant garde science and offbeat customs. Cast adrift from the rest of England by Elizabeth I, Rotherweird's independence is subject to one disturbing...
Emergency Skin
AuthorN.K. Jemisin
What will become of our self-destructed planet? The answer shatters all expectations in this subversive speculation from the Hugo Award–winning author of the Broken Earth trilogy.

An explorer returns to gather information from a climate-ravaged Earth that his ancestors, and others...
You Have Arrived at Your Destination
AuthorAmor Towles
Nature or nurture? Neither. Discover a bold new way to raise a child in this unsettling story of the near future by the New York Times bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow.

When Sam’s wife first tells him about Vitek, a twenty-first-century fertility lab, he sees it as the natural next...
Real Tigers
AuthorMick Herron
ISBN1616956127
London’s Slough House is where disgraced MI5 operatives are reassigned to spend the rest of their spy careers pushing paper. But when one of these “slow horses” is kidnapped by a former soldier bent on revenge, the agents must breach the defenses of Regent’s Park to steal valuable intel in exchange...
The Past
AuthorTessa Hadley
ISBN0345816110
A mesmerizing novel about family and the modern world encroaching upon the old, from one of Britain's finest contemporary novelists.

Three adult sisters and their brother meet up at their grandparents' country home for their annual family holiday--three long, hot summer weeks. The beloved...
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