{"title":"Books by Alex Myers","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780008352776","title":"The Symmetry of Stars","description":"From the author of 2020's astonishing The Story of Silence comes another retelling of a chivalric legend, full of magic, myth and self-discovery.                       “Utterly enchanting”Publishers Weekly                      Beyond the stars, two gods vie for rule of the world.                       One stands for Nature – the belief that everything is stamped in flesh from the start. The other, Nurture – the belief that all is potential, that the true self is coaxed out through love and living.                         And so, they take a bet.                       Each immortal selects a set of twins as their champions. The twins that prevail in contest will decide which immortal rules….             In a westerly valley, a girl and boy are born to a noble family, to be raised by a mysterious teacher – ready to love and instruct them in everything, regardless of society’s expectations…          To the east, a woman washes ashore on an island inhabited only by a sorcerer. With her final breaths, she gives birth to twins. These two are raised with careful neglect by the sorcerer – surrounded not with love but with danger, magic and wildness.             Society expects these children to become men and women. But the immortals care nothing for human norms and raise the twins according to their own ends. Which twins will prevail?                      What truly matters in determining who a person will become?                    Taking the epic Italian legend of Orlando Furioso as his starting point, Alex Myers unravels a tale of fate, of East and West, of twinship and of heroic self-affirmation; once more translating a classic into a multilayered new story sure to delight fans of Uprooted and The Bear and the Nightingale.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43201237057714,"sku":"9780008352776","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780008352776.jpg?v=1785658973"},{"product_id":"9780008352721","title":"The Story of Silence","description":"\u003cp\u003eA knightly fairy tale of royalty and dragons, of midwives with secrets and dashing strangers in dark inns. Taking the original French legend as his starting point, The Story of Silence is a rich, multilayered new story for today’s world – sure to delight fans of Uprooted and The Bear and the Nightingale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Utterly enchanting”Publishers WeeklyThere was once, long ago, a foolish king who decreed that women should not, and would not, inherit. Thus when a girl-child was born to Lord Cador – Merlin-enchanted fighter of dragons and Earl of Cornwall – he secreted her away: to be raised a boy so that the family land and honour would remain intact. That child’s name was Silence. Silence must find their own place in a medieval world that is determined to place the many restrictions of gender and class upon them. With dreams of knighthood and a lonely heart to answer, Silence sets out to define themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSoon their silence will be ended.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43205993562290,"sku":"9780008352721","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780008352721.jpg?v=1785658971"},{"product_id":"while-we-were-silent","title":"While We Were Silent","description":"Devastating secrets shroud the campus of Green Dell Academy, secrets that some think are worth killing for . . . From Lambda Literary Award finalist Alex Myers comes a provocative dark academia novel.    There are rules and then there’s reality . . .    Autumn, 2015. Green Dell Academy is a prestigious co-ed prep school tucked away in a quiet corner of Connecticut. And although it has its first female head of school, it’s still very much a boys’ club—a club with longstanding “traditions” that involve gross misconduct—and now murder.    A woman has been killed, right on campus, a woman who has been deeply involved in fighting sexual violence, a woman who had no shortage of enemies.    The murder case, coupled with an investigation into allegations of sexual assault, threatens to bring dark, deep-rooted secrets to the surface, the kind of secrets that go back decades—and some people seem to value the old ways more than human life . . .    For fans of Rebecca Makkai’s I Have Some Questions For You and Ashley Winstead’s In My Dreams I Hold a Knife. Written by the current teacher at an American school academy, Alex Myers brings to life a thought-provoking and deeply relevant story.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":57484107907445,"sku":"9781448320035","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57682711052661,"sku":"9781448320059","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781448320035.jpg?v=1792511643"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-alex-myers.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}