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In the grand traditions of Brian Aldiss, Alan Garner and Ray Bradbury, Skaldenland is the story of Chad and Brun, who find the Symphonion, an ancient music box which plays even without song disks. The Song of the Symphonion turns summer into winter, calls giants from the stars, wakes gods and monsters from the Earth. Now brother and sister find themselves living out a terrifying war between Freya, leader of the Valkyries and Hel, Goddess of the Underworld for the soul of Baldur, a warrior-god condemned to hell by the woman he loved. But as icebergs fill the bay and an army of the dead invade the land of the living, is it the gods or the teenagers who will die?

The Symphonion must be silenced before the world is destroyed – but how?

Reviews

“A satisfyingly mythic experience” – Immaterial Blog

‘Skaldenland is one of those rare works of art where the author has invested his creation with an energy that lets it unfold in the mind of the reader almost as if it were growing there from its own DNA. When you read, you live through the senses of the young hero, inside the collapsing, summer/winter world that author Jim Mortimore has created.” – Paul Hinder

“Jim Mortimore has an uncanny way of combining rich prose with polished dialogue which effortlessly transports you in the first few paragraphs into his fictional world and before you know it, you’re hooked. As the story opens with two children chasing an ice cream van on a hot summer’s day you can almost feel the sun on your cheeks as you run with them, hypnotised by the come-to-me-jingle. And in the best tradition of the genre, it isn’t long before a holiday turns into a dark adventure with the acquisition of a musical instrument with strange powers. Jim Mortimore keeps the narrative bubbling along nicely making this a hard book to put down once you’ve started.” – Mark Naisbit

“Skaldenland is a skilfully written and highly imaginative work of fiction. A labour of love, this tome should be on everyone’s bookshelf. Skaldenland is positively breathtaking. Its evocation of scale is effortless. The tale [exists] somewhere between Neil Gaiman and Ursula LeGuin. This is the full W. B. Yeats in terms of imagery and emotional power. Exhaustingly good.” – Lawrence Burton

“A fabulous book that flings you from nostalgic 50s-feeling summer seaside holidays to the savagery of ancient conflicts. Mortimore has the ability to awaken all the senses with his wonderfully evocative penmanship. A real page-turner, gripping, exciting and challenging.” – Andrea Morrison