STEPHEN BAXTER

A series of counter-factual historical thrillers. A woman gives birth to her child in a village in Northern England. As she struggles through a painful labour, she begins to scream out a series of words in Latin. A language she has never heard before, much less spoken. One of the family recognises the words for what they are.

The final volume in the millennia-spanning trilogy about an England with a very different history to our own.

Transported to the Sky Steppe of Mars in the final, satisfying book in British author Baxter's highly original Mammoth trilogy (Longtusk; Silverhair), his engaging wooly characters face an abandoned and potentially lethal terraforming experiment left there by humans (aka "the Lost"). Matriarch mammoth Silverhair's daughter, Icebones, awakens fro...