{"product_id":"travel-light-by-naomi-mitchison","title":"Travel Light  by Naomi Mitchison","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Read it now' (Ursula K. Le Guin)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA REDISCOVERED FANTASY CLASSIC - INTRODUCED BY SAMANTHA SHANNON\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Read it now' URSULA K. LE GUIN\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Quiet and thoughtful, playful and wayward, rich with exquisite worldbuilding detail. I only wish - as an author who always dreamed of dragons - that I had discovered Travel Light sooner' SAMANTHA SHANNON\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'No one knows better how to spin a fairy tale than Naomi Mitchison' OBSERVER\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'I felt, very powerfully, that I had been waiting for Travel Light' AMAL EL-MOHTAR, author of THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Disarmingly familiar, like a memory only half-recalled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou will love this book' HOLLY BLACK, author of BOOK OF NIGHT\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e***Riding on that horse you would need nothing, no cloak even. She dropped it on the edge of the marshland. Nothing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou could travel light. Halla is the daughter of a king, cast out as a baby into a world of danger and enchantment. She is raised by bears, lives amongst dragons, converses with Valkyries and avoids warmongering heroes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut times are changing, and an encounter with the Wanderer, Odin All-Father, finds her at a crossroads. Cutting a fold from his night-blue cloak and laying it over her shoulders, the Wanderer sends her on a journey into the unknown. With only her bear-like kindness, her dragonish wisdom and her own fierce spirit to guide her, Halla must forge her own path . . . Weaving folklore, fairy tale and Norse myth into a shimmering, witty and slyly subversive tapestry, Travel Light is a rediscovered gem of classic fantasy writing - perfect for fans of Tolkien, Philip Pullman and Ursula K. Le Guin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat:Paperback \/ softback 192 pages\u003cbr\u003ePublisher:Little, Brown Book Group\u003cbr\u003eImprint:Virago Press Ltd\u003cbr\u003eISBN:9780349020549\u003cbr\u003ePublished:12 Mar 2026\u003cbr\u003eClassifications:Modern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003cbr\u003eWeight:164g\u003cbr\u003eDimensions:126 x 198 x 15 (mm)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wave of Nostalgia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63724485869917,"sku":null,"price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0934\/8838\/2301\/files\/9780349020549.jpg?v=1772719057","url":"https:\/\/waveofnostalgia.co.uk\/products\/travel-light-by-naomi-mitchison","provider":"Wave of Nostalgia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}