While I generally stick to posts related to medieval history and historical fiction and fantasy, I ran across this short blurb about The Alchemist by Paul Coelho being made into a movie. I haven’t read the novel yet, but I’ve heard really good things about it from friends, and I understand it’s a truly heartwarming, […]
Filed under: Fiction, Books and Movies, Literary News on May 21st, 2008 | No Comments »
The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.; New Ed edition (25 Mar 2005)
Description (from Amazon):
Mention author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the indefatigable super-sleuth Sherlock Holmes surely comes to mind. It may come as a surprise, then, that Doyle’s earlier writing includes historical fiction. When first published in 1891, […]
Filed under: Medieval History, Historical Fiction, Fiction on May 20th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Last Light of the Sun by Guy Gavriel Kay
Paperback - 512 pages
Publisher - Roc Trade (April 5, 2005)
Average Customer Review on Amazon - 4 stars
Editorial Review from Publishers Weekly:
In this wonderfully imaginative historical fantasy from Kay (A Song for Arbonne), seemingly random deeds connect Erling (Viking) raiders and Anglcyn (English) and Cyngael (Welsh) princes: […]
Filed under: Historical Fantasy, Medieval History, Historical Fiction, Fiction on May 13th, 2008 | No Comments »
The Burning Times by Jeanne Kalogridis
Paperback - 400 pages
Publisher - HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; New Ed edition (April 15, 2002)
Average Customer Review on Amazon
Editorial Review from Publishers Weekly:
Dracul, turns from fangs and bloodsucking to gnosticism and witchcraft in this paranormal romance-cum-medieval fantasy. In 14th-century France, Franciscan abbess Marie Fran?oise is arrested by the Inquisition on charges […]
Filed under: Medieval History, Historical Fiction, Fiction on May 6th, 2008 | No Comments »
An Army of Angels: A Novel of Joan of Arc by Pamela Marcantel
Paperback - 592 pages
Publisher - St. Martin’s Griffin; St Martin’s Griffin Ed edition (March 15, 1998)
Average Customer Review on Amazon - 4 stars
Editorial Review from Publishers Weekly:
Extensively researched, Marcantel’s earnest retelling of the story of Joan of Arc traces the saint’s life from […]
Filed under: Medieval History, Historical Fiction, Fiction on April 29th, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Saga: A Novel of Medieval Iceland by Jeff Janoda
Paperback - 360 pages
Publisher - Academy Chicago Publishers (May 2008)
Average Customer Review on Amazon - 5 stars (12 customer reviews)
Editorial Review from Booklist:
This detail-rich novel is a retelling of a thirteenth-century Icelandic saga written by an unknown author. The original document arose from the colonization of Iceland […]
Filed under: Medieval History, Historical Fiction, Fiction on April 22nd, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Odinn’s Child: The Heroes of the North Live On (Viking Trilogy) by Tim Severin
Paperback - 400 pages
Publisher - Macmillan UK; New Ed edition (September 1, 2005)
Average Customer Review on Amazon - 4.5 stars
Editorial Review from Booklist:
Severin offers the first installment in a projected trilogy. Thorgils, son of Norse chieftain Leif the Lucky and fey Celtic […]
Filed under: Medieval History, Historical Fiction, Fiction on April 15th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Firedrake by Cecelia Holland
Paperback - 180 pages
Publisher - Backinprint.com (March 2001)
Average Customer Review on Amazon - 4 stars
Description:
Cecelia Holland’s first novel follows the career of an Irish mercenary knight who joins the army of William the Conqueror and fights at the Battle of Hastings.
Excerpt:
In the trees it had been very dark. Here in the […]
Filed under: Norman Conquest, Medieval History, Historical Fiction, Fiction on April 8th, 2008 | No Comments »
Since I’m only doing these types of posts once a week, I thought it made sense to change the title. I plan to begin posting more regularly as before; other work related things have kept me from doing so.
Daughters of the Grail by Elizabeth Chadwick
Product Details:
Paperback - 448 pages
Publisher - Sphere (2006)
Average Customer Review on […]
Filed under: Medieval History, Historical Fiction, Fiction on April 1st, 2008 | No Comments »
The Physician by Noah Gordon
Product Details:
Paperback - 720 pages
Publisher - Little, Brown Book Group (2001)
Average Customer Review on Amazon - 4.5 stars
Editorial Review from Library Journal:
When nine-year-old Rob Cole felt the life force slipping from his mother’s hand he could not foresee that this terrifying awareness of impending death was a gift that would lead […]
Filed under: Medieval History, Historical Fiction, Fiction on March 25th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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