Bernard Cornwell’s new historical fiction novel Azincourt is expected to be released this October (2008) in the UK. The US version will not come out until January of 2009 most likely. The novel will be a stand-alone, not a series, and will obviously cover the events surrounding the famous Battle of Agincourt in October of 1415. […]
Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman
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Paperback - 720 pages
Publisher - Ballantine Books (1993)
Average Customer Review on Amazon - 5 stars
Novel Description:
Thirteenth-century Wales is a divided country, ever at the mercy of England’s ruthless, power-hungry King John. Then Llewelyn, Prince of North Wales, secures an uneasy truce with England by marrying the English king’s beloved, illegitimate daughter, Joanna. Reluctant […]
I almost exclusively stick to medieval history when posting on my site, but I’m curious about the new movie 10,000 B.C. The story follows the life of young hunter whose love interest is taken captive, and then he sets out with a small group to pursue the captors and save her. The movie premiered this […]
The movie version of C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian premiers May 16th, 2008. I saw The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe when it came out, but I was not that impressed with it. The CGI was spotty in parts, and the child actors were not all that great. The battle scene was […]
Nectar from a Stone by Jane Guill
Product Details:
Paperback - 464 pages
Publisher - Touchstone (2005)
Average Customer Review on Amazon - 4.5 stars
Editorial Review from Publishers Weekly:
It’s Wales in 1351, and across a plague-infested, often brutal landscape, Elise—a spirited young woman prone to visions—and her servant/surrogate mother Annora flee the scene of an unplanned crime: Elise has […]
Noah Lukeman is the President of Lukeman Literary Management Ltd., founded in 1996, and he is the author of the bestselling books The First Five Pages: A Writer’s Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile and The Plot Thickens: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life. He has valuable insight into the world of publishing, […]
Cover art for the fifth novel in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series was recently released. There is no official date on when A Dance With Dragaons will hit bookshelves, but it’s rumoured for this coming Fall.
I’ve been compiling a list of medieval historical fiction novels to read, and I thought I would highlight a new one every week if possible. Many of these I have not even read myself.
The first one is The Whale Road by Robert Low.
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The Whale Road
By Robert Low
Hardcover - 352 pages
Publisher - Thomas Dunne Books (August […]
Some people feel J.R.R Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings are pure genius, with Tolkien being one of the most influential writers of his time, maybe even all time. Others find his writing a bit heavy and dull, as the novel is filled with hundreds of pages of backstory and lyrical poems and huge […]
If you’ve never visited Amazon Shorts, you should definitely check it out; there, you can download short literary works digitally for only $.49, and currently, the contest for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award is going on. The Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award is a contest designed to discover the next big author in fiction, and this […]