Historical Fiction and Biography

The Conquest trilogy focuses on the life of Nest ferch Rhys, a 12th century Welsh princess who played a significant role in the struggles for power between the Welsh and the Normans. See Meanda Books for further details.

The Viking Hostage is set in 10th century France and Wales, and Almodis the Peaceweaver is set in 11th century France and Catalonia. The new editions are published by Meanda Books in hardback, paperback and ebook.


My new novel, Love’s Bread and its Knife, is the first in a series of medieval murder mysteries featuring Beatriz, a female troubadour and sleuth and set in the late 11th century court of Philippa of Toulouse. Sign up to my Substack to receive free weekly posts on my medieval history research. From November, as a paid subscriber, you can read Love’s Bread and its Knife in daily posts, chapter by chapter, in serialised form.

I am currently working on a biography, entitled Three Female Lords, which is an account of Almodis de La Marche, who was Countess of Toulouse and, then, Countess of Barcelona, and her sisters, Raingarde de La Marche, Countess of Carcassonne and Lucia de La Marca, Countess of Pallars Sobira. I received an Authors’ Foundation Award from the Society of Authors for work on this forthcoming book. My first novel, Almodis the Peaceweaver, was a fictionalised version of Almodis’s life.

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