Proofs for my new historical novel, Conquest: Daughter of the Last King, arrived today. Very exciting. The book is the first in a trilogy, telling the story of the 12th century Welsh princess, Nest ferch Rhys, and the struggles between the Welsh and the Normans. Image: Nest ferch Rhys and King Henry I from an illuminated…
Tag: historical fiction
Twins in Fiction
Very interesting article on twins in literature by Ann Morgan in The Guardian. http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/15/twins-literature-useful-storytelling?CMP=share_btn_tw My novel, Almodis, features identical twins whose lives take different directions but who continue emotionally connected. I spoke with a number of twins about their experiences as part of my research.
The Viking Hostage top ranking in Australia
My novel The Viking Hostage is currently featuring on three bestsellers lists on the Amazon Australia Kindle Store (European History, Medieval History, Genealogy).
Almodis Reader Comments
Have received some wonderful feedback from readers of Almodis, such as: Dear Tracey Warr, I would like to complain: I started reading your novel in the bath and hours later realised that I’d read a third of the novel, was still in the bath, and I was freezing cold.
Almodis: The Peaceweaver Extract
Prologue Roccamolten Castle, La Marche November 1037 I stand on the precipice wrapped in bulky grey and silver furs. My eyes are trained, like a hawk at hunt, on the steep road snaking up the mountain towards me. I feel the bitter cold of the granite ledge through the thin leather of my shoes, and…
Writing Almodis
Paolo Ucello, The Hunt in the Forest, 1470, Ashmolean Museum, inspired my description of Almodis on a deer hunt. ORIGINS When I enrolled on the MA Creative Writing at Trinity St David, University of Wales three years ago, the last thing I expected to produce was an historical novel. I imagined I would develop the…
Almodis Bibliography
Aurell, Martin, Les Noces du Comte: Mariage et Pouvoir en Catalogne (785-1213) (Paris: Sorbonne, 1995). Bachrach, Bernard S., State-Building in Medieval France: Studies in Early Angevin History (Aldershot: Variorum, 1995). Bloch, Marc, Feudal Society, 2 vols. (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1961). Bogin, Meg, The Women Troubadours (New York: W.W. Norton, 1980). Bonnassie, Pierre, La Catalogne…
Tracey Warr Writing 