My new novel, Love’s Knife, a medieval murder mystery, was published last month. I started writing it 10 years ago during a month-long writing residency in the Pyrenees. It’s been a long time brewing. I just came across a series of blogposts from those weeks of having the initial idea for the novel and am…
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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 