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| Today: Jean Gill |
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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Believable, page-turning and memorable.” Lela Michael, S.P. Review
1150: Provence, where making love and making paper are crimes against the Church.
Death on her heels, Estela runs towards a new identity. Her life depends on her golden voice and the patronage of Eleanor of Aquitaine but her heart cares more for the judgement of her tutor, Dragonetz, a cynical ex-crusader. He knows he must not love this troublesome student but their duet makes its own demands.
Will their secrets kill them both? The troubadours, Dragonetz and Estela, are an explosive combination which their powerful enemies intend to blast into smithereens.
Set in the period following the Second Crusade, Jean Gill’s spellbinding romantic thrillers evoke medieval France with breathtaking accuracy. The characters leap off the page and include amazing women like Eleanor of Aquitaine and Ermengarda of Narbonne, who shaped history in battles and in bedchambers.
Global Ebooks Award for Best Historical Fiction
Historical Novel Society Editor's Choice
Finalist in the Wishing Shelf Awards, the Kindle Book Awards and the Chaucer Awards
Four Discovered Diamond Awards
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “One of the best historical novels I’ve read in a long time,” Paul Trembling, Dragonslayer
Book 2 Bladesong
https://books2read.com/bladesong/
1151: The Holy Land, where one book is worth more than a man's life.
Book 3 Plaint for Provence
1152: Les Baux de Provence, where today’s friends are tomorrow’s enemies.
Book 4 Song Hereafter
https://books2read.com/SongHereafter/
1153: Hispania and the Isles of Albion, where the wise traveller carries a knife in her under-skirt.
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The perfect stocking-filler or Secret Santa gift.
Standalone Christmas novella
Nici’s Christmas Tale
1157: Aquitaine. Nici the shepherd's dog stands guard in the sheepfold and the wolves are coming!
https://books2read.com/NicisTale
SERIES 2
The Midwinter Dragon
A re-imagining of Orkneyinga Saga, from 12th century Viking Orkney to the Holy Land
Book 1 The Ring Breaker
https://books2read.com/Orkneyjar
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “So good I read it twice,” Lesley Walters, goodreads
Loyalty has a price the children pay. In the twilight of the old gods, when the last Vikings rule the seas, two cursed orphans meet on an Orkney beach and their fates collide.
Stripped of honour, facing bleak loneliness ahead, Skarfr and Hlif forge an unbreakable bond as they come of age in the savage Viking culture of blood debts and vengeance. To be accepted as adults, Skarfr must prove himself a warrior and Hlif must learn to use women’s weapons. Can they clear their names and choose their destiny? Or are they doomed by their fathers’ acts?
The award-winning author of The Troubadours Quartet returns to the 12th century, with skalds instead of troubadours and Viking warriors instead of crusaders. Get ready for authentic medieval adventures steeped in poetry, politics and passion. Perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell and Madeline Miller.
Historical Fiction Book of the Year 2023 - Bjørn Larssen, blogger at Queen’s Book Asylum
Shortlisted for the 2022 Selfies Award and the 2022 Chaucer Award; Quarter-Finalist in The Booklife Prize.
Book 2 Among Sea Wolves
1150: The Whale Road. To change their doom, Skarfr and Hlif must pay the price.
Book 3 Hunting the Sun
https://books2read.com/SunHunt
1151: The Whale Road. Doomed to exile in Sicily, warrior poet Skarfr and wise woman Hlif must prove their worth once again—or die trying.
Book 4, the conclusion (to come in 2026)
Author Bio
Award-winning Welsh author and photographer Jean Gill lives in Provence with the best scent-hound in the world, a Nikon D750 and a man. Best known for writing epic medieval adventures in The Troubadours and The Midwinter Dragon series, Jean has published 27 multi-genre books since 1988, including the dog bestseller Someone To Look Up To. Although she’s hung up her beekeeping gloves, she still cares passionately about her wild neighbours, which include boar, badgers, foxes and hares.
For many years, she taught English, and was the first woman to be a secondary headteacher in the Welsh county of Dyfed. She is mother or stepmother to five children so life was hectic. With Scottish parents, Welsh and French residence and an English birthplace, she can usually shout for the winning team in sporting events.
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Historical fiction has never felt so perilous, or so alive, as in Jean Gill's books :)
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