“Kid Beowulf” – A New Graphic Novel for Kids!
I had the chance to interview graphic novelist Alexis Fajardo about his new children’s comic book Kid Beowulf!
Kerry, Ireland A.D. 800 – medieval children’s book
Set in Ireland’s majestic Ring of Kerry in the year 800, the tale is an inspiring coming-of-age adventure that deals with life lessons on the backdrop of an educational and entertaining plot
Author looking to crowdfund novel set in the aftermath of the Norman invasion of 1066
A British author is using the innovative crowdfunding publisher Unbound to raise fund to create a new novel set in eleventh-century England.
The Hobbit: “sales are not very great” wrote Tolkien
The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien, was one of the most popular novels of the 20th century, but a letter by the author just after the book was published reveals that sales were initially slow and that a second printing may not happen.
BOOK REVIEW: Edric the Wild
A book review of the new release “Edric the Wild”, by Jayden Woods
Interview with James Forrester, author of Sacred Treason
‘The whole plot becomes so much more sensational when set in the Elizabethan period, and the struggle the conscientious individual to ‘do the right thing’ becomes a battle in itself.’
The Hobbit – 75 years old and still going strong
It took a review by a ten-year old boy to convince a publisher to print it, but on September 21, 1937, the first edition of The Hobbit hit the bookstores.
The Treatment of Mythology in Children’s Fantasy
Fantasy stories trace their roots back to far older tales: the myths and legends of various cultures, which grew from oral storytelling in the days when myths were the only explanation for the mysterious workings of the real world.
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
On the surface, this book was an unlikely candidate to become an international bestseller – a book by an Italian professor, it has long digressions into medieval theology and references to a work by Aristotle.
The Peace Weaver: Wealhthrow in Beowulf
My goal in writing this fictional novella is twofold: to make Beowulf more accessible to modern readers and to expound upon the less articulated female point of view in the poem.
A Response to Anglo-Saxon Heroism and Fourteenth Century Chivalry: Ideals for the Warrior in the Writings of J.R.R. Tolkien
While the chivalric ideal has continued to appear in British literature, Anglo-Saxon heroism with its bond between lord and thane has largely dropped away. The writings of J.R.R. Tolkien provide the striking exception to this.
The Knight and the Serpent: A Legend of Medieval Normandy
John R. Gabourel writes about the universal tale of choices and where they can lead us in his novel The Knight and the Serpent: A Legend of Medieval Normandy
Cluny Cross: A Mad Medieval Tale
Cluny Cross – A Mad Medieval Tale, a novel placed in the 11th century, follows a Benedictine monk’s frantic adventure through the Byzantine and Turk Empires before it races on to Jerusalem and the embattled Holy Land.
France’s Jehanne: The 15th Century Heroine in Truth and Fiction
Jehanne bends her legs and arms, holding them close to her chest like a small child, trying hopelessly to find warmth on the cold, damp floor of her prison cell. Sitting only feet away from her body, outside the bars of her tiny cage, two guards argue over whose task it is to watch over her throughout the night. Their loud shouts echo against the tower’s stone walls and follow the stairs to the wet, deserted ground. She extends her arms around her head in an effort to drown out their foul noise from her head and hopefully alleviate her nose from the rank odor of putrefied air.
Book Review: Pope Joan, by Lawrence Durrell
Once I got past all the unnecessary narrative, this book read like a script from a ‘Carry On’ movie: a titillating tale of lusty desires and ambition set against a religious backdrop, and heavily cloaked in the guarded innuendo of the time.
Njáls saga as a novel: four aspects of rewriting
Inspired by Njáls saga and Laxdæla saga, the novel Fire in the Ice by American novelist Dorothy James Roberts is one of numerous modern rewritings of classical and medieval literature.
Conqueror: A Novel of Kublai Khan, by Conn Iggulden
An epic tale of a great and heroic mind; his action-packed rule; and how in conquering one-fifth of the world’s inhabited land, he changed the course of history forever.
Interview with Sharon Kay Penman
Best-selling author Sharon Kay Penman has published her twelfth novel, Lionheart, which focuses on King Richard I and his crusade to the Holy…