If you’re in Oxford, U.K. on Saturday, July 6, do swing by the Oxford Indie Book Fair to say hello! I’ll be there selling all my books at a special discounted rate. I’m also always delighted to sign old copies of my books, so do bring them along! Many thanks to #OxIndieBookFair and @artsfestivaloxford for … More Come see me at the Oxford Indie Book Fair!
You know what I love about what I do? One of the things, in any case? (Because there are many!) The research trips. I sit here in my study, pulling together what I know about the 6th century so that I can imagine how my characters might have felt and thought and acted. Columba of Iona and Aedan mac … More Thank you Northern Ireland!
The Chronicles of Iona:
Island-Pilgrim
Preface
… More Read the Preface to “Island-Pilgrim”, Book 3 in the award-winning historical-fiction series “The Chronicles of Iona”
My thoughts have been eastward all day as the transnational One Book One Community Reading Project is officially launched in Derry. Readers in Northern Ireland, Co. Donegal and New England will be reading “Exile”, the first book in my historical-fiction series “The Chronicles of Iona”, at the same time. Donegal County Council and Libraries Northern Ireland set … More Donegal, Northern Ireland go live with the One Book transnational reading project based on “The Chronicles of Iona: Exile”
Hey, did you hear that beautiful little Shelburne Falls has just been voted by Boston.com as one of the top five dream places to live in Massachusetts? Doesn’t surprise me! One of the hill-towns in the western part of the state, just south of the historic Mohawk Trail (Route 2), Shelburne Falls is one of … More Book reading and signing, “The Chronicles of Iona: Prophet”, at Boswell’s Books in Shelburne Falls, MA 5/9/13 at 6 p.m.
The second book in my historical-fiction series The Chronicles of Iona, called Prophet, is now out! The story picks up where the first book, Exile, left off, beginning in the year 567 A.D. Four years after journeying with Scottish warrior Aedan mac Gabran into the land of the wild Picts, Irish abbot-prince Columba is forced back there … More Book 2, The Chronicles of Iona: Prophet, is here!
I am delighted that Donegal County Council has chosen “The Chronicles of Iona: Exile” to be the featured novel in its One Book One Community Reading Project for 2013. People in New England, Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland will be reading “Exile” at the same time. Here’s an article about the project which appeared in … More “The Chronicles of Iona: Exile” and the One Book, One Community Project
Here’s the cover of Book 2 in the series “The Chronicles of Iona”, called “Prophet”. Yes: there’s been a name change. Book 2 was originally entitled “Peregrinatio” which in Latin means a pilgrimage, a spiritual wandering, in this case to refer both to Columba in his exile on the island of Iona, and to Aedan, stuck in … More Here’s the cover for Book 2 in “The Chronicles of Iona”, “Prophet”
*This post is dedicated to Heather N. with thanks!* Just to let you know that if you happen to be in Northampton, MA any time soon you can pick up an autographed copy of my book, The Chronicles of Iona: Exile, at Booklink Booksellers, Inc. Booklink, a fantastic independent bookstore, is located in Thorne’s Marketplace, … More “The Chronicles of Iona: Exile” is now available at Booklink Booksellers, Northampton, MA (and gets to hang with Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter ..)
The clairvoyant gifts of the real St Columba got a shout-out on one of my favorite history blogs yesterday—Beachcombing’s Bizarre History Blog (The outlandish, the anomalous and the curious from the last five thousand years). http://www.strangehistory.net/ As did my book, “The Chronicles of Iona: Exile”, which Dr. Beachcombing rather kindly equates to T.H. White’s “The … More St Columba gets a shout-out (as does “The Chronicles of Iona: Exile”)