ForeWord Clarion Review HISTORICAL FICTION The Chronicles of Iona: Exile Paula de Fougerolles Careswell Press 978-0-615-60254-7 Five Stars (out of Five) “Iona is not a place one visits on a whim,” says a burly Scottish warlord to the Irish abbot who plans to colonize the isle. “Beset by vile storms” and surrounded by even viler…
Tag: Saint Columba
Here’s the cover of “The Chronicles of Iona, Exile”, coming June 2012.
Here is the cover of my book, The Chronicles of Iona: Exile, on its way in June. The map detail of the Irish Sea, Argyll and the Isles, and Strathclyde is from Scotiae Tabula by Abraham Ortelius in his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1592-1606). The map, which I have always loved, hangs on the wall in my study—a…
“The Chronicles of Iona: Exile”: coming soon to a virtual bookstore near you …
… as near to you, that is, as your nearest computer, or tablet, or Kindle, or Nook, or Sony e-reader, or what-have-you. Because, in a few short weeks, The Chronicles of Iona: Exile, my historical fiction novel about the two men who “founded” Scotland in the sixth century, the saint Columba and the warlord Aedan mac…
Book II is done too …
It’s been a long hiatus, but a productive one, and I’m back with the news that Book II in my series is done too. It’s called The Chronicles of Iona: Peregrinatio. (That’s Latin for a “peregrination”, literally a wandering, but in this case, that is the early monastic case, a pilgrimage. In Irish Latin usage,…
My book’s done!
Just wanted to let you know that my manuscript, The Chronicles of Iona: Exile is done and needing readers, and an agent and publisher. It’s a dual biography of St. Columba of Iona and Áedán mac nGabráin, king of the Scots of Dál Riáta, the first in a series of novels about their lives. Columba is best known for bringing…
The Pictish monastery of Portmahomack–a Columban foundation
(Looking out from Craig Phadrig towards Portmahomack) Finally, what may be proof that St Columba did indeed convert the Northern Picts to Christianity! His Vita, the “biography” of Columba written a century after his death, suggests that he did, but that is hardly a surprising claim for such a work to make. But the Venerable…
Is the Loch Ness Monster dead?
Researchers and fans of the extraordinary are despairing. The number of sightings of the Loch Ness Monster has tailed off dramatically in recent years, so much so that many think the famed creature may actually be dead. But did you know that the first recorded story about the Loch Ness monster is in the Vita…
“In course of time Britain received a third race …” or The Peoples of the North
Loch Crinan, gateway to Dunadd, the caput regionis of the Scots of Dál Riata There were four different peoples in Scotland in the early Middle Ages, speaking their own languages, with their distinctive material cultures, myths of origins, religions and ideologies. All have left significant legacies in the history and landscape of Scotland. The…
Iona
Paula de Fougerolles 2009 The island of Iona with the modern Abbey left foreground, Dun I center Iona, a small island in the Inner Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland, was a center of Christianity in Europe for much of the Middle Ages. Columba, or Colum Cille as he was known, exiled from…
Why this blog?
What’s a girl to do when she discovers that her heart lies in the Dark Ages? She hunts it down in whatever form it persists. Or, she re-creates her own version of it. Fact. And Fiction. Together. That’s what I’ve done in my forthcoming series of fictionalized history, set in sixth-century Scotland, called “The Chronicles…
Paula de Fougerolles' The Chronicles of Iona 