Prophet by Paula De Fougerolles
Prophet, the second novel in the acclaimed historical-fiction series The Chronicles of Iona (named to Kirkus Reviews' Best of 2012; Silver Prize Winner, ForeWord Reviews 2012 Book of the Year Awards, Historical Fiction), continues the story of the two men who laid the foundations of the Scottish nation, an Irish monk, Saint Columba, and a Scottish warlord, Aedan mac Gabran. They were a real-life sixth-century Merlin and King Arthur and their story has never been told. It is 567 A.D. Four years after journeying with the Scottish warrior Aedan mac Gabran into the land of the wild Picts, Irish abbot-prince Columba is forced back there to seek Aedan's aid for an epic battle. Aedan must leave his Pictish wife and child and return to his first love, now married to the brother whose princely power he has vowed to help save. Yet once home, the friends' struggle to quell the chaos of the western shores only unearths even more secrets and prophecies that test old loyalties and faiths of all kinds. While Saxon invaders spread from the east and the Britons' many kingdoms battle for sovereignty, the Scots' ancestors from Ireland also enter the fray, and Aedan and Columba must fight enemies both political and personal in a desperate attempt to protect everything they have come to love. Prophet plunges the reader into the world of 6th-century Scotland, Ireland and Britain, a world on the brink of either collapse or creation, poised between myth and history.
Paula de Fougerolles, Ph.D., has always had a deep love and appreciation for mediaeval history. A Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, during which she crisscrossed the continent on foot with a backpack, gave her an immersive, first-hand knowledge of the landscape and material culture of early-mediaeval Europe. With a Ph.D. from the Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Department of the University of Cambridge, she then mastered its languages, literatures, and histories. That learning and passion has been focused into her award-winning fictionalized-history series, The Chronicles of Iona. Island-Pilgrim is the third novel in the series. To learn more, visit: WWW.PAULADEFOUGEROLLES.COM
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| ISBN 13 | 9780615753362 |
| ISBN 10 | 0615753361 |
| Title | Prophet |
| Author | Paula De Fougerolles |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Careswell Press |
| Year published | 2013-01-14 |
| Number of pages | 380 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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