Ann Chamberlin, Author . High Country $24.95 (448p) ISBN 978-1-932158-61-8
Chamberlin, moving from DAW for this third installment of the Joan of Arc Tapestries, again mixes above-average medievalism and convoluted narrative. She picks up Joan's historical career from her first appearance at the dauphin's raggle-tagg
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Ann Chamberlin, Author Forge $23.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-86550-4
""In the beginning..."" traditionally opens the Judeo-Christian story of origins; but this provocative novel by historical fiction writer Chamberlin (The Reign of the Favored Women) wrestles with what happened before the beginning. The down-to-earth
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Ann Chamberlin, Author Tor Books $24.95 (333p) ISBN 978-0-312-87284-7
Smoothly blending the real and the magical, Chamberlin puts French history to masterly use in another appealing chapter in her medieval saga centered on Joan of Arc. (Despite the title, ""the great magician Merlin in ancient days"" is mentioned only
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Ann Chamberlin, Author Forge $23.95 (463p) ISBN 978-0-312-85649-6
Biblical history is brought vividly to life in Chamberlin's second novel (after The Virgin and the Tower ), a story of King David's court told from a woman's point of view. Tamar comes to Jerusalem as a child when her mother, Maacah, marries David....
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Ann Chamberlin, Author Forge $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-86592-4
A complex historical tale of two formidable women, related by one of the eunuchs who guard them, the third novel in Chamberlin's trilogy of 16th- and 17th-century Turkey (after Sofia and The Sultan's Daughter) concerns the seraglio machinations and...
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Ann Chamberlin, Author Forge $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-86110-0
Chamberlin's latest novel (after Tamar) blends absorbing historical detail with a lively, romantic plot about two Italian teenagers sold into slavery in the Ottoman Empire. In 1562, Giorgio Veniero, a 15-year-old orphaned sailor who narrates two...
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Ann Chamberlin, Author Forge $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-86203-9
The author of Sofia and Tamar takes another journey into the intrigue of the Ottoman Empire. Set in the 1560s in Constantinople, the tale is narrated by a eunuch, Abdullah, a former Venetian sailor now enslaved to Esmikhan, the grand-daughter of...
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Ann Chamberlin, Author Tor Books $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-86551-1
A rich weaving of fantastic elements with accurate historical detail and imaginative reinterpretation, this series launch covers the years 1404-1415. Yann, a Breton merchant's three-year-old son prone to fits and visions, is accidentally wounded...
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Ann Chamberlin. Epigraph, $24 hardcover (244p) ISBN 978-1-936940-43-1
Both historical and fictional characters populate a well-researched portrayal of the early Islamic era in this second installment in Chamberlin's The Sword and the Well trilogy. Building on The Woman and the Well, the author presents a broad view of
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