Prue Batten

• Nov-2023
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A red silk thread tied around one's wrist by the God of Fate is immovable.Destiny is immutable.For Lien of the First House of Silk and Ming Xao, her Emperor, the woven silk thread on their wrists brings them to the very edge of death as they are hunt...

• Nov-2021
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1196ADLyonRelics can move mountains, so history relays. They cure the sick, promise success, enable whole kingdoms to win wars.A fragment of byssus lies in a small chest and its very existence underlines the life of Christ and the meaning behind the ...

• Jun-2019
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Meeting Alex Tremayne changed Annie's life.

Losing him through a shocking farm accident shattered her.

After Annie loses Alex, her husband and soulmate, she withdraws into the state of solitude that has always been her refuge.

Un...

• Oct-2018
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Michael Sarapion, merchant and thief, returns to Byzantine Constantinople from which he fled the year before in fear of his life. In his company is Tobias, the dwarf brother of an icon thief and Ahmed, an Arab galley master with secrets.

Mi...

• Dec-2016
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The Church -- powerful and moneyed.The Heretics -- zealous and poor.Lyon -- a city that might claim to cast the seeds of reformed thinking upon the world.Guillaume of Anjou, formerly an archer fighting with other Angevins in the Third Crusade, ...

• Nov-2016
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Nugget is a wombat. He lives on an Australian sheep farm and he is lonely. But Wise Owl tells him a great secret and suddenly life seems filled with humungous possibilities. So Nugget starts a journey to find his dream.

• Nov-2015
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'The Lady Moon came down one night.She did,You shouldn't doubt it.A lovely lady dressed in blue.I'll tell you all about it...'An fantasy short story from medal-winner Prue Batten, which will enthral and entice you into the quartet of The Chronicles o...

• Nov-2015
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'They are shadows who seek and shadows that find,They want the mortal heart, not their own kind.They chase till you faint, they leave you to die.Run away, Alice, fly, fly, fly...'A fantasy short story by medal winner, Prue Batten, that will entice yo...

• Sep-2015
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Byzantium stretches a weakening grip across Eastern Europe, trying in vain to hold onto all that has made it an empire. Tyrian purple, the unique dye that denotes its power, is held under close guard by the imperial house.

However a Jewish m...

• May-2015
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In this final book of The Gisborne Saga, Gisborne, spymaster and valued knight of Richard Lionheart, is forced into a fierce duel in which his wife and son are thrust round the board in a brutal game of revenge.

Is it the Knights Templar wh...

• Jul-2013
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Once Lady Ysabel De Courcey had thought that if she had been a trobairitz, she might have written a song about herself -- her courage in the face of adversity that would have had the men and women in any noble hall sighing as they listened.

• Jul-2013
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BOOK ONE in the THE GISBORNE SAGA In a story where status means power and survival depends on how the game is played, two people, one a squire wronged in life and one a noblewoman, are drawn together by lust and a lost inheritance in twelfth century ...

• Jan-2013
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In a world where Others play with mortal lives, in a hidden province that survives on the backs of abducted slaves, Isabella, one of those stolen folk, sends a message woven into rare cloth made of paper and silk, in the vain hope that her cousin wil...

• Oct-2012
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Silver Medal winner of 2012 Readers' Favourite Book Awards. Highly recommended! 'Prue Batten leads the way with elegant adult historic fantasy. The Eirie Chronicles set the bar for modern fantasy authors wanting to tread the fine line between reality...

• Aug-2012
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Two people drawn together by lust and a lost inheritance in 12th century England where status means power and survival depends on how the game is played. Guy of Gisborne - a man of dark secrets accompanies Ysabel of Moncrieff - a woman of prominence,...

• Sep-2009
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Amongst the embroidery on a coveted gown, there is a secret story that is tragic and shocking in its scope. A story of revenge, a story of friendships lost, a story of love and the cruel machinations of enchanted Others who weave in and out of mortal...

• Dec-2008
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No one would believe that a tragedy to rival Romeo and Juliet could be hidden beneath the embroidery of a rare gown. If the writer is found out, she could be killed.
Adelina the Traveller, skilled embroiderer, creates a treasure hunt across her ro...