After spending an awful lot of 2024 chained to my desk, I’m pleased to say that I have three books due to be published in 2025, two non-fiction works and one novel.
In March, the History Press will publish Lionessheart: The Life and Times of Joanna Plantagenet. As the title implies, this is about Joanna, the youngest daughter of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. She led a life that was just as exciting and adventurous as that of her brother, Richard the Lionheart, but her role in contemporary events has been inexplicably (or, alternatively, all too predictably …) overlooked. She was at various times a princess, a queen, a prisoner, a crusader and an independent, rebellious wife, and it’s about time we all heard more about her!
Here’s the book cover:
The second work of non-fiction, Nemesis: Philip Augustus, Scourge of the Plantagenets, will be published by Osprey later in the year, and I’ll post a picture of the cover as soon as I have one.
And finally, book 9 in my series of medieval murder mysteries, entitled A Pale Horse, will be published by the Mystery Press on 5 June:
This takes our hero, Edwin, on an unexpected journey to Sherwood Forest, where he encounters lots of people with bows and arrows, although none of them is called Robin …