Re: Does anyone know a good book set in Late Antiquity / Dark Ages?

"Aaron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> I'm looking for good historical novels set afte the fall of the Roman
> Empire (476 BC) but before the rise of Charlemagne (late 700s),

Here's the few I know of:

The Flight of the Sparrow, Fay Sampson
The story of the Edwin, who rose from a hunted exile to become the great
king of Anglo-Saxon Northumbria, and his bitter feud with his Celtic
foster-brother Cadwallon of Gwynedd. Edwin is torn between his loyalty to
the old Saxon gods, the Roman Church of his young queen, and the Celtic
Christianity he knew in Wales. As the storm-clouds gather, his niece Hild,
who became Abbess of Whitby, is growing up at his court. (7th Century
Britain)

A Casket of Earth, Fay Sampson
A Northumbrian Christian princess is married off to the son of the fearsome
pagan king of Mercia. She finds herself caught in a web of intrigue and
murder, as her father's army prepares to attack her father-in-law. Into the
dangerous situation at Lichfield comes the Celtic saint Chad.  (7th century
Britain)

Kathleen Herbert (all 6th century Britain)
Bride of the Spear (London: Bodley Head, 1988) first published as The Lady
of the Fountain, Frome, Somerset: Bran's Head, 1982),Queen of the Lightning
(London: Bodley Head, 1983), and Ghost in the Sunlight (London: Bodley Head,
1986).

The Last Harper by Julian Atterton (6th century Britain)

Gregory's Angels by Alice Comparetti (6th century Britain)

The Summer Stars by Alan Fisk (6th century Britain)

Conscience of the King by Alfred Duggan (6th century Britain)

Born of the Sun by Joan Wolf (6th century Britain)

Count Belisarius by Robert Graves (6th century Roman Empire)


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