Historical Novelists’ Spring Book Fair

Welcome fair-goers to my stall. The Historical Novelists’ 4 Day Book Fair is a get-together run by Francine Howarth; here’s her blog, from where you can browse and wander the stalls of novelists.

Ny name’s Bryn. I’d better put a face on, since we’re at a fair:

 

 

 

 

And here’s the face of my lad:

China has executed Ambaghai, the Mongols’ khan, on a hurdle with donkey ears and tail from the theatre, in mockery of the horse peoples of the steppe. It cries for hachi.

‘Hachi means that which is owed, or felt due. It can mean an act of humanity. It can mean vengeance. It meant justice.’

The Mongols go to war for Ambaghai’s hachi, in a century when no steppe people is fit to tackle China. They believe battles are won by the just, and the size differential doesn’t bother them. They are wrong, but the Mongol God comforts them with an omen. Temujin, the baby of that battle day, has in his hand his people’s future victory.

The Chinese have crossbows, but the Mongols have belief.

Of Battles Past is my FREE starter to Amgalant, the story of Chinggis or Genghis Khan. I closely follow a source, the Secret History of the Mongols. This is an intimate biography of the Mongols’ greatest figure, but uses the art of oral epic: it has frequent direct speech, frequent verse — gorgeous as a source. See my page on the Secret History for more.

Find your free copy at Smashwords, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Sony. At Amazon or Amazon UK I have to charge 99c.

If you like the first, my lad has other faces, as he grows. On these, see my page Amgalant and me. Or explore the blog; I have categories for ‘steppe culture’ and ‘Mongol history’, where I hope you can discover images and information from a world not enough known.