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Isolde Martyn

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Born

Warwickshire, The United Kingdom

Website

http://www.isoldemartyn.com/

Genre

Historical Fiction, Romance

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As a child: Rosemary Sutcliffe, Geoffrey Trease, C.S.Lewis. As a teena ...more

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December 2012

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Isolde has always had a great love of history, and writing historical fiction is a wonderful way to share her enthusiasm.

THE MAIDEN AND THE UNICORN, isolde's debut novel, won a Rita for 'Best First Novel' in the US and the inaugural 'Romantic Book of the Year Award' in Australia. Since then, she has written seven historicals and has just finished an Elizabethan novel .

Isolde has a History Honours degree from the University of Exeter, UK, with a specialization in Yorkist England, a lifelong interest, and she has worked as a university history tutor, research assistant and archivist. She was a senior book editor with a major international publishing house before taking up writing fiction full-time.

She feels community history is very importa ...more

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Average rating: 3.94 · 1,791 ratings · 183 reviews · 26 distinct works • Similar authors

	Mistress to the Crown 3.81 avg rating — 346 ratings — published 2013 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Silver Bride: A battle for the crown in Richard III's England (Isolde Martyn Medieval Novels) 3.73 avg rating — 231 ratings — published 2002 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Knight and the Rose 3.78 avg rating — 217 ratings — published 1999 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Maiden and the Unicorn 3.60 avg rating — 171 ratings — published 1998 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mistress To The Crown: Wife, lover or witch ... the notorious Mistress Shore (Isolde Martyn Medieval Novels) 4.49 avg rating — 127 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Golden Widows 3.84 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 2014 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Knight and the Rose: Inspired by a true Medieval court case... (Isolde Martyn Medieval Novels) 4.26 avg rating — 115 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lady and the Unicorn: Romance and espionage during the Wars of the Roses (Isolde Martyn Medieval Novels) 4.18 avg rating — 112 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Golden Widows: On opposing side ... Elysabeth Woodville and Kate Neville (Isolde Martyn Medieval Novels) 4.41 avg rating — 97 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fleur-De-Lis 3.88 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Hi Everyone,
Many thanks to all those of you who kindly sent in the lovely reviews of TROUBADOUR. I am so delighted you enjoyed the story. It's the first one I've done with completely fictional main characters for quite a while and I had no idea how it would be received. I originally wrote it with a different character as the hero and it didn't work so I rewrote the whole story.
It's a big jump fro Read more of this blog post »

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Quotes by Isolde Martyn (?)

“And there are no words left, try as men may, to describe that little death, that incandescent instant when, transacted with mutual love, there is no difference between sweet submission and exquisite conquest.”
― Isolde Martyn, Mistress to the Crown

tags: historical-romance, love, mistress-to-the-crown, romance

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“Fortune’s a fickle wench. She can knee you in the groin at any time.”
― Isolde Martyn, Mistress to the Crown

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