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ABOUT THE SERIES

I have always wanted to write a novel but, having had a happy life with few traumas, never felt experienced enough to do so! However, I reached an age when I decided it was now or never as I didn’t want to die without having had a go!

I wrote the first draft of Bron,188,000 words, in seven months. It was to be the first book of a trilogy. However, it was too long for practical production so I have had to divide the book into two parts, Daughter of Prophecy and Flames of Prophecy.

My research was undertaken as I went along and included spending an afternoon in a blacksmith’s forge, where I helped to make an ornamental log poker, of which I am very proud!

As I have not received an offer of publication from a mainstream publisher, though some positive comments have accompanied rejection letters, and as a professional editor and various friends have enjoyed reading the novel, and as I have no time to play a waiting game, I decided to self publish.

BRON, PART I, DAUGHTER OF PROPHECY

ISBN 978-1-906206-07-9




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Paperback

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Daughter of prophecy Bron Part1

BRON, PART II, FLAMES OF PROPHECY

ISBN 978-1-906206-23-9




Available from bookshops and village stores in the Newbury area as well as Amazon and all other bookshops. Published 14th February 2008

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BRON, PART III, THE GIRL WITH THE GOLDEN ANKLE

ISBN: 978-1-906710-35-4

The third book in the series, The Girl with the Golden Ankle, takes Bron to Ostia and Rome

The third book in the series, The Girl with the Golden Ankle


The third book in the series, The Girl with the Golden Ankle, is already written. This takes Bron and her children by ship to Italy, in the wake of the returning legions.

The fourth book will follow Bron’s fortunes in Rome, where she meets the emperor.

The final one or two books will bring her and her family back to a newly-built Byden further down the valley, where stands the present village of Beedon. The flint church there was built in 1220 on the site of an earlier building, and in its walls are embedded Roman bricks.

THE STORY

Bron, Parts I and II, follow the fortunes and misfortunes of the pagans of the Atrebate tribe who live in the settlement of Byden, on top of what are now the Berkshire downs.

Life in the settlement has continued unchanged for centuries, in spite of the Roman occupation. But then, in AD 385, Bron is born.

This beautiful child is destined for psychopathic Nobilianus, heir to the High Priesthood, but he detests her. However, she becomes his father’s obsession. Soranus, her childhood friend, loves her and Pulcher, the dwarf, worships her, but as she grows towards womanhood, her temptation is the young Roman officer, Aurelius Catus.

As everyday life in the settlement is revealed, so are the dark secrets at the Temple - love and lust, mystery and menace. Only Asher, the Christian pilgrim, speaks of another way of life.

But Umbella, the witch who lives in the wood, is all-seeing and pronounces her dreadful prophecy of “sword, fire and total destruction”. Is it fulfilled? Read the books to find out!


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Bron, Part I, Daughter of Prophecy
PROLOGUE



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Bron, Part II, Flames of Prophecy
EXTRACT



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Bron, Part III, The Girl with the Golden Ankle
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Published by Pen Press Publishers Ltd.
25 Eastern Terrace, Brighton, East Sussex BN2 1GJ
www.penpress.co.uk

Available from www.amazon.co.uk
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Iris Lloyd,
13 Bridge Street,
Hungerford, Berks.
RG17 0EH

Tel. 01488 686372
Email: iris.lloyd@virgin.net


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