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Anna Chant
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Writer, reader, lover of history & folklore. Medieval historical fiction author.
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Today is St Nicholas Day! 🎅
In the 11th century, homesick Englishmen built a church in Constantinople, dedicating it to St Nicholas & St Augustine.
See this event behind Door 6 of the #HistFic #Adventcalendar in Courage of the Conquered mybook.to/Courageofthe...
#WeekendRead #ChristmasGiftIdeas 📚🎄
December 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Open Door 5 of the #HistFic #AdventCalendar to find tales of the Franks!
From the start of the Merovingian dynasty in Dawn of the Franks to a Carolignian Queen of Wessex in Three Times the Lady.
Or meet the Franks as the enemy in The Girl from Brittia
mybook.to/WomenoftheDa...
#Christmas 📚🎄
December 5, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Behind door number 4 of the #HistFic #Adventcalendar, meet Custennin of Dumnonia, a man known to legend as the successor to King Arthur, but to history, he is Tyrant Whelp mybook.to/TyrantWhelp
#ChristmasGiftIdeas #ebook #paperback #KindleUnlimited📚🎄
December 4, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Behind Door 3 on my #histfic #adventcalendar is, appropriately, Three Times the Lady - the story of Judith of Flanders
mybook.to/ThreeTimesth...
#eBook #paperback #KindleUnlimited #ChristmasGiftIdeas 📚🎄
December 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Behind Door 2 on my #histfic #adventcalendar is a fearsome beast - but is this creature the biggest danger for Dartmoor's tin miners?
The Stannary Dragon mybook.to/stannarydragon
#ChristmasGiftIdeas
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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As the countdown to #Christmas begins, remember - Books make great gifts!
And to start my #AdventCalendar is my first book - #Scottish #histfic Kenneth's Queen
mybook.to/KennethsQueen
#December1 #ChrtistmasIsComing 📚🎄
December 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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It's the 1070s.
England is reeling from the Conquest.
And an epic voyage is about to begin...

#HistoricalFiction #trilogy Quest for New England mybook.to/QuestforNewE...
#eBook #paperback #KindleUnlimited #WeekendReads #HolidayReading #ChristmasGiftIdeas 📚⚔️🎄
November 28, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Emerging from the bitterness of defeat, what next for the Anglo-Saxon survivors of 1066?
#HistoricalFiction Rising from the Ruins mybook.to/Risingfromth...
#eBook #paperback #KindleUnlimited #ChristmasGiftIdea 📚⚔️🎄
November 27, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Seven #Medieval #HistoricalFiction #ChristmasGiftIdeas!
Women of the Dark Ages: mybook.to/WomenoftheDa...
Available as an #eBook, #paperback, or on a #KindleUnlimited subscription.
November 26, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Two sisters, an unfair father, and a woman who will let nothing, not kings, regents, or even emperors, stand in her way...

#HistoricalFiction A Daughter Scorned - the story of Adela of Hamaland
mybook.to/DaughterScor...
#eBook #paperback #KindleUnlimited #ChristmasGiftIdeas
November 25, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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As the might of Rome wanes, the sun is rising on the Dark Ages...

#HistoricalFiction Dawn of the Franks - the story of Basina of Thuringia
mybook.to/DawnoftheFra...
#eBook #paperback #KindleUnlimited #ChristmasGiftIdea
November 24, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Happy Birthday to Otto the Great🎉Born #OTD in 912!
Follow his life from a 17-year-old bridegroom in The Saxon Marriage mybook.to/SaxonMarriage
through triumphs & tragedies in God's Maidervant mybook.to/GodsMaidserv... to the last years of his reign in A Daughter Scorned mybook.to/DaughterScor...
November 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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In a realm of cold, famine, tyrant kings, & Saxon invaders, a greater danger lurks.
It is fast.
It is deadly.
And it is invisible...

#Arthurian #HistoricalFiction Fisher King is only #99cents or #99p
mybook.to/FisherKing
#WeekendRead #KindleCountdown #ChristmasGiftIdeas 📚🐟🎄
November 22, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Romance & conflict in medieval Germany as Eadgyth of Wessex and Otto of Saxony make The Saxon Marriage
mybook.to/SaxonMarriage

#HistoricalFiction #WeekendRead #eBook #paperback #KindleUnlimited #ChristmasGiftIdea 📚⚔️🎄
November 21, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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In realms ruled by men, can a woman choose her own destiny?

Three Times the Lady mybook.to/ThreeTimesth...
Only #99p or #99cents for another few days!
#KindleCountdown #eBook #paperback #KindleUnlimited #ChristmasGiftIdea 📚🎄
November 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Books make great gifts! Treat someone to a #paperback, add some great #HistoricalFiction to a Kindle you're giving, or send an #eBook direct!

#HistFic The Girl from Brittia mybook.to/GirlfromBrit...
📚🎄
#ChristmasGiftIdeas
November 19, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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The rise to power of Cinaed mac Alpin, through the eyes of a woman history forgot...

#Scottish #HistoricalFiction Kenneth's Queen mybook.to/KennethsQueen
#eBook #paperback #KindleUnlimited #ChristmasGiftIdeas 📚⚔️🎄
November 18, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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From a terrifying Viking spectre to a fearsome beast stalking Dartmoor's tin miners - enter a world that is Mysteriously Medieval...
mybook.to/Mysteriously...
#HistoricalFiction #HistoricalFantasy #GhostStory #eBook #paperback #KindleUnlimited 📚🐉👻
November 17, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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From the splendours of the Court of Winchester to a desperate journey across medieval Europe - the exciting true story of Judith of Flanders - Three Times the Lady
Only #99cents or #99p
mybook.to/ThreeTimesth...
#HistoricalFiction #WeekendRead #KindleCountdown📚👸
A backdrop of hills and forests beneath a hazy sky displays historical fiction novel Three Times the Lady - the story of Judith of Flanders. The cover features a woman, her face partially in shadow with a cream-coloured mantle over her head. A badge on the cover proclaims this as a five star read. The text reads: A Frankish princess, a Wessex queen, stepmother to Alfred the Great, a scandalous widow... Can she escape the destiny her father planned and find happiness? https://mybook.to/ThreeTimestheLady
November 15, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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A Dartmoor valley is awash with ores the tin miners desperately need.
But what else lurks along the mysterious O Brook?

The Stannary Dragon mybook.to/stannarydragon
#eBook #paperback #KindleUnlimited #medieval #HistoricalFantasy #WeekendReading
The image is a photo of a stream, with water running over rocks, framed by trees, with the text stating: Beyond here there be dragons... Over the stream is historical fiction / historical fantasy novel The Stannary Dragon. The cover features a smoky yellow sky, revealing a rocky tor. In the foreground, a red dragon is perched on a rock with its wings outstretched and its mouth open. The text reads A tale of Dartmoor tin miners, set against the legend of the O Brook https://mybook.to/stannarydragon
November 14, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Today is the feastday of Pope St Nicholas the Great, who died #OnThisDay in 867.
How did he answer Frankish princess, Judith, when she asked for his aid?

Find out in #HistoricalFiction Three Times the Lady mybook.to/ThreeTimesth...
#eBook #paperback #KindleUnlimited #OTD 📚🪦
A backdrop of hills and forests beneath a hazy sky displays historical fiction novel Three Times the Lady - the story of Judith of Flanders. The cover features a woman, her face partially in shadow with a cream-coloured mantle over her head. A badge on the cover proclaims this as a five-star read. The text reads: A Frankish princess, a Wessex queen, stepmother to Alfred the Great, a scandalous widow... Can she escape the destiny her father planned and find happiness? https://mybook.to/ThreeTimestheLady
November 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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AD 851, Ceorl, Alderman of Devon, defeats a Viking attack.
Little does he realise the worst horror is yet to come...

#Spooky #HistoricalFiction Call of the Viking Dead mybook.to/vikingdead
#eBook #paperback #KindleUnlimited 📚👻
The backdrop of a starry sky features the silhouette of a tree and a woman holding a candle. She is in a long dress, with blood-like stains surrounding her. Over the tree is the Mysteriously Medieval logo. Beside the woman is spooky historical fiction novel Call of the Viking Dead. The cover features a hand emerging from the ground with runes tattooed on the wrist and gripping an axe. The backdrop is of gravestones and crows. Behind the title is the shadowy image of a skull. The text reads Fiske, the evil but slain Viking jarl, stalks 9th-century Devon. Who must answer the Call of the Viking Dead? https://mybook.to/vikingdead
November 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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In a realm of cold, famine, tyrant kings, & Saxon invaders, a greater danger lurks.
It is fast.
It is deadly.
And it is invisible...

#Arthurian #HistoricalFiction Fisher King mybook.to/FisherKing
#eBook #paperback #KindleUnlimited 📚🐟
A watery background is stained red and features white fish-like shapes. Beside them is historical fiction novel Fisher King The cover features a man's face above an empty boat. The text reads: Told around firesides, retold into legend, his anguish echoes down the centuries. Fisher King The man behind the myth. https://mybook.to/FisherKing
November 11, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Power corrupts.
And absolute power?

#Arthurian #HistoricalFiction Tyrant Whelp mybook.to/TyrantWhelp
#eBook #paperback #KindleUnlimited 📚⚔️
In the background, a pale sun peers over the top of a hill through a hazy red sky. Below it the trees are leafless and there is snow on the ground. Over it is historical fiction novel Tyrant Whelp with the cover featuring the hooded face of a man and a sword protruding from a stone. The text reads In Britannia King Arthur presides over a golden age... But as the sun shines without brightness, the realm is plunged into a wasteland of ice, famine and a war where many of its finest must fall. Yet for Custennin of Dumnonia, greatness beckons. Is he up to the task? Tyrant Whelp https://mybook.to/TyrantWhelp
November 10, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Bitter betrayal, forbidden romance, and a love story to change the course of history...

#HistoricalFiction Dawn of the Franks - the story of Basina of Thuringia is only #99cents or #99p
mybook.to/DawnoftheFra...
#KindleCountdown #WeekendReading
The backdrop of a dawn sky with orange and pink clouds displays historical fiction novel Dawn of the Franks - the story of Basina of Thuringia. The cover features a backdrop of trees silhouetted against an orange sky and the rising sun. In the foreground a blonde man kneels before a medieval couple. A dark-haired man in a red tunic has his arm around a woman with a white mantle and a fur cloak. The text reads 'The might of Rome has waned. And the sun is rising on the Dark Ages'. https://mybook.to/DawnoftheFranks
November 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM