CONQUEST BOOK 1: Daughter of the Last King By Tracey Warr

1093. The three sons of William the Conqueror – Robert Duke of Normandy, William II King of and Count Henry – fight with each other for control of the Anglo-Norman kingdom created by their father’s conquest.

Meanwhile, Nesta ferch Rhys, the daughter of the last independent Welsh king, is captured during the Norman assault of her lands. Raised with her captors, the powerful Montgommery family, Nes- ta is educated to be the wife of Arnulf of Montgommery, in spite of her pre-existing betrothal to a Welsh prince.

Who will Nesta marry and can the Welsh rebels oust the ?

Daughter of the Last King is the first in theConquest Trilogy.

Published: 1 Sept 2016 ISBN: 9781907605819 Price: £9.99 Category: Historical , historical romance, medieval

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Author Bio

Tracey Warr is a based in and , and has published and books on contemporary art. She was Senior Lecturer, teaching and researching on art history and theory of the 20th and 21st centuries, at Oxford Brookes Universi- ty, Bauhaus University and Dartington College of Arts.

Her first ,Almodis: The Peaceweaver(Impress, 2011), is set in 11th century France and Spain, and was shortlisted for the Impress Prize for New Fiction and the Rome Film Festival Book Initiative and received a Santander Research Award. Her second historical novel, The Viking Hostage(Impress, 2014), is set in 10th century France and Wales.

She received a Literature Wales Writer’s Bursary for work on her new trilogy, Con- quest, set in 12th century Wales, England and Normandy. She received an Authors Foundation Award from the Society of Authors for work on a biography of three medieval sisters, entitled Three Female Lords. She is also working on a new historical novel featuring a 12th cen- tury female troubadour in Toulouse, and on a future fiction novel set in the debatable territory of a river estuary, between water and land, in the 22nd century.

Her writing on contemporary artists has been published by Phaidon, Merrell, Black Dog, Palgrave, Manchester University Press. Her latest art publication is Remote Performances in Nature and Architecture (Ashgate, 2015). She reviews for Times Higher Education, Historical Novels Review and New Welsh Review.

Visit her blog at traceywarrwriting.com, and follow her on Twitter @TraceyWarr1. Also by Tracey Warr

Tracey opens the doors to three cultures: the Nor- The Viking wegians, post-Charlemagne Frankish and the newly Norse-dominated corner of Wales. Again Tracey’s Hostage research is thorough and evident while religions, customs and language hold us as much enthralled as the Published: 1st Sept 2014 politicking. ISBN: 9781907605598 - Bookbag review Price: £9.99 Pages: 404 From Viking raids on monasteries to power struggles Category: , between noble French households, this is a wonderful historical romance story of love, arranged marriages, adventure, friendship, loyalty and betrayal. - Nudge Books review

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Almodis The It delivers a fair few unexpected twists, the writing can be affectedly beautiful but the emotional content is delivered Peaceweaver raw and ungarnished. - A Corner of Tenth-Century Europe Published: Oct 2011 Intelligent, thrilling and dramatic. Endearing characters ISBN: 9781907605093 added into the mix make this a book you won’t easily Price: £6.99 forget. Pages: 345 - Review on Waterstones.co.uk Category: Historical fiction, historical romance