Joan Wolf

[Spitfire]

[quote=""Misfit""]Imagine my consternation when I opened up the package and saw that cover [/quote]

Yeah, I could imagine a slight gasp at the very least! You definitely would require the handy dandy book cover for that one! Ha, ha!

http://www.victoriantradingco.com/store ... i2877.html

Went back to the other site to find the link!

[Misfit]

LOL, believe it or not I had to take that cover to a hair appointment. I was so embarassed. I have to drag out those books for a reread. I just loved the Arthur one, a bit different from the usual way it's told but so good.

[Tanzanite]

[quote=""Misfit""]Imagine my consternation when I opened up the package and saw that cover [/quote]

Me too! I got mine from Paperback Swap and remember thinking that I had requested the wrong book. I'm so glad I went ahead and read it though. I have the other two (Born of the Sun and Road to Avalon) but haven't read them yet.

[lindymc]

I just finished the Dark Ages trilogy, reading them one right after the other. I thought they were wonderful. I really enjoyed her take on Arthur, a lovely romance with great secondary characters. Book 2 which was about Ceawlin, the Saxon king that started the integration with the Britain tribes was a great story. I had never even heard of Ceawlin, obviously a great king and leader, and am always delighted to add to my knowledge of early English royalty. Book 3 about King Alfred -- Wow, no wonder they call him Alfred the Great. This was a very different portrayal of Alfred from that which is presented in Bernard Cornwell's Saxon series. So glad that others on this forum and the paperback swap forum recommended this trilogy. I loved it!

[Carla]

Great to see Born of the Sun recommended! About all that is known of Ceawlin is a handful of lines in The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and a couple of references in Bede. He is listed among the over-kings of southern England, so was clearly a powerful king and leader, though almost nothing else is known about him. If I remember rightly the author says in her historical note that she had great fun imagining him, or words to that effect. I know what she means

[Misfit]

I know somewhere on this board someone (EMR?) posted an image of a cover for Wolf's Road to Avalon ISBN #0586204784. I'm working on a blog post about the trilogy and would love to include that cover as well, but the only image of it I can find is a tiny one and can't find the post here. Can anyone help?

[chuck]

Joan Wolfe's "Road to Avalon and Born to the Sun" are full of interesting and engaging characters; and especially turmoil and intrigues of the blending of the early Brits and the Saxons ........Have not read "Edge of Lightness"....I'm not one for Alfred the Great portrayed as the "Great One"...prefer the middle of road on Alfred....the good with the bad....

[annis]

I've got a copy of he 1988 Onyx New American p/b edition if that's the one you're after, MIsfit.

It's basically black, with author and title in fancy silver writing, and a picture of Walter Crane's painting La Belle Dame sans Merci across the bottom half.

i can try a scan if it's the right version.

Edit- just checked the ISBN (duh) - looks like it's not the one you want -- looks like you need the rare lady with unicorn cover .

[Misfit]

Thanks Annis, yep its the one with the lady and the unicorn I'm looking for. I've tried Goodreads (too small), LT and Ebay with no luck.

[boswellbaxter]

I was looking at NetGalley today and found that she's begun writing for the Christian historical fiction market. Her latest is A Reluctant Queen (Esther).

http://joanwolf.com/page/joans-books