Patricia Bracewell - The Emma of Normandy 2-book Collection - Shadow on the Crown and The Price of Blood

Harper

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Shadow on the Crown first published by HarperCollins Publishers 2013

The Price of Blood first published by HarperCollins Publishers 2015

Copyright © Patricia Bracewell 2013, 2015

Cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers 2015

The Price Of Blood: Cover photographs © Dave Wall / Arcangel Images (medieval interior); Gordon Crabb / Alison Eldred (woman)

Shadow On The Crown: Cover photography © Richard Jenkins

Patricia Bracewell asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

A catalogue record for these books are available from the British Library

These novels are entirely works of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it, while at times based on historical figures, are the work of the author’s imagination

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Source ISBNs: 9780007481750, 9780008104597

Ebook Edition © 2015 ISBN: 9780008134990

Version: 2015-05-29

Contents

Cover

Title Page The Emma of Normandy collection Shadow on the Crown The Price of Blood Patricia Bracewell

Copyright Copyright Copyright Shadow on the Crown The Price of Blood About the Author About the Publisher Harper An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF www.harpercollins.co.uk Shadow on the Crown first published by HarperCollins Publishers 2013 The Price of Blood first published by HarperCollins Publishers 2015 Copyright © Patricia Bracewell 2013, 2015 Cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers 2015 The Price Of Blood: Cover photographs © Dave Wall / Arcangel Images (medieval interior); Gordon Crabb / Alison Eldred (woman) Shadow On The Crown: Cover photography © Richard Jenkins Patricia Bracewell asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work. A catalogue record for these books are available from the British Library These novels are entirely works of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it, while at times based on historical figures, are the work of the author’s imagination All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins. Source ISBNs: 9780007481750, 9780008104597 Ebook Edition © 2015 ISBN: 9780008134990 Version: 2015-05-29

Shadow on the Crown

The Price of Blood

About the Author

About the Publisher

Harper

An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

1 London Bridge Street

London SE1 9GF

www.harpercollins.co.uk

First published by HarperCollins Publishers 2013

Copyright © Patricia Bracewell 2013

Map © Matt Brown 2013

Cover layout design © HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 2013 Cover photography © Richard Jenkins

Patricia Bracewell asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it, while at times based on historical figures, are the work of the author’s imagination.

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins.

Source ISBN: 9780007481767

Ebook Edition © 2014 ISBN: 9780007481750

Version: 2014-01-02

For Lloyd, Andrew, and Alan

Æthelred II, Anglo-Saxon king of England

Children of the English king, in birth order:

Athelstan

Ecbert

Edmund

Edrid

Edwig

Edward

Edgar

Edyth

Ælfgifu (Ælfa)

Wulfhilde (Wulfa)

Mathilda

Leading Nobles and Ecclesiastics

Ælfhelm, ealdorman of Northumbria

Ufegeat, his son

Wulfheah, his son (Wulf)

Elgiva, his daughter

Ælfric, ealdorman of Hampshire

Ælfgar, his son

Hilde, his granddaughter

Ælfheah, bishop of Winchester

Godwine, ealdorman of Lindsey

Leofwine, ealdorman of Western Mercia

Wulfstan, archbishop of Jorvik and bishop of Worcester

Richard II, duke of Normandy

Robert, archbishop of Rouen, brother of the duke

Judith, duchess of Normandy

Gunnora, dowager duchess of Normandy

Mathilde, sister of the duke

Emma, sister of the duke

Swein Forkbeard, king of Denmark

Harald, his son

Cnut, his son

A.D. 978In this year was King Edward slain at even-tide, at Corfe-gate, on the fifteenth before the kalends of April, and he was buried at Werham without any royal honours. Nor was a worse deed than this done since men came to Britain … Æthelred was consecrated king. In this same year a bloody sky was often seen, most clearly at midnight, like fire in the form of misty beams. As dawn approached, it glided away.

– The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Map

Prologue

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five