The Fire and the Rose

From Robyn Cadwallader, the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of The Anchoress and Book of Colours, comes The Fire and the Rose, a vibrant, richly-imagined and deeply moving novel set in the turbulent world of 13th century England. England, 1276: Forced to leave her home village, Eleanor moves to Lincoln to work as a housemaid. […]

Book of Colours

“Robyn Cadwallader fashions words with the same delicate, colourful intensity that her 14th-century illuminators brought to their illustrated manuscripts.” SARAH DUNANT From the author of the internationally acclaimed novel The Anchoress – hailed by the New York Times Book Review as “finely drawn… a considerable achievement”-comes a profound and moving historical novel about the importance […]

The Anchoress

From a remarkable new Australian author comes THE ANCHORESS, a story set within the confines of a stone cell measuring seven paces by nine. Tiny in scope but universal in themes, it is a wonderful, wholly compelling fictional achievement. Set in the twelfth century, THE ANCHORESS tells the story of Sarah, only seventeen when she […]