Tracey Warr
ALLi Author Member
Location: United Kingdom
Genres: Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Academic, Art & Crafts, Biography, Crime, Mystery, Womens Fiction, Short/Flash Fiction Collection, Historical Fiction, Children's general
I was born in London and live in the south of France, near Toulouse. I worked most of my career as an art history academic at universities including Oxford Brookes, Glasgow School of Art and Bauhaus in Weimar. My most recent academic job was Head of Dartington Arts School and Senior Lecturer on MA Poetics of Imagination at Dartington. Ten years ago I was staying in a friend’s house in southern France surrounded by medieval castles and villages. I started writing historical fiction set in early medieval Europe. I have published five historical novels and am now working on a new medieval murder mystery series. I draw on chronicles, medieval literature, old maps, paintings and objects in museums for my fiction. I have also published a collection of short future fiction and a number of books on contemporary art. I’m working on a new collection of my art essays. I’m also working on a biography of three sisters who lived in the 11th century. My writing has won several awards including a Literature Wales Writer’s Bursary and an Author’s Foundation Award. I have presented on my writing at conferences, festivals, libraries, local history societies, and writers’ and readers groups. I am a member of Society of Authors, Historical Novels Society, and the Alliance of Independent Authors.
Tracey Warr's books
Genres: Crime, Historical Fiction, Mystery
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+
1093. Beatriz de Farrera is a trobairitz (a female troubadour) at the court of Toulouse. She sings of love but intends to evade marriage and romantic entanglements. Her patron Lady Philippa is heiress to the rich city and county of Toulouse. Philippa’s uncle Raimon plans to marry his niece to the ageing king of Aragon, sweep her out of his way and usurp her rights. In a world of scheming lords and plotting abbots seeking to control the riches of local salt production and the pilgrim routes, a brutal murder occurs. Love’s Knife is the first book in a series of medieval murder mysteries featuring the trobairitz Beatriz de Farrera.
Genres: General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Womens Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 18+
Repudiated, kidnapped, excommunicated, desired. At a time when a noblewoman’s purpose is to produce heirs, Almodis resolves to create her own dynasty. Almodis’ path to power and happiness is fraught with drama. Forbidden love and murder underpin this extraordinary story based on the life of a scandalous female lord whose descendants went on to rule in France, Spain and England. Almodis de la Marche was ‘afflicted with a Godless female itch’, according to the monk chronicler William of Malmesbury but she was ‘radiant upon Earth’, according to her third husband, Ramon Berenger, count of Barcelona. What were the motivations, triumphs and griefs behind her scandal? A novel based on the life of the real eleventh-century Almodis de la Marche, countess of Toulouse and Barcelona.
Genres: General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Womens Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 18+
972. Tallinn. Sigrid, a Norwegian girl, is sold in the slave market and separated from her brothers. As a slave in the French Limousin, she stubbornly clings to her pagan identity. Audebert is imprisoned in a grim dungeon for his brother’s crime. If Audebert is ever released, he has a life to lead, a great destiny to fulfil. Guy will soon be viscount of Limoges but fears exposure of his near-blindness and challenge to his authority. Adalmode and Aina are great heiresses attempting to resist the unwelcome pressures of the marriage market. Their stories tangle with questions of nobility, freedom, friendship and courage in the highly stratified and often brutal society of early medieval Europe. Amid Viking raids, fears of The End of Time and turbulent power struggles, The Viking Hostage tells these interweaving stories in late 10th century France and Wales.
Genres: General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Womens Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 18+
1121. The trail of a mass murderer and a hunt for a runaway nun. King Henry I has lost his heir in the sinking of The White Ship and his reign is fraught with the succession crisis. The king is obsessed with relics and prophecies. He summons his daughter, the Empress Maud, to return to England, and considers putting a woman on the English throne. King Henry’s former mistress, Nest ferch Rhys, is unhappily married to the Norman constable of Cardigan Castle. She becomes increasingly embroiled in the Welsh resistance to the Norman occupation of her family’s lands. Sheriff Haith distracts himself from his loss of Nest by plumbing the mystery of the shipwreck in which the King’s heir died along with three hundred other young Norman nobles. Book III in the Conquest trilogy centring on Nest ferch Rhys and the reign of King Henry I.
Genres: General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Womens Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 18+
1107. A kidnap and a devastating shipwreck. King Henry I reigns over England, Normandy and Wales, but his rule is far from secure. He faces treacherous assassination attempts and rebellion. Nuns and bards are tasked as spies to carry dangerous messages across the kingdom. The Welsh noblewoman, Nest ferch Rhys, is settled in Wales with her Norman husband but her brother is gathering support to reclaim his kingdom, and another Welsh prince has not forgotten that he was once betrothed to marry Nest. While dissent grows, a secret passion is revealed, and Nest and her Cambro-Norman children are placed in dire peril. Book II in the Conquest trilogy centring on Nest ferch Rhys and the reign of King Henry I.
Genres: General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Womens Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 18+
1093. An invasion and a curse. The three sons of William the Conqueror fight with each other for control of the Anglo-Norman kingdom created by their father’s conquest. The Norman Marcher lords are let loose to consolidate the conquest of Wales, pushing across the English border to the east and invading from the sea to the south. Nest ferch Rhys is the daughter of the king of south-west Wales. Captured during the Norman assault on her father’s lands, she is raised by her captors, the powerful Montgomery family. Nest is groomed to be the wife of a Norman, despite her pre-existing betrothal to a Welsh prince. Arnulf Montgomery has taken over her father’s lands and is her intended husband, but Count Henry, the youngest son of the Conqueror, is also captivated by the Welsh noblewoman. Book I in the Conquest trilogy centring on the turbulent life of Nest ferch Rhys...
Genres: Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Short/Flash Fiction Collection, Speculative Fiction
Illustrated pbk, 2018, 84pp, ISBN 978-0995490215 and ebook Octavio Paz meets J.G. Ballard meets David Attenborough in these suspenseful and lyrical future fiction tales of hybrid species and aqua technologies. ‘Meanda’ takes place on an ocean exoplanet and is a story of first contact. ‘Asbru’ tangles scientific researchers in the fronds of Icelandic algae. The stories engage with the behaviours and properties of water. Other stories explore slime technologies. These fictions are spawned by aquatic flora and fauna, such as spitting fish, inking squids and singing whales, and above all, they are inspired by water itself.