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Descubre un mundo infinito de historias

Escucha y lee

Jean Gill

Award-winning historical fiction. Like Game of Thrones with real history. 
'Believable, page-turning and memorable.' Lela Michael, S.P. Review
1150: Provence, where making love and making paper are crimes against the Church.
 Death on her heels, Estela runs towards a new identity. Her life depends on her golden voice and the patronage of Eleanor of Aquitaine but her heart cares more for the judgement of her tutor, Dragonetz, a cynical ex-crusader. He knows he must not love this troublesome student but their duet makes its own demands.
 Will their secrets kill them both? The troubadours, Dragonetz and Estela, are an explosive combination which their powerful enemies intend to blast into smithereens.
 Set in the period following the Second Crusade, Jean Gill’s spellbinding romantic thrillers evoke medieval France with breathtaking accuracy. The characters leap off the page and include amazing women like Eleanor of Aquitaine and Ermengarda of Narbonne, who shaped history in battles and in bedchambers.

Global Ebooks Award for Best Historical Fiction
Historical Novel Society Editor's Choice
Finalist in the Wishing Shelf Awards, the Kindle Book Awards and the Chaucer Awards
Four Discovered Diamond Awards

‘One of the best historical novels I’ve read in a long time,’ Paul Trembling, Dragonslayer

Book 1 of the award-winning Historical Fiction series The Troubadours

The 13th Sign

The Troubadours

Song at Dawn: 1150 in Provence

Book 2 of the multi-award-winning medieval Historical Fiction series The Troubadours Quartet.

'Wonderful. If you love historical adventure and romance, you must pick up this series!' Autumn Birt, The Rise of the Fifth Order

1151: the Holy Land, where one book is worth more than a man's life. Imprisoned in Damascus, Dragonetz suffers the mind games inflicted by his anonymous enemies, as he is forced to remember the traumatic events of the crusade, two years earlier. His military prowess is as valuable and dangerous to the balance of power as the priceless Torah he has to deliver to Jerusalem, and the key players want Dragonetz riding with them - or dead.

Instead of remaining safely at home, Estela is desperate to rescue Dragonetz at all costs. She sets out for the Holy Land, never realising that the person she thinks will be her knight's saviour might actually be his doom. Can Estela get him out alive, despite Nur-ad-Din, the Muslim Atabeg; Mélisende, the Queen of Jerusalem; and an avenger from the past? Will she still want to, when she knows what they've done to him?

Once more, 'the master of historical intrigue' whirls the reader off into medieval mayhem. Jean Gill's details of crusading strategy and riding a camel are as convincing as the pangs of medieval childbirth. She brought medieval France to life in Song at Dawn; now she adds 12th century Damascus and Jerusalem with equal aplomb.

'A Masterpiece. A Historical Feast.' C M T Stibbe

Historical Novel Society Editor's Choice

Winner of the Global Ebooks Award for Best Historical Fiction

Finalist in the Wishing Shelf Awards, HNS Indie Awards and the Chaucer Awards

Discovered Diamond Award

5* 'I like my historical romance heavy on the history, light on the romance, with a strong cupful of action and adventure thrown in. When an author can get all of the elements in exactly the right proportions, we are probably talking bestseller. In Bladesong we have a bestseller.' Ray Simmons for Readers' Favorite

Jake Urry

Bladesong: 1151 in the Holy Land

1152: Les Baux de Provence. Medieval France comes to life in a historical page-turner full of intrigue, romance, and adventure! 

The visit of the Comte du Barcelone to Les Baux sparks bitter memories of the recent civil war and Lady Etiennette des Baux has no intention of ceding to her overlord. Nor does she plan to remain a widow and she sets her sights on Dragonetz, offering him Provence as an incentive.

Meanwhile, Estela faces her own demons. Confronted with her childhood abusers, threatened and attacked, she confides in her friends. Unfortunately, one of those friends is Dragonetz' worst enemy and Estela has no idea of what he is capable.

In this third volume of the Troubadours Quartet, Jean Gill, the 'master of historical intrigue', continues to weave the gripping adventures of Dragonetz and Estela seamlessly into real historical events.

'Very accomplished historical fiction.' Historical Novel Society Editor's Choice

Winner of the Global Ebooks Award for Best Historical Fiction

Finalist in the Wishing Shelf Awards and the Chaucer Awards

5* 'By far the best historical fiction I have read this year!' - Rabia Tanveer, December 2015, for Readers' Favorite

Plaint for Provence: 1152: Les Baux

Award-winning historical fiction. Like Game of Thrones with real history.
1153: Hispania and the Isles of Albion, where the wise traveller carries a knife in her under-skirt. 
‘I absolutely loved this series.’ Michelle Ryles, blogger, The Book Magnet
Heart-stopping conclusion to an unforgettable series.
 Dragonetz failed his liege, Eleanor of Aquitaine and is in exile, branded an oathbreaker. But she plans to be Queen of England and gives him one chance to redeem himself. His mission will take him alone into the hostile court of the Welsh princes, Rhys and Meredith, relying on song and sword to win their trust. Unlikely to survive, he intends to die alone.
 His lady, however, demands partnership, not protection. Estela and Dragonetz fight their enemies together, on the battlefield and in the courts of Christendom, from the sophistication of Zaragossa to the savage beauty of Wales. Can they win through to song hereafter?
 Or have they cheated death once too often?
 An authentic twelfth century road trip with the rock stars of the middle ages. Jean Gill’s spell-binding medieval thrillers write unforgettable women back into real history.

Global Ebooks Award for Best Historical Fiction
Historical Novel Society Editor's Choice
Finalist in the Wishing Shelf Awards,
the Kindle Book Awards and
the Chaucer Awards
Four Discovered Diamond Awards

‘Another stunning read - you won’t be disappointed!’ Deb McEwan, Unlikely Soldiers

Song Hereafter: 1153: Hispania and the Isles of Albion

A stand-alone short story in the multi-award-winning Troubadours Quartet epic medieval thriller series
1157: Aquitaine. The wolves are coming! At midnight on Christmas Eve, while the blizzard blasts snow through every crack in the castle walls, Nici the Shepherd's Dog stands guard in the sheepfold.

Beside him as usual are his pack and the flock they protect but this night is not usual at all. A small boy braves the snowy night, seeking the protection of his great friend while he is banned from his parents' quarters in the castle.

Nici recalls other times and other dangers, his trials and failures, the reasons why he ran away with a young girl, now the little boy's mother. He would still give his life in a heartbeat for Lady Estela. And yet, on this snowy night, he cannot help her. So, while he waits and comforts Estela's son, he tells his own puppies the story of a dog's life.

'One just wants to sit down with Nici as he shares his story in that cozy sheepfold while the cold winds rage outside on Christmas Eve.' 5***** Award Emily-Jane Hills Orford for Readers' Favorite

Nici’s Christmas Tale: 1157 Aquitaine: A Troubadours short story

Like Game of Thrones with real history. The complete set of four award-winning books: Historical Fiction series The Troubadours Quartet
'I absolutely loved this series,' Michellle Ryles, The Book Magnet blogger

Set in the period following the Second Crusade, Jean Gill's spellbinding romantic thrillers evoke medieval France with breathtaking accuracy. The characters leap off the page and include amazing women like Eleanor of Aquitaine and Ermengarda of Narbonne, who shaped history in battles and in bedchambers. Jean Gill captures the soul of the age and the characters who lived in it.

Book 1 Song at Dawn: 1150 in Provence, where making love and making paper are both crimes against the Church. On the run with death at her heels, Estela wakes in a ditch with only her lute, her amazing voice, and a dagger hidden in her underskirt. Her talent finds a patron in Eleanor of Aquitaine and more than a music tutor in the Queen's finest troubadour and Commander of the Guard, Dragonetz los Pros. Meanwhile, their enemies gather, ready to light the political and religious powder-keg of medieval Narbonne.

Book 2 Bladesong: 1151 in The Holy Land, where one book is worth more than a man's life. Troubadour Estela will do whatever it takes to rescue the knight she loves but will her brave actions seal his fate? She embarks on a perilous journey to the Holy Land in this enthralling historical epic. 

Once more, 'the master of historical intrigue' whirls the reader off into medieval mayhem. Jean Gill's details of crusading strategy and riding a camel are as convincing as the pangs of medieval childbirth. She brought medieval France to life in Song at Dawn; now she adds 12th century Damascus and Jerusalem with equal aplomb.

Book 3 Plaint for Provence: 1152 in Les-Baux-de-Provence, where today’s friends are tomorrow’s enemies. As feuding lords gather in Provence, the troubadours, Estela and her lover Dragonetz, are plunged into a power struggle that could destroy the fragile peace.
 Lady Etiennette des Baux has no intention of ceding to her overlord of Barcelone. Nor does she plan to remain a widow and she sets her sights on Dragonetz, offering him Provence as an incentive.
With dear friends on both sides, Dragonetz weaves a precarious path through the rival factions at court while Estela faces her own demons. Behind the chivalry of hunt and tournament, war threatens.
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Book 4 Song Hereafter: 1153 in Hispania and the Isles of Albion, where the wise traveller carries a knife in her under-skirt. Heart-stopping conclusion to an unforgettable series.
 Dragonetz failed his liege, Eleanor of Aquitaine and is in exile, branded an oathbreaker. But she plans to be Queen of England and gives him one chance to redeem himself. His mission will take him alone into the hostile court of the Welsh princes, Rhys and Meredith, relying on song and sword to win their trust. Unlikely to survive, he intends to die alone.
 His lady, however, demands partnership, not protection. Estela and Dragonetz fight their enemies together, on the battlefield and in the courts of Christendom, from the sophistication of Zaragossa to the savage beauty of Wales. Can they win through to song hereafter?
 Or have they cheated death once too often?
 An authentic twelfth century road trip with the rock stars of the middle ages. Jean Gill’s spell-binding medieval thrillers write unforgettable women back into real history.

Four Discovered Diamonds Awards; Historical Novel Society Editor’s Choice; Three out of three Readers' Favorite 5* Awards; Winner of the Global Ebooks Award for Best Historical Fiction