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1400s Scotland

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In the great city of Uruk, there is no peace when Gilgamesh is restless, and he is never at rest. Shamhat, a priestess of Inanna, goes into the wilderness to find and civilize a match for Uruk’s violently active God-King. Like Mayflies in a Stream brings new life to the Epic of Gilgamesh, diving into one of the earliest conflicts between ( Read more... )

The next in the series of archaeologically-accurate novels from Hadley Rille Books, Like Mayflies in a Stream by ShaunaRoberts is an exciting novel that takes place in ancient Mesopotamia. Tentative release date: 1 October 2009.

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And in a place called Delphi...

Lived two women. They never meet. But their stories compare and contrast two vastly different lifestyles, that of privilege and that of a slave. And they illustrate, based on the best archaeological and historical knowledge, what life was like and how they coped with crises.

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Niki Bruce reviews The Priestess and the Slave Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk | BarnesandNoble.com by Jenny Blackford for Singapore's The Straits Times"Although this is nominally an adult novel, young adult readers won't be put off - it's small enough to slip into a backpack and it would certainly add to an understanding of the time period if you're ( Read more... )

The Priestess and the Slave by Jenny Blackford.
Trade Paperback.
Cover price: $9.99 USD.
Now available for pre-order from amazon.com.


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I am almost finished reading the Like Mayflies in a Stream manuscript by shaunaroberts. This is the next book in the "archaeology" series that will be published by Hadley Rille Books. I'll post more info about it soon, but will say that it is full of great excellentness in the way Jenny Blackford's The Priestess and the Slave is ( Read more... )

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Sonia Helbig of Specusphere has published a nice interview with Jenny Blackford about her writing and a review of her upcoming book The Priestess and the Slave to be published by Hadley Rille Books.


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The Priestess and the Slave by Jenny Blackford looks at the political turmoil of fifth century BC Greece through the eyes of two women, one a slave and one a farmer's daughter who became a Pythia in her fifties. The novella intertwines the stories of Perialla, the Pythia at Delphi who was bribed by the Spartan king Kleomenes around 491BC, and ( Read more... )