We specialise in novels
that deal with the mysterious and occult side of life
in the Dark Ages
and the Age of Faith -
with saints and miracle-workers, heretics and witchcraft,
white magic, black magic, spells and demon possession;
with exorcists, sorcerers, wizards and seers;
with werewolves, lamiae, strigoi and mermaids;
with the Celtic traditions, Beltane and Samhain;
with Saxons and the Way of Wyrd;
with alchemy, the original tarot, the Grail bloodline,
the Magdalen heresy, the Cathar heresy and the Knights Templar;
with mystics and Kabbalists;
with the Inquisition and "the burning times";
with holy relics, sacred shrines, pilgrims and other wanderers, vagabonds, troubadours, gleemen and tinklers;
and with all the other "outsiders" of the Middle Ages.
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Six women and two men, each shorn, dressed in the burlap shift of the penitent, and hobbled by iron shackles, so that they could only take small mincing steps, even if they had not been beaten too severely to do otherwise.
Six women and two men, nameless faces for the fire, but Ana Magdalena saw each person with the clarity of the Sight ...
From Jeanne Kalogridis' The Burning Times
L'histoire est un roman qui a été, le roman est une histoire qui aurait pu être. (History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.)
E&J de Goncourt, quoted at the front of Kate Mosse's wonderful novel Labyrinth
