Lady of the Lions / Richard Abbott (ePub)

ichard Abbott writes historical fiction set in the Middle East at the end of the Bronze Age, around 1200BC.His first book, In a Milk and Honeyed Land, explores events in the Egyptian province of Canaan. It follows the life, loves, and struggles of a priest in the small hill town of Kephrath.A follow-up novel entitled Scenes from a Life begins in Egypt. It follows the journey of a scribe as he travels to discover his origins. down the Nile from Luxor and finally out into Canaan.A third book, The Flame Before Us, is set in the middle of calamity. New settlers are arriving from the north, sacking cities and disrupting the established ways of life as they come. This story follows several different groups each trying to adjust to the new situation.Author readings from both In a Milk and Honeyed Land and Scenes from a Life are available online as YouTube videos.The short story The Man in the Cistern is set in the same location as In a Milk and Honeyed Land, but around ten years later.The short story The Lady of the Lions is set in the same location but around one hundred and fifty years earlier.Triumphal Accounts in Hebrew and Egyptian is the ebook version of his PhD thesis which, for those who want the technical details, supplies academic underpinning for some of the ideas and plot themes followed up in fiction.Richard lives in London, England and works professionally in IT quality assurance.When not writing words or computer code, he enjoys spending time with family, walking, and wildlife, ideally combining all three pursuits in the English Lake District.

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