Welcome to IsoldeMartyn.com
Dear Readers, welcome!
Isolde Martyn is best known for well-researched historical novels set against turbulent times. Her debut novel The Maiden and the Unicorn won the prestigious RITA Award for 'Best First Novel' from Romance Writers of America. Her first two books also won the mainstream 'Romantic Novel of the Year Award' in Australia.
Since being published, she has given humourous talks and workshops at conferences in New York, Wiesbaden and Auckland as well as in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
Her latest novel is about Mistress Shore, King Edward IV's mistress. For more information, please have a look at her news page.
If you are an aspiring writer, you may find the various checklists in the 'Help for Writers' section of this website worth having a look through before you send off your manuscript to an agent or a publisher. There is also a list of historical fabrics that may interest you if you are researching a historical novel.
For reviews, a blurb about the book and to read an extract, please visit publications. For more about the real historical Mistress Shore, go to Inspiration for a New Novel.
However, I thought it might be fun here to imagine how a modern day reporter might handle the rumours about the gorgeous Mistress Shore in the 1470s before she met the king.
The next big thing
At last! - Mistress to the Crown
Upcoming e-books
Inspiration for a new novel
Encountering your hero and heroine's descendants
For the geographically challenged
Hugh Dispenser’s body found?
The case of the missing head
Articles and stories...
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Margery's court apparel
in Writer's resource
The following illustrations show what was worn by Maiden and the Unicorn heroine, Margery Huddlestone. -
Interview with Dorothy Dunnett
in short stories
‘Ian Fleming was a friend of ours and he told me he was going to write a novel about “a… -
The governor's lady
in short stories
IT should have been a perfect evening for Estelle, wife of the new Governor of the Colony of Victoria. There… -
heart of gold
in short stories
A damsel in distress meets a chivalrous knight in this medieval tale, originally commissioned for St Valentine's Day by The… -
A loving matter
in short stories
Georgiana Roe swiftly put up a gloved hand to check that her bonnet plume had not been blown askew by… -
The jacaranda tree
in short stories
Bill helped Phyllis off the ferryboat to Fig Tree and onto the wharf. He'd thought about taking her to one… -
Tea with a stranger
in short stories
Port Jackson, Australia, 1796 Robert hitched himself over the fence before the soldiers turned the corner, and landed clumsily… -
Late Regency clothing
in Writer's resource
Some years ago one of my husband’s family in England inherited an escritoire, which is a writing desk with a…