Edith Mary Pargeter, OBE, BEM, (Ellis Peters) Claimed

Edith Mary Pargeter, OBE, BEM, better known as Ellis Peters author writing about the 12th century Shropshire when it was plunged into a dark period of unremitting conflict as King Stephen and the Empress Matilda began a long and savage battle for the English throne. Using this dramatic backdrop, Ellis Peters skilfully weaves in the threads of her imagination to create the hugely successful Brother Cadfael Chronicles.

As Edith Pargeter

The Heaven Tree Trilogy

The Heaven Tree (1960)

The Green Branch (1962) (1230 William De Braose, a Norman Marcher Lord was hanged for an affair with Joan, lady of Wales, the wife of Prince Llywelyn ab Iorwerth.)

The Scarlet Seed (1963)

The Brothers of Gwynedd Quartet

Four novels about Llewelyn the Last:

Sunrise in the West (1974)

The Dragon at Noonday (1975)

The Hounds of Sunset (1976)

Afterglow and Nightfall (1977)

Jim Benison a.k.a. World War 2 Trilogy

The Eighth Champion of Christendom (1945)

Reluctant Odyssey (1946)

Warfare Accomplished (1947)

Other

Hortensius, Friend of Nero (1936)

Iron-Bound (1936)

The City Lies Four-Square (1939)

Ordinary People (1941) (a.k.a. People of My Own)

She Goes to War (1942)

The Fair Young