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Pauline Gedge was born in Auckland, New Zealand. After living for a time in England, she came with her family to Canada. It was in Alberta that she wrote Child of the Morning and submitted it for The Alberta Novel Award.
This novel of ancient Egypt not only won the award, it instantly became a best-seller in Canada and abroad; it was published throughout the English-speaking world and translated into several other language.
She has gone on to write more than a dozen other well-received works.
Thirty-five centuries ago the sun had a daughter: Hatshepsut. Youngest daughter of the Pharaoh, she was a lithe and magical child. But when her older sister died, it became her duty to purify the dynasty's bloodline. She was to wed Thothmes, her fath...
They marked time by the moon and counted nights, not days. They measured their history in "ages" of 30 years, passing on all knowledge and lore by recitation. A mysterious and passionate people, the Celts in first-century Britain fought and loved wit...
No period in Egyptian history has been the source of so much fascination as the reign of Akhenaten, the XVIII Dynasty pharaoh whose impetuous government took his country to the brink of disaster. In The Twelfth Transforming, Pauline Gedge tells the r...
A tale of magic, power and unnatural lust set in Ancient Egypt. Prince Khwaemwaset seeks the mysterious Scroll of Thoth, which will give its possessor the power to raise the dead and thus attain immortality, but he encounters dark forces which he sho...
In the tiny hamlet of Aswat, far to the south of the royal capital, a beautiful young girl wants more than the meager prospects her village offers. Determined and resourceful, she is quick to leap upon an opportunity when the great seer Hui, who is a...
For many years, Thu has lived in exile, writing the tragic history of her life as the favourite concubine of Ramses III -- and her role in the conspiracy to kill him. A young soldier, Kamen, has read her words and believes her testimony that she was ...
After a gradual and mostly bloodless invasion, Egypt has fallen into the hands of a foreign power known as the “Rulers of the Upland.” Using subtle means of political power and economic country, plundering its riches and slowly subverting its rel...
The Horus Road is the riveting conclusion of Pauline Gedge's three-volume epic, the Lords of the Two Lands, which chronicles the courageous and often tragic struggle of the Tao Princes to free their country from the foreign rule of the Setiu king Ape...
Huy has risen from lowly origins to become the Seer of the King. Yet Amunhotep’s patronage is both a blessing and a curse to Huy, who feels imprisoned by the gift Thoth has imposed on him and by the life he must live to keep it. Though rewarded wit...
When Huy is sent away from his family’s farm to a prestigious school for a chance at a better life as a scribe, he is soon befriended by the family of the local governor. But just as Huy starts to feel at home with his aristocratic new friends, an ...
Twelve-year-old Amunhotep III has ascended the throne, becoming king of the richest empire on earth. The boy's mother acts as regent, but she has brought to court the renowned seer, Huy, son of a humble farmer, to be scribe and counsel to her roy...