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THE FALCONER'S APPRENTICE is a story of adventure and intrigue set in the intense social and political unrest of the Holy Roman Empire in the thirteenth century.
“That bird should be destroyed!”
Andreas stared
at Ethelbert in shock. Blood from an angry-looking gash on the young lord’s
cheek dripped onto his embroidered tunic. Andreas clutched the handles of the
basket containing the young peregrine. Perhaps this was a dream—
Andreas, an
apprentice falconer at Castle Kragenberg, cannot bear the thought of killing
the young female falcon and smuggles her out of the castle. Soon he realizes
that his own time there has come to an end, and he stows away, with the bird,
in the cart of an itinerant trader, Richard of Brugge.
So begins a
series of adventures that lead him from an obscure castle in northern Germany
to the farthest reaches of Frederick von Hohenstaufen’s Holy Roman Empire,
following a path dictated by the wily trader’s mysterious mission. Andreas
continues to improve his falconry skills, but he also learns to pay attention
to what is happening around him as he travels through areas fraught with
political unrest.
Eventually,
Richard confides in Andreas, and they conspire to free Enzio, the eldest of the
emperor’s illegitimate sons, from imprisonment in Bologna.
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Malve von Hassell is a freelance writer, researcher, and translator. She holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the New School for Social Research. Working as an independent scholar, she published The Struggle for Eden: Community Gardens in New York City (Bergin & Garvey 2002) and Homesteading in New York City 1978-1993: The Divided Heart of Loisaida (Bergin & Garvey 1996). She has also edited her grandfather Ulrich von Hassell's memoirs written in prison in 1944, Der Kreis schließt sich - Aufzeichnungen aus der Haft 1944 (Propylaen Verlag 1994).
She has taught
at Queens College, Baruch College, Pace University, and Suffolk County
Community College, while continuing her work as a translator and writer.
Malve has
published two children’s picture books, Tooth
Fairy (Amazon KDP 2012/2020), and
Turtle Crossing (Amazon KDP 2023), and her translation and annotation of a
German children’s classic by Tamara Ramsay, Rennefarre:
Dott’s Wonderful Travels and Adventures (Two Harbors Press, 2012).
The Falconer’s Apprentice (2015/KDP 2024)
was her first historical fiction novel for young adults. She has published Alina: A Song for the Telling (BHC
Press, 2020), set in Jerusalem in the time of the crusades, and The Amber Crane (Odyssey Books, 2021),
set in Germany in 1645 and 1945, as well as a biographical work about a woman
coming of age in Nazi Germany, Tapestry
of My Mother’s Life: Stories, Fragments,
and Silences (Next Chapter Publishing, 2021), also available in German, Bildteppich
Eines Lebens: Erzählungen Meiner Mutter, Fragmente Und Schweigen (Next
Chapter Publishing, 2022), and is working on a historical fiction trilogy
featuring Adela of Blois.
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