Shy Leopardess

Novel, Historical novel by Leslie Barringer

Blurb

Shy Leopardess is a fantasy novel by Leslie Barringer, the third and last book in his three volume Neustrian Cycle. It is set around the 14th century in an alternate medieval France called Neustria. The book was first published in the United Kingdom by Methuen in 1948. Its significance was recognized by its republication in the United States by the Newcastle Publishing Company as the thirteenth volume of the celebrated Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library series in October, 1977. The Newcastle edition was reprinted by Borgo Press in 1980.
Chapter headings of the 1948 edition:
Encounters at Parledin.
Azo's way.
Roclatour and Sanctlamine.
A silver shield and a grey kitten.
Balthasar's way.
Jehane's way.
The way of Dom Ursus Campestris.
Belphegor's way.
The secret servants of Yolande.
Passing bells at Roclatour.
Fruit of thunder.
Belphagor's way again.
"My Diomede, my Lioncel".
Yolande's way.
A queen from the east.

First Published

1948

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