At last! I am gratified that The Tapestry of Death has found its way to Mr Amazon's Electronic Bookshop. However, I am worried that this agent fellow has made a number of editorial changes which may not sit well with the academic themes of the work. He keeps referring to humour and comedy and how funny the book is, which worries me no end.  http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tapestry-Chronicles-Brother-Hermitage-ebook/dp/B00E1LP9NM/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1374312562&sr=1-3

He assures me he knows these things best, I should leave it all to him and get on with the next book.

We did though commission the most charming image for the front cover of the book from Adam Fisher, www. fisherart.co.uk. It does go to illustrate the constant threat of death which hung over everyone around the time of the Norman conquest.

With The Heretics, The Garberobe and The Tapestry of Death all published, the agent tells me I have written a trilogy - which apparently is a good thing. He says the next trilogy will be even better received. I told him in no uncertain terms that there was nowhere near enough material to construct three more books, when lo and behold he arrived with a trunk full of manuscript which he says he found in a skip, or a loft or somewhere. The cheeky fellow has even suggested titles.

I shall ignore him for the time being and press on with my remarkable researches into the hours and days immediately after the Battle of Hastings. It is a most illuminating tale and reveals an earlier version of the Domesday Book. I am using this as the working title but the agent has appended it to "The Domesday Book (No, Not That One)", as he said it would cause confusion and then went on and on about copyright or some such. I assured him that the original Domesday Book must be well out of copyright by now and which point he said the original title wasn't very funny - which was hardly the point.

Anyway, I have locked the door of the scriptorium to stop the fellow getting in and will press on.