Shy Leopardess
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| Author | Leslie Barringer |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Neustrian Cycle |
| Genre(s) | Historical Fantasy novel |
| Publisher | Methuen and Co. Ltd. |
| Publication date | 1948 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | vii, 392 pp |
| Preceded by | Joris of the Rock (1928) |
| Followed by | none |
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 fourteenth century in an alternate medieval France called Neustria (historically an early division of the Frankish kingdom). The book was first published by Methuen in 1948.
Its significance was recognized by its republication by the Newcastle Publishing Company as the thirteenth volume of the celebrated Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library series in October, 1977.
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.
