Afterglow and Nightfall

Its place in The Brothers of Gwynedd

Afterglow and Nightfall is book 4 in the The Brothers of Gwynedd series. It follows The Hounds of Sunset. See the full The Brothers of Gwynedd reading order.

Edith Pargeter's second major historical quartet, written under her own name rather than her Ellis Peters pen name, dramatizes the real thirteenth-century struggle of the Welsh princes of Gwynedd to hold Wales independent against the expanding power of the English crown. Narrated by Samson, a fictional clerk and confidant in the household of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, the four novels — Sunrise in the West (1974), The Dragon at Noonday (1975), The Hounds of Sunset (1976) and Afterglow and Nightfall (1977) — trace the…