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Sharon Kay Penman
When her beloved son Richard is imprisoned and held for ransom in an Austrian dungeon and the hated Prince John plots with King Phillippe of France to prevent Richard’s return…
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A novel depicting a dark period in English history follows the story of Maude, daughter of Henry I and England’s uncrowned queen, and her cousin Stephen, as their battles for…
The second volume in a trilogy begun in When Christ and His Saints Slept Here. Hoping to subdue the Church, Henry II–against the advice of Eleanor of Aquitaine– raises Thomas…
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Simon de Montfort was a man ahead of his time in the thirteenth century, a disinherited Frenchman who talked his way into an English earldom and marriage with a sister…
In April, 1193, England’s King Richard Lionheart languishes in a German prison while his younger brother, John, seizes Windsor Castle. Dowager Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine summons her trusted personal queen’s…
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Sharon Kay Penman follows up her acclaimed novel Lionheart with the vivid and heart-wrenching story of the last event-filled years in the life of Richard I…
The long-awaited and highly anticipated final volume in Penman’s trilogy of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine offers a tumultuous conclusion to this timeless story of love, power, ambition, and…
Originally published: New York: Ballantine Books, 1991.
From the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Sharon Kay Penman comes the story of the reign of King Baldwin IV and the Kingdom of Jerusalem’s defense against Saladin’s…
A masterful picture of Wales in the 13th century…vividly pictured as grandly beautiful, its people volatile, stubborn and mystic. –The San Diego Union-Tribune
In When Christ and His Saints Slept, the first of a trilogy that will tell the story of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, master storyteller and historian Sharon Kay…
