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Sharon Penman
Third of four historical crime novels from the bestselling author of LIONHEART, set in and around the court of Eleanor of Aquitaine.
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The classic, magnificent bestselling novel about Richard III, in a special thirtieth anniversary edition
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This second part of the trilogy about Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine opens during the glory years of their reign when trouble was brewing. The new Archbishop of Canterbury…
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Presents the major figures the splendid dominant King of England, Edward I, and The Great Llewellyn II, Prince of Wales. This book details the political machinations of Edward against the…
Stephen was handsome, unreliable and beguiling. Maude was courageous, beautiful and insanely arrogant. They fought for twenty years and devastated England. Their flair for dramatic events and immense catastrophes made…
A tale of passion, politics and conflict. It features King Henry II who finds himself brutally betrayed by his wife Eleanor and three eldest sons when they enter into a…
The epic story of heroic yet controversial Richard the Lionheart
From the New York Times bestselling author comes the stunning sequel to Lionheart.
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An epic novel telling the story of a clash of cultures from New York Times bestselling author Sharon Penman.
An historical novel of power and betrayal, loyalty and political intrigue in thirteenth-century England, Wales and France. It focuses on King John of England, younger brother to the brilliant Richard…
First published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc. –T.p. verso.
Sharon Kay Penman
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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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…
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…
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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…
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…
Originally published: New York: Ballantine Books, 1991.
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…
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
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 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…
