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Cruel As the Grave : A Medieval Mysteryby Sharon Kay PenmanISBN 0140270760 (0-14-027076-0)
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Dragon's Lairby Sharon Kay PenmanISBN 0140250980 (0-14-025098-0)
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Falls the Shadowby Sharon Kay PenmanISBN 0312382464 (0-312-38246-4)
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Here Be Dragonsby Sharon Kay PenmanISBN 0140133402 (0-14-013340-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Here Be Dragons'Book summary:"A masterful picture of Wales in the 13th century...vivdly pictured as grandly beautiful, its people volatile, stubborn and mystic."
THE SAN DIEGO UNION
Thirteenth-century Wales is a divided country, ever at the mercy of England's ruthless, power-hungry King John. Then Llewelyn, Prince of North Wales, secures an uneasy truce with England by marrying the English king's beloved, illegitimate daughter, Joanna. Reluctant to wed her father's bitter enemy, Joanna slowly grows to love her charismatic and courageous husband who dreams of uniting Wales. But as John's attentions turn again and again to subduing Wales--and Llewelyn--Joanna must decide to which of these powerful men she owes her loyalty and love.
A sweeping novel of power and passion, loyalty and lives, this is the book that began the trilogy that includes FALLS THE SHADOW and THE RECKONING. [via]More editions of Here Be Dragons:
- Here Be Dragons: ISBN 0312382456 (0-312-38245-6)
Softcover, Griffin - Here Be Dragons: ISBN 0345382846 (0-345-38284-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group - Here Be Dragons: ISBN 0030627737 (0-03-062773-7)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co - Here Be Dragons: ISBN 0140133402 (0-14-013340-2)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
- Here Be Dragons: ISBN 0312382456 (0-312-38245-6)
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The Queen's Man : A Medieval Mysteryby Sharon Kay PenmanISBN 034542316X (0-345-42316-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Queen's Man'Book summary:Do you know the story of Sharon Kay Penman's first mystery novel, The Sunne in Splendour? She spent every spare moment for years--first as a law student, then as a lawyer--working on the book about Richard III. And when the only copy of the manuscript was stolen from her car, she sat down and wrote it again. Five excellent historical mysteries later, Penman has started a new series set even farther back in time. It's 1193, and King Richard has disappeared on his way back to England after fighting in the Crusades. Justin de Quincy, the well-educated but illegitimate son of a bishop, is tapped to search for the missing ruler, and he turns out to be just the chap to blow away the cobwebs that often hang over historical mystery. Other Penman picks: Falls the Shadow; Here Be Dragons; Reckoning. [via]
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Reckoningby Sharon Kay PenmanISBN 0140113258 (0-14-011325-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Reckoning'Book summary: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 Welsh and the Scots, together with Llewellyn's struggle to control the recalcitrant Welsh Princes. [via]
The Sunne in Splendourby Sharon Kay PenmanISBN 0140067647 (0-14-006764-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sunne in Splendour'Book summary:"The reader is left with the haunting sensation that perhaps the good a man does can live after him--especially in the hands of a dedicated historian."
SAN DIEGO UNION
In this stirring historical novel, Sharon Kay Penman redeems Richard III from his villainous role in history as the hulking, evil hunchback. This dazzling recreation of his life is filled with the sights and sounds of battle, and the passions of the highborn. Most of all, it brings to life a gifted man whose greatest sin was that he held principles too firmly for the times in which he lived, and loved too deeply to survive love's loss. [via]More editions of The Sunne in Splendour:
- The Sunne in Splendour: A Novel of Richard III: ISBN 031237593X (0-312-37593-X)
Softcover, Griffin - The Sunne in Splendour: ISBN 0345363132 (0-345-36313-2)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group - The Sunne in Splendour: A Novel of Richard III: ISBN 003061368X (0-03-061368-X)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co - The Sunne in Splendour: ISBN 0140067647 (0-14-006764-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
- The Sunne in Splendour: A Novel of Richard III: ISBN 031237593X (0-312-37593-X)
Time and Chanceby Sharon Kay PenmanISBN 0140270779 (0-14-027077-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Time and Chance'Book summary:The Sunne in Splendour confirmed Sharon Kay Penman's place in the upper echelons of historical fiction, combining a breathtaking panoply of the past with an acute psychological observation of her characters. Time and Chance is the second part of her planned trilogy about Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, beginning in the glory years of their reign. Penman conjures for us an astonishing era in which Henry battles with the Welsh and the French king, appoints Thomas Becket as Archbishop of Canterbury, and, by taking a mistress, makes a bitter enemy of his wife.
Readers know the scalpel-like precision of Penman's character building from her earlier work, and the emotional lives of Henry and the troubled Eleanor are powerfully realized. As in the first book of the sequence, When Christ and His Saints Slept, conflict is ever the driving force. Henry and Eleanor's remarkable partnership was proving highly fecund, both politically, and physically, as Eleanor gave birth to five sons and three daughters, laying to rest her reputation as a barren queen and founding a dynasty that was to last three centuries. But auguries of trouble ahead were apparent: war with the Welsh; acrimonious battles with Eleanor's first husband, King Louis VII of France. But the truly destabilizing factor was Henry's decision to appoint his friend and confidant Thomas Becket as Archbishop of Canterbury. Henry had assumed that the worldly, ambitious Becket would be the perfect ally, and was devastated when the new archbishop cast off his own worldly past as he embraced his role as Defender of the Faith, swapping dissolution for piety.
As Penman vividly demonstrates, Henry saw Becket's action as a humiliating betrayal. One of the most famous murders in history followed, with further conflict in the kingdom caused by Henry's liaison with the daughter of a baron. In bedding Rosamund Clifford, Henry put his marriage and even his kingship at risk. As always, Penman handles her research lightly; the personal drama is the engine of her narrative, with each fresh scandal and intrigue delivered with a beguiling combination of relish and restraint. She is assured in her detailing of the political and ecclesiastical clashes of the court, but it is Henry II who strides her novel like a colossus--just as he did the kingdom he ruled. --Barry Forshaw, Amazon.co.uk [via]
When Christ and His Saints Sleptby Sharon Kay PenmanISBN 014016636X (0-14-016636-X)
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