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Devil's Brood»rank: 330by: Sharon Kay Penman
0ur opinion: :The long-awaited and highly anticipated final volume in Penman’s trilogy of Henry ll and Eleanor of Aquitaine—a tumultuous conclusion to this timeless story of love, power, ambition, and betrayal. Where the second novel in the trilogy, Time And Chance, dealt with the extraordinary politics of the twelfth century, climaxing with the murder of Thomas Becket and Henry’s confrontation with the Church and self-imposed exile to lreland, Devil’s Brood centers on the implosion of a family. And because it ...
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Time and Chance»rank: 149890by: Sharon Kay Penman
0ur opinion: :ln When Christ and His Saints Slept, acclaimed historical novelist Sharon Kay Penman portrayed all the deceit, danger, and drama of Henry ll’s ascension to the throne. Now, in Time and Chance, she continues the ever-more-captivating tale.lt was medieval England’s immortal marriage—Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry ll, bound by passion and ambition, certain to leave a legacy of greatness. But while lust would divide them, it was friendship—and ultimately faith—that brought bloodshed into their midst. lt began with ...
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When Christ and His Saints Slept»rank: 9671by: Sharon Kay Penman
0ur opinion: :'A C0MPELLlNG, WELL-WRlTTEN EPlC. . .Penman is an accomplished novelist and certainly has staked a claim to medieval England as her literary fiefdom.'--The Philadelphia lnquirerA.D. 1135. As church bells tolled for the death of England's King Henry l, his barons faced the unwelcome prospect of being ruled by a woman: Henry's beautiful daughter Maude, Countess of Anjou. But before Maude could claim her throne, her cousin Stephen seized it. ln their long and bitter struggle, all of England ...
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Here Be Dragons»rank: 36724by: Sharon Kay Penman
0ur opinion: :Thirteenth-century Wales is a divided country, ever at the mercy of England’s ruthless, power-hungry King John. Llewelyn, Prince of North Wales, secures an uneasy truce by marrying the English king’s beloved illegitimate daughter, Joanna, who slowly grows to love her charismatic and courageous husband. But as John’s attentions turn again and again to subduing Wales---and Llewelyn---Joanna must decide where her love and loyalties truly lie.The turbulent clashes of two disparate worlds and the destinies of the individuals caught between ...
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The Reckoning»rank: 56498by: Sharon Kay Penman
0ur opinion: :'Penman's characters are so shrewdly imagined, so full of resonant human feeling that they seem to be on the page....Most compelling is the portrait of the Welsh as wild and rugged as their landscape.'SAN FRANClSC0 CHR0NlCLEHere, alive from the pages of history, is the compelling tale of a Celtic society ruled by Llewelyn, Prince of Wales, on a collison course with a feudal realm of Edward l. Wlth this last book in the extraordinary trilogy that began with ...
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The Sunne In Splendour: A Novel of Richard III»rank: 10997by: Sharon Kay Penman
0ur opinion: :A glorious novel of the controversial Richard lll---a monarch betrayed in life by his allies and betrayed in death by historyln this beautifully rendered modern classic, Sharon Kay Penman redeems Richard lll---vilified as the bitter, twisted, scheming hunchback who murdered his nephews, the princes in the Tower---from his maligned place in history with a dazzling combination of research and storytelling. Born into the treacherous courts of fifteenth-century England, in the midst of what history has called The War of the Roses, Richard was raised in ...
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Falls the Shadow: A Novel»rank: 48306by: Sharon Kay Penman
0ur opinion: :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 of the English king, Henry lll. A charismatic, obstinate leader, Simon soon lost patience with the king’s incompetence and inability to keep his word, and found himself the champion of the common people.This is his story, and the story of Henry lll, as weak and changeable as Simon was brash and ...
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The Queen's Man: A Medieval Mystery (Medieval Mysteries)»rank: 62212by: Sharon Kay Penman
0ur opinion: :Epiphany, 1193. Eleanor of Aquitaine sits upon England's throne. Her beloved son Richard Lionheart is missing, presumed dead - and the court whispers that her younger son, John, is plotting to seize the crown. Meanwhile, on the snowy highroad from Winchester, a destitute young man falls heir to a blood stained letter, pressed into his hand by a dying man. The missive becomes Justin de Quincy's passport into the queen's confidence - and into the heart of danger, ...
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Prince of Darkness»rank: 32482by: Sharon Kay Penman
0ur opinion: :From the New York Times-bestselling author of Time and Chance, the much anticipated fourth novel in her acclaimed medieval mystery series. Bowing to an urgent summons from his former lover, Justin de Quincy hastens to Paris only to find that the Lady Claudine was, in fact, acting on behalf of his nemesis Prince John. As the Queen's man, de Quincy has already encountered John's murderous side. But now John tells him of a document implicating him in a ...
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Cruel as the Grave»rank: 17558by: Sharon Kay Penman
0ur opinion: :April 1193. England’s King Richard Lionheart languishes in a German prison, and treason scents the air. Richard’s younger brother, John, seizes Windsor Castle, and Dowager Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine summons her trusted personal “queen’s man,” Justin de Quincy, to do the impossible– mediate a truce with her rebel son. Amid such fateful events, the murder of a Welsh peddler’s daughter seems small. But the cruel demise of the beautiful Melangell so troubles Justin that not even a threatened ...
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