Sharon Kay Penman
Sharon Kay Penman has lived in England and Wales and currently resides in New Jersey. She is the author of six other novels: Falls the Shadow, Here Be Dragons, The Reckoning, The Sunne in Splendour, When Christ and His Saints Slept, and the first Justin de Quincy adventure: The Queen’s Man.
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Devil's Brood
Trade Paperback | 768 pages | Ballantine Books | Fiction - Historical
978-0-345-39673-0 (0-345-39673-1)
July 28, 2009 | $19.95
A.D. 1172. Henry II’s three eldest sons conspire against him and align themselves with his greatest enemy, King Louis of France, but it’s Eleanor of Aquitaine’s involvement in the plot to overthrow her husband that proves to be the harshest betrayal. As a royal family collapses and a marriage ends in...
Written by Sharon Kay Penman
Trade Paperback | 768 pages | Ballantine Books | Fiction - Historical
978-0-345-39673-0 (0-345-39673-1)
July 28, 2009 | $19.95
A.D. 1172. Henry II’s three eldest sons conspire against him and align themselves with his greatest enemy, King Louis of France, but it’s Eleanor of Aquitaine’s involvement in the plot to overthrow her husband that proves to be the harshest betrayal. As a royal family collapses and a marriage ends in...
Dragon's Lair
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Ballantine Books | Fiction
978-0-345-43423-4 (0-345-43423-4)
November 23, 2004 | $21.00
July 1193. King Richard Lionheart lies in a German prison, held for ransom by the emperor. His mother, Dowager Queen Eleanor, ransacks England for gold to buy his freedom, while his younger brother, John, plots with King Philippe of France to ensure that he rots and dies in chains.
When a ransom...
Written by Sharon Kay Penman
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Ballantine Books | Fiction
978-0-345-43423-4 (0-345-43423-4)
November 23, 2004 | $21.00
July 1193. King Richard Lionheart lies in a German prison, held for ransom by the emperor. His mother, Dowager Queen Eleanor, ransacks England for gold to buy his freedom, while his younger brother, John, plots with King Philippe of France to ensure that he rots and dies in chains.
When a ransom...
Time and Chance
Trade Paperback | 544 pages | Ballantine Books | Fiction - Historical
978-0-345-39672-3 (0-345-39672-3)
February 4, 2003 | $19.95
In When Christ and His Saints Slept, acclaimed historical novelist Sharon Kay Penman portrayed all the deceit, danger, and drama of Henry II’s ascension to the throne. Now, in Time and Chance, she continues the ever-more-captivating tale.
It was medieval England’s immortal marriage—Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II, bound by passion and...
Written by Sharon Kay Penman
Trade Paperback | 544 pages | Ballantine Books | Fiction - Historical
978-0-345-39672-3 (0-345-39672-3)
February 4, 2003 | $19.95
In When Christ and His Saints Slept, acclaimed historical novelist Sharon Kay Penman portrayed all the deceit, danger, and drama of Henry II’s ascension to the throne. Now, in Time and Chance, she continues the ever-more-captivating tale.
It was medieval England’s immortal marriage—Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II, bound by passion and...
Cruel as the Grave
Paperback | 272 pages | Fawcett | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Historical
978-0-345-44144-7 (0-345-44144-3)
October 30, 2001 | $9.99
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...
Written by Sharon Kay Penman
Paperback | 272 pages | Fawcett | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Historical
978-0-345-44144-7 (0-345-44144-3)
October 30, 2001 | $9.99
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...
When Christ and His Saints Slept
Trade Paperback | 784 pages | Ballantine Books | Fiction - Historical; Fiction - Adventure; Fiction - Family Saga
978-0-345-39668-6 (0-345-39668-5)
February 6, 1996 | $19.95
A.D. 1135. As church bells tolled for the death of England's King Henry I, 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. In their long and bitter struggle...
Written by Sharon Kay Penman
Trade Paperback | 784 pages | Ballantine Books | Fiction - Historical; Fiction - Adventure; Fiction - Family Saga
978-0-345-39668-6 (0-345-39668-5)
February 6, 1996 | $19.95
A.D. 1135. As church bells tolled for the death of England's King Henry I, 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. In their long and bitter struggle...
