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"The King will follow Christ, and we the King In whom high God hath breathed a secret thing. Fall battleaxe, and flash brand! Let the King reign." This book is a novelisation of The Coming of Arthur from Tennyson's Idylls of the King. It describes the start of the Arthurian world, This is not the polished Camelot we often picture, but a raw, uncertain Britain on the brink of becoming something greater, or falling apart, written in a way that offers a commentary of the Britain of Tennyson’s own time.

1st Place in the Readers Choice Awards 2022 - "A compelling and captivating read.” The friendship that changed the destiny of a nation… In the waning years of the thirteenth century, two young noblemen form a bond that forever changes their destiny and that of Scotland’s. Their shared pledge of honor would endure for a lifetime to secure power in the Isles for Angus Og Macdonald and a crown for Robert Bruce. This is the story of their friendship, their times and the battle that secured their future. Standing beside them would be two women from Ireland, Áine O’Cahan, the dark-haired...

Will Mary find what she has alwas wanted? Or will her past drag her back down? Mary has finally found a home in Salmisara, a place where she can heal, rebuild, and maybe even belong. With new friends and a family to call her own, she dares to believe her life is moving forward. But just as hope takes root, letters from her past arrive—reminders of the life she left behind in Dermes. As old wounds resurface and unanswered questions demand her attention, Mary must decide: will she fight for the future she’s begun to build, or is she still the same broken soul who ran away?

Im Jahr 1189 ist die Welt vom großen Religionskrieg zwischen Abendland und Orient erschüttert. Die Schicksalswege führen die Handwerkstochter Aveline und den Wundarzt Étienne auf den Dritten Kreuzzug von Frankreich nach Jerusalem. In den Wirren von Belagerungen und Intrigen finden die beiden zusammen. Doch ihre Liebe wird im großen Kampf um das Heilige Land vor eine schwere Probe gestellt ...

The third volume in the Englaland Pentalogy, this instalment brings to life the fierce struggle for Britain in the 5th century, as the Anglo-Saxon tribes carve out new kingdoms from the ruins of Rome. It is a tale of conquest, settlement, and the birth of a new nation.

Attila—the devil made flesh, a savage, a warlord, a king. He killed his own brother to seize the kingship of Hungvar. That tale alone made Rome tremble. But one man stands up to him—Waldere, master of Nordic martial arts, and possessor of the fabled sword, Mimming. Atilla takes him hostage, but when he escapes, Attila sends 12 of his finest warriors to bring him back, dead or alive. Will Waldere's martial skills enable him to survive?

1964. Workmen digging on a bombsite in London uncover a hidden vault containing a lead coffin. The coffin is almost reburied in a mass grave in a local churchyard, but an old retired policeman, examining the sarcophagus in the police station where the find has been taken, notices a plaque attached to the leaden lid. What he reads, stuns him--this is not an unknown medieval nun or noblewoman. The coffin's occupant is a child--a Princess, Anne Mowbray, wife of Richard of Shrewsbury, one of the infamous Princes in the Tower, who disappeared in 1483... 1470's. Elizabeth is the Dowager Duchess ...

England, 1110. When King William Rufus of England is killed mysteriously during a hunting accident in the New Forest in 1100, his younger brother Henry, who had been present, loses no time in riding hard to claim both the Treasury and the crown. Rumors quickly being swirling that Henry was himself responsible for Rufus's death. One of Henry's main accusers is his older brother Robert, Duke of Normandy, who believes the throne of England is his by right and threatens to invade from across the Channel.

William de Warenne, Earl of Surrey and Lord of Conisbrough Castle, is filled with zeal to free the Holy City from the depredations of the Infidel, but when passing through Constantinople, he is distracted from his quest by a willowy Greek dancing girl named Cyra.

Köln, 1206: Das Heilige Römische Reich ist seit Jahren in einem erbitterten Krieg zerrissen, weil zwei Könige um den Thron kämpfen. Trotz großer Gefahr reist die junge Heilerin Maria vom Niederrhein nach Köln, um einer geheimen Schwesternschaft beizutreten. Doch mit Entsetzen muss sie feststellen, dass die Schwestern nicht mehr in dem Kloster leben. Die willensstarke Maria gibt nicht auf und bleibt in der Stadt, die bald vom Stauferkönig Philipp bedrängt wird. Auf ihrer Suche nach den Schwestern begegnet sie den staufischen Feinden.

A hidden past. A dangerous truth. A young knight’s fight for survival. Holy Land, 1097 At the tender age of twelve, Giles fitzAlain is forced to leave the only home he has ever known—a monastery in Normandy— to follow a father he has never met. Alain de Folliot, a battle-hardened knight in the service of Robert, Duke of Normandy, drags his son into the heart of the First Crusade, where the horrors of war are only the beginning of Giles’ struggles. As battles rage and loyalties are tested, Giles soon realizes that his father’s past is shrouded in dark secrets —secrets that pull ...

The motherless child of an English priest living in ninth-century Mainz, Agnes is a wild and brilliant girl with a deep, visceral love of God. At eighteen, to avoid a future as a wife or nun, Agnes enlists the help of a lovesick Benedictine monk to disguise herself as a man and devote her life to the study she is denied as a woman. So begins the life of John the Englishman: a matchless scholar and scribe of the revered Fulda monastery, then a charismatic heretic in an Athens commune and, by her middle years, a celebrated teacher in Rome.

For all fifteen years of her life, Pauline de Pamiers has witnessed an attack on her family, friends, and faith. It's the early thirteenth century and the Pope and King of France are conducting a Crusade against the Cathars; the only crusade on European soil and against another Christian sect. As a member of this sect in France that sits outside the dominant Roman Church, Pauline is an outsider: young, but independent and bold.

Wife and mother to a dynasty of kings, crusader, prisoner and formidable political operator, Eleanor of Aquitaine is a thoroughly modern woman, despite living almost 900 years ago. Intelligent, witty and independent, she is tough enough to forge her own destiny—and subtle enough to shape the world to her will.

"'Now the Holy Thing is among us once again. So fast, brother, and pray. Tell the others to fast and pray, that perchance the vision may come to you too—and to them—and so the world may be healed.'" This book is a novelisation of The Holy Grail, Book 8 of Tennyson's Idylls of the King. In this account of the Grail legend, Percivale, having retired to a monastery, recounts to a fellow monk his experience of the Grail quest. This prose version is intended to make the poem more accessible to the general reader and students of the poem, as well as being a good read in itself.

Jerusalem, 1119. The roads to the Holy City run red, fraught with danger and betrayal. Pilgrims seeking salvation are easy prey, until a small band of knights dares to take a stand. Hugh de Payens, battle-weary and disillusioned, dreams of peace yet sees only blood. Witnessing firsthand the carnage inflicted upon innocent travelers, he vows to forge an order unlike any other—an order founded not on conquest or wealth, but on protection and sacrifice. With just nine trusted men, Hugh forms the legendary Knights Templar, pledging their swords to defend the vulnerable, uphold sacred vows of ...

October 1381. Brother Athelstan is summoned to the church of St Benet’s in Queenhithe to investigate the murder of a priest. Parson Reynaud has been found stabbed to death inside his own locked church. Other disturbing discoveries include an empty coffin and a ransacked money chest. Who would commit murder inside a holy church? Who would spirit away a corpse the night before the funeral - and who would be brave enough to steal treasure belonging to the most feared gang leader in London?

Baldwin Furnshill and Bailiff Simon Puttock have been granted leave to go on pilgrimage. Together they travel across Europe to Portugal, but danger seems to follow them, as they are among the first on the scene when a beautiful young girl is found brutally raped and murdered on the hillside of Santiago de Compostela. Baldwin and Simon lend their investigative skills to the ensuing enquiry headed by the local pesquisidore, Munio.

Марина Степнова "Хирург" - острый и жесткий роман от автора "Женщин Лазаря". В романе "Хирург" история гениального пластического хирурга Аркадия Хрипунова переплетена с рассказом о жизни Хасана ибн Саббаха - пророка и основателя государства исламитов-низаритов ХI века. Хрипунов изменяет человеческие тела, а значит и судьбы.

In the turbulent era of 12th century England and Normandy, a woman's destiny would be forged amidst brutal ambition, undying passion, and an unwavering will to claim what was rightfully hers. Matilda, the daughter of King Henry I, had been groomed from birth to ascend to unparalleled power as the heir to the English throne. Born in 1102 to Henry and his pious queen consort Matilda of Scotland, the young princess was afforded every privilege befitting one of her stature. Highly intelligent and strong-willed, she was educated by some of the most esteemed scholars of her time, honing a keen ...