Beloved Exile
10 best books like Beloved Exile (Parke Godwin): The Coming of the King (Books of Merlin, #1), The Forever King, The Pendragon, Guinevere, The Road to Camlann. The Death of King Arthur, The Idylls of the Queen: A Tale of Queen Guenevere, The Oak Above the Kings, Camelot's Blood, In the Shadow of the Oak King, In Winter's Shadow
| Author | Nikolai Tolstoy |
| ISBN | 0553283952 |
This book had huge amounts of potential that it didn't quite live up to. Tolstoy has wrote some great non fiction on British Dark Ages history and pre-Christian European religion (do your self a favor and read his book Quest for Merlin!) but as far as fiction his writing style just didn't flow well. It took...
| Author | Molly Cochran |
| ISBN | 0812517164 |
In a darkened house not far from the place where Camelot may once have stood, a madman schemes, plotting toward the day when he will wrest the cup that men call the Holy Grail from the boy who is its guardian.
Arthur Blessing is no ordinary ten-year-old. The Grail is his by chance, this time, but...
| Author | Catherine Christian |
I found this book in a second-hand bookstore, and read it in about two days.
As a fan of anything Arthurian, I enjoyed this book. It was rich with description and layered in a setting that had great history and context. It was a little dated in places (Arthur and Bedivere insisting on calling Ygern...
| Author | Sharan Newman |
| ISBN | 0312862334 |
Sharan Newman tells the story of the golden child whose dearest friend is a saint who hears spirits singing; of the gentle-hearted woman who begins to dream of love, glory, and the fierce, proud king who will become her husband; of the passionate beauty whose name will be remembered and hated for centuries.
Sharan...
| Author | Rosemary Sutcliff |
| ISBN | 0525440186 |
This book is lovely, too. I didn't quite cry, really, but there was a certain tight ache in my throat at certain points. The bittersweetness is much closer to the bitter than the sweet in this book, but thankfully I didn't feel like I had to hate any character for the way they treated the others -- they were...
| Author | Phyllis Ann Karr |
| ISBN | 1587150123 |
In The Idylls of the Queen, Phyllis Ann Karr takes an incident (the murder of Sir Patrise) from Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur and creates an intelligent, complex, and fascinating mystery novel perfect for fans of historical mysteries, of British legends, and of fantasy.
Queen Guenevere...
| Author | Patricia Kennealy-Morrison |
| ISBN | 0451454510 |
Taliesin, chief Bard of Keltia, brother in sword and deed and marraige to Arthur the king, sets his magical seeings into fated words. He tells how Arthur, the lost prince, overthrows the evil, uprising Archdruid and at last comes to his own kingship. But it is a double throne which he must share by law and...
| Author | Sarah Zettel |
| ISBN | 0007158742 |
An evocative and highly engaging romantic fantasy set in the evocative time of King Arthur. Laurel Carnbrea, Queen of Cambryn, arrives at Camelot to marry a man she has never met -- Sir Agravain, the brother of the renowned Sir Gawain. Laurel has heard that Agravain is a reserved and cold man, but marriage...
| Author | Courtway Jones |
| ISBN | 0671734040 |
An interesting retelling of Malory, which is neither medieval nor quite 5th century. While the author is a cultural anthropologist, this "reconstruction" seem more like a fantasy world to me. The Druids definitely come across as the bad guys here, with their human child sacrifices. The love story...
| Author | Gillian Bradshaw |
| ISBN | 0553298992 |
Arthur Pendragon strives to unite a fragmented empire as his bastard son threatens to tear down the king, his queen, and their bravest champions. From the sudden death of innocence to a perilous campaign that strikes at the very heart of the empire, this third and final book of the acclaimed trilogy by...
| Author | Persia Woolley |
| ISBN | 0671708325 |
Giving a new viewpoint to the Arthur legend, Persia Woolley creates an enchanting and believable tale. Guinevere, The Legend In Autumn is told from Guinevere's perspective. I did not get to read the first two books in the trilogy, but I am familiar with the Arthur legend, and I was able to follow along...
Prince of Dreams: A Tale of Tristan and Esyllte
| Author | Nancy McKenzie |
| ISBN | 0345456505 |
It is a generation after the fall of Camelot. The legendary figures of Britain’s brief but shining renaissance—Arthur, Lancelot, Guinevere—are gone but not forgotten. Their memories live on in song and story. But Arthur’s dream of a united Britain is fading fast. The hard-won alliance...
| Author | Gil Kane |
| ISBN | 0440122910 |
Oh boy! I slogged through more than half this book and finally decided to call it quits. I wanted to like this, I mean I'm a huge fan of anything Arthur, but this book seemed to go from one gory battle to another with not much else inbetween. There was quite a bit of the young Arthur story, of which some passages...
| Author | Anna Elliott |
| ISBN | 1416589902 |
She is a healer, a storyteller, and a warrior. She has fought to preserve Britain’s throne. Now she faces her greatest challenge in turning bitter enemies into allies, saving the life of the man she loves . . . and mending her own wounded heart.
The young former High Queen, Isolde, and her friend...
| Author | Fred Saberhagen |
| ISBN | 0812533496 |
In post-Arthurian England, ten-year old Amby and the troupe of traveling players he belongs to are on the run from a conqueror. He has been gifted with second-sight, and when the troupe stumbles upon an unoccupied castle he is the only one in the group who senses the power that lies within the stone building....
| Author | Diana L. Paxson |
| ISBN | 0380752298 |
This haunting retelling of the tale of Tristan and Iseult (here called Drustan and Esseilte in accordance with Celtic legend and language) goes back to early versions, before Mallory and Wagner, to explore the nature of love, duty and loyalty. The story is told by Branwen, cousin and companion to Esseilte,...
| Author | A.A. Attanasio |
| ISBN | 0061059730 |
The boy-king Arthor has beaten back the berserker wolf warriors of the Saxon god, uniting his island kingdom -- but at a terrible cost. For the Grail, the chalice of the Last Supper and the magical shield of Britain, has been stolen.Without the Grail's protection, Britain lies parched and barren, a demon-haunted...
