King Hereafter

6 best books like King Hereafter (Dorothy Dunnett): The Grand Sophy, Devil's Cub, Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow, The Brothers of Gwynedd, A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury, Jane and Prudence

The Grand Sophy

Author	Georgette Heyer
ISBN	0099465639

When the redoubtable Sir Horace Stanton-Lacy is ordered to South America on business, he leaves his only daughter Sophia with his sister, Elizabeth Rivenhall, in Berkeley Square. Newly arrived from her tour of the Continent, Sophy invites herself into the circle of her relatives. When Lady Ombersley...

Devil's Cub

Author	Georgette Heyer
ISBN	0099465833

Dominic Alistair, Marquis of Vidal and fiery son of the notorious Duke of Avon, has established a rakish reputation that rivals his father's, living a life of excess and indulgence. He is a bad lot a rake and seducer, reckless, heedless, and possessed of a murderous temper. He is known by friend and foe...

Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

Author	Henry Louis Gates Jr.
ISBN	0525559531

The New York Times bestseller.

A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American...

The Brothers of Gwynedd

Author	Edith Pargeter
ISBN	0747232679

Llewelyn's burning vision is of one Wales, united against the threat of the English. But before he can achieve his dream, he must first tackle enemies nearer home. All three of his brothers hamper his efforts to create an independent state. The best-loved of the three, David, brought up throughout his...

A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury

Author	Edith Pargeter
ISBN	0747233667

From Edith Pargeter, who also wrote as Ellis Peters, A BLOODY FIELD BY SHREWSBURY is a vivid medieval tale of Henry IV's kingdom in crisis. 'Chivalry, treachery, conflict of loyalties... The clash of wills is as stirring as the clash of steel' Observer

It is 1399. Henry Bolingbroke, unjustly...

Jane and Prudence

Author	Barbara Pym
ISBN	1559212268

If Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates seem an unlikely pair to be walking together at an Oxford reunion, neither of them are aware of it. They couldn't be more different: Jane is a rather incompetent vicar's wife, who always looks as if she is about to feed the chickens, while Prudence, a pristine hothouse...