Shadow of the King

10 best books like Shadow of the King (Helen Hollick): The Giver of Stars, Tidelands, The Irish Princess, Lionheart, A King's Ransom, Flint and Silver: A Prequel to Treasure Island, Grail Prince, The Promise: A beautiful and heartbreaking novel of lost love and dark secrets..., Legionary (The Thrice Named Man, #2), In the Heart of the Garden

The Giver of Stars

Author	Jojo Moyes
ISBN	0399562486

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK

Set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond, from the author of Me Before You

Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping...

Tidelands

Author

Philippa Gregory

THE BRAND NEW SERIES FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR

England 1648. A dangerous time for a woman to be different . . .

Midsummer’s Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches every corner...

The Irish Princess

Author	Elizabeth Chadwick
ISBN	0751564990

Ireland, 1160

Aoife MacMurchada is just 14 years old when her father Diarmit, King of Leinster, is brutally deposed, and her family is forced to flee Southern Ireland into English exile. Diarmit seeks help from King Henry II, an alliance that leads him to the charismatic Richard de Clare, lord...

Lionheart

Author	Sharon Kay Penman
ISBN	0399157859

They were called "The Devil's Brood," though never to their faces. They were the four surviving sons of Henry Plantagenet and Eleanor of Aquitaine. With two such extraordinary parents, much was expected of them.
But the eldest-charming yet mercurial-would turn on his father and, like his brother...

A King's Ransom

Author	Sharon Kay Penman
ISBN	0399159223

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Lionheart comes the dramatic sequel, telling of the last dangerous years of Richard, Coeur de Lion’s life.
 
This long-anticipated sequel to the national bestseller Lionheart is a vivid and heart-wrenching story of the last event-filled...

Flint and Silver: A Prequel to Treasure Island

Author

John Drake

A swashbuckling triumph of storytelling, Flint and Silver provides a thrilling ride back to the rich and wondrous world of Long John Silver and his fiendish nemesis Joseph Flint in this prequel to the beloved classic Treasure Island.

John Silver had never killed a man. Until now, his charisma,...

Grail Prince

Author	Nancy McKenzie
ISBN	0345456483

The wheel is turning and the world will change. . . . And a son of Lancelot, with a bloody sword and a righteous heart, shall renew the Light in Britain before the descent of savage dark. . . .

So spoke the Lady of the Lake. Now her grim prophecy is coming true. King Arthur lies dead, struck down along...

The Promise: A beautiful and heartbreaking novel of lost love and dark secrets...

Author

Ruth Saberton

From the bestselling Winston Graham Historical Prize for Fiction shortlisted author, comes a haunting and beautiful new novel.

What if you discovered your whole life has been a lie?
When Nell Summers stumbles across a photograph in her late father’s belongings, the faded image of...

Legionary (The Thrice Named Man, #2)

Author

Hector Miller

The year is 225 AD and the Roman Empire is on the brink of a precipice.
It will take a man with iron in his veins to set things right and accomplish the impossible.
From a humble upbringing, a boy emerges who is destined to change history.
This is the story of Lucius Domitius Aurelianus.

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In the Heart of the Garden

Author	Helene Wiggin
ISBN	1789543274

AD 912:  Fritha—she sows her plot with the seeds of tragedy and waters it with bitter tears. But there is comfort in the nurturing of her plants and herbs and Fritha is rewarded by new life and new hope. 1998: Iris—more than 1,000 years later, Iris Bagshott strolls round the ancient garden at Friddy's...