The Fears of Henry IV: The Life of England's Self-Made King

6 best books like The Fears of Henry IV: The Life of England's Self-Made King (Ian Mortimer): Edward II: The Unconventional King, Divine By Mistake, A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain, Alfred the Great, King John: Treachery and Tyranny in Medieval England: The Road to Magna Carta, Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors

Edward II: The Unconventional King

Author	Kathryn Warner
ISBN	1445641208

He is one of the most reviled English kings in history. He drove his kingdom to the brink of civil war a dozen times in less than twenty years. He allowed his male lovers to rule the kingdom. He led a great army to the most ignominious military defeat in English history. His wife took a lover and invaded his...

Divine By Mistake

Author	P.C. Cast
ISBN	0373802471

The most excitement teacher Shannon Parker expected on her summer vacation was a little shopping. But then her latest purchase--a vase with the Celtic goddess Epona on it--somehow switches her into the world of Partholon, where she's treated like a goddess. A very temperamental goddess... It seems...

A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain

Author	Marc Morris
ISBN	0091796849

This is the first major biography for a generation of a truly formidable king – a man born to rule England, who believed that it was his right to rule all of Britain. His reign was one of the most dramatic and important of the entire Middle Ages, leading to war and conquest on an unprecedented scale, and...

Alfred the Great

Author	Justin Pollard
ISBN	0719566665

In an era darkened by the terror of Viking invasions, England's first and greatest king was a beacon of light. "This is the story of England's birth. A great story, beautifully told." (Bernard Cornwell, author of The Pale Horseman)

Alfred was England's first kin, and his rule spanned troubled...

King John: Treachery and Tyranny in Medieval England: The Road to Magna Carta

Author	Marc Morris
ISBN	1605988855

A rousing and authoritative new biography of the notorious King John, by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Marc Morris.

King John is one of those historical characters who needs little in the way of introduction. If readers are not already familiar with him as the tyrant whose misgovernment...

Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors

Author

Peter Ackroyd

Peter Ackroyd, whose work has always been underpinned by a profound interest in and understanding of England's history, now tells the epic story of England itself.

In Foundation, the chronicler of London and of its river, the Thames, takes us from the primeval forests of England's prehistory...