The Fort at River's Bend
10 best books like The Fort at River's Bend (Jack Whyte): The Crystal Cave, Excalibur, Merlin, The Last Enchantment, Under the Eagle, The Eagle's Conquest, The Wicked Day, Enemy of God, The Hollow Hills, The Winter King: A Novel of Arthur
| Author | Mary Stewart |
| ISBN | 0060548258 |
Fifth century Britain is a country of chaos and division after the Roman withdrawal. This is the world of young Merlin, the illegitimate child of a South Wales princess who will not reveal to her son his father's true identity. Yet Merlin is an extraordinary child, aware at the earliest age that he possesses...
| Author | Bernard Cornwell |
| ISBN | 0312206488 |
In The Winter King and Enemy of God Bernard Cornwell demonstrated his astonishing ability to make the oft-told legend of King Arthur fresh and new for our time. Now, in this riveting final volume of The Warlord Chronicles, Cornwell tells the unforgettable tale of Arthur's final struggles against the...
| Author | Stephen R. Lawhead |
| ISBN | 0310205069 |
An enchanting tale of love and loss, glory and grandeur, set in the twilight of Rome's power . . . where the Celtic chieftains of Britain battle to save their land from an onrushing darkness . . . In this modern classic, Stephen Lawhead presents a majestic retelling of Western literature's most compelling...
| Author | Mary Stewart |
| ISBN | 0060548274 |
"Here, away from lights and sounds of town or village, the night was deep, the black sky stretching, fathomless, away between the spheres, to some unimaginable world where gods walked, and suns and moons showered down like petals falling. Some power there is that draws men's eyes and hearts up and outwards,...
| Author | Simon Scarrow |
| ISBN | 0747266298 |
Simon Scarrow's brilliant adventure novels about the Roman army appear with stunning new covers.
It is 42 AD, and Quintus Licinius Cato has just arrived in Germany as a new recruit to the Second Legion, the toughest in the Roman army. If adjusting to the rigours of military life isn’t difficult...
| Author | Simon Scarrow |
| ISBN | 0747266301 |
Simon Scarrow's brilliant adventure novels about the Roman army appear with stunning new covers.
When Centurion Macro arrives on British soil as one of Emperor Claudius's invasion force in 43 AD, he is facing one of the toughest campaigns of his battle-scarred career. In a series of bloody...
| Author | Mary Stewart |
| ISBN | 0060548282 |
"It was coming now, surely, the future he had dreaded, and yet longed for, with the strange, restless and sometimes violent feelings of rebellion he had had against the life to which he had been born, and to which he had believed himself sentenced till death, like all his parents’ kin."
Well,...
| Author | Bernard Cornwell |
| ISBN | 0312187149 |
4.5/5 Stars
Enemy of God, the second book in 'The Warlord Chronicles' trilogy by Bernard Cornwell, and the series so far, has truly been serendipity for me.
As I mentioned in my previous review, I’ve never bothered to start Cornwell’s work, it brings me joy when someone, a friend...
| Author | Mary Stewart |
| ISBN | 0060548266 |
“I am nothing, yes; I am air and darkness, a word, a promise. I watch in the crystal and I wait in the hollow hills. But out there in the light I have a young king and a bright sword to do my work for me, and build what will stand when my name is only a word for forgotten songs and outworn wisdom, and when your name,...
The Winter King: A Novel of Arthur
| Author | Bernard Cornwell |
| ISBN | 0312156960 |
Uther, the High King, has died, leaving the infant Mordred as his only heir. His uncle, the loyal and gifted warlord Arthur, now rules as caretaker for a country which has fallen into chaos - threats emerge from within the British kingdoms while vicious Saxon armies stand ready to invade. As he struggles...
| Author | William Gibson |
| ISBN | 0553281747 |
William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date... The Mona Lisa Overdrive. Enter Gibson's unique world - lyric and mechanical, erotic and violent, sobering and exciting - where multinational corporations...
| Author | Peter S. Wells |
| ISBN | 0393326438 |
I found this book at a the Amarynth Bookstore on Davis in Evanston while looking for birthday gifts for my brother and niece. Having read in the journal Ancient World that the location of the battle of Teutoberg had recently been discovered, and given the importance of that event, I made the purchase.
In...
| Author | Claudia Durastanti |
| ISBN | 8893447754 |
"La storia di una famiglia somiglia più a una cartina topografica che a un romanzo, e una biografia è la somma di tutte le ere geologiche che hai attraversato". Come si racconta una vita se non esplorandone i luoghi simbolici e geografici, ricostruendo una mappa di sé e del mondo vissuto? Tra la Basilicata...
| Author | Helen MacInnes |
| ISBN | 0449209423 |
A game of espionage ...
Fenner burned Rosenfeld's message, reminding himself wryly that he was behaving in the very best tradition. This was a game not too difficult to learn, he thought. A game? A game in deadly earnest. A vacation in Venice that was grim business. A girl constantly beside him...
