The Kingmaking
10 best books like The Kingmaking (Helen Hollick): Luck in the Shadows, The Giver of Stars, Child of the Prophecy, Cold Iron, Hawk of May, Heir to Sevenwaters, Lady Audley's Secret, The Irish Princess, Someone to Honor, Sword at Sunset
| Author | Lynn Flewelling |
| ISBN | 0553575422 |
When young Alec of Kerry is taken prisoner for a crime he didn’t commit, he is certain that his life is at an end. But one thing he never expected was his cellmate. Spy, rogue, thief, and noble, Seregil of Rhiminee is many things–none of them predictable. And when he offers to take on Alec as his apprentice,...
| 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...
| Author | Juliet Marillier |
| ISBN | 0765345013 |
Child of the Prophecy is the thrilling conclusion to Juliet Marillier's award-winning Sevenwaters Trilogy.
Magic is fading... and the ways of Man are driving the Old Ones to the West, beyond the ken of humankind. The ancient groves are being destroyed, and if nothing is done, Ireland will...
| Author | Miles Cameron |
| ISBN | 1473217679 |
Aranthur is a student. He showed a little magical talent, is studying at the local academy, and is nothing particularly special. Others are smarter. Others are more talented. Others are quicker to pick up techniques. But none of them are with him when he breaks his journey home for the holidays in an inn....
| Author | Gillian Bradshaw |
| ISBN | 0553299220 |
An award-winning author finally gives voice to Arthur's greatest warrior
Tutored in dark magic by his mother, the beautiful, infinitely evil sorceress Morgawse, Gwalchmai doubts his path in life. But the isle of immortals calls him on a quest as a warrior of the Light...and seals his destiny as the...
| Author | Juliet Marillier |
| ISBN | 0451462335 |
A brand new novel in the beloved world of Sevenwaters, a fantasy series that should appeal to "Lord of the Rings" fans (VOYA).
The chieftains of Sevenwaters have long been custodians of a vast and mysterious forest. Human and Otherworld dwellers have existed there side by side, sharing a wary trust....
| Author | Mary Elizabeth Braddon |
| ISBN | 0192835203 |
whatever could be Lady Audley's secret? could it be... murder? miscegenation? malfeasance? misdirected malevolence ending in tears, tragedy, and general tawdriness? an assumed identity? flatulence? that not-so-fresh feeling? bigamy? bigotry? child abuse? child abandonment? une affaire...
| 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...
| Author | Mary Balogh |
| ISBN | 1984802372 |
First appearances deceive in the newest charming and heartwarming Regency romance in the Westcott series from beloved New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh . . .
Abigail Westcott's dreams for her future were lost when her father died and she discovered her parents were not legally...
| Author | Rosemary Sutcliff |
| ISBN | 0812588525 |
This brilliant reconception of the Arthurian epic cuts through the familiar myths and tells the story of the real King Arthur: Artos the Bear, the mighty warrior-king who saved the last lights of Western civilization when the barbarian darkness descended in the fifth century.
Artos here...
| 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...
The pageantry and passionate intrigues of King Arthur’s court are expertly re-created in this historical novel—the only Arthurian novel in which all of the central characters are portrayed as intrinsically good people. This realistic retelling of the legend shows Arthur severing the bonds...
| Author | Rosalind Miles |
| ISBN | 0609809563 |
Last in a line of proud queens elected to rule the fertile lands of the West, true owner of the legendary Round Table, guardian of the Great Goddess herself . . . a woman whose story has never been told--until now.
Brokenhearted at her parting from Lancelot and anguished over the loss of the sacred Hallows...
| 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...
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,...
The Promise: A beautiful and heartbreaking novel of lost love and dark secrets...
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...
The Quest of the Silver Fleece
| Author | W.E.B. Du Bois |
| ISBN | 0767918452 |
Originally published in 1911, The Quest of the Silver Fleece was the first novel to come from world-famous sociologist and civil-rights leader W.E.B. Du Bois. A controversial title of its time, the novel chronicles the complex interactions between Northern financing and Southern politics as it...
| Author | Linnea Hartsuyker |
| ISBN | 0062563793 |
The fates of Ragnvald and his sister Svanhild unfold to their stunning conclusion in this riveting final volume in The Golden Wolf Saga, a trilogy that conjures the ancient world with the gripping detail, thrilling action, and vivid historical elements of Game of Thrones and Outlander.
Ragnvald...
A man's quest to find answers for those who are haunted by the past leads him deeper into the shadows in this electrifying novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Promise Not to Tell.
Quinton Zane is back.
Jack Lancaster, consultant to the FBI, has always been drawn to the...
| Author | Jeffrey Siger |
| ISBN | 1464211477 |
The Mykonos Mob
reveals the wildly lucrative dark side of an internationally renowned Greek island playground for the world's rich and famous, those battling for control of its vices, and the innocents affected by it all.
The case begins for Athens' Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis with...
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...
| Author | M.K. Hume |
| ISBN | 0755371429 |
The first in an epic historical trilogy charting the heroic life of Merlin.
In the town of Segontium, a fugitive is washed ashore. He brutally rapes the granddaughter of the king of the Deceangli tribe, leaving her to bear his son, Myrddion Merlinus. Spurned as a demon seed, the boy is raised...
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
| Author | Hilda D. Spear |
| ISBN | 0333372867 |
I can't believe I'm rating this 4 stars! The entire time I read it, I kept thinking, I can't stand this book, it's so bizarre, what's wrong with all these psycho characters, it's so dark etc.... But I couldn't put the book down! How often does that happen with classics? Not that often when I'm reading them!...
