The Oak Above the Kings
10 best books like The Oak Above the Kings (Patricia Kennealy-Morrison): Breed to Come, The Empty Kingdom, The Child Queen: The Tale of Guinevere and King Arthur, Kingdom of Summer, The Song of Rhiannon, Beloved Exile, The Road to Camlann. The Death of King Arthur, The Idylls of the Queen: A Tale of Queen Guenevere, Merlin, In the Shadow of the Oak King
| Author | Andre Norton |
| ISBN | 0441078958 |
When desperate measures failed to control what men had begun and could not stop, they fled their polluted planet, leaving behind an epidemic virus born of experimentation. Yet unlike men, whom the disease could destroy, the animals of the planet thrived. Each generation was more forceful and intelligent...
| Author | Elizabeth E. Wein |
| ISBN | 0670062731 |
In The Lion Hunter, Telemakos, the half-British, half-Aksumite grandson of King Arthur, was sent for his safety to stay with one of Aksum's former enemies. When Abreha, ruler of Himyar, allegedly the boy's protector, catches him in the midst of what appears to be treachery, he sentences him to a fate...
| Author | Nancy McKenzie |
| ISBN | 0345382447 |
I read this when it first came out. For as long as I can remember, I've been a fan of Arthurian tales, but other than Marion Zimmer Bradley's masterpiece The Mists of Avalon, they don't really tell much about the women of Camelot. This is nowhere near the scope of Bradley's book, but it was still enjoyable....
| Author | Gillian Bradshaw |
| ISBN | 0553299646 |
My wife and I just finished reading this worthy follow-up to Bradshaw's great novel, Hawk of May. In fact, I like this one considerably better than Hawk of May.
The Kingdom of Summer continues the story of Gwalchmai and Arthur's warriors, but this time it is from the perspective of a simple Christian...
| Author | Evangeline Walton |
| ISBN | 0020264739 |
The Song of Rhiannon, a retelling of the Third Branch of the Mabinogion, isn't as powerful as The Children of Llyr, which is a relief, in a way. There's a time of healing for the characters, as well as what they suffer during the action of the story, and there's a happy end for them as well. It continues to follow...
| Author | Parke Godwin |
| ISBN | 1596873043 |
The sequel to "Firelord." Guinevere tells her story after the Fall of Camelot. This woman is a queen, whose family line goes back centuries. Now nominally a Christian, the women of her family were once priestesses of Epona, with all the sexual priveleges that entailed. Daughter of a formidable king,...
| Author | Rosemary Sutcliff |
| ISBN | 0525440186 |
This book is lovely, too. I didn't quite cry, really, but there was a certain tight ache in my throat at certain points. The bittersweetness is much closer to the bitter than the sweet in this book, but thankfully I didn't feel like I had to hate any character for the way they treated the others -- they were...
| Author | Phyllis Ann Karr |
| ISBN | 1587150123 |
In The Idylls of the Queen, Phyllis Ann Karr takes an incident (the murder of Sir Patrise) from Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur and creates an intelligent, complex, and fascinating mystery novel perfect for fans of historical mysteries, of British legends, and of fantasy.
Queen Guenevere...
| Author | Norma Lorre Goodrich |
| ISBN | 0531150607 |
"The man, Merlin/Saint Dubricius, a wondrous prodigy, has even now supplied history with a retrospective pattern of crisis and human response the we treasure, like his voice form the so very long ago, speaking as a survivor of terrible perils and penance."
My goal today was to finish this...
| Author | Courtway Jones |
| ISBN | 0671734040 |
An interesting retelling of Malory, which is neither medieval nor quite 5th century. While the author is a cultural anthropologist, this "reconstruction" seem more like a fantasy world to me. The Druids definitely come across as the bad guys here, with their human child sacrifices. The love story...
| Author | John Cowper Powys |
| ISBN | 1585673668 |
"Porius stood upon the low square tower above the Southern Gate of Mynydd-y-Gaer, and looked down on the wide stretching valley below." So begins one of the most unique novels of twentieth-century literature, by one of its most "extraordinary, neglected geniuses," said Robertson Davies of John Cowper...
| Author | Persia Woolley |
| ISBN | 0671708325 |
Giving a new viewpoint to the Arthur legend, Persia Woolley creates an enchanting and believable tale. Guinevere, The Legend In Autumn is told from Guinevere's perspective. I did not get to read the first two books in the trilogy, but I am familiar with the Arthur legend, and I was able to follow along...
| Author | Gil Kane |
| ISBN | 0440122910 |
Oh boy! I slogged through more than half this book and finally decided to call it quits. I wanted to like this, I mean I'm a huge fan of anything Arthur, but this book seemed to go from one gory battle to another with not much else inbetween. There was quite a bit of the young Arthur story, of which some passages...
| Author | Diana L. Paxson |
| ISBN | 0380752298 |
This haunting retelling of the tale of Tristan and Iseult (here called Drustan and Esseilte in accordance with Celtic legend and language) goes back to early versions, before Mallory and Wagner, to explore the nature of love, duty and loyalty. The story is told by Branwen, cousin and companion to Esseilte,...
| Author | A.A. Attanasio |
| ISBN | 0061058394 |
"The Dragon and the Unicorn" has been hailed as one of the ten best fantasy novels of 1995. Now A. A. Attanasio offers an equally stunning sequel--a rich, mythical epic in the tradition of Marion Zimmer Bradley's "The Mists of Avalon" that reaches straight into the heart of the Arthurian legend.He is...
| Author | Poul Anderson |
| ISBN | 0671656023 |
In the waning days of the Roman Empire, Magnus Maximus sends his prefect Gratillonius to western Gaul and the faraway land of Ys, a place shrouded in legend and ruled by a cruel and tyrannical king. When the sovereign challenges Gratillonius to a duel, the envoy from Rome emerges victorious and claims...
