The Pendragon Chronicles: Heroic Fantasy from the Time of King Arthur

8 best books like The Pendragon Chronicles: Heroic Fantasy from the Time of King Arthur (Mike Ashley): Gods of Jade and Shadow, Maskerade, Bitter Greens, Damsel, Middle Eastern Mythology, Dungeon, Fire and Sword: The Knights Templar in the Crusades, The Good Times, Quillifer

Gods of Jade and Shadow

Author

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Mayan god of death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in this dark, one-of-a-kind fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore.

The Jazz Age is in full swing, but Casiopea Tun is too busy cleaning the floors of her wealthy grandfather’s house to listen to any fast tunes....

Maskerade

Author	Terry Pratchett
ISBN	0575058080

THE SHOW MUST GO ON, AS MURDER, MUSIC AND MAYHEM RUN RIOT IN THE NIGHT...

The Opera House, Ankh-Morpork...a huge, rambling building, where innocent young sopranos are lured to their destiny by a strangely-familiar eveil mastermind in a hideously-deformed evening dress...

At least,...

Bitter Greens

Author	Kate Forsyth
ISBN	1250047536

A Library Journal Best Book of 2014: Historical Fiction

The amazing power and truth of the Rapunzel fairy tale comes alive for the first time in this breathtaking tale of desire, black magic and the redemptive power of love

French novelist Charlotte-Rose de la Force has...

Damsel

Author	Elana K. Arnold
ISBN	0062742345

The rite has existed for as long as anyone can remember: when the prince-who-will-be-king comes of age, he must venture out into the gray lands, slay a fierce dragon, and rescue a damsel to be his bride. This is the way things have always been.

When Ama wakes in the arms of Prince Emory, however,...

Middle Eastern Mythology

Author	Samuel Henry Hooke
ISBN	0486435512

The role of mythology in ritual and its place in the origins of customs, cults, and hero worship are the fascinating subjects of this comparative survey. Based on firsthand sources, it recounts legends of the Egyptians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Hittites, and Canaanites, in addition to discussing...

Dungeon, Fire and Sword: The Knights Templar in the Crusades

Author	John J. Robinson
ISBN	0871316579

Over the last 1000 years the bloodiest game of king-of-the-hill has been for supremacy on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. This book recounts the stirring saga of the Knights Templar, the Christian warrior-monks who occupied the sacred Mount in the aftermath of the butchery of the First Crusade. Recruited...

The Good Times

Author	Russell Baker
ISBN	0517126117

In this sequel to GROWING UP, Russell Baker relates the striving of his early career and contrasts it to the country's sunny years under Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy. Baker rose steadily, from newsboy to college paper, from police reporter to rewrite man, from White House correspondent to Washington...

Quillifer

Author	Walter Jon Williams
ISBN	1481489976

“Walter Jon Williams is always fun, but this may be his best yet, a delight from start to finish, witty, colorful, exciting and amusing by turns, exquisitely written.” —George R. R. Martin

From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Walter Jon Williams comes an adventurous...