By Clay Risen Sharon Kay Penman, a former tax lawyer whose best-selling epics about medieval England and Wales drew legions of admirers for her meticulous research and commitment to historical ...

Penman creates a well-researched, complex and intelligent hero. Pan, £7.99 3/5 Top 11 Lee Child books ranked – and No. 1 is an all-time classic Top 10 best murder mystery books - and Agatha ...

Sharon Kay Penman, the American author, who has died aged 75, wrote more than a dozen well-received historical novels and mysteries set in medieval Britain, notably her revisionist telling of the ...

Penman follows up her Plantagenet series with an engrossing saga of King Baldwin IV and his threatened Crusader state in 12th-century Jerusalem. When Baldwin is 10 years old, his tutor, William of ...

In Penman's third polished medieval mystery (after 1998's Cruel as the Grave), her dedicated and resourceful hero, Justin de Quincy, tries to recover, quite literally, a king's ransom in coffers ...

TIME and Chance is the second part in Sharon Penman's enthralling triology about Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. It's the story the extraordinary, relationship between Henry II and Eleanor of ...

Richard I, bet­ter known by his nom de guerre “Lion­heart,” comes to life in this magnificent historical fiction book. If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on ...