“Capturing the…violence and romance of medieval life, Iggulden makes real those grand characters who live in the collective memory.”- Kirkus Reviews “It’s been said that Game of Thrones is the Wars of the Roses written as fantasy: this is the real thing, more glorious more passionate.”-M.
Who or what can save the kingdom before it is too late? The rival royal line, the House of York, sees the chaos brought on by Henry’s weakness and with it the opportunity to oust an ineffectual king.Īs storm clouds gather over England, King Henry and his supporters find themselves besieged abroad and at home.
Named “The Lamb,” Henry is famed more for his gentle and pious nature than his father’s famous battlefield exploits already, his dependence on his closest men has stirred whispers of weakness at court.Ī secret truce negotiated with France to trade British territories for a royal bride-Margaret of Anjou-sparks revolts across English territory. In 1437, the Lancaster king Henry VI ascends the throne of England after years of semi-peaceful regency. The first book in #1 New York Times bestselling author Conn Iggulden’s brilliant new historical series about two families that plunged England into a devastating, decades-long civil war.
Anne manages her own escape by marrying Richard, Duke of Gloucester, but her choice will set her on a collision course with the overwhelming power of the royal family. Married at age fourteen, she is soon left widowed and fatherless, her mother in sanctuary and her sister married to the enemy. Without a son and heir, he uses his daughters, Anne and Isabel, as pawns in his political games, and they grow up to be influential players in their own right.Īt the court of Edward IV and his beautiful queen, Elizabeth Woodville, Anne grows from a delightful child to become ever more fearful and desperate when her father makes war on his former friends. The Kingmaker’s Daughter-Philippa Gregory’s first sister story since The Other Boleyn Girl-is the gripping tale of the daughters of the man known as the Kingmaker, Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: the most powerful magnate in fifteenth-century England. In this New York Times bestseller that inspired the critically acclaimed Starz miniseries The White Queen, Philippa Gregory tells the tale of Anne Neville, a beautiful young woman who must navigate the treachery of the English court as her father, known as the Kingmaker, uses her and her sister as pawns in his political game.
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