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Kingmaker: Winter Pilgrims
Kingmaker: Winter Pilgrims | Toby Clements
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'An enthralling adventure story, honest and powerful. The Wars of the Roses are imagined here with energy, with ferocity, with hunger to engage the reader.' Hilary Mantel February 1460 In the bitter dawn of a winter's morning, a young man and a woman escape from a priory. In fear of their lives, they are forced to flee across a land ravaged by conflict. For this is the Wars of the Roses, one of the most savage and bloody civil wars in history, Where brother confronts brother, king faces king, And Thomas and Katherine must fight - just to stay alive ...
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Follows adventures of a would be monk and nun as they are thrust out into the world and into the bloody visceral chaos of the Wars of the Roses. One of the best historical novels that I have read, especially good in that you get a real immersive, relentless sense of living in that period. Our protagonists have their own dramas and are also swept up in the political intrigue and savage battles of the time.
Up there with Bernard Cornwall.🗡🏹👑📿