This week I am waiting on Alison Weir’s new fiction book The Captive Queen. I love her non-ficiton books also, but after reading Innocent Traitor (see my review here) I can’t wait for this book to come out.
Sysnopsys from Amazon:
“It is the year 1152 and a beautiful woman of thirty, attended by only a small armed escort, is riding like the wind southwards through what is now France, leaving behind her crown, her two young daughters and a shattered marriage to Louis of France, who had been more like a monk than a king, and certainly not much of a lover. This woman is Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine, and her sole purpose now is to return to her vast duchy and marry the man she loves, Henry Plantagenet, a man destined for greatness as King of England. Theirs is a union founded on lust which will create a great empire stretching from the wilds of Scotland to the Pyrenees. It will also create the devil’s brood of Plantagenets – including Richard C ur de Lion and King John – and the most notoriously vicious marriage in history. “The Eagle and the Lion” is a novel on the grand scale, an epic subject for Alison Weir. It tells of the making of nations, and of passionate conflicts: between Henry II and Thomas Becket, his closest friend who is murdered in Canterbury Cathedral on his orders; between Eleanor and Henry’s formidable mother Matilda; between father and sons, as Henry’s children take up arms against him; and finally between Henry and Eleanor herself.”
The book is released by Hutchinson (Random House) on 1st April 2010 in the UK and in July in the USA.
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Great choice! Think I have to put this book on my wishlist. I need some historical fiction once I get trough my discs about Henry the 8th and all his six wives
It is a bit heavy at times.
I know what you mean, that’s why I love histrorical fiction as it doesn’t feel as heavy.
Have you read “The Autobiographt of Henry VIII by his Fool Will Sommers” by Margaret George? It’s a really thick book but so worth it – it’s fiction based on fact. I have a review of it on here.
This sounds like a book I’d love. Adding it to my wish list!
Nice pick, looks very intriguing. My pick is at The Crowded Leaf.
I had another Eleanor book as my Wow pick last week. This sounds good too. It seems as though she is the Queen of 2010 in terms of historical fiction.
Great pick; love the cover too. Here is my pick:
http://bibliophilebythesea.blogspot.com/2010/01/waiting-on-wednesday-private-life.html
I really need to get reading this author. She has so many good
looking books out right now.
Love this cover! I have a few books by this author, but haven’t read them yet.
I’ve been wanting to read Alison Weir for a while now, just haven’t gotten around to it yet. This book looks really good! Maybe it could be my first read from her.
Here is my WoW post: http://brichtabooks.blogspot.com/2010/01/waiting-on-wednesday-stuff.html