Here Be Dragons by Sharon Penman, ISBN 9780140133400

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Joanna, royal bastard and political pawn, battled for a lifetime with divided loyalties, warring loves. To risk, in a guilty moment of passion, her hardwon peace and even life itself.

Indulged and adoring daughter of King John, wed to Llewelyn, Prince of Gwynedd, her father's great vassal and bitter foe, Joanna was lonely stranger in a hostile land. Until she came to love her charismatic husband - and, in the bloody wars that followed , the beleaguered strongholds of the Marches were not more ravaged than Joanna's troubled heart.

The turbulent clashes of two disparate worlds, and the personal disparate worlds, and the personal destinies of the people caught between them, are magnificently interwoven in this sweeping novel of power and passion, loyalty and lies. 'Here Be Dragons' brings thirteenth-century England, France and Wales to tangled tempestuous life.

RRP: $27.95

About the Author: Sharon Penman

Sharon Kay Penman is an American author of historical novels. She was born in New York, but grew up in New Jersey, where she still lives today. She also keeps a house in the Welsh mountains, after visiting there originally for research for Here Be Dragons.
After receiving her law degree from Rutgers, she later worked as a tax lawyer. Her first book, The Sunne in Splendour, was written when she was still a student, but was significantly modified over the years before it was eventually published in 1982. The 12 years it took (although she was working as a lawyer for most of this time) is a hallmark of her novels. They are meticulously researched and she tries to portray medieval life as if it were everyday life to us today. Many of the sites in her books are actual castles and churches that still exist today, which many of her fans have visited.

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