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Edith Pargeter
Full Series List in Order
The Brothers of Gwynedd
1 - Sunrise in the West (1975)2 - The Dragon at Noonday (1976)
3 - The Hounds of Sunset (1976)
4 - Afterglow and Nightfall (1977)
The Heaven Tree Trilogy
1 - The Heaven Tree (1960)2 - The Green Branch (1962)
3 - The Scarlet Seed (1963)
Book List in Order: 23 titles
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She Goes to War
- 1942
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When Catherine, a teleprinter operator in the WRNS, is posted to the war-torn city of Liverpool, she meets Tom Lyddon. The usual stages of courtship are dispensed with, and the two begin an affair. But their idyll is soon to be shattered by the reali...
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By Firelight
- 1948
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The untimely death of Claire's husband leaves her feeling numb. She retreats to a dilapidated schoolhouse in the tranquil village of Sunderne, but her peace seems threatened by her neighbour Jonathan, and the house, which itself seems to be unleashin...
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Most Loving Mere Folly
- 1953
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A post-WWII love affair is eroded by suspicions of murder, from the Edgar Awardâ€"winning author of the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael. Talented potter Suspiria Freeland and her painter husband, Theo, survived the Blitz and are living among fel...
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A Means of Grace
- 1956
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Emmy Marryat is determined to go home. Her English friends think she's crazy to go back after what happened, crazy to expect to find the same country, the same city, the same people. But she is still receiving letters from the ghosts of that country ...
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The Heaven Tree
- 1960
- / Historical Romance
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England in the reign of King John-a time of beauty and squalor, of swift treachery and unswerving loyalty. Against this violent, exciting background the story of Harry Talvace, master mason, unfolds. Harry and his foster-brother Adam tasted injustice...
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Funeral of Figaro
- 1962
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An opera singer drops dead onstage in a pitch-perfect puzzler from the Edgar Awardâ€"winning author of the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael. A plane crash kills the lead actor of the Leander Theatre’s production of The Marriage of Figaro, in th...
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The Green Branch
- 1962
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Young Harry Talvace, the son of Ralf Isambard's master-builder who raised the great church of Parfois and was put to death by his jealous patron, has grown up at the court of Llewelyn, Prince of North Wales. Deep in his heart he nurses a desire for v...
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The Lily Hand and Other Stories
- Jan-1965
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Sixteen unforgettable stories from a “beguiling writer” and the Edgar Awardâ€"winning author of the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael (The Daily Telegraph). Expanding her horizons far beyond the boundaries of crime fiction, Ellis Peters offers...
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A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury
- 1972
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A masterful tale of 14th century England, as fans of Edith Pargeter's The Brothers of Gwynedd have come to expect. Henry Bolingbroke, banished and deprived of his inheritance by Richard II, returns and deposes the king to become Henry IV. He is aided...
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City of Gold and Shadows
- Jan-1974
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When Alan Morris disappears, his great-niece, Charlotte, regrets never having got to know the renowned archaeologist better. In an attempt to remedy that deficiency, she goes to visit one of his digs. But there she finds more than just a few old ston...
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The Hounds of Sunset
- 1976
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Powerful Prince Llewelyn still treasures his vision of a Wales united against the threat of the English kings. The dream seems near fulfilment until Edward, vigorous, ambitious, and arrogant, takes old Henry's place on the English throne -- and m...
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The Marriage of Meggotta
- Jun-1979
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The quickening love between Meggotta de Burgh and Richard de Clare, members of the aristocracy ruling feudal England, is severely tested when Henry III turns against Meggotta's father, his former adviser...