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31.Dragon's Lair by: Sharon Kay Penman November 01, 2005
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Sharon Penman's writing style is a joy. Though her books are by no means lightweight reading, the narrative just seems to flow from the pages. This books is another of her mystery offerings featuring Justin de Quincy. Richard the Lionheart, son of Eleanor of Aquitaine has been captured and is languishing in a German jail. At the same time his brother John is making his own plans to take the throne of England. The Queen has already made her own plans to ransom her son Richard, but one of the ransom payments goes missing in the hills of Wales and Eleanor sends her trusted servant Justin de Quincy to investigate. Murder and mayhem soon follow. One of the things I like about Penman is that she is at pains to ... Read More:

32.Walter of Aquitaine: Materials for the Study of his Legend. (Connecticut College Monograph no. 4) by: Jr. & H. M. Smyser F. P. Magoun 1950
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Sharon Penman's writing style is a joy. Though her books are by no means lightweight reading, the narrative just seems to flow from the pages. This books is another of her mystery offerings featuring Justin de Quincy. Richard the Lionheart, son of Eleanor of Aquitaine has been captured and is languishing in a German jail. At the same time his brother John is making his own plans to take the throne of England. The Queen has already made her own plans to ransom her son Richard, but one of the ransom payments goes missing in the hills of Wales and Eleanor sends her trusted servant Justin de Quincy to investigate. Murder and mayhem soon follow. One of the things I like about Penman is that she is at pains to ... Read More:

33.Aquitaine Guide Vert (Michelin Green Guides) from: Michelin 2006-04
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It seems the Michelin Green Guide to Aquitaine is not (yet?) available in English. This version - "Le Guide Vert" - is in French. I was expecting it to be in English. This is not too much of problem, but it does seem that no other Michelin Guide to the area has been published in English since the 2001 "Michelin Green Guide Atlantic Coast: Poitou, Aquitaine, the Basque Country" which is still selling for around £30. Please correct me if what I've written is incorrect.

34.Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Mother Queen (Biography): The Mother Queen by: Desmond Seward October 26, 1978
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It seems the Michelin Green Guide to Aquitaine is not (yet?) available in English. This version - "Le Guide Vert" - is in French. I was expecting it to be in English. This is not too much of problem, but it does seem that no other Michelin Guide to the area has been published in English since the 2001 "Michelin Green Guide Atlantic Coast: Poitou, Aquitaine, the Basque Country" which is still selling for around £30. Please correct me if what I've written is incorrect.

35.The Courts of Love: The Story of Eleanor of Aquitaine (The Queens of England: Volume 5) by: Jean Plaidy January 12, 1989
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In this, the fifth volume in her Queens of England series of novels, the author, also known as Victoria Holt to her legion of fans, tackles the story of Eleanor of Aquitaine, a woman who led an incomparable life. Born in an age when women tended to be submissive and docile, Eleanor was anything but. She was an outspoken, well-educated, independent, and beautiful woman. Hers is a story that, in the hands this author, an accomplished storyteller, captivates the reader. Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine, became Queen of France when she entered into a marriage of state with Louis VII of France, a somewhat weak and ineffectual, though pious, young ruler. Theirs was not a passionate affair of the heart but, rather, a misalliance that would come to a somewhat ... Read More:

36.Eleanor, April Queen of Aquitaine by: Douglas Boyd February 12, 2004
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What makes this book on Eleanor so good is rather than be defeated by the fact that we don't know what Eleanor looked like the author, who lives in the region, did a bit of detective work and found some stone heads and statues that could well be Eleanor and goes into detail about it at the end chapter. I have taken away a star as he refers to her as the April Queen and says he wants to describe the world, (sights and smells), around Eleanor, but only does it in the first half of the book and not the second which I found disapointing.

37.Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings by: Amy Kelly 1958
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What makes this book on Eleanor so good is rather than be defeated by the fact that we don't know what Eleanor looked like the author, who lives in the region, did a bit of detective work and found some stone heads and statues that could well be Eleanor and goes into detail about it at the end chapter. I have taken away a star as he refers to her as the April Queen and says he wants to describe the world, (sights and smells), around Eleanor, but only does it in the first half of the book and not the second which I found disapointing.

38.The Aquitaine Progression (Panther Books) by: Robert Ludlum January 04, 1999
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Joel Converse gets mixed up in something far deeper than he expected. Everything he touches goes wrong, every way he turns another door closes. You are left thinking he has no way out, no way to stop the bad guys, no-one to trust. It is a book I was annoyed when other parts of my life got in the way and I had to put it down. Another Ludlum cracker.

39.Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by: Alison Weir 2001-04
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A good and thoroughly researched biography. The author, however, sometimes displays unease with the period and the lack of extant and reliable written sources. Both style and approach, unfortunately, lack some of the confidence with which the author has treated subsequent periods of medieval English history. The result is a work which can be too general and pedantic in its treatment of the socio-ecomonic conditions of 12th Century Europe and often looses sight of its central subject. However, it does offer many insights into the complicated politics of the era and the forces which motivated Eleanor, achieving a synthesis of the overly simplistic pictures of Eleanor as either 'evil witch' or 'courtly icon'. A sober account of both the life ... Read More:

40.The Book of Eleanor: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine by: Pamela Kaufman 2003-03
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Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of both France and England, Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right, was one of the most fascinating and glittering figures of the entire medieval period. As such, she deserves a fictional biography that does her justice. Pamela Kaufman's "Book of Eleanor" is not that book. Kaufman's Eleanor comes across as one-dimensional, and is believable neither as a royal personage nor a woman of her particular time or place. Her behaviour and speech are more those of a spoiled, nasty, modern teenager. It is clear that Kaufman wishes us to admire Eleanor, but this charecter so grated on my nerves that I wanted nothing so much as to smack her. Both Kings Louis Capet and Henry Plantagenet (as well as assorted other males) come across as comic-book ... Read More:

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