J P Reedman

Eleanor of Provence, child bride, loving wife, loving mother of Edward Longshanks.Eleanor, hated queen, despised for her spendthrift ways, pelted by the mob.Eleanor, foe of the unnerving, unsettling warrior Simon de Montfort and his barons, who threaten her husband's reign...and lifeEleanor, taking vows in a convent in Amesbury, where she vanished from history, even her grave lost in time....

Esmerelda Midnight. Not her true name, but the one she must bear. She is 12, shy, overweight, ungainly. Her destiny is to be a servant to the wealthy Snows and Midwinters, the chief worshippers of Our Lady of the Snows, whose sacred mountain overlooks the bay. Her teacher, the cruel Sestren Agrippa, is her bane, and also the mistress of the orphanage where Esme lives--the crumbling, mouldering manor where Bloody Bones lives in the cellar, eating bad kids. It seems life will never get better... Then Esme meets an old man, Reynard the Fox. Mr Reynard turns out to be a wizard, one of the very last. When the land of Adanica fell to ice and fire, his daughter Rosamunda was lost--the last wizard's child with vast powers untapped. He is bound to his mansion of Hall i' the Wood, watched by evil beings...but he begs Esme to find his missing child for him. The Rose's powers are needed swiftly...for the Sestren are planning for the Great Feast where all humankind will perish. On Hallowmas Night, full of fear and oppression, Esmerelda must get a new Rose to refresh the old Rose's failing powers...but she must climb the Tree of Life on the Island of the Dead.Then the great Whale-King Skan-ar must bear her across the waves to halt a terrible Sacrifice...A dystopian novel with the unusual setting of an alternate world post-Apocalyptic 1970's Canada, this unusual fantasy novel is an exciting and thought-provoking story for young teens through to adults. Partly based on real life, co-mingled with ageless fantasy archetypes and the local lore of Victoria, Canada. Anti-bullying themes.

1483, King Edward IV dies unexpectedly. His brother Richard rides to Northampton to meet with the new young King, Edward V. Intrigue abounds and the young boy is never crowned, after Bishop Stillington comes forth with a startling revelation.Richard becomes King, the last Son of York, the Last Plantagenet.Told in first person, from Richard's viewpoint. Humour and tragedy combine in this epic of the Wars of the Roses.

I, Richard Plantagenet. Part 1, Tante le Desiree. Barnet 1471. He is eighteen. He is wounded...He is the King's brother, Richard of Gloucester. He soon finds out not all battles are fought on the battlefield...not in the House of York.He must deal with fractious George in order to marry Anne Neville--but in the end he gets the girl AND her lands A bawdy and bloody, furious and funny tale of the Wars of the Roses, told from Richard's first person point of view

Compilation of short fiction featuring Richard III and his family. Originally published as three separate volumes: Tales of the White Boar, Loyaulte, and Sons of York.10 tales of historical fiction set in the era of the Wars of the Roses, mostly featuring a younger Richard, as a child and as the Duke of Gloucester.Now listed in chronological order to capture the sweep of the period...from Richard's traumatic birth to Duchess Cecily in 1452, to the sack of Ludlow and the death at Wakefield of the Duke of York and Edmund of Rutland, to the joys of a pilgrimage to Walsingham and subsequent disaster at Olney, when Richard's brother Edward IV is captured by Warwick's men. Then there is exile, and the fancies of a lonely young man abroad, followed by the earnest young Duke taking his wife Anne to the healing springs of Malvern on a journey of remembrance, and a chance meeting with the fickle Duke of Buckingham at a wedding of royal children. The anthology finishes with a sad story of Anne and Richard in Scarborough after the death of their only son, and then with a light hearted ghost tale about the Duke of Buckingham haunting Debenhams. OVER 140 PAGES. With historical notes where applicable

SACRED KING, a historical fantasy novella about King Richard III, the battle of Bosworth, and its aftermath. In August, 1485, King Richard III rides on the hunt in Bestwood Park, near Nottingham, and sees a disturbing vision, a man being killed in ritualistic manner, his blood given to the hungry Land. Riding into Leicester with his army several days later, eager to face the invading Henry Tudor and defend his crown, he encounters yet more disturbing omens...the old woman Agnes Black upon Bow Bridge, who prophecies his head will strike the stone upon his return from the field. On the day of battle, the King is betrayed and loses his life in a heroic last charge, his blood falling on the red soil of Redemore Plain....but that is not the end.A Lady who walks between Heaven and Hell takes Richard Plantagenet to the Middle Kingdom, like the prophet Thomas the Rhymer many centuries before.Will he join her band of unearthly knights, or will he find a way to escape from what he sees as purgatory?Includes a climax featuring the latter day discovery of the body of Richard III in a car park in Leicester, on the actual anniversary of the King's burial at Greyfriars after Bosworth-the event of his 'return to the world' heralded by brooding storm clouds. A tale of sacrifice and redemption, weaving into the story not only the history of Richard III's final days, but various underlying legends and pieces of folklore connected with the event. SACRED KING is a fantasy, but perhaps most of all it is a story of hope. It tries to ascribe deeper meaning and a greater heroism using powerful archetypes such as The Doomed Hero, prevalent in stories millennia old.Revised Second Edition with NEW FINAL CHAPTER