I do believe my library holds are now officially out of control. Library loot is a weekly event hosted by Marg and new co-host Claire, and encourages bloggers to share books checked out from the library. My loot for this week,
Marianne and the Masked Prince by Juliette Benzoni
This is the second book in Benzoni’s Marianne series and I can’t wait to dig into it. I found a jacket description but it spoils the surprise ending of the first book so I am not posting it here but I will give you this much of it;
So Marianne must once more venture into the unknown: to Italy and the magnificent villa of the Tuscan prince whose face no one has ever seen; a villa haunted by some strange,nameless evil…
The Passionate Brood by Margaret Campbell Barnes
The private lives of the Plantagenets, that ‘passionate brood’ who were the children of Henry the Second and Eleanor of Acquitaine, Richard and Johanna, Henry and John.
Flint by Margaret Redfern
Will and his brother Ned are commandeered into the army of ditch-diggers whose task it is to build the foundations for Edward I new castle at Flint. But the lads are nervous – and not just because they’re far from home. Ned is a mute whose affinity with horses and skills as a herbalist make him suspicious in the eyes of their English overseers. In addition, Ned has been tutored by the exiled Welsh bard Ieuan ap y Gof. An atmospheric and unusually affecting first novel rich in historical and cultural detail.
What books did you ‘loot’ this week?
The Passionate Brood has been re-printed..Yahoo! but I love the old cover better.
I’m not too fond of the new cover either. Besides, I like well worn hardbacks they’re easier to read 🙂
I’m not even sure if I’ve seen the new cover of The Passionate Brood, but I’d like to read it! I have Flint but haven’t read it so I’m waiting what you think of it.
You can find it on Amazon and Goodreads, but I like the older ones better.