![]() Daily Mail Vital, earthy, and heart-stopping. Jane Johnson Battle-bloody, brutal and perfectly pitched. Praise for Essex Dogs: A new champion has entered the front line of historical fiction to stand shoulder to shoulder with Bernard Cornwell. Dimensions: 12.00in - 8.10in - 2.20in - 1. The Essex Dogs They fight for each other. ![]() Rooted in historical accuracy and told through an unforgettable cast, Essex Dogs delivers the stark reality of medieval war on the ground - and shines a light on the fighters and ordinary people caught in the storm. But first they must survive a bloody war in which rules are abandoned and chivalry itself is slaughtered. Heading ever deeper into enemy territory toward Crécy, this band of brothers knows they are off to fight a battle that will forge nations, and shape the very fabric of human lives. To see the complete list of this books read-alikes, you need to be a member. ![]() We have 4 read-alikes for Essex Dogs, but non-members are limited to two results. The fight for the throne of the largest kingdom in Western Europe has begun. 5. A sweeping historical adventure set during one of the most turbulent periods of British history-featuring a heroine youll never forget. ![]() They call themselves the Essex Dogs: an unruly platoon of archers and men-at-arms led by a battle-scarred captain whose best days are behind him. The New York Times bestselling historian makes his historical fiction debut with an explosive novel set during the Hundred Years' War. ![]()
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![]() Series fans who won't mind more of the same will be pleased. As if efforts to recapture the beasts and minimize carnage aren't enough, Alten tosses in a miraculous cancer cure subplot, which involves Taylor, whose wife has the disease. A Liopleurodon, a giant, crocodile-like marine reptile, which was intended to be displayed in Dubai, also gets away. When one such animal, a monstrous whale, escapes the tanker it's being transferred in, the vessel sinks, drowning most of its human occupants. Eventually, he captured a Megalodon pup, which led to the creation of "a monster shark cottage industry." The latest iteration is a marine park in Dubai, featuring other dangerous living fossils, which somehow survived in a sea beneath the Mariana Trench. After officials dismissed his account, Taylor left the navy and retrained as a paleobiologist. Jonas Taylor encountered a Megalodon, a humongous shark believed long extinct. Bela and Lizzy, the dominant Megalodon siblings from Angel's brood, have escaped the Tanaka Institute to roam the Salish Sea in British Columbia. Meg: Night Stalkers is the fifth book in the Meg Franchise, which continues the story of Jonas Taylor and his son, David as they try to hunt down the megalodons Belle and Lizzy, who had escaped in the previous book. ![]() ![]() Some 30 years before the present-day action of Alten's predictable sixth thriller centered on rapacious prehistoric creatures (after 2016's Meg: Nightstalkers), Navy Cmdr. In this fifth installment of the New York Times-bestselling MEG series, Nightstalkers picks up where MEG: Hell's Aquarium left off. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rutherfurd settled near Dublin, Ireland in the early 1990s, but currently divides his time between Europe and North America. ![]() His books have sold more than fifteen million copies and been translated into twenty languages. Since then he produced seven more New York Times best-sellers: Russka, a novel of Russia London The Forest, set in England's New Forest which lies close by Sarum two novels, Dublin: Foundation ( The Princes of Ireland) and Ireland: Awakening ( The Rebels of Ireland), which cover the story of Ireland from the time just before Saint Patrick to the twentieth century New York Paris and China. ![]() Sarum was published in 1987 and became an instant international best-seller, remaining for 23 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List. He abandoned his career in the book trade in 1983 and returned to his childhood home to write Sarum, a historical novel with a ten-thousand year story, set in the area around the ancient monument of Stonehenge and Salisbury. After graduating he worked in political research, bookselling and publishing. Rutherfurd attended the University of Cambridge and Stanford Business School, where he earned a Sloan fellowship. His debut novel, Sarum, set the pattern for his work with a ten-thousand-year storyline. ![]() He is best known as a writer of epic historical novels that span long periods of history but are set in particular places. Edward Rutherfurd is a pen name for Francis Edward Wintle (born in 1948). ![]() |