Full name: If All the Swords in England: A Story of Thomas Becket

Author: Barbara Willard Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Historical fiction, Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781883937492 1883937493

Young Simon, recently and tragically orphaned, becomes a scribe in the following of the exiled Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket. The uncertainty of the tumultuous years leading to the infamous cathedral slaying is heightened by Simon's separation from his twin Edmund, who is in the service of King Henry II. With an expert pen Barbara Willard deftly recounts events leading to the bishop's martyrdom in 1170. Similar books: Augustine Came to Kent by Barbara Willard Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult Viking Tales by Jennie Hall Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann Sarum by Edward Rutherfurd The Autobiography of Henry VIII by Margaret George Rules of Civility by Amor Towles Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman London by Edward Rutherfurd The Son by Philipp Meyer Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George Tall Chimneys by Allie Cresswell