Blessed are the Dead

By C.B. Hanley,

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'Politics, family rivalries and political tensions are all stirred up to create a thrilling adventure ... unputdownable!' - Sharon Bennett Connolly, historian, and author of Defenders of the Norman Crown: The Rise and Fall of the Warenne Earls of Surrey

April 1219: Edwin Weaver finds himself at Tickhill Castle under…

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1 author picked Blessed are the Dead as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Having written a biography of the Warenne family, Defenders of the Norman Crown: Rise and Fall of the Warenne Earls of Surrey, I was intrigued to read Blessed are the Dead, a novel in which William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey and his castle at Conisbrough both play a big part.

It was a riveting read and I thoroughly enjoyed C.B. Hanley's version of Earl Warenne's attempts to get hold of Tickhill Castle for his niece, Alice de Lusignan. The author combines the known history, and an understanding of the gruff earl himself to weave an engrossing story of…

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