The Cubs Roar

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Author
Blanche d’Alpuget
Publisher
Ventura Press
Genres
Fiction, Historical Fiction
Released
02 September, 2020
ISBN
9781920727628

The Cubs Roar

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Synopsis

Eleanor of Aquitaine has disappeared. After launching a great rebellion to destroy her husband Henry II’s reign, it seems she has abandoned her sons in the struggle against their formidable father. As treachery radiates from Scotland to the Pyrenees, tension between the kings of France and England erupts into war.Richard, the mightiest of the English princes, is determined to find his mother and avenge her. But Henry is more cunning than Richard or any of the other rebels anticipated, and the fates of Eleanor, her sons, and France itself, are in jeopardy.The final book in the sumptuous Birth of the Plantagenets series, The Cubs Roar, illuminates the tumultuous end of Henry II. A tragic history of love, power and betrayal, The Cubs Roar reveals the destruction of an empire at the hands of a broken family.

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Take a Sneak Peek at Blanche d'Alpuget's Sumptuous New Historical Novel, The Cubs Roar

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15 September 2020

Take a Sneak Peek at Blanche d'Alpuget's Sumptuous New Historical Novel, The Cubs Roar

    Author Q&A: Blanche d'Alpuget on her Latest Historical Novel, The Cubs Roar

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    14 September 2020

    Author Q&A: Blanche d'Alpuget on her Latest Historical Novel, The Cubs Roar

      Love, Power and Betrayal: Read our Review of The Cubs Roar by Blanche d'Alpuget

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        About the author

        Blanche d'Alpuget

        Blanche d’Alpuget is an acclaimed novelist, biographer and essayist who has won numerous awards, including the prestigious Australasian Prize for Commonwealth Literature and The Age book award. Her works include Monkeys in the Dark, Turtle Beach, Winter in Jerusalem, White Eye, Mediator: a biography of Sir Richard Kirby and Robert J Hawke: a biography.

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