Judith Tarr, Author Tor Books $19.95 (317p) ISBN 978-0-312-85362-4
Although Tarr ( Alamut ; The Dagger and the Cross ) brings her customary depth of research to her topic--Alexander the Great in Egypt--and although the tale of Alexander's conquests carries a certain measure of ingrained drama, her efforts here fall
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Judith Tarr. Book View Cafe (bookviewcafe.com), $19.95 trade paper (439p) ISBN 978-1-61138-477-2
This old-fashioned and slightly overlong crowdfunded space opera takes readers from a mysterious planet of ruins to the edges of the universe. Twelve-year-old Aisha was only trying to help her xenoarchaeologist parents when she blasted open an...
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Judith Tarr, Author Forge $27.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-312-86113-1
This 13th historical novel from Tarr (White Mare's Daughter) invites readers into ancient Egypt, then nearly buries them amid excavated details and repetitive sex scenes. As the story begins, the Lower Kingdom of Egypt has been conquered by the...
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Judith Tarr, Author Forge $27.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-312-86112-4
Culture clashes, war and goddess worship set the stage for Tarr's well rounded and lively prehistoric epic set in Eastern Europe circa 4500 B.C. Among the nomadic White Horse tribe, tomboyish Sarama is the servant of the White Mare, the incarnation...
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Judith Tarr, Author Forge $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-86092-9
Egypt's ""most notorious"" female king, Maatkare Hatshepsut, is the captivating subject of Tarr's latest novel of ancient Egypt. The story opens as Senenmut, a homely, arrogant young scribe, arrives at the royal palace in Thebes as a gift to the ""gi
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Judith Tarr, Author Forge $25.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-312-85821-6
Readers are in for a surprise when they discover that the subject of this novel is not what its title promises. The 12th-century Frankish queen of Jerusalem is indeed one of the many characters in this long tale, but she's already an adult when it...
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Judith Tarr, Author Forge $23.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-312-85542-0
With her usual skill, Tarr (Throne of Isis) combines fact and fiction to create yet another remarkably solid historical novel set in ancient Egypt. This narrative is based on an intriguing premise: What if Moses, patriarch of monotheism, and the...
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Judith Tarr, Author Forge $22.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-85819-3
This bland romance set in the 10th century is narrated by Princess Aspasia, young widow and ``scion of the Purple Chamber'' of Byzantium. Aspasia now attends her niece, Empress Theophano, wed at 18 to Holy Roman Emperor Otto II. The story opens with
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Judith Tarr, Author Tor Books $21.95 (351p) ISBN 978-0-312-85543-7
Tarr's usual blend of magic and cultural and gender exploration seems forced in this slow-moving sequel to Arrows of the Sun that matches its rhythms to the stately build of political and romantic alliances. Daruya, granddaughter of the emperor,...
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Judith Tarr, Author Forge $22.95 (349p) ISBN 978-0-312-85363-1
The author of Lord of the Two Lands brings to her newest novel the potentially potent combination of doomed lovers, crafty politicians and exotic settings. But Tarr's lethargic handling of these ingredients, coupled with an inability to animate one...
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Judith Tarr, Author Tor Books $24.95 (510p) ISBN 978-0-312-85263-4
Tarr's fourth installment in the Avaryan Rising series takes place nearly a century after the union of the empires of Keruvarion and Asanion. When Prince Estarion's father was poisoned in Asanion, Estarion destroyed the mage responsible, in the...
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Judith Tarr, Author . Forge $27.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-312-87616-6
Tarr, a historian turned historical fantasist, follows White Mare's Daughter
with another richly imagined tale of priestess/warrior culture clash. The Bronze Age city of Lir, founded by the matriarchal horse-goddess worshippers of the prequel,...
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Judith Tarr, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-94218-2
The first two volumes of Tarr's ""The Hound and the Falcon'' trilogy introduced elf-born Brother Alf, whose desire to serve man and God is thwarted by the prejudice and politics of the medieval world. In this concluding book, Alf has reconciled...
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Judith Tarr, Author Roc $16 (384p) ISBN 978-0-451-52900-8
Fans of Tarr's historical fantasies will welcome this action-packed sequel to Devil's Bargain (2002). Richard the Lion-Hearted's reign is threatened by the return from the dead of Sinan, the Old Man of the Mountain. In the Holy Land, it's no-hold
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Judith Tarr, Author Roc $16 (387p) ISBN 978-0-451-45896-4
After the brilliant, subtle Pride of Kings (2001), in which England's Prince John refreshingly proved to be a hero rather than a villain, Judith Tarr stumbles in her latest alternative historical fantasy, Devil's Bargain, which concerns King...
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Judith Tarr, Author . Tor $22.95 (220p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0397-4
Ancient history and violent religious myth collide in this romantic fantasy-tinged biography of Myrtale, the imposing, powerful mother of Alexander the Great. Tarr (Queen of the Amazons
) opens with a weak segment on the queen's early days as...
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Judith Tarr, Author . Roc $16 (376p) ISBN 978-0-451-46045-5
In Tarr's entertaining historical fantasy, the sequel to Rite of Conquest
(2004), Britain needs a king who will embrace the old magic of the Otherworld. Since William the Conqueror's heir, eldest son Red William, abjures all magic, it's
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Judith Tarr, Author . Roc $16 (384p) ISBN 978-0-451-46002-8
Romance reigns in Tarr's absorbing historical fantasy, in which William the Conqueror of Normandy, the reincarnation of King Arthur, must be taught to master his own magic by his witch-wife, Mathilda of Flanders. William's destiny is to...
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Judith Tarr, Author . Tor $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0395-0
In her latest stirring historical fantasy, Tarr (Pride of Kings
, etc.) explores the tantalizing relationship between the macho Alexander the Great, hero of her 1993 novel, Lord of the Two Lands
, and Hippolyta, the sensuous queen of the Amazons....
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Judith Tarr, Author . Tor $25.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-312-87615-9
The latest novel in Tarr's popular Avaryan Chronicles (after Avaryan Rising, 1997) returns readers to a realm of powerful magic, romance and high adventure. As punishment for illegally opening Gates between worlds for his own personal...
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Judith Tarr, Author . Roc $14.95 (451p) ISBN 978-0-451-45847-6
The fantastic may be subsidiary to fact in Tarr's (Kingdom of the Grail) latest historical fantasy, but it lends an eerily beautiful, sometimes frightening undercurrent to this engrossing, thoroughly satisfying novel, set in the late 12th...
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Judith Tarr, Author, Harry Turtledove, Joint Author Tor Books $27.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-312-86487-3
Historical fantasists Tarr and Turtledove rework The Wizard of Oz in this absorbing new collaboration. Nicole Gunther-Perrin, their L.A. '90s version of Dorothy, is a 30-ish attorney trapped in a single mom's nightmare. Her well-to-do, deadbeat ex-hu
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Judith Tarr, Author, Tarr, Author Harcourt Children's Books $23 (224p) ISBN 978-0-15-200737-9
Sparkling and witty, Tarr's (the Hound and the Falcon trilogy) latest phantasmagory takes readers back to the Middle Ages and the court of Charlemagne as it never was (but probably should have been). Charlemagne's daughter, Rowan, teams up with...
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