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Lion heart a novel

"Richie Cathar was named after his father's hero, Richard the Lionheart. His father, Alaric, believed that Richard and Robin Hood had met and found a document which was to prove this. In his father's footsteps, Richie travels to Jerusalem where he falls in love with an journalist who is kidnapped in...

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Main Author: Cartwright, Justin
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury, 2014.
Edition:First U.S. edition.
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Richard > I, > King of England, > 1157-1199 > Fiction.
Great Britain > History > Richard I, 1189-1199 > Fiction.
Crusades > Third, 1189-1192 > Fiction.
Historiography > Fiction.
Biographical fiction > England.
Romantic suspense fiction > England
Historical fiction > England
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Summary:"Richie Cathar was named after his father's hero, Richard the Lionheart. His father, Alaric, believed that Richard and Robin Hood had met and found a document which was to prove this. In his father's footsteps, Richie travels to Jerusalem where he falls in love with an journalist who is kidnapped in Cairo. In the course of writing about the Crusades, Richie discovers that the True Cross, lost to Saladin in 1187, was recovered by a small band of Richard's knights. He embarks on a quest of his own to find the True Cross - and to discover whether or not everything in his father's mind was a fantasy"--Worldcat.org.
Physical Description:x, 329 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:9781620401835 (hbk.)
1620401835 (hbk.)
Author Notes:Justin Cartwright was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1945. He graduated from Trinity College, Oxford. Before becoming an author, he worked in advertising and in film and documentary directing. He wrote 13 novels including Interior, Look at It This Way, White Lightning, Half in Love, The Promise of Happiness, The Song Before It Is Sung, To Heaven by Water, Other People's Money, Lion Heart, and Up Against the Night. In Every Face I Meet won a Commonwealth Writers Prize and Leading the Cheers won the Whitbread Novel Award. He also wrote three non-fiction books entitled Not Yet Home, This Secret Garden, and Oxford Revisited. He died on December 3, 2018 at the age of 73.

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