Born of love, in a time of danger and desperation, the fragment will be the catalyst that changes Kate's life forever.Īn epic saga of romance and redemption, Court of Lions brings one of the great hinge-points in human history to life, telling the stories of a modern woman and the last Moorish sultan of Granada, as they both move towards their cataclysmic destinies. It has lain undiscovered since before the Fall of Granada in 1492, when the city was surrendered to Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand.

Upon it, in strange symbols, has been inscribed a message from another age.

One day in the glorious gardens of the Alhambra, once home to Sultan Abu Abdullah Mohammed, also known as Boabdil, Kate finds a scrap of paper hidden in one of the ancient walls. In the last decade of the 15th century, a scrap of paper containing a mysterious message. Kate Fordham, escaping terrible personal trauma, has fled to the beautiful sunlit city of Granada. Written by Jane Johnson Review by Carol McGrath. Exotic adventure and a quest for redemption collide in this stunning new novel from Jane Johnson. Discover the English Audiobook at Audible. Kate Fordham, escaping terrible trauma, has fled to the beautiful sunlit city of Granada, the ancient capital of the Moors in Spain, where she is scraping by with an unfulfilling job in a busy bar. Court of Lions as its meant to be heard, narrated by Hannah Curtis, Assaf Cohen. Ken Follett meets Jodi Picoult in a stunning new novel from Jane Johnson. She still works, remotely, as Fiction Publishing Director for HarperCollins.Sometimes at the lowest points in your life, fate will slip you a gift. In October she married her own 'Berber pirate' and now they split their time between Cornwall and a village in the Anti-Atlas Mountains. She returned home, gave up her office job in London, sold her flat and shipped the contents to Morocco. In 2005 she was in Morocco researching the story of a distant family member who was abducted from a Cornish church in 1625 by Barbary pirates and sold into slavery in North Africa (which formed the basis for Crossed Bones / The Tenth Gift), when a near-fatal climbing incident caused her to rethink her future. She has also written several books for children.

Under the pseudonym of Jude Fisher she wrote three bestselling Visual Companions to the films. COURT of LIONS by JANE JOHNSON Argan 321 subscribers Subscribe 3 Share 643 views 6 years ago Inspired by the Alhambra palace and the history of the last Moorish kingdom of Granada, comes the new. The buzz: Made an All-Pro team eight times, spent his entire 12-year career with the Lions. She was responsible for publishing the works of J R R Tolkien during the 1980s and 1990s and worked on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, spending many months in New Zealand with cast and crew. Jane Johnson is from Cornwall and has worked in the book industry for 20 years, as a bookseller, publisher and writer.

Court of Lions by Jane Johnson