Thomas B. Costain

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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1945
  • Latest Book:
    September 2022
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Book List in Order: 14 titles

  • The Black Rose

    My previous books have been built around historical characters, men who had accomplished rather remarkable things but had been almost completely forgotten. I started 'The Black Rose' with three great men in mind. One was a king of England, the grea...

  • For My Great Folly

    With the thunder of ships' guns and white-capped waves of the rolling seas, Thomas B. Costain weaves a colorful tapestry of suspense and adventure at the time of James I. They were called the Free Rovers, these lusty English sea captains who roame...

  • The Tontine

    With a keen ear for the rolling echoes of history, and an uparalleled eye for the color and excitement of the past, Thomas B. Costain has fashioned a romantic adventure spanning continents and generations. The action centers around the bizarre Wat...

  • Below the Salt

    Time was strangely rolled back 700 years so that he was hearing an account of those stirring, violent events in England and Europe that led to Magna Charta and thus contributed so much to the liberties of future generations: with a story, most of it ...

  • The Silver Chalice

    A STORY OF SPECTACULAR BEAUTY, POWER, AND SPIRITUAL INSIGHT Here is the story of Basil of Antioch, a young and skilled artisan purchased from slavery to create a decorative casing for the Cup used by Christ at the Last Supper. Throughout the barb...

  • The Three Edwards

    THE THREE EDWARDS, third in Thomas B. Costain's survey of Britain under the Plantagenets, covers the years between 1272 and 1377 when three Edwards ruled England. Edward I brought England out of the Middle Ages. Edward II had a tragic reign but gave ...

  • The Conquering Family

    Thomas B. Costain's four-volume history of the Plantagenets begins with THE CONQUERING FAMILY and the conquest of England by William the Conqueror in 1066, closing with the reign of John in 1216. The troubled period after the Norman Conquest, when th...

  • The Magnificent Century

    The Magnificent Century, the second volume of Costain's A History of the Plantagenets, covers Henry III's long and turbulent reign, from 1216 to 1272. During his lifetime Henry was frequently unpopular, unreliable and inconsistent. Yet his reign s...

  • The Last Plantagenet

    There are periods in history when things are seen dimly as through a veil. Such were the years from 1377 to 1485. During this time the Chronicles were silent and the sources of information few. And yet these were eventful years, filled with important...



  • The Tontine, Volume 1

    Spanning 60+ years, beginning on the day Waterloo was won, it is a multigenerational story of 3 families during the Industrial Revolution. Lots of detailed descriptions of life among the varied social classes, it has been likened to stories by Dicken...

  • The Tontine, Volume 2

    In volume II of The Tontine, the multigenerational story of 3 families continues. The number of recipients receiving payouts on the life insurance scheme are dying out and the payouts are becoming more and more substantial. Towards the end, when the ...

  • High Towers

  • The Moneyman

  • The Darkness & the Dawn

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Thomas B. Costain has published 14 books.

Thomas B. Costain does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Moneyman, was published in September 2022.

The first book by Thomas B. Costain, The Black Rose, was published in January 1945.

No. Thomas B. Costain does not write books in series.
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