Egyptian Stars

Fiction (all genres) and Nonfiction Titles

Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.

Related Reading: King Tut

Fiction

  • The Third Translation
    Author: Bondurant, Matt
    Publisher: Hyperion $ 22.95 ISBN: 1401301819 Date: 2005
    An ancient mystery, a hidden language, and the secrets of a bizarre Egyptian sect collide in modern-day London, in this ingenious novel of seduction, conspiracy, and betrayal that "marks the beginning of a brilliant new literary career" (Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain).
    Updated 3.25.05
  • Year of the Hyenas: A Novel of Murder in Ancient Egypt
    Author: Geagley, Brad
    Publisher: S & S $ 23 ISBN: 074325080X Date: 2005
    starLJ
    In this evocative murder mystery set in ancient Egypt, an empire's sumptuous glory and intrigue blend seamlessly with timeless themes of greed, ambition, and crimes of passion.
    Updated 1.23.05
  • House of Illusions
    Gedge, Pauline
    Publisher: Moyer Bell, List Price: $22.95 ISBN: 1559212004 Date: 1997
    starKirkus
    Pauline Gedge's historical novels set in ancient Egypt have found millions of fans around the world. This book is the fifth in that illustrious line and is the sequel to House of Dreams, in which Thu, a peasant girl cultivated to become the Pharaoh's favorite concubine, is made the scapegoat for a murderous plot against him - and banished to her village, Aswat.
  • The Memoirs of Cleopatra
    George, Margaret
    Publisher: St Martins List Price: $ 27.95 ISBN: 0312154305 Date: 1997
    starPublishers Weekly
    The world-renowned author of The Autobiography of Henry VIII and Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles turns from Renaissance Britain to ancient Egypt and a mesmerizing story of ambition and power - the tale of Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile.

  • The Hippopotamus Marsh
    Author: Gedge, Pauline
    Publisher: Moyer Bell List Price: $ 24.95 ISBN: 155921225x Date: 1999
    starLJ
  • The Buried Pyramid
    Author: Lindskold, Jane
    Publisher: Tor $ 26.95 ISBN: 0765302608 Date: 2004
    A recently orphaned American girl and her uncle, a prominent British archaeologist--part of a team investigating the legendary Buried Pyramid--are shadowed by a sinister element determined to keep the tomb from being discovered.
    Updated 4.5.05
  • He Shall Thunder In the Sky
    Author: Peters, Elizabeth
    Publisher: Morrow $ 25 ISBN: 0380976595 Date: 2000
    starPW
    The clouds of World War I hang heavy over Cairo as Amelia Peabody and her family return to Egypt for another season of archeological excavation. When an exquisite sculpture is found where it ought not to be, it confirms Amelia's most unsettling suspicion about the reemergence of her villainous arch-nemesis, Sethos, the Master Criminal.
    Suggested Reading: Historical Mystery Stars
    Updated 5/9/00.
  • The Serpent on the Crown
    Author: Peters, Elizabeth
    Publisher: Morrow $ 25.95 ISBN: 0060591781 Date: 2005
    starPW
    Once again the incomparable "New York Times" bestselling master of suspense, Elizabeth Peters, brings an exotic world of adventure, intrigue, and danger to vivid life, in a tale as exciting, mysterious, and powerful as ancient Egypt.
    Updated 3.10.05
  • The Egyptologist
    Author: Phillips, Arthur
    Publisher: Random $ 24.95 ISBN: 1400062500 Date: 2004
    From the bestselling author of Prague comes a witty, inventive, brilliantly constructed novel about an Egyptologist obsessed with finding the tomb of an apocryphal king. This darkly comic labyrinth of a story opens on the desert plains of Egypt in 1922, then winds its way from the slums of Australia to the ballrooms of Boston by way of Oxford, the battlefields of the First World War, and a royal court in turmoil.
    Updated 3.25.05
  • Murder in the Place of Anubis
    Author: Robinson, Lynda S.
    Publisher: Walker $ 18.95 ISBN: 0802732496 Date: 1994
    starPW
    Who has dared to desecrate the sacred place of embalming with a murdered corpse? Pharaoh Tutankhamun orders Lord Meren, his chief investigator, to find out quickly, before power-mad priests use the incident to undermine his royal authority.
    Updated 10.24.05
  • Murder at the God's Gate: Lord Meren
    Author: Robinson, Lynda S.
    Publisher: $ ISBN: 0802731988 Date: 1995
    starPW
    In year five of his reign, fourteen-year-old Pharaoh Tutankhamun is beset by problems: The Hittites are encroaching, and several of Egypt's vassal states have fallen because of the neglect of his late brother, the heretic Akhenaten. The priests of Amun, whose power rivals that of the pharaoh, are bitter, filled with resentment against the young king whose dead brother tried to destroy them. For Lord Meren, the pharaoh's confidential inquiry agent, the unrest and whispering are clear threats to Tutankhamun's life. When Meren's spy at the temple at Thebes dies in a spectacular accident, the threat takes on new force. While Meren's son, Kysen, leads the temple investigation, the Eyes and Ears of Pharaoh embarks on a dangerous enterprise, not only challenging the priests but protecting Tutankhamun from the traitors scheming within the walls of his own court. - Publishers Marketing.
    Updated 10.24.05
  • Murder at the Feast of Rejoycing: Lord Meren
    Author: Robinson, Lynda S.
    Publisher: Walker $ 20.95 ISBN: 0802732747 Date: 1996
    starPW
    In this marvelous new adventure, Lord Meren struggles not only with a country house murder but also with a court matter. Merren's adopted son's life is in danger, as he attempts to protect the remains and equipage of the Pharoah Tutankhamun and his ancestors.
    Updated 10.24.05
  • Eater of Souls: A Lord Meren Mystery
    Author: Robinson, Lynda S.
    Publisher: Walker List Price: $21.95 ISBN: 0802732941 Date: 1997
    starPWstarKirkus
    King Tut's Egypt is alive and deadly in this new Lord Meren mystery. The first in a triology that will center on Meren's investigation into the death of Queen Nefertiti, Eater of Souls is a dramatic murder mystery that opens a window onto ancient Egypt in a way that only a skilled novelist and consummate storyteller can accomplish.
  • Drinker of Blood
    Author: Robinson, Lynda S.
    Publisher: List Price: $ ISBN: Date: 1998
    starBooklist
    The highly celebrated Lord Meren mystery series featuring historical intrigue during the reign of Pharaoh Tutankhamen continues with the investigation of the murder of Queen Nefertiti.
  • Slayer of Gods
    Author: Robinson, Lynda S.
    Publisher: Mysterious $ 23.95 ISBN: 0892967056 Date: 2001
    starBooklist
    In the sixth novel of the celebrated series set during the reign of Pharaoh Tutankhamen, Lord Meren recruits a clever female counterpart to help him find Queen Nefertiti's murderer.
    Updated 10.24.05
  • Judgement of Caesar: A Novel of Ancient Rome
    Author: Saylor, Steven
    Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312271190 Date: 2004
    starKirkusstarBookliststarPW
    In the late days of the Roman civil war, Gordianus the Finder is caught in Egypt in the midst of the last struggle between Pompeii and Julius Caesar, and between Ptolemy and Cleopatra while he searches for his missing wife.
    Suggested Reading: All Stars
    Updated 5.10.04
  • The Ptolemies
    Author: Sprott, Duncan
    Publisher: Knopf $ 25.95 ISBN: 1400041546 Date: 2004
    starKirkus
    Sprott's wildly imaginative yet historically accurate, and often hilarious work re-creates the early years of the House of Ptolemy (330-23 BC)--the dark, glittering, disastrous and forgotten 10-generation dynasty of Greek pharaohs of Egypt.
    Suggested Reading: Historical Fiction Stars
    Updated 3.25.04
  • Cheops: A Cupboard for the Sun
    Author: West, Paul
    Publisher: New Directions $ 25.95 ISBN: 0811215199 Date: 2003
    starKirkus
    Known for wrapping readers in his historical web, Paul West, in his marvelous, new novel, Cheops; A Cupboard for the Sun, turns his attention to the 4th Dynasty (approx. 2680 BC) of ancient Egypt. Here, we find the pharaoh Cheops, building the great pyramids at Giza, surrounded by workers and solar boats. According to the Greek historian Herodotus, "a hundred thousand men were made to toil constantly for him, " and, as Herodotus claimed, Egypt was "plunged into all manner of wickedness." In Cheops, West delightfully has Herodotus transported back in time, to meet the great pharaoh, face to face. Nearing death, getting ready for his final "transportation to the stars, " the blind Cheops is obsessed with preparing for his end. All the while, the intrigues of his daughters, sons, wives, and courtiers are revealed, uncovering murder, incest, and rebellion. Most intriguing is the overarching narration told by Osiris, god of the Nile, who comments on this swarm of events with hilarious and humane authority. Profound and entertaining, Cheops; A Cupboard for the Sun is perhaps Paul West's greatest novel yet. - Publisher Marketing
    Updated 2.27.05

Nonfiction

  • The Mind of Egypt: History and Meaning in the Time of the Pharaohs
    Author: Assmann, Jan
    Publisher: Metropolitan $ 35 ISBN: 0805054626 Date: 2002
    starLJ
    From one of the world's greatest Egyptologists, an original and brilliant study of the inner life of ancient Egypt - The Mind of Egypt presents an unprecedented account of the mainsprings of Egyptian civilization-the ideals, values, mentalities, belief systems, and aspirations that shaped the first territorial state in human history. - Publisher Marketing
    Updated 3.21.05
  • The Mysterious Death of Tutankhamun
    Author: Doherty, P.C.
    Publisher: Carroll & Graf $ 26 ISBN: 0786710756 Date: 2002
    starPW
    In this exciting and thought-provoking account of the life and death of Tutankhamun, the basis for a new two-part Discovery Channel documentary airing in fall 2002, Doherty reveals how King Tut's famous calm and beautiful death mask conceals a story of bloody intrigue at the Egyptian court.
    Updated 4.5.05
  • Valley of the Golden Mummies
    Author: Hawass, Zahi A.
    Publisher: Abrams $ 49.50 ISBN: 0810939428 Date: 2000
    starPW
    Hailed as the most sensational find since King Tut's tomb, the story of how hundreds of 2,000-year-old mummies were found in the Egyptian desert in near pristine condition, many with gold masks on.
    Updated 4.5.05
  • Tutankhamem: The Life and Death of the Boy-King
    by El Mahdy, Christine
    Publisher: St Martins $ 25.95 ISBN: 0312262418 Date: 2000
    starKirkus
    A renowned Egyptologist reconstructs the short life and suspicious death of the ancient empire's boy king. Based on stunning tomb records, lost since their discovery, this revolutionary biography begins to answer the 20th century's most persistent archaeological mystery: who was Tutankhamen?
  • The Lost Tomb: The Most Extraordinary Archaeological Discovery of Our Time - The Burial Site of the Sons of Ramesses
    by Kent R. Weeks
    Publisher: William Morrow ISBN: 068815087x $27.50 Date: 1998
    Dr. Weeks, an Egyptologist with the American University in Cairo, draws on his own diaries, as well as those of his wife and foreman to describe the excitement and risks that surrounded the most significant archaeological discovery of our time: the burial site of the sons of Ramesses II.
    Related website: Theban Mapping Project - Information about K5, the Valley of the Kings, the Theban Necropolis and Egyptology.