Pride of Lions (Celtic World) (Brian Boru #2) - Morgan Llywelyn

Written by Morgan Llywelyn
Read by Mil Nicholson
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps

The Ireland of 1014 was a dream Brian Boru had dreamed and brought into being.

Morgan Llywelyn takes us there, to the battlefield where Brian died, and to Brian’s 15-year-old son, Donough, whose mother is the voluptuous and treacherous Gormlaith, with her lust for life and power undiminished by age: Donough, the son who is determined to make the High Kingship of Brian Boru’s Ireland his own.

“I know he’s too young, but he’s all we have left”, says Fergal, and thus the boy takes his first command, on the bloody ground of Clontarf. From there he must move to establish his right to rule in Kincora and to make the kings of Ireland accept him as their High King.

Yet Donough is torn - torn by his hatred for his mother and by his all-consuming passion for the beautiful pagan girl Cera, who remains beyond his reach, for the High King must have a Christian consort….

(This series is based on Irish mythology, some books are more heavy on fantasy than others, but all that I’m aware are actual fantasy books.)

First published: January 1996
Tantor Audio, July 2022
14 hours and 5 minutes