 | The Confession of Piers Gaveston by Brandy Purdy
Buy new: $12.55 / Used from: $6.28 In this novel Piers Gaveston, the object of King Edward II's obsession, tells the story of their relationship from his point of view.
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 | Gaveston (Gay Men's Press Collection) by Chris Hunt
Buy used from: $42.91 In this novel Edward II tells the story of his love affair with Piers Gaveston from his point of view.
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 | The Traitor's Wife: A Novel of the Reign of Edward II by Susan Higginbotham
Buy used from: $5.09 Novel about Eleanor de Clare, the sister of Gaveston's wife, and herself the wife of Hugh Despenser, who filled the void in Edward's heart after Gaveston's death.
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 | The Prince Of Darkness by P C Doherty
Buy used from: $0.01 This mystery novel features a sinister Piers Gaveston dabbling in the dark arts and harboring murderous intentions.
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 | Lord of Misrule by Eve Trevaskis
Buy used from: $1,008.48 Those expecting a romance between Edward and Gaveston may be disappointed. In this novel, there is no truth to the rumors, the two are just good friends.
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| The Gascon by John Colin Penford
Buy used from: $199.99 Edward and Gaveston's romance is touchingly portrayed in this novel, which fills in the shadowy areas of Gaveston's past with a mystery surrounding his parentage.
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| Edward the Second (The New Mermaids Series) by Christopher Marlowe
Buy used from: $0.86 Piers Gaveston is probably best known to modern audiences from this play by Christopher Marlowe, a contemporary of Shakespeare. A rather eccentric film version was also made by director Derek Jarman.
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| Follies of the King (Plantagenet Saga) by Jean Plaidy
Buy used from: $2.61 Jean Plaidy's version of Edward II's reign. Piers Gaveston and his successor Hugh Despenser are both characters in this novel.
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 | Harlot Queen by Hilda Lewis
Buy new: $10.63 / Used from: $3.77 Another novel about Edward's wife Isabella and the effects his male favorites had upon their marriage.
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| Piers Gaveston, Earl of Cornwall, 1307-1312: Politics and Patronage in the Reign of Edward II by J. S. Hamilton
Buy used from: $69.99 Of the three biographies of Gaveston this is considered by most to be the best. However, anyone expecting the kind of detail to be found in a book about Marie Antoinette for instance will be disappointed, so some readers may find the biographies a little dry depending on their expectations.
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 | Piers Gaveston: Edward II's Adoptive Brother by Pierre Chaplais
Buy new: $149.00 / Used from: $113.34 This biographer theorizes that Edward and Gaveston were not lovers, but brothers in a symbolic sense.
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| Piers Gaveston;: A chapter of early constitutional history by Walter Phelps Dodge
Buy used from: $95.56 The first full-length biography about Piers Gaveston, it was originally published in 1899.
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| Life and Times of Edward II (Kings & Queens) by Caroline Bingham
Buy used from: $39.97 This is my favorite biography of Edward II, it is written in a style that is both informative and easy to read and even includes a photograph of the tomb effigy of Gaveston's father.
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 | Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England by Alison Weir
Buy used from: $4.27 A biography of Edward II's queen Isabella by Alison Weir. Some like this book, others do not, I suppose it depends on the reader's own perceptions of Isabella, her motives and the choices she made.
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 | Edward II
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.72 Derek Jarman's version of Christopher Marlowe's play featuring Steven Waddington as King Edward II, Tilda Swinton as Queen Isabella, and Andrew Tiernan as a surly and conceited leather-jacket wearing Piers Gaveston. The sets are stark and the costumes modernized, not medieval. This appears to be one of those movies that people either love or hate.
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 | Gaveston by Stephanie Merritt
Buy used from: $2.05 A modern day update of the Edward II and Piers Gaveston story with Edward as a media baron and Gaveston as a male model/actor/indie film director.
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