can anyone recommend any good trilogies?

I was lucky. My parents handed a Mary Renault to me when I was about 15. Gosh, that's nearly 40 years' worth of reading them!

Conn Iggulden has 2 trilogies, one about ceasar, one about ghengis. You'd maybe think they are a little violent but they are supberbly written and really really interesting.

I read that for the first time on my honeymoon. On a balcony in Venice

Ooh yes, The Last of the Wine! That'll be in a box.....

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I love The Last of the Wine, but have some trouble understanding the politics.

Oh, they are ALL so good. They move me beyond my capacity to express.

HC, I can't decide between The Mask of Apollo, The Persian Boy or The Bull from the Sea.

I'm a bit stymied for rereading some of my favourite books. A lot of them are still in boxes as we don't have enough shelves to unpack things, and the boxes are un-get-atable . Usually, when I move the first thing I unpack are the books, but this is not what dh does and he doesn't seem to understand how much I yearn for them. Still, I am gradually getting it done.

The result is that I can't get at The Salterton Trillogy and the only Renault I've been able get out of a box is The Mask of Apollo! HC was an interesting character, if memory serves me - would you say you have muchin common with him?

Jux, I have also read the Mary Stewart books many times. The moment when Arthur finds out his true heritage never fails to send a shiver down my spine.

Also my user name - the best Robertson Davies character he created I have also bought a few copies of the Deptford Trilogy, as I keep pressing it on people who probably don't want to read it but take it to be polite. Then never return it or mention it again

Mary Renault is such a beautiful, lyrical writer. I probably love the Praise Singer the most.

Here Be Dragons
Falls The Shadow
The Reckoning

Sharon Penman I re-read every year.

Oh dear I killed the thread.

The Sugar Street Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz is an excellent read (and not too challenging either so great for a summer read ).

J Sansom is very, very good. Detective novels set in Tudor times, well written, well researched - Sansom really knows his stuff.

There are 4 books so far, and I am eagerly awaiting the next.

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Regarding a set of good books I can thoroughly recommend a series by C J Sansom starting with Dissolution then the Dark Fire :Sovereign.etc I was given the first one as part of world book day last year and was absolutely gripped everything was put on hold I have not been like that since Twilight or the Lord of the Rings. They are beautifully written and the same author wrote Winter In Madrid which is a brilliant book. I am a pretty keen reader but I have to say I am about to start the 3rd in the the shades of grey but am losing enthusism the above series by CJ sANSOM is in a different category all together and you will be ordering all the others very quickly. Happy Reading !!

Another vote for Mary Stewart's Merlin trilogy, as recommended byJux.

Mary Renault is wonderful. She and Robertson Davies are my favorite authors (he wins by whisker, though).

Like Tiggy, I'm almost jealous of people who are about to read anything by them for the first time. On the other hand, I'm very happy that I have had the opportunity to read them all so many times over. They all get reread every couple of years; The Persian Boy is falling apart, as is The Deptford Trilogy, which I have in one volume.

LaQueen, we DO read the same books. The Alexander Trilogy is one of my all time favourites. The Persian Boy is the most beautiful love story I have ever read. In fact I re-read all her books frequently, they are so beautifully done.

Also echt - I was going to recommend Robertson Davies. All his trilogies are wonderful.

Paulina Simmons:

The Bronze Horseman
Alexander and Tatiana
The summer Garden

Loved them all!

Another recommendation for Olivia Manning - The Balkan Trilogy, followed by the Levant Trilogy which makes a Hexogy (surely not a sexogy?)
Evelyn Waugh - Sword of Honour trilogy

ooh SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius you beat me to it!

I second 'girl with the dragon tattoo' series if you havn't read em already. One of those books where i'm truely jealous of someome who's yet to read it. Also have you read the hanibal lector books. The first three were truely brilliant if you like gory, psychological, serial killer stuff. Ignore hannibal rising, the fourth one. Written years later and rubbish!

And the Alexander trilogy by Mary Renault, Fire from Heaven, The Persian Boy and Funeral Games.

The Merlin Trilogy by Mary Stewart, comprising The Crystal Cave, The Hollow Hills and The Last Enchantment.

I see there is a 4th called The Wicked Day, which I had not heard of, but the first 3 are good on their own so almost-sort of make a trilogy!

'Regeneration' is so, so good - and then the other two are dreadful. Such a shame.

Yes to His Dark Materials.

Patrick Ness - Chaos Walking trilogy (It begins with 'The Knife Of Never Letting Go') - the first 2 are excellent; the third less so.

Lian Hearne - Tales Of The Otori (The first is 'Across The Nightingale Floor') Can't remember if there are 3 or 4. There is also a prequel but tbh I wouldn't bother with it.

Those two are teenage fiction but very good - better than a lot of the crap that is published for adults imho.