12th Century
The Lazarus Vault
Editors' choice
Out of the blue, Ellie Stanton is offered a job – posh flat and limitless credit included – at a…
The Flowers of Evil
Readers of Simon Acland’s previous book (The Waste Land), in which the adventures of 12th-century crusader Hugh de Verdon are…
Defender of the Realm; Defender of the North
In Holst’s enthusiastic and winning two-volume tale, likable, unassuming cobbler James Hoade falls in love, stumbles into warfare, gets knighted…
Beloved Pilgrim
Set against the vividly realized backdrop of the disastrous crusade of 1101, Hawthorne’s latest medieval historical novel consistently broadens and…
The Last Seal
Back in the 12th century, Cornelius Silver, a member of the secret group Praesidium, used his mysterious sorcery to save…
Lady of the English
Maud, or Matilda, is the dowager empress of Germany and the only surviving legitimate child of Henry I, his son…
The Leopard Unleashed
This is Elizabeth Chadwick’s third book and follows on where The Running Vixen left off, continuing the story of Guyon,…
To Be Queen
Few women in the High Middle Ages have proven as complex, powerful, and enigmatic as Eleanor of Aquitaine. Through sheer…
Birth of the Kingdom
Editors' choice
It is the year 1192 when the legendary crusader, Sir Arn Magnusson, returns from Outremer with a string of Arabian…
The King’s Witch
Editors' choice
It’s hard these days to find a writer who doesn’t let you down. Who delivers, time and again, an exciting…
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