13th Century
A Killing Season
Prioress Eleanor of Tyndal of the Order of Fontevraud and her companion arrive at a castle on the English coast…
The Sister Queens
Marguerite and Eleanor are sisters, Savoyards living in the 13th century. Each young Provençal girl is married off to a…
The Lion Wakes
For me, this was a book of two halves. Each scene is vividly told, with unusual phrasing and a knowledgeable…
Perdition
The last decade of the 13th century sees the Crusader city of Acre awaiting the final onslaught from an overwhelming…
Conqueror: A Novel of Kublai Khan
Editors' choice
Conqueror is the story of the renowned scholar and warrior Kublai Khan, but it is also the tale of those…
Brethren
Brethren is a new edition of Robyn Young’s best-seller first published in 2006, the first of her Brethren trilogy. The…
A Deadly Injustice
Nick Zuliani from Venice is now serving as the official Investigator of Crimes for the Mongol Emperor in the year…
Silk Road
The Knights Templar and the Mongol Empire have both been popular topics among historical novelists in recent years; this novel…
The Fibonacci Confessions
Graham Wade’s debut novel brings Leonardo Pisano—Fibonacci—brilliantly alive as a fictional autobiography. Wade, a musicologist known for his biographies of…
The Fall of the Iron Prow
In this story of a young man and woman’s attempts to save Constantinople during 13th-century wars among Byzantine princes, Venetians,…
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