13th Century
The Fruit of Her Hands
Shira’s upbringing is different than other Jewish girls’ childhoods in 1224. Her widowed father, the esteemed Rabbi Shmuel ben Solomon…
Outlaw
Retellings of the Robin Hood legend are always interesting. This novel tells the tale from the point of view of…
The Kingdom of Light
1240, Florence. In this, the second of the Dante mysteries, the poet finds a galley beached by the river Arno;…
Flint
Editors' choice
Young Will and his brother Ned are called away from their home in East Anglia to King Edward’s Welsh wars…
Chambers of Death
It is 1284, and no one at the Earl of Lincoln’s castle is having a happy sex life. Those who…
Hodd
One of Britain’s most critically acclaimed authors, Adam Thorpe, has written another brilliant and original novel. The device is not…
The King’s Mistress
The story is based on the theory that Alice Perrers’ first husband, Janyn Perrers, was embroiled in some dark secret…
A Plague of Poison
Maureen Ash’s Templar Knight mystery series has introduced Bascot de Marins to scores of readers in previous volumes. Her latest…
The Rebel Princess
Healey (The Canterbury Papers/The Lost Letters of Aquitaine) brings readers the second installment of the story of Princess Alaïs Capet,…
Voices of the Desert
A retelling of One Thousand and One Nights, Nélida Piñon’s Voices of the Desert is concerned not with the tales…
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