14th Century
Between Two Fires
It is 1348, and the Black Death has come to wreak its destruction. Thomas, a fallen knight, finds himself in…
The Straw Men
Set in 1381, Doherty’s twelfth in his Brother Athelstan series pits the insightful Dominican and Cranston, Lord Coroner, against both…
The Sister and the Daughter
In the time of the Black Death, a small Roma family travel halfway around the world until they arrive in…
An Honourable Estate
Elizabeth Ashworth’s second novel is, like her first, set in the north but this time during the Great Famine in…
The Orphan King
Orphaned at 10 and raised by monks, Thomas is 18 when he realizes the time has come for him to…
1356
Editors' choice
When Bernard Cornwell makes his appearance at our conference in London, his latest novel will have just been published. For…
Blood Lance
Editors' choice
Late one night in 1386, Crispin Guest is walking along London Bridge when he encounters a man falling from the…
The Midnight Man
This is the seventh in a series by Doherty that uses the clever structure of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales on which…
All Fall Down
Editors' choice
1349. Thirteen-year-old Isabel and her family live in the Yorkshire village of Ingleforn. Farming is Isabel’s whole life, but that…
Money and the Middle Ages
This is a scholarly, yet brief and readable, study of the development and use of money in the High Middle…
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