14th Century
The Maid of Lorne
“Wed or dead by nightfall.” That’s the choice Sebastien of Cleish gives Lara of the MacDougalls, besieged in Dunstaffnage Castle…
Plague Sorcerer
14th century. Set in the time of the Black Death, the story is about Brind and Aurelie, the two main…
The Begotten: A Novel of the Gifted
The seed of the story is sown in Constantinople in the Year of Our Lord 731. A monk is burned…
The Barefoot Girl
Set in 14th-century Italy, The Barefoot Girl follows the life of a poor peasant girl from the harvest fields…
Beyond the Abbey Gates
In this 14th century historical romance, a traveling troubadour named Jack breaks his leg near Greyleigh Abbey. The nuns take…
Kublai Khan : The Mongol King Who Remade China
Kublai was not born to rule; he was pushed forward by his ambitious mother. He inherited the largest land-empire from his…
The Last Duel
A fascinating insight into the medieval mindset, a world in which people believed that the question of who had…
Ophelia
In a perfect accompaniment to Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Lisa Klein has fleshed out the story of Ophelia for those of…
Katherine
This assignment is both an absolute joy and something of a challenge. Hodder have re-packaged Anya Seton’s classic under their…
The Burning Time
The Burning Time is a fictionalised account of the true story of the first woman to be tried for witchcraft…
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