15th Century
The Book of Unholy Mischief
In her highly anticipated debut, Elle Newmark faces a daunting task: produce a novel that lives up to the hype…
Signora Da Vinci
An imaginative speculation on the life of Caterina, Leonardo da Vinci’s mother, this first-person account begins in 1452, when a…
The Red Apple
A Thracian boy is conscripted into the Ottoman Janissaries. The author presents something of the life course of soldiers in…
The King’s Grey Mare
Elizabeth Woodville, young and unbelievably beautiful, finds favor at the court of her mother’s cousin, Marguerite of Anjou. Catching the…
Crown in Candlelight
Originally published in 1978, Crown in Candlelight covers a tumultuous period of English and French history between 1405 and 1461.…
The King’s Grace
Editors' choice
Grace Plantagenet is a bastard child of King Edward IV and, after his death, finds her way to the household…
Vlad: The Last Confession
To undertake the tale of Vlad Dracul, known as the Impaler, a 15th-century Wallachian prince whose savage battle to…
The Merchant’s Mark
Augie Morrison had ordered a quantity of books from the Low Countries, planning on keeping some for himself, giving some…
Emerald Silk
The second book in Lane’s Coin Forest medieval romance series set in 15th- century England features Kadriya, a half-English, half-Gypsy…
The Rough Collier
When the peat cutters up on the moor find a buried body another mystery begins for Gil Cunningham. The locals…
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