15th Century
Primavera
Flora Pazzi is the youngest daughter of the second most illustrious family in Florence in the late 1400s. However,…
The Apostate’s Tale
Margaret Frazer improves with each book. This is her seventeenth Dame Frevisse novel, and it has more depth then some…
Figures in Silk
Vanora Bennett’s debut was the fascinating Portrait of an Unknown Woman. In her second novel, she turns her attention to…
Lady of the Roses
In this novel, we see the War of the Roses through the eyes of Isobel, the wife of Sir John…
The Queen’s Gambit: A Leonardo da Vinci Mystery
Art is but one skill under scrutiny at Castle Sforza, Milan, in 1483. The Duke commands his court artist and…
The Reluctant Queen
Richard III is possibly the most maligned of English kings. If for no other reason than that, Jean Plaidy’s alternate…
The Nicholas Feast
This is the second book in the Gil Cunningham series and begins, ‘Gil Cunningham said later that if he had…
Daughter of York
In Easter Smith’s second voyage into the lives and hearts of the children of the House of York, Margaret is…
It Dreams in Me
This is the third book in the trilogy of a Native American tribe located in Florida around 1400 AD. A…
A play of Lords
As Parliament meets in autumn 1435, London offers diversions aplenty to the lords temporal and spiritual. When actor-playwright Joliffe and…
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