15th Century
The Laird’s Choice
Fifteenth-century Scotland is the setting for the first in Scott’s new Lairds of the Loch series. Andrena is a noblewoman…
Wolves in Winter
Hilton’s latest novel, Wolves in Winter, is the first of a trilogy set in Renaissance Italy. The scene is set…
Falstaff
First published in 1976, Nye’s rambling autobiographical musings of the Shakespearean figure Sir John Falstaff is surprisingly contemporary in its…
Far from Home
Far From Home is a story of Joan of Arc written from her mother’s view, relating Joan’s early life—a period…
A Gift for the Magus
Editors' choice
A Gift for the Magus is a stand alone prequel to Linda’s wonderful Botticelli trilogy (also available from Godstow Press),…
On the Cold Coasts
In 15th-century Iceland, Ragna Gautadottir is innocently put in an unfortunate situation when she is fourteen. Impregnated by an English…
The Assassin’s Wife
Young Nan sees dead people – as well as those about to die, be murdered or burned at the stake.…
Passion Blue
Giulia, the heroine of this young adult novel about the Renaissance, is the bastard daughter of a nobleman whose death…
The Last Song
The Inquisition has just begun, and teenage Isabel believes she is safe from Torquemada and his brutal minions. She was…
Leonardo and the Last Supper
This time out, Ross King, novelist and bestselling author of biographical nonfiction focusing primarily on the Italian Renaissance (Brunelleschi’s Dome,…
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