Early Medieval (to 1337)
Sworn Sword
Two years after the Battle of Hastings, Northumbria is the last English province to hold out against Norman rule. Tancred…
Belle’s Song
I love Katie Grant’s writing. Her characters are very real, flawed, humorous – likeable. In this novel, she gives herself…
An Embarrassment of Riches
The 24th volume of Yarbro’s Saint-Germain series is sure to please her fans, but it’s also likely to lure in…
In Vain: A Prequel to the Averillan Chronicles
In 2004, Geisler published the first book in this series, Other Gods, followed shortly by Graven Images. I devoured both,…
Montfort: The Founder of Parliament, The Viceroy, 1243 to 1253 (Vol. II)
In Volume II of Montfort: The Founder of Parliament, Ashe continues her story of Simon de Montfort. This work covers…
West Briton Story
Rhuadrac, the main character and narrator of Tom O’Rourke’s fantastic debut novel West Briton Story, is an old man (only…
Bound to the Barbarian
A quick dip into Wikipedia for a chronology of Byzantine emperors reveals that this story is set in the spring…
I am of Irelaunde: A Novel of Patrick and Osian
Returning at age forty to the place of his enslavement by Irish slave traders at the age of sixteen, Patrick…
Conquest
Prince John Comnenus seeks out the Old Man of the Mountains in the western Peloponnese, determined to acquire the wisdom…
Odin’s Wolves
Raven and his comrades in the Fellowship return in the final part of Giles Kristian’s Norse trilogy. In Odin’s Wolves,…
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