Early Medieval (to 1337)
The Joys of my Life
This is the latest and last of the Hawkenlye mysteries, based at the fictitious Hawkenlye Abbey in the Weald of…
The Time of Singing
AD 1173: Roger Bigod knows he must work hard for his rights and his desires. As the eldest son of…
Scarlet
Editors' choice
In the second book of his King Raven trilogy Stephen Lawhead continues his re-imagination of the Robin Hood legend as…
The Youngest Templar: Keeper of the Grail, Book 1
A young boy named Tristan, abandoned as an infant with a note about his innocence and need for safety, is…
Babylonne
Sixteen-year-old Babylonne, an orphan reared to the Cathar faith in the Languedoc region of 13th-century France, suffers abuse and humiliation…
Master of Surrender
11th CENTURY In a prison inIberiain 1059, the brotherhood of The Blood Sword was created out of the…
Devil’s Brood
With her customary skill in depicting the personalities of medieval England’s most famously dysfunctional family, Penman delineates the…
The Death Maze/The Serpent’s Tale
Fair Rosamund Clifford was Henry II’s mistress, and she was buried in Goldstow Priory, near Oxford. These are established…
Rosemary for Remembrance & Rue for Repentance
A reprint of the first two titles in the popular Janna Mysteries, this “bindup” edition of Rosemary for Remembrance…
In the Heroic Age of Basil ll : Emperor of Byzantium
Set at the end of the 10th century and the beginning of the 11th, this story is about two…
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