Late Medieval (1338 to 1485)
The House of Lanyon
In her afterword, Valerie Anand mentions it was her dream to pen a novel set on Exmoor, the rolling countryside…
The Guilt of Innocents
It has been a long wait for the new Owen Archer mystery, and fans will be keenly anticipating this, his…
High Crag Linn
This complex story is set in 15th-century England and shows human nature at its best and worst. Anna’s father is…
Saint Thomas’s Eve
Plaidy’s sixth novel in her Tudor series is a compelling reconstruction of the life of Sir Thomas More. The novel…
The Mandrake Broom
In the early 1400s, women’s healing arts were respected and encouraged. Mid-century, the plague swept through Europe, changing the atmosphere…
A Play of Isaac
A 15th-century company of players come toOxford, where, as well as their planned performances at theCorpus Christi festival, they are invited…
The Traitor’s Tale
In 1450, England had been warring with France for almost a century. But the English were now on the losing…
The Sempster’s Tale
This is the latest in Margaret Frazer’s Dame Frevisse mystery series and is set in London during the reign of…
A Mass for the Dead
In McDuffie’s first mystery, set in Scotland in 1373, the author looks deep into the glass of her own ancestry…
The Rose of York: Fall from Grace
While Worth’s ambitious novel offers a sympathetic representation of King Richard the Third, she also depicts him as humanly flawed…
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