Late Medieval (1338 to 1485)
The Straw Men
Set in 1381, Doherty’s twelfth in his Brother Athelstan series pits the insightful Dominican and Cranston, Lord Coroner, against both…
Falstaff
First published in 1976, Nye’s rambling autobiographical musings of the Shakespearean figure Sir John Falstaff is surprisingly contemporary in its…
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.…
1356
Editors' choice
When Bernard Cornwell makes his appearance at our conference in London, his latest novel will have just been published. For…
Blood Lance
Editors' choice
Late one night in 1386, Crispin Guest is walking along London Bridge when he encounters a man falling from the…
The Last Song
The Inquisition has just begun, and teenage Isabel believes she is safe from Torquemada and his brutal minions. She was…
The Midnight Man
This is the seventh in a series by Doherty that uses the clever structure of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales on which…
All Fall Down
Editors' choice
1349. Thirteen-year-old Isabel and her family live in the Yorkshire village of Ingleforn. Farming is Isabel’s whole life, but that…
Money and the Middle Ages
This is a scholarly, yet brief and readable, study of the development and use of money in the High Middle…
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