14th Century
The Man With Sapphire Eyes (The Ballot Boy Book 2)
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Niccolo “Nico” Soltana is ballot boy, or assistant, to the doge of Venice, a man he serves with devotion, as war is about ...Read Review
The Strongest Heart (The Clan Donald Saga)
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The Strongest Heart, Book 3 in the Clan Donald Saga, opens in 1386 when Donald of Islay succeeds his late father as Lord of the ...Read Review
By Treason We Perish (The Simon Merrivale Mysteries, 1)
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October 1338, and Simon Merrivale – once a King’s Messenger – manages to struggle back to England from Europe in disgrace after failure to intrigue ...Read Review
Olav Audunssøn: IV. Winter (Olav Audunssøn, 4)
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Norway, early 1300s: This last volume of Sigrid Undset’s tetralogy, Olav Audunssøn, recounts the final years of Olav’s life; his ...Read Review
I, Julian: The Fictional Autobiography of Julian of Norwich
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This reimagining of the life of the anchoress and mystic Julian of Norwich is a triumph. Taking the few known facts, Gilbert creates ...Read Review
The Mirror of Simple Souls
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1310 Paris. Ysabel runs the infirmary in the Royal Beguinage where she was raised, the religious women shut away from the fumes of burning ...Read Review
The Arrows of Mercy
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1348. After serving as an archer at Crécy, Edmund returns to his village in Berkshire, badly scarred both physically and psychologically. Not that ...Read Review
Kemp: The Flames of Heresy (Arrows of Albion, 7)
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When he arrives in Bordeaux in the summer of 1356, intent on taking back the captaincy of the freebooting Company of the Dragon, English ...Read Review
Wild Bird
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In the late 1300s, the plague spreads through Europe to Norway. A girl is the only survivor of her fishing village and is ...Read Review
Justice Delayed, Justice Denied (A Ming Dynasty Mystery)
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Late 14th-century Ming China is a rigidly stratified society where even the marginalised are organised and subsumed into the greater whole. Family loyalty, ...Read Review