15th Century
The King’s Grace
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Grace Plantagenet is a bastard child of King Edward IV and, after his death, finds her way to the household of Edward’s ...Read Review
Crown in Candlelight
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Originally published in 1978, Crown in Candlelight covers a tumultuous period of English and French history between 1405 and 1461. This is the story of Katherine ...Read Review
The King’s Grey Mare
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Elizabeth Woodville, young and unbelievably beautiful, finds favor at the court of her mother’s cousin, Marguerite of Anjou. Catching the eye of ...Read Review
The Red Apple
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A Thracian boy is conscripted into the Ottoman Janissaries. The author presents something of the life course of soldiers in this elite corps ...Read Review
Signora Da Vinci
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An imaginative speculation on the life of Caterina, Leonardo da Vinci’s mother, this first-person account begins in 1452, when a tryst with a ...Read Review
Vlad: The Last Confession
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To undertake the tale of Vlad Dracul, known as the Impaler, a 15th-century Wallachian prince whose savage battle to defend his kingdom ...Read Review
The Siege
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The Ottoman Empire during the 15th century lays siege to a Christian fortress on a plain surrounded by the mountains of Albania. The ...Read Review
Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World
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Christian Europe’s fate in the struggle against an aggressive and powerful Ottoman Empire was settled in the Mediterranean between the fall of ...Read Review
The Rough Collier
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When the peat cutters up on the moor find a buried body another mystery begins for Gil Cunningham. The locals are firmly of ...Read Review
The Enchantress of Florence
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Wearing a multicolored leather coat, a Florentine traveler arrives at the emperor of India’s court armed with magic tricks, a secret, and ...Read Review