15th Century
The Squire’s Tale
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Robert Fenner, a landholder and former squire, attempts to settle a dispute between his lady wife Blaunche and her former in-laws. Believing that ...Read Review
The Red Queen: Margaret of Anjou and the Wars of the Roses
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This self-published novel is one of the books that we might have, unfortunately, missed had Perot been forced to try to find an ...Read Review
Duchess
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Biographical FictionInspirationalLiterary
The Duchess of the title is Diane de Poitiers, one-time mistress to the King of France, François I, and thereafter, full-time mistress ...Read Review
The Beggar’s Throne
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Just when you thought there must be nothing new to write about the Wars of the Roses, along comes this well-researched, highly entertaining ...Read Review
Bellarion The Fortunate: A Romance
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Rafael Sabatini had earned quite a name for himself as a writer of both historical novels and biographies in the first part of ...Read Review
The Heretic
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Set in fifteenth-century Spain, The Heretic tells the story of a converso Christian who rediscovers his Jewish roots, with dire consequences. Steeped in ...Read Review
English Civil War Through the Restoration in Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography, 1625-1999 (Bibliographies and Indexes in World History)
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Freelance researcher Murph presents a descriptive list of fictional works all set between the beginning of Charles I’s reign (1625) and the death ...Read Review
The Merlin of St. Gilles’ Well (The Joan of Arc Tapestries)
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Biographical FictionHistorical Fantasy
In the early 1400s, Jean le Drapier, a maimed Breton seer, awaits the birth of La Pucinelle, the girl he has seen in ...Read Review
The Maiden and the Unicorn
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During the turbulent period now known as the Wars of the Roses, Marjorie of Warwick finds herself caught between love and loyalty, wed ...Read Review