Early Medieval (to 1337)

The Rufus Spy: A Medieval Mystical Mystery

By Alys Clare - Published 2018

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This is the eighth book in Alys Clare’s Aelf Fen series, set in East Anglia in the reign of King William II, ...Read Review

The Swan’s Road

By Garth Pettersen - Published 2017

Genres:

AdventureBiographical Fiction

Harald, son of Cnute, King of England, Denmark and Norway, sails for Rome. With him are his father, his father’s housecarls, and ...Read Review

Fatal Rivalry

By Mercedes Rochelle - Published 2017

Genres:

Biographical FictionMilitary

It is refreshing to read a description of the events leading up to the Battle of Hastings that does not depict Harold Godwinson ...Read Review

The Warrior Princess

By K. M. Ashman - Published 2017

Genres:

Military

The Warrior Princess opens in December 1135, when Wales is relatively calm under the rule of the conquering Normans. Pockets of Welsh resistance do ...Read Review

Dark Winds Rising

By Mark Noce - Published 2017

Genres:

AdventureMilitary

It is the year 602, and Wales is not yet united. Small neighboring kingdoms fight viciously against each other. Amid this disunity, and continually ...Read Review

Daughter of the Wolf

By Victoria Whitworth - Published 2016

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This powerful novel is set in the Humber estuary of northeastern England in the mid-9th century. Radmer, lord of Donmouth, is sent ...Read Review

An Argument of Blood

By J.A. Ironside - By Matthew Willis - Published 2017

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Set in the earlier years of William the Conqueror’s rule over Normandy, An Argument of Blood opens with him as a young, ...Read Review

The Stairway Guide’s Daughter

By John Burgess - Published 2017

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In 12th-century Cambodia during the golden age of the Angkor civilization, the divine right of succession for temple abbots is from an abbot ...Read Review

Marked to Die

By Sarah Hawkswood - Published 2017

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This medieval whodunit is set in 1143 in what are now the West Midlands. Droitwich, or Wich as it was known then and as ...Read Review

Cathar

By Christopher Bland - Published 2017

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François de Beaufort is a knight in the Languedoc region of southern France at the end of the 13th century. When readers ...Read Review