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Early Medieval (to 1337)

Odin’s Wolves

By Giles Kristian - Published 2011

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Raven and his comrades in the Fellowship return in the final part of Giles Kristian’s Norse trilogy. In Odin’s Wolves, this ...Read Review

Armor of Light

By Ellen L. Ekstrom - Published 2010

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England, 1204. George of Ascalon returns traumatized from the sack of Constantinople, only to find that his father has committed this stressed-out Crusader to ...Read Review

Conquest

By Stewart Binns - Published 2011

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Adventure Biographical Fiction

Prince John Comnenus seeks out the Old Man of the Mountains in the western Peloponnese, determined to acquire the wisdom he will need ...Read Review

Defiant

By Kris Kennedy - Published 2011

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Romance

Jamie Lost is a knight in service to King John, and his most recent orders are to abduct a rebellious priest and bring ...Read Review

She-Wolves

By Helen Castor - Published 2010 Published 2011

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Nonfiction

When one thinks of English Queens, one of the first to come to mind is Elizabeth I, but she could be numbered as ...Read Review

Breaking Bamboo

By Tim Murgatroyd - Published 2010

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The novel begins in Nancheng, China in 1266 and is the second instalment of a trilogy, although it works fine as a standalone story. ...Read Review

The Devil to Pay

By Hugh Fitzgerald Ryan - Published 2011

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Biographical Fiction

Alice Kyteler has become a wealthy woman due to a combination of four fortuitous marriages and sharp business practices. Unfortunately her ambitions have ...Read Review

Nightshade

By P. C. Doherty - By Paul Doherty - Published 2008 Published 2011

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Mystery/Crime

In this, the 16th of the Hugh Corbett medieval mysteries, Doherty has poor Hugh out on the road again at the behest of ...Read Review

I am of Irelaunde: A Novel of Patrick and Osian

By Juilene Osborne-McKnight - Published 2000

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Biographical Fiction

Returning at age forty to the place of his enslavement by Irish slave traders at the age of sixteen, Patrick struggles to understand ...Read Review

The Waste Land: An Entertainment

By Simon Acland - Published 2010

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Hugh de Verdon reluctantly enters the monastery at Cluny in the 11th century, still dreaming of becoming a knight like his father. Meanwhile, ...Read Review