Early Medieval (to 1337)
A Shadowed Evil
England, 1212. In this 16th Hawkenlye mystery, Josse and Helewise are visiting his mother’s ancestral home, Southfire Hall. Uncle Hugh…
Banquo’s Son
The greedy, maniacal and brutal tyrant Macbeth has murdered his king, Duncan, the entire family of another thane, MacDuff, and…
Haedfield
Seventh-century England, Edwin rules in Northumbria, Cadwallon in Gwynedd, and Penda is an ambitious lord looking to carve himself a…
The Falconers Apprentice
Andreas lives at Castle Kragenberg in the German-speaking part of Frederick II’s vast Holy Roman Empire. The teenage orphan suffers…
Hell Shall Stir (Lions & Devils Book 1)
Prolific novelist Jason Born begins a new series with Hell Shall Stir, set during the nervous, dangerous opening stages of…
Out of Time
Editors' choice
During a visit in May 2006 to the ancient Sparnstow Abbey, Marion rests in the shade of an old tree…
Oswald: Return of the King
Editors' choice
In the second of the Northumbrian Thrones series, we return once again to 7th-century Anglo-Saxon Britain and to the exiled…
Godwine Kingmaker: Part One of the Last Great Saxon Earls
The scope of this book is ambitious, as it tells the story of Godwine, son of Wulfnoth, the disgraced Thegn…
Tales of Byzantium
Eileen Stephenson’s brief book consists of three long short stories set in different periods in the history of the Byzantine…
Malice Stalks the Leopard (Vespers Trilogy, Book Two)
“The sense of normalcy that settled over The Leopard after the Vespers massacre in 1282 is shattered by the brutal…
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