Late Medieval (1338 to 1485)
Winter’s Child
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15th-century Florence: In one night, one man destroyed Amadora’s life. Her mentor and father figure: murdered. Herself: violated and left for dead. ...Read Review
A Tapestry of Treason
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Anne O’Brien’s books seek to give voice to the forgotten women of history, and in A Tapestry of Treason she does ...Read Review
Tudor Dawn
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In this, the first of an anticipated series of six books chronicling the rise and fall of one of England’s most powerful ...Read Review
To Calais, In Ordinary Time
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James Meek is a greatly respected author (The People’s Act of Love, 2005), and his latest book has been well reviewed. Hilary Mantel ...Read Review
Without a Trace
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This is the latest instalment in a series of mediaeval mysteries starring Hugh Singleton, a surgeon with a second job as the bailiff ...Read Review
Murder at Whitby Abbey (An Abbess of Meaux Mystery)
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When Hildegard, a nun in the little Yorkshire priory of Swyne, receives orders from the prioress to fetch a holy relic from a ...Read Review
Memoirs of a Traitor
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Presented as a found document, Memoirs of a Traitor is the story of William Stanley, knight, younger brother of Lord Thomas Stanley. These ...Read Review
The Bone Fire: A Somershill Manor Mystery
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The Black Death stalks England in 1361, and Oswald de Lacy seeks safety for his family. He brings them to an isolated castle on ...Read Review
Conspiracy of Wolves (An Owen Archer mystery)
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In 1374, former Captain of the Guard, Owen Archer, is asked to investigate the murder of the son of one of York’s most ...Read Review
A Woman’s Lot (The Meonbridge Chronicles)
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Following the devastation of the Black Death, depicted in Fortune’s Wheel, the first book of the Meonbridge Chronicles, more and more women ...Read Review