Late Medieval (1338 to 1485)

Emerald Silk

By Janet Lane - Published 2008

Genres:

Romance

The second book in Lane’s Coin Forest medieval romance series set in 15th- century England features Kadriya, a half-English, half-Gypsy orphan who ...Read Review

Primavera

By Mary Jane Beaufrand - Published 2008

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

  Flora Pazzi is the youngest daughter of the second most illustrious family in Florence in the late 1400s. However, when we meet ...Read Review

Company of Liars: A Story of the Plague

By Karen Maitland - Published 2008

Genres:

Adventure

Midsummer’s Day 1348, and the first victim of the pestilence dies in the English coastal town of Kilmington. Camelot, a generic title for ...Read Review

A Vigil of Spies

By Candace Robb - Published 2008

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

The time is September 1373 and the Archbishop of York, John Thoresby, is dying in his palace at Bishopsthorpe. Princess Joan, the fair Maid ...Read Review

Figures in Silk

By Vanora Bennett - Published 2008

Genres:

Romance

Vanora Bennett’s debut was the fascinating Portrait of an Unknown Woman. In her second novel, she turns her attention to the previous ...Read Review

The Apostate’s Tale

By Margaret Frazer - Published 2008

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Margaret Frazer improves with each book. This is her seventeenth Dame Frevisse novel, and it has more depth then some of the earlier ...Read Review

The Reluctant Queen

By Jean Plaidy - Published 2007

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Richard III is possibly the most maligned of English kings. If for no other reason than that, Jean Plaidy’s alternate interpretation of ...Read Review

The Queen’s Gambit: A Leonardo da Vinci Mystery

By Diane A.S. Stuckart - Published 2008

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Art is but one skill under scrutiny at Castle Sforza, Milan, in 1483. The Duke commands his court artist and engineer, Leonardo da Vinci, ...Read Review

Lady of the Roses

By Sandra Worth - Published 2008

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

In this novel, we see the War of the Roses through the eyes of Isobel, the wife of Sir John Neville, brother of ...Read Review

World Without End

By Ken Follett - Published 2007

Genres:

EpicMystery/Crime

World Without End, Ken Follett’s long-anticipated sequel to his international bestseller The Pillars of the Earth, arrived with a great deal of ...Read Review