2020

Katheryn Howard, The Tainted Queen (UK) / Katheryn Howard, The Scandalous Queen (US)

By Alison Weir - Published 2020

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

This is a superb novel about a young queen who was the victim of powerful and ambitious persons around her. Neglected by her ...Read Review

Raphael, Painter in Rome

By Stephanie Storey - Published 2020

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Stephanie Storey follows up her stunning debut, Oil and Marble, a novel about the rivalry between Leonardo and Michelangelo, with another brilliant novel ...Read Review

The Saracen’s Mark (The Jackdaw Mysteries)

By S. W. Perry - Published 2020

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Despite its length (I don’t like books over 400 pages) I enjoyed this book, the third in Perry’s Mark series and to ...Read Review

On Wilder Seas: The Woman on the Golden Hind

By Nikki Marmery - Published 2020

Genres:

Biographical FictionNautical

Most people have heard of Francis Drake’s circumnavigation of the globe aboard the Golden Hind. It is less well-known that for nine ...Read Review

The Mirror & the Light (Wolf Hall Trilogy 3)

By Hilary Mantel - Published 2020

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Following Anne Boleyn’s beheading in May 1536, chief councillor Thomas Cromwell’s star has never shone brighter in Henry VIII’s eyes. But ...Read Review

The Lost Boys of London (Bianca Goddard Mysteries)

By Mary Lawrence - Published 2020

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

First one small boy then another has been found hanging from the wall of a church in London. Bianca Goddard is very afraid ...Read Review

Scent of Danger (An Ursula Blanchard Mystery)

By Fiona Buckley - Published 2020

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In February 1586, fifty-something Ursula Stannard is Queen Elizabeth I’s illegitimate half-sister, as well as a sometime agent run by spymaster Sir Francis ...Read Review

The Lady of the Ravens (Queens of the Tower, Book 1)

By Hickson - By Joanna - Published 2020

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Joan Vaux, a servant to Elizabeth of York, wife of King Henry VII, is the “lady of the ravens”. The novel follows the ...Read Review

Cross of Fire (Master of War)

By David Gilman - Published 2020

Genres:

AdventureMilitary

Winter 1362. After years of campaigning, Thomas Blackstone, a common archer who was knighted at Crecy, has risen to become Edward III’s Master ...Read Review

A Snake Lies Waiting: Legends of the Condor Heroes Vol. III

By Anna Holmwood (trans.) - By Jin Yong - Published 2020

Genres:

Adventure

China, 1200 or thereabouts. In this third volume in the series, earnest young martial artist Guo Jing is in a pickle. Together with two ...Read Review