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The Blood Lance

By Craig Smith - Published 2008

Genres:

Thriller

In 1935 Otto Rahn publishes a book about the Holy Grail that catches the eye of Himmler. Rahn agrees to become the SS’s ...Read Review

House of Shadows: A Historical Mystery by the Medieval Murderers

By Bernard Knight - By Ian Morson - By MICHAEL JECKS - By Philip Gooden - By Susanna Gregory - Published 2007Published 2009

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeShort Stories

This compendium of short stories by five well-known and talented authors of medieval mysteries, each a star in his or her own right, ...Read Review

The Daughters of the Doge

By Edward Charles - Published 2008Published 2009

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In this novel, the sequel to In the Shadow of Lady Jane, young Richard Stocker is still mourning his friend Lady Jane Grey ...Read Review

The King’s Grey Mare

By Rosemary Hawley Jarman - Published 2008

Genres:

Biographical FictionRomance

Elizabeth Woodville, young and unbelievably beautiful, finds favor at the court of her mother’s cousin, Marguerite of Anjou. Catching the eye of ...Read Review

Crown in Candlelight

By Rosemary Hawley Jarman - Published 2008

Genres:

Biographical FictionRomance

Originally published in 1978, Crown in Candlelight covers a tumultuous period of English and French history between 1405 and 1461. This is the story of Katherine ...Read Review

Submariner

By Alexander Fullerton - Published 2008Published 2009

Genres:

Nautical

Think of all those submarine films from the 1940s and 1950s that turn up on the afternoon TV schedules. Submariner is like these, ...Read Review

The Guns of El Kebir

By John Wilcox - Published 2007 (UK)Published 2008

Genres:

AdventureMilitary

The Victorian Empire lends itself quite easily to historical novelists willing to perform the necessary spadework in research tools to provide the setting ...Read Review

Marie and Mary

By Nigel Tranter - Published 2004

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

The author, who died in 2000 after publishing more than ninety historical novels about Scotland and Scots-related issues, revisits the stories of Marie of ...Read Review

Valaida

By Candace Allen - Published 2005

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Based on the life of Valaida Snow, one of the first female jazz trumpeters, this lyrical novel pulses with the heartbeat of black ...Read Review

The Manuscript

By Eva Zeller - By Nadia Lawrence (trans.) - Published 2001Published 2003

Genres:

LiteraryRomance

The Manuscript is a love story of two individuals with a common difficulty: they each lack the ability to communicate to each other ...Read Review