Tracey Warr
The Lady Agnes Mystery, Volumes 1 and 2
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Across these two volumes, translated from the original French, Andrea Japp tells the story of Lady Agnes de Souarcy, who we meet at ...Read Review
Henry II: A Prince Among Princes
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Henry II ruled from 1154 to 1189, and there was a long stretch of peace in England during his reign. This miniature biography in the ...Read Review
The Chosen Queen
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In 1055, Edyth Alfgarsdottir is the young daughter of a Saxon Earl at the court of King Edward, where she is befriended by Harold ...Read Review
Wild Wood
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Just before the marriage of Prince Charles and Diana in 1981, Jesse travels from Australia to London. Distracted by her discovery that she is ...Read Review
The Edge of the World: How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are
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Michael Pye recounts the “furious and brilliant history” of the lands and peoples around the North Sea in the Middle Ages. This is ...Read Review
King John: England, Magna Carta and the Making of a Tyrant
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The fifth son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, John inherited the Angevin kingdom in 1199, after the deaths of his brothers. John ...Read Review
Elizabeth I and Her Circle
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Susan Doran’s meticulously researched book on Elizabeth I takes an unusual and effective approach to its subject. Rather than a chronological account, ...Read Review
The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power Behind Five English Thrones
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Thomas Asbridge’s highly readable book on the life of the medieval knight, William Marshal, is effectively aimed at both lay and academic ...Read Review
The Silversmith’s Wife
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On a dark night in late 18th-century London, a night watchman stumbles across a man with his throat slit. At the inquest no ...Read Review
Succession
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Succession is a powerfully written account of the 15th-century Wars of the Roses, when the House of Lancaster struggled with their cousins, the ...Read Review
