A B.R.A.G. Medallion winner, this is the story of Elizabeth Woodville, the wife of King Edward IV and the mother of the Princes in the Tower.  As an impoverished widow, she was wooed and won by the handsome...

Margaret of Anjou was Queen of England during the period known as the War of the Roses.  As a fifteen year-old bride she had many difficulties to face.  She brought no dowry to her adopted land, which...

A great deal has been written about Eleanor of Aquitaine, not so much about her husband. Ambitious, intelligent and energetic, Henry II was one of England's most effective kings. Unfortunately, he did...

This Sun of York by Susan Appleyard is by far one of the most engaging and beautifully-written novels I've encountered in a long time!Goodreads reviewerbest historical fiction I've read in a long while!Goodreads...

At the age of sixteen, Sisi became Elizabeth Empress of Austria and moved into the imperial palaces of Vienna, where a hostile court disdained her for her low birth, and strict protocol ruled her every...

Born into the royal Wittelsbach family of Bavaria, with its legacy of madness, depression and eccentricity, Ludwig II's extravagant and ruinously expensive building projects, coupled with increasingly...

Isabella Queen of England, often called the 'She-wolf of France' has been compared to Cercei in Game of Thrones. Persecuted by her husband Edward II and his 'favourite' the infamous Hugh Despenser, she...

A humorous look at the Wars of the Roses through the adventures of Robbie, Bastard of Ovedale. Robbie is a warden of the East March of Scotland. Chasing Scottish raiders across the border is his life's...

Prompted by the murder of his legate, in 1209 Pope Innocent III launches a crusade – not against the infidels of the East, but against fellow Christians living peaceably in the south of France. They are...