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Lancastrian Kings
(Yorks are below)
Henry IV - Henry V - Henry VI
- 14th Century
Henry IV 1399–1413
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A
Bloody Field by Shrewsbury
Author: Edith Pargeter Buy New: $10.80
Henry IV becomes jealous of the friendship between his son
and a knight.
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Both
Sides the Border
Author: G. A. Henty Buy New: $19.95
A novel of stirring times at the start of the Wars of the
Roses.
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Henry V 1413–1422
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Men
of Iron
Author: Howard Pyle Buy New: $9.95
In seeking to avenge his unjustly accused father, young Myles Falworth
is knighted and wins the friendship of King Henry IV.
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Henry VI 1422-1461,
1470-1471
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The
Black Arrow
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson, John Sutherl...; Buy New: $9.60
May, 1460, five years into the War of the Roses, and England is in
turmoil. Dick Shelton, a ward of the ruthless Sir Daniel Brockley,
discovers his guardian was responsible for his father's murder. He flees
to join the Black Arrows, a group of outlaws who avenge wrongdoings.
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The
Queen's Secret
Author: Jean Plaidy Buy New: $11.16
A biographical novel of Katherine of Valois, the
widow of Henry V, who
secretly married Owen Tudor, the welshman who
founded the Tudor dynasty.
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14th Century in general
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The
Midwife's Apprentice
Author: Karen Cushman; Buy New: $5.99
One frosty evening, a girl who has no home, no parents,
and no name but
Brat finds shelter and warmth in a farmer's dung heap. There Jane
the
Midwife finds her, and Brat becomes the midwife's apprentice as
she
searches for a name, a full belly, and a place in the world. |
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Matilda
Bone
Author: Karen Cushman; Buy New: $5.99
Orphaned Matilda is not at all pleased when she arrives
in Blood and
Bone Alley to become an assistant to Red Peg the Bonesetter.
Matilda is a religious, well-educated girl who can't picture
herself doing dirty
chores or helping sick patients. Through the kindness and
friendship of
those around her, the high-and-mighty Matilda begins to see the
world in
a different way. |
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The
Rose Demon
Author: Paul Doherty Buy New: $8.99
A man's love-hate relationship with a demon is played out against the
panorama of medieval England.
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Morality
Play
Author: Barry Unsworth Buy New: $11.86
Very well written rather chilling novel of
players who wind up solving a
local murder and inventing the commedia dell
arte style of theater. NH
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Yorkist Kings
(Lancasters are above.)
Edward IV - Edward V -
Richard III
Edward IV 1461-1470, 1471–1483
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The
Sunne In Splendour
Author: Sharon Kay Penman Buy New: $12.21
A lot of people's favorite book set in
the Midle Ages tracks the ascendancy
of
Edward IV and downfall of Richard III with
the story as well of the Little
Princes
in the Tower. NH
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The
Innocent
Author: Posie Graeme-Evans; Buy New:
$11.20
A young peasant girl finds romance
with King Edward IV. The first book
in the Anne de Bohun trilogy.
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The
Exiled
Author: Posie Graeme-Evans; Buy New:
$11.20
Second in the Anne de Bohun
trilogy. Now living in exile, Anne
struggles
to raise her beloved son, the
product of her passionate affair
with
Edward IV.
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The
Uncrowned Queen
Author: Posie Graeme-Evans; Buy
New: $11.20
The Anne de Bohun trilogy
concludes as England tears itself
apart in the
War of the Roses.
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Woodville
Wench
Author: Maureen Peters
Elizaveth Woodville, controversial wife of Edward IV.
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Roger
the Chapman Mysteries
Author: Kate Sedley
A peddler of notions and sundries travels about England
during Edward IV's reign. Not always an attractive
character, Roger nevertheless solves the mysteries he
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Edward V 9 April–25
June 1483
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To
the Tower Born
Author: Robin Maxwell Buy New:
$11.86
A novel of the fate of the
Princes in the Tower.
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Richard III 1483–1485
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Treason
Author: Meredith Whitford
Buy New: $16.91
Richard III.
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The
Daughter of Time
Author: Josephine Tey
Buy New: $11.20
Set in modern day
England, this book about
a police detective who
investigates the murder
of the Princes in the
Tower is so
well-beloved
that we put it in
here. Who do you
think "dun
it"? NH
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Beggarmaid
Queen
Author: Maureen Peters
Novel about Anne Neville, wife of Richard III.
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The
Fate of Princes
Author: P. C. Doherty
Murder investigation concerning Richard III and
the Princes in the Tower.
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Crown
of Roses
Author: Valerie Anand
A richly detailed novel of England in the time of Richard
III. |
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