15th Century

A Place Called Armageddon

Manda Scott — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:52:44 +0000

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To the Greeks who love it, it is Constantinople. To the Turks who covet it, the Red Apple. Safe behind its magnificent walls, the city was once the heart of the vast Byzantine empire. 1453. The empire has shrunk to what lies within those now-crumbling walls. A relic. Yet for one man, Constantinople is the stepping stone to destiny. Mehmet is twenty when he is annointed Sultan. Now, seeking Allah's will and Man's glory, he brings an army of one hundred thousand, outnumbering the defenders ten to one. He has also brings something new - the most frightening weapon the world has ever seen.

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A Secret Alchemy

Manda Scott — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:16:31 +0000

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Emma Darwin

Two murdered princes; a powerful queen betrayed; a nobleman riding towards his certain death... The story of the Princes in the Tower has been one of the most fascinating – and most brutal – murder mysteries in history for more than five hundred years.
In a brilliant feat of historical daring, Emma Darwin has recreated the terrible, exhilarating world of the Wars of the Roses: the power struggles and passion that lay behind the princes’ birth, the danger into which they fell, and the ultimate betrayal of their innocence.

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Blood Royal

Manda Scott — Tue, 14 May 2013 10:36:28 +0000

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Vanora Bennett

The story of a great queen, a woman of enormous courage who made her own rules, and a true survivor. 1420, and a young princess is offered in marriage to her country's enemy, her nation's conqueror. She is Catherine of Valois, he is Henry V. She is a princess of the French blood royal, he is the son of the usurper of the English throne. Fresh from battle he claims his bride and the right to the throne of France.

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Figures in Silk (aka Queen of Silks)

Manda Scott — Tue, 14 May 2013 10:34:35 +0000

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Vanora Bennett

This novel brings together the silk business of fifteenth-century London and the personality of King Richard III, suspected throughout history of having murdered his two nephews, the Princes in the Tower. The story begins with silk merchant John Lambert’s decision to marry off his two beautiful daughters at the end of the Wars of the Roses. Elder daughter Jane starts a notorious liaison with King Edward IV – Richard’s older brother - while her sister, Isabel, as the new silkworker to the court, becomes privy to its most intimate secrets.

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Raiders from the North

Manda Scott — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 11:54:09 +0000

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Alex Rutherford

1494 and the new ruler of Ferghana, twelve-year-old Babur, faces a seemingly impossible challenge. He is determined to equal his great ancestor, Tamburlaine, whose conquests stretched from Delhi to the Mediterranean, from wealthy Persia to the wild Volga. But he is dangerously young to inherit a crown and treasonous plots, tribal rivalries, rampaging armies and ruthlessly ambitious enemies will theraten his destiny, his kingdom, even his survival.

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Siege

admin — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:39:18 +0000

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Jack Hight

1453. For over a thousand years the walls of Constantinople have protected the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, the furthest outpost of Christianity. But now endless ranks of Turkish warriors cover the plains before them, their massive cannons trained on the ramparts. No European army will help. Constantinople is on its own, and treachery is in the air.

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The Agincourt Bride

Manda Scott — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:25:27 +0000

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Joanna Hickson

When her own first child is tragically still born, the young Mette is pressed into service as a wet nurse at the court of the mad king, Charles VI of France. Her charge is the newborn princess, Catherine de Valois, already caught up in the turbulence and chaos of life at court. Mette and the child form a bond, one that transcends Mette's lowly position. As Catherine approaches womanhood she becomes enmeshed in the schemes of two powerful princes. Her brother the Dauphin and the sinister Duke of Burgundy will both try to use her to further the cause of France. C

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The Book of Secrets

admin — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:45:51 +0000

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Tom Harper

In a snowbound village in the German mountains, a young woman discovers an extraordinary secret. Before she can reveal it, she disappears. All that survives is a picture of a mysterious medieval playing card that has perplexed scholars for centuries.

Nick Ash is a researcher for the FBI in New York. Six months ago his girlfriend Gillian walked out and broke his heart. Now he’s the only person who can save her – if it’s not too late. Within hours of getting her message Nick finds himself on the run, delving deep into the past before it catches up with him.

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The Crystal Skull

Manda Scott — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 09:42:39 +0000

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MC (Manda) Scott

Will the world end on 21st December 2012? Will the fabled Crystal Skulls come together to teach mankind how to transcend the end? - When Stella and Kit find a crystal skull deep in a previously-unexplored cave they have no idea the danger it carries with it….

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The Queen's Vow

Manda Scott — Mon, 21 May 2012 12:06:40 +0000

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CW Gortner

Isabella of Castile is famous for sending Columbus to America, the notorious warrior-queen who, along with her husband Ferdinand, transformed Spain forever.

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The Salt Road

admin — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:54:00 +0000

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Jane Johnson

‘With charm and gusto Jane Johnson revivifies the guilty pleasures of historical romance’ Independent

The desert lay before them, and the secrets of the amulet . . .

From Tafraout’s magnificent mountainside, Isobel absorbs the heat and romance of the Moroccan vista before her, with mosque and homes scattered far below. But a mere slip sees her tumbling uncontrollably into the arms of handsome rescuer Taïb, who notices her unusual silver amulet, and that her fall has revealed a tiny scroll hidden within.

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Toward the Setting Sun: Columbus, Cabot, Vespucci and the race for America

admin — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:53:17 +0000

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David Boyle

The story of the discovery of America by European businessmen, told as one tale for the first time, and the strange interlocking relationships between the three discoverers.

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Virgin Widow

Manda Scott — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:18:41 +0000

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Anne O'Brien

Anne Neville is the heiress and daughter of the greatest powerbroker in the land, Warwick the Kingmaker. Trapped in a deadly tangle of political intrigue, she is a pawn in an uncertain game, used by the houses of Neville, York and Lancaster alike. In England's glittering, treacherous court, not all wish to see the Nevilles raised high. The Earl of Warwick's ambition and pride lead him into an attempt to depose the Yorkist King: his treason forces his family into exile. Humiliated and powerless in a foreign land, Anne must find the courage and the wit to survive in a

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War for the Throne: The Battle of Shrewsbury, 1403

Manda Scott — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:46:15 +0000

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John Barratt

The opening years of the fifteenth century saw one of the most bitterly contested political and military convulsions in the history of the British Isles, a conflict that is too-often overlooked by military historians.
Henry IV, who had overthrown and probably murdered his predecessor Richard II, fought a protracted and bloody campaign against the most powerful nobles in the land. This war is the subject of John Barratt's gripping study.

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