'When we move out tomorrow to St Thomas's watering hole, let us tell a merry tale to instruct or amuse. But, at night,' his voice fell, 'let it be different.' He stared around the now quiet company. 'Let us tell a tale of mystery that will chill the blood, halt the heart and curl the locks upon our heads.'
From Paul Doherty's
A royal murder and a great romance in 12th century Gwynedd (North Wales). The good knight really is a good knight and the heroine really is a hero!
The Robin Hood story told from the point of view of young Alan a-Dale and in the no-holds-barred style of Bernard Cornwell.
Adelia Aguilar is ordered by Henry II to escort his daughter to Sicily, Adelia's beloved home which she has dreamed for years of returning to. Only the King ensures that hse will come back to England by keeping her daughter with him.
Joliffe, back from France, rejoins Thomas Basset and the Players. But finds himself working as an orderly in the hospital where Thomas is being cared for. Needless to say, the hospital, though admirably run, is not a bed of roses.
Alys Clare continues the story of Lassair, the Saxon teenager - and apprentice healer and witch - in the troubled Fen country of East Anglia soon after the Norman Conquest. This, her second adventure, takes place on the Isle of Ely.
Templar Knight Bascot de Marins is about to depart for Portugal to take part in the war against the Moors, but when a prostitute is murdered in the Order's own chapel he has to delay his departure.
Sir Baldwin de Furnshill is called in to help when Bishop Stapledon of Exeter, who has made many enemies as an associate of the tyrant Edward II and Sir Hugh le Despenser, learns that not one but several people all plan to get their revenge by killing him.
Sister Fidelma and husband Eadulf are on their way back from "The Council of the Cursed" when their ship is attacked by pirates off the coast of Brittany and they barely escape with their lives. Out of the frying-pan into the fire!
Ariana Franklin's anatomist heroine Adelia Aguilar is once agin commissioned by Henry II to perform the impossible - namely, to prove that the ancient skeletons unearthed in the grounds of Glastonbury Abbey are those of Arthur and Guinevere.
A precious relic - the seemingly authentic Crown of Thorns - turns up along with a dead Frenchman in one of the sleazier areas of 14th century London. And it is disgraced knight Crispin Quest's task to find out what is happening and why.
Two engaging con-men on the road in medieval Europe. One of the most original medieval novels for a long, long time!
Alys Clare's story of life among the Saxons in the Fens of East Anglia immediately after the Norman Conquest.
