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ABBEY, Anne Merton

Kathryn in the Court of Six Queens

Published 1989, Paperback

1502-47: The daughter of an illegitimate son of Edward IV is a lady-in-waiting to Henry VIII’s wives and discovers the truth about the disappearance of the Princes.

 

ABBEY, Margaret

Trilogy about Catherine Newberry: – Brothers in Arms

Published 1973, Hardback

Catherine seeks revenge on Edward IV, Clarence and Gloucester for the execution of her father after the battle of Tewkesbury.

 

The Heart is a Traitor

Published 1978, Hardback

Summer 1483: Catherine’s struggle to reconcile her love for Richard with her love for her husband and family.

 

Blood of the Boar

Published 1979, Hardback

Catherine lives through the tragedies and treacheries of 1484-5.

 

ABBEY, Margaret

The Crowned Boar

Published 1971, Hardback

1479-83: love story of a knight in the service of the Duke of Gloucester.

 

ABBEY, Margaret

The Son of York

Published 1972, Paperback

Paperback edition of ‘The Crowned Boar’.

 

ABBEY, Margaret

The Warwick Heiress

Published 1970, Hardback; 1971, Paperback

1469-71: love story of a groom in the Household of the Duke of Gloucester and a ward of the Earl of Warwick.

 

ALLIEZ, Valery

I, Francis Lovel

Published 2020, Paperback

The novel opens in 1494 with Francis Lovell looking back on his life. The story is seen from various views including his wife Anne Fitzhugh and his sister Frideswide Norris.

 

ALLISON-WILLIAMS, Jean

Cry ‘God for Richard’

Published 1981, Hardback

1470-85: Richard’s story told by Francis Lovell and his sister Lady Elinor Lovell, mother of John of Gloucester.

 

ALLISON-WILLIAMS, Jean

Mistress of the Tabard

Published 1984, Hardback

1471: inn keeper’s daughter, Sir John Crosby’s niece, meets Richard of Gloucester, has an affair with Buckingham and helps find Anne Neville.

 

ALEMEDINGEN, E.M.

Stephen’s Light

Published 1956, Hardback; 1969, USA Hardback Edition

15th century merchant’s daughter brought up by the noble ladies of a religious foundation, returns home to run her father’s business.

 

ANAND, Valerie

Crown of Roses

Published 1989, Hardback; 1990, Paperback

1466-86: the story of Petronel’s unhappy marriage to a Yorkshire knight in the household at Middleham is ingeniously interwoven with the story of the last years of the Yorkist dynasty.

 

ANAND, Valerie

Women of Ashdon

Published 1992, Hardback; 1993, Paperback

1472-1586: the story of two women, Susannah and her granddaughter Christina, and the manor house that is the focus of their lives, set against the background of their family’s involvement with national events during the Yorkist and Tudor period, usually on the losing side.

 

ANDREW, Prudence

The Hooded Falcon

Published 1960, Hardback; 1977, Large Print Hardback

Set on the wild borders of England and Wales just over Owen Glendower’s rebellion, the story tells how the deformed younger son of an English border lord grows to manhood and learns to be a good leader of men.

 

ANDREW, Prudence

A Question of Choice

Published 1962, Hardback

Set in a monastery in 1468, during the bitter campaign to choose a new abbot, which reveals the differing ambitions and aspirations of the monks. The rival candidates are sponsored by the Woodvilles and by Warwick the Kingmaker.

 

ARMITAGE, Alfred

Red Rose and White: relating the experience of Ralph Mortimer, a son of a knightly house, during the stirring times of Richard III of England

Published undated circa 1901, Hardback

1483: adventures of young Lancastrian joining Buckingham’s uprising.

 

ASHTON-JINKS, Cicely

Child of Promise

Published 1947, Hardback (first published 1944)

1452-84: Richard and Anne Neville; Richard is haunted by the knowledge that he killed Anne’s first husband.

 

ASHWORTH, Elizabeth

By Loyalty Bound

Published 2013, Hardback

This is the story of the Harrington brothers fight to keep Hornby Castle in their ownership, with the help of Richard of Gloucester, and out of the hands of Lord Thomas Stanley. It is also the story of the growing love between Richard of Gloucester and Anne Harrington who will have Richard’s illegitimate children – Katherine and John.

 

 

Banner image of King Richard III’s Book of Hours (MS 474f. 7v) reproduced by kind permission of Lambeth Palace Library.