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HALL, Shirley

Richard Victorious

Published 2018, Paperback

22nd August 1485 Henry Tudor lay dead. The Battle of Bosworth was over and King Richard III rode into Leicester in triumph.

 

HAMILTON, Julia

Son of York

Published 1973, Hardback; 1973, Paperback

Story of Edward IV. Narrated by Edward and Elizabeth Woodville.

 

HAMMAND, N. B.

Samaritana

Published 1979, Hardback

Arranged marriage between country girl and nobleman turns to love when she helps him escape after the Battle of Towton.

 

HAMMOND, Jane

The Red Queen

Published 1976, Hardback

1471: story of Margaret of Anjou’s unacknowledged daughter, set against the background of abortive attempt to restore the House of Lancaster.

 

HANSON DORSEY, Anna

Tears on the Diadem

Published 1902, Hardback

The story of Elizabeth Woodville from 1470 until her death.

 

HARDWICK, Mollie

I Remember Love

Published 1983, Paperback

Yolande and Josecelyn first met in the period of the Wars of the Roses, but were separated by the fortunes of war. They meet again, in the reign of Henry VIII, and yet again in the Victorian era.

 

HARDY, Blanche

Dynasty

Published 1925, Hardback

1495-1509: story of Katherine, sister of Elizabeth of York, and her love for William Courtenay.

 

HARDY, Blanche

Sanctuary

Published 1925, Hardback

1478-1486: the story of Elizabeth of York, based on the pro-Stanley ballad the ‘Song of Lady Bessy’.

 

HARNETT, Cynthia

The Load of Unicorn

Published 1959, Hardback; 1966, Paperback

Children’s adventure story set in 1482, highlighting the rivalry between the scriveners and the new printers; the young hero is apprenticed to William Caxton and helps to find the manuscript of Malory’s ‘Morte D’Arthur’.

 

HARNETT, Cynthia

The Wool-Pack

Published 1951, Paperback; 1978, Paperback

Children’s adventure story set against the background of the Cotswold wool trade in 1493, telling how Nicholas the son of a Burford wool merchant outwits a band of dishonest wool smugglers.

 

HARRISON, S M

The Colour of Treason

Published: 2011

Elizabeth Hardacre loves her father, a friend and ally of the Earl of Warwick. When the Earl’s messenger informs her that her father is suspected of treason, Elizabeth’s life changes in ways she could not have forseen.

 

HARROLD-EAGLES, Cynthia

Dynasty I: The Founding

Published 1980, Hardback; 1980, Paperback

1434-86: story of a prosperous wool-trade Yorkshire family, friends to the House of York.

 

HARPER, Karen

The Queen’s Confidante

Published 2012, Paperback

Henry VII’s heir is dead and Elizabeth, his queen, fears foul play. In her darkest hour she turns to Varina Westcott, a lowly candle maker and widow, Varina is tasked with discovering all she can about the Princes death aided by Nicholas Sutton. Their mission will be difficult as both Henry and Elizabeth have enemies.

 

HARTNETT, Sonya

The Children of the King

Published 2014, Hardback

This book is a children’s book aimed between the ages of 7-11 years. Bombs are falling on London and three children are sent to the countryside to keep them safe. When they find two strange boys hiding in a ruined castle the past and present collide.

 

HARWOOD, Alice

The Clandestine Queen

Published 1979, Hardback

1453-71: story of Elizabeth Woodville

 

HARWOOD, Alice

Merchant of the Ruby

Published 1951, Hardback

1480-99: story of Perkin Warbeck

 

HARWOOD, Alice

The Uncrowned Queen

Published 1983, Hardback

1450-1509: life of Margaret Beaufort.

 

HAYES, John

No Sanctuary!

Published 2004, Paperback

Set in 1471 as Edward IV returns to England from exile.

 

HEATH WILSON, Sandra

Cicely’s King Richard

Published 2014, Paperback

It is 1483 and the late King Edward IV’s children have been declared illegitimate by Richard III. His second niece Cicely hardly knows him but from the outset is fiercely drawn to this charismatic man.

 

HEATH WILSON, Sandra

Cicely’s Second King

Published 2014, Paperback

After the death of her uncle and lover Cicely is grief-stricken, alone and with child. Henry Tudor is advancing with serpentine charm to lay claim to both Plantagenet sisters. Threatening harm to her loved ones if Cicely resists him. Henry killed Richard and poses a mortal threat to her secret son.

 

HEATH WILSON, Sandra

Cicely’s Lord Lincoln

Published 2014, Paperback

1486 and Cicely is parted from her husband Sir John Welles after being found in the arms of Henry VII. Henry had been coercing her into his bed by threatening to harm her cousin Jack de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln, whom Henry suspects of plotting to take the throne. Jack draws Cicely ever closer into treason.

 

HEATH WILSON, Sandra

Cicely’s Sovereign Secret

Published 2015, Paperback

Cicely is once again lured into danger an intrigue in the royal court and on the streets of London. She doesn’t know who is friend or enemy. Above all she does not yet know Henry’s secret which could topple him from his throne.

 

HENLEY, Virginia

The Raven and the Rose

Published 1987, Paperback

Set circa 1469-71: tempestuous love affair between an illegitimate daughter of Edward IV and one of Edward’s knights. It betrays a lack of historical knowledge and verges on the pornographic.

 

HENTY, G. A.

A Knight of the White Cross: a tale of the siege of Rhodes

Published 1896, Hardback

Set circa 1470-80; adventures of the noble hero who joins the Knights of St John to fight the infidel, and is captured by pirates.

 

HERMAN, George

A Comedy of Murders

Published 1994, Hardback

Leonardo da Vinci and a young dwarf investigate a series of murders at the court of the Duke of Milan.

 

HESELTINE, William

The Last of the Plantagenets: an historical romance illustrating some of the public events and domestic and ecclesiastical manners of the 15th and 26th centuries.

Published 1829, Hardback (published anonymously)

Supposed autobiography of Richard Plantagenet, natural son of King Richard III. Sorry due its rarity it cannot be sent by post, but can be collected and returned in person.

 

HEWLETT, Maurice

Brazenhead the Great

Published 1911, Hardback

An adventure novel set in the mid 15th century. It follows the travels and fantastic adventures of Captain Brazenhead in Italy, France and England.

 

HICKSON, Joanna

Red Rose, White Rose

Published 2014, Paperback

Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmorland, and a staunch Lancastrian consolidates power by negotiating brilliant marriages for his children. Could even he have foreseen that the marriage between his youngest daughter Cicely and his ward, Richard, Duke of York, would make her one of the most powerful women in England?

 

HICKSON, Joanna

First of the Tudors

Published 2016, Paperback

Jasper Tudor and his brother Edmund have grown up far from court life. When their half-brother Henry VI summons them to London, Jasper needs all his courage to survive in a dangerous and volatile court with the fragile king in the thrall of his domineering queen.

 

HICKSON, Joanna

The Tudor Crown

Published 2018, Paperback

When Edward IV retakes the crown Henry Tudor is forced into exile. Henry’s mother, Margaret Beaufort, must forge an alliance with the Yorkist monarchy if her son’s position is to be restored. Margaret agrees to marry Lord Stanley one of Edward’s shrewdest courtiers. Can Margaret tread a precarious line between duty to her husband, loyalty to her son and her obligations to God and the king?

 

HIGGINS, Paul

Puzzlebone Wood

Published 1979, Hardback

Three present day children find themselves back in the 15th century at the battle of Towton.

 

HIGGINBOTHAM, Susan

The Traitor’s Wife

Published 2005, Paperback

The book features Eleanor de Clare who is niece to King Edward II, wife to Hugh le Despencer and is lady-in-waiting to Queen Isabella.

 

HIGGINBOTHAM, Susan

The Stolen Crown

Published 2010, Paperback

A novel about the life of Katherine Woodville from 1464 until 1496.

 

HILL, Sidney

Don’t Call Him Mortimer

Published 1996, Paperback

Life story of Richard Hope, a bastard of Edward IV who serves Richard of Gloucester, but survives Bosworth and makes his peace with Henry Tudor.

 

HILL, Stuart

I was there…Richard III

Published: 2014

It’s 1464 and young Prince Richard is about to experience his first real battle. Jump into a gripping first person adventure about life at Middleham Castle – a world of brave knights, fierce battles and grand feasts.

 

HOCKING, Mary

He Who Plays The King

Published 1980, Hardback

1459-85: unromantic account of the lives of the two who were to be king, Richard III and Henry Tudor.

 

HODGETTS, J. Frederick

Richard IV, Plantagenet

Published 1888, Hardback

The adventures of Richard Plantagenet, son of Richard III and Lady Alice Trevor, reared in a monastery and apprenticed to William Caxton.

Sorry, due to its rarity this book cannot be posted, but may be collected and returned in person.

 

HOLLIS, Gertrude

The King who was never Crowned

Published 1904, Hardback

April to July 1483: seen through the eyes of a page of Edward V.

 

HOLROYD, Jack

Lost Legend of the Thryberg Hawk

Published 2014, Hardback

The legend of the mystery crossbow boy – Edmund Hawksmith – who turned events in York’s favour at the Battle of Towton.

 

HOLT, Emily S.

Red and White: a tale of the Wars of the Roses

Published 1882, Hardback

1469-75: lives of two sisters who become waiting women to the Countess of Warwick and the Duchess of Exeter.

 

HOLT, Emily Sarah

A Tangled Web: a tale of the 15th century

Published 1885, Hardback

Fictionalised history, earnestly Protestant in tone – life stories of Katherine Gordon and Piers van Osbeck, alias Richard Duke of York.

 

HONEYMAN, Brenda

The Kingmaker

Published 1969, Hardback

1455-71: story of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick.

 

HONEYMAN, Brenda

Richard, by the Grace of God

Published 1968, Hardback

1461-85: Richard’s life with extracts from contemporary letters, chronicles, etc., worked into the narrative.

 

HONEYMAN, Brenda

Richmond and Elizabeth

Published 1970, Hardback; 1971, Paperback

1470-1503: life stories of Elizabeth of York and Henry Tudor.

 

HOOD, Evelyn

The Kingmaker’s Daughter

Published 1974, Hardback

Story of an unusually spirited and passionate Anne Neville.

 

HORTER, Pamela Jean

Brief Candles

Published 1983, Hardback

1482-83: follows Edward V from his contented life at Ludlow to his death in the Tower in 1483.

 

HUME, Robert

Ruling Ambition

Published 2000, Paperback

The story of Perkin Warbeck: from his childhood in Flanders to his death at Tyburn.

 

HUME, Robert

Perkin Warbeck, the Boy who would be King

Published 2005, Paperback

A children’s book tied in with history curriculum key stage 3. Perkin Warbeck is awaiting trail in 1499 and looks back over what has happened in his life since he left Flanders.

 

HYDE, Ornsby

Dr William Hobbys (The King’s Promiscuous Doctor)

Published 2017, Paperback

A medical romp through the Wars of the Roses. Dr Hobbys chronicles the lascivious adventures of a pioneer in medicine as he stumbles through the 15th century.

 

 

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