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LAMB, Hilda

The Willing Heart

Published 1958, Hardback

Story of Stephen Hawes the poet, implied to be a natural son of King Richard III.

 

LANDON, Juliet

The Maiden’s Abduction

Published 2000, Paperback

Mills & Boon romance set in Yorkshire and Bruges during the reign of Edward IV.

 

LARNER, Joanne

Richard Liveth Yet

Published 2015, Paperback

This is a time travel novel. What if someone could travel forward in time? What if that someone was Richard III and what if he could learn what was about to take place at the battle of Bosworth and then go back and fight the battle again with hindsight? This is the story of his quest to do just that.

 

LAUNSPACH, Els

Messire

Published 2008, Paperback; 2014, Paperback – English Translation of this novel

A novel in Dutch. The story is in three parts, the first and second parts has Thomas More and George Buck writing their books about Richard III and the third part is based around the televised trial of Richard III in 1983.

 

LAWRENCE, C. E.

The Gods Were Sleeping: a romance of the days of King Richard III

Published 1937, Hardback

1483-85: story of Bart, natural son of Sir Robert Brackenbury, who as servant to the Princes in the Tower, helps in their disappearance.

 

LAYTON, Edith

The Crimson Crown

Published 1990, Paperback

1498-99: love story of one of Lady Katherine Gordon’s ladies and one of Henry Tudor’s spies, with a new slant on Perkin Warbeck’s identity.

 

LEARY, Francis

Fire and Morning

Published 1957, Hardback

1485: mainly from the Lancastrian viewpoint.

 

LEARY, Francis

The Swan and the Rose

Published 1953, Hardback

March to May 1471: seen from the viewpoint of a Lancastrian soldier.

 

LEWIS, Hilda

Wife to Henry V

Published 1954, Hardback

The story of Katherine of Valois, covering her childhood, her marriage to Henry V, her lovely widowhood separated from her son Henry VI, her deep happiness with Owen Tudor and finally her death in 1437.

 

LEWIS, Matthew

Loyalty

Published 2012, Paperback

A novel focusing on Richard’s character and personality.

 

LEYLAND, Eric

The Silver Skein

Published 1946, Hardback

Children’s adventure story: 20th century Mortimer cousins discover the long lost ‘Mortimer Luck’ a ruby said to have been given by Richard III to an illegitimate son, who was a Mortimer ancestor, with flashbacks to scenes from the family’s past.

 

LINDSAY, Philip

The Duke is Served

Published 1936, Hardback

1470-71: life among the servants of the royal household, and their part in reuniting Richard of Gloucester and Anne Neville.

 

LINDSAY, Philip

The Merry Mistress

Published 1952, Hardback

Jane Shore sees her life in flashbacks as she does penance in 1483.

 

LINDSAY, Philip

They have their Dreams

Published 1956, Hardback; 1967, Hardback Reprint

Perkin Warbeck and Katherine Gordon, from his unsuccessful invasion in 1497 until his execution in 1499.

 

LINDSAY, Philip

A Princely Knave

Published 1971, Paperback Reprint of 1956 Edition

Paperback edition of They have their Dreams.

 

LINDSAY, Philip

Whither Shall I Wander

Published 1947, Hardback

Adventures of an archer in the London of Henry VI.

 

LOFTS, Norah

Trilogy about the Tallboys Family

Knight’s Acre

Published 1975, Paperback; 1976, Hardback

1451-60: Sir Godfrey Tallboys joins the crusade against the Moors while his wife attempts to keep Knight’s Acre, their Suffolk estate, going against his return.

 

The Home Coming

Published 1975, Hardback; 1976, Hardback (Reprint)

Sir Godfrey returns home after 8 years but life is not easy on an impoverished estate with his wife and the Moorish slave girl who had saved his life and helped him escape from captivity.

 

The Lonely Farrow

Published 1976, Hardback;1977, Hardback (Reprint)

The next generation of the Tallboys family: the story of Sir Godfrey’s son and Joanna, daughter of the Moorish slave girl.

 

LONG, Freda M.

The Coveted Crown

Published 1966, Hardback

1445-71: Margaret of Anjou’s struggle to hold the crown for Lancaster.

 

LONG, Freda M. 

Requiem for Richard

Published 1975, Hardback

1470-83: episodic account of Anne Neville and Richard, showing how Richard was eventually corrupted by the lure of the crown.

 

LOVELL, Margaret

Strangers in the Village

Published 1978, Hardback; also available in large print 1994, Paperback

Mystery and romance during the staging of a Richard III pageant at a present day village near Bosworth.

 

LYNN, E.

Under the Red Rose: a tale of the Wars of the Roses

Published 1910, Hardback

1483-5: the adventures of Guy Talbot, a young squire of Earl Rivers, who supports the Lancastrians, joins Richmond in exile and helps to win the Battle of Bosworth.

 

LYTTON, Edward Bulwer

The Last of the Barons

Published 1843, Hardback (several editions in stock)

1467-71: Warwick the Kingmaker.

 

 

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