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NEELE, Henry

The Romance of History

Published 1828, Hardback (several editions in stock)

Tales from history, including ‘The Wooing at Grafton’ (Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville), ‘Richmond’s Three Perils’ (Henry Tudor gains the crown) and ‘The White Rose of England’ (Perkin Warbeck and Lady Katherine Gordon).

NICHOLS, Wallace B.

King Perkin’s Knight

Published 1938, Hardback

1497-99: children’s adventure story of Cornish brother and sister who join Perkin Warbeck’s followers.

NICHOLS, Wallace B.

The Secret Son

Published 1944, Hardback

Life of Richard Plantagenet, illegitimate son of Richard III.

NICHOLS, Wallace B.

Turn the Hour-glass

Published 1938, Hardback

1461-86: story of Elizabeth Woodville and her foster sister Margery, a farmer’s wife. Elizabeth is obsessed by her desire for revenge on Warwick, but her plotting is no match for crafty Gloucester.

NICHOLSON, Joan

Cuckoo Summer

Published 1962, Hardback

Tribulations of a fatherless heiress during the Wars of the Roses.

NICKELL, Lesley J.

The White Queen

Published 1978, Hardback

Sensitive account of the life of a timid and delicate Anne Neville from childhood to 1485.

NOBLE, Harold

Richard III: A Vindication

Published – undated, circa 1983 typescript

Fictionalised account of events from April 1483 to August 1485, with appendices on Henry’s creation of the Tudor myth and the arguments for reinstating Richard’s reputation.

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