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The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey (Arrow, 2002) £5.99
Classic detective story that investigates Richard III and the murder of
the princes in the Tower, with surprising results.
Down the Common: A year in the life of a medieval woman – a novel
by Ann Baer (M Evans, 1997) £14.99
Gifted with the ability to see beauty where others see only hunger, brutal
work and disease, Marion becomes her medieval English village's salvation.
Guenevere I: The queen of the summer country by Rosalind Miles
(Pocket Books, 2000) £6.99
First in a trilogy bringing the magic and mystery of Guenevere to life.
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott (Penguin, 1994) £3.99
Tale of chivalric romance and adventure with memorable characters including
Richard Coeur de Lion and Robin Hood.
Journey to Compostela: A novel of medieval pilgrimage and peril
by Bernard Reilly (Combined Publishing, 2000) £17.99
On a pilgrimage through medieval Spain, a knight and a peasant play a
cat-and-mouse game that grows deadlier with each passing day.
A Journey to the End of the Millennium by A B Yehoshua (Peter
Halban, 1999) £16.99
The year is 999 and the protagonist is Ben Attar, a North African Jewish
merchant who, suddenly finding himself out of business, is forced to set
off across 10th-century Europe.
Murder Most Medieval edited by Martin H Greenberg and John Helfers
(Cumberland House, 2000) £15.95
Anthology of murder detective stories set in medieval times.
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (Minerva, 1992) £7.99
A brilliant narrative of a murder investigation in a monastery in 1327
– also a chronicle of the 14th-century religious wars, a history
of monastic orders and a compendium of heretical movements.
The Once and Future King by T H White (Voyager, 1979)
The legend of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table retold in
a modern idiom – a magical book.
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