[MR] Book List

[Marsaili Johnston]

Good afternoon --

Since I have three bookcases FULL of medieval/renaissance novels <G>, I can suggest a few....

Anything by Margaret Campbell Barnes:  My Lady of Cleves, Brief Gaudy Hour, Within the Hollow Crown, Isabella the Fair are all excellent.

Phillipa Gregory: The Other Boleyn Girl, Queen's Fool, The Virgin's Lover, The Boleyn Inheritance, a couple others I can't remember the titles of.

Robin Maxwell:  Wild Irish, The Queen's Bastard, The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn, a couple others I can't remember the titles of.

Patricia Finney has a good Elizabethan trilogy.  

Fiona Buckley's Ursula Blanchard series.  Mysteries and very good.

Sheran Newman's Catherine LaVendeur series.

Anything by Sharon Kaye Penman -- EXCELLENT!

CJ Sansom -- Matthew Shardlake series.

Susannah Dunn -- Tudors

Susanna Gregory's Matthew Bartholomew mysteries.

Rosalind Miles:  I, Elizabeth (skip her Arthurian series -- Arthur and Lancelot are wimps and Guinevere is a manipulative shrew)

Susan Kay (?) Legacy.  About QEI.  Excellent

Mary Luke:  The Ivy Crown about Katharine Parr.  She also wrote The Nine Day Queen about Lady Jane Grey (non-fiction)

Alison Weir:  Innocent Traitor and Lady Elizabeth.  Also lots of non-fiction

Carrolly Erikson has one about Katharine Parr (can't remember the title) but it sort of made me twitch from the inaccuracies -- she should know better, she's a historian!

Jean Plaidy has lots of medieval/renaissance novels, but she tends to 'romance novel' writing style.

That's all I can think of off the top of my head, but I can cruise the bookshelves and see what else I have.


Lady Marsali Johnston   
Barony of Stierbach  
Kingdom of Atlantia