Richard III

Author	Edith Wharton
ISBN	1844082938

First published in 1905, The House of Mirth shocked the New York society it so deftly chronicles, portraying the moral, social and economic restraints on a woman who dared to claim the privileges of marriage without assuming the responsibilities.

Lily Bart, beautiful, witty and sophisticated,...

Author	Anna Banti
ISBN	0803262132

Artemisia Gentileschi, born in 1598, the daughter of an esteemed painter, taught art in Naples and painted the great women of Roman and biblical history. She could neither read nor write, and she was the reviled victim in a public rape trial, rejected by her father, and later abandoned by her husband....

Author	Helen Castor
ISBN	0571237053

When Edward VI - Henry VIII’s longed-for son - died in 1553, extraordinarily, there was no one left to claim the title King of England. For the first time, all the contenders for the crown were female.

In 1553, England was about to experience the ‘monstrous regiment’ - the unnatural rule...

Author

Gore Vidal

Place: Egypt. Time: shortly after the World War II.

An American drifter Peter (Pete) Wells found himself regaining consciousness in a shady place with a woman asking him for money. What do you know? It turned out he did not have any: somebody already had helped himself. Trying to find any money,...

Author	C.J. Sansom
ISBN	0143036432

        It is 1540, and Henry VIII has been on the throne for thirty-one years when Matthew Shardlake, the lawyer renowned as "the sharpest hunchback in the courts of England," is pressed to help a friend's young niece who is charged with murder.
        Despite threats of torture...

Author	John Okada
ISBN	0295955252

John Okada was born in Seattle, Washington in 1923. He attended the University of Washington and Columbia University. He served in the US Army in World War II, wrote one novel and died of a heart attack at the age of 47. John Okada died in obscurity believing that Asian America had rejected his work.

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Author	John Ashdown-Hill
ISBN	0752454048

What Richard III did in his last five months, what happened to his body, and how his DNA was found in Canada
 
A new and uniquely detailed exploration of Richard’s last 150 days explores these events from the standpoint of Richard himself and his contemporaries. By deliberately avoiding...

Author	Paul Murray Kendall
ISBN	0393007855

I took a long time to read this, more so as I got through it, because I was delaying reaching the end, even though I know what happens. I didn't want Richard to die. I'm a die-hard Ricardian, always have been, always will be. I don't believe Richard was evil, I don't believe he murdered the Princes in the Tower,...