The Reckoning
by Sharon Kay Penman | 
Here Be Dragons
by Sharon Kay Penman | 
A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury
by Edith Pargeter | 
Child of the Phoenix
by Barbara Erskine | 
The Water Devil
by Judith Merkle Riley | 
The Owl Killers
by Karen Maitland |
The Siege Winter
by Ariana Franklin | 
Figures in Silk
by Vanora Bennett |
Gildenford
by Valerie Anand | 
The Wet Nurse's Tale
by Erica Eisdorfer |
Ashenden
by Elizabeth Wilhide | 
Lady of the English
by Elizabeth Chadwick | 
The Passionate Enemies
by Jean Plaidy | 
The Murder in the Tower
by Jean Plaidy |
The Girl in the Glass Tower
by Elizabeth Fremantle | 
The Other Boleyn Girl
by Philippa Gregory | 
The Cider House Rules
by John Irving | 
The Apothecary's Daughter
by Julie Klassen | 
The Queen's Fool
by Philippa Gregory | 
The Crimson Petal and the White
by Michel Faber |
Simon de Montfort was a man ahead of his time in the thirteenth century, a disinherited Frenchman who talked his way into an English earldom and marriage with a sister of the English king, Henry III. A charismatic, obstinate leader, Simon soon lost patience with the king's incompetence and inability to keep his word, and found himself the champion of the common people. This is his story, and the story of Henry III, as weak and changeable as Simon was brash and unbending. It is a tale of opposing wills that would eventually clash in a storm of violence and betrayal'??an irresistible saga that brings the pages of history completely, provocatively, and magnificently alive.