Overview: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (French: Notre-Dame de Paris, 'Our Lady of Paris') is a French Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831.

Overview: The Name of the Rose (Italian: Il nome della rosa ) is the 1980 debut novel by Italian author Umberto Eco. It is a historical murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the year 1327; an intellectual ...

Overview: Muse is a 2013 novel by the Canadian author Mary Novik. It is set in 14th century Avignon.. The book follows Solange, a fictional character based on Laura de Noves, supposedly (though not in history) ...

Overview: Lady of Sherwood is a 1999 historical fiction novel by American author Jennifer Roberson. It is a sequel to her 1992 novel Lady of the Forest, and follows Robin Hood, Lady Marian, and their associates ...

Overview: Hereward the Wake: Last of the English (also published as Hereward, the Last of the English) is an 1866 novel by Charles Kingsley. It tells the story of Hereward, a historical Anglo-Saxon figure who led ...

Overview: Time and Chance is a historical novel written by Sharon Kay Penman published in 2002 and is the second volume in the Plantagenet trilogy, preceded by When Christ and His Saints Slept and followed by Devil's ...

Overview: The Physician is a novel by Noah Gordon. It is about the life of a Christian English boy in the 11th century who journeys across Europe in order to study medicine among the Persians.

Overview: The Pillars of the Earth is a historical novel by Welsh author Ken Follett published in 1989 about the building of a cathedral in the fictional town of Kingsbridge, England. It is set in the middle of ...

Overview: Farmer Giles of Ham is a comic Medieval fable written by J. R. R. Tolkien in 1937 and published in 1949. The story describes the encounters between Farmer Giles and a wily dragon named Chrysophylax, and ...

Overview: The Twelve Abbots of Challant (Italian: I dodici abati di Challant) is an historical novel by Laura Mancinelli published in 1981 and winner of the Mondello Prize in the same year.

Overview: City of God: A Novel of the Borgias is a 1979 historical novel by Cecelia Holland. Set in 15th-century Rome during the Borgia period, it follows Nicholas Dawson, ambitious secretary to the Florentine ...

Overview: The First Princess of Wales (originally published as Sweet Passion's Pain) is a 1984 historical fiction novel by American author Karen Harper. Set during the 14th-century, it follows the romance between ...

Overview: Antonina: A Byzantine Slut is a novel or fictionalized biography published in 2012 by the author Paul Kastenellos.

Overview: The Young Lion is an historical novel by Blanche d'Alpuget. It is set in the 12th century and is the first in a future quartet about the Plantagenet dynasty which reigned in the Middle Ages. The book tells ...

Overview: A Walk in Wolf Wood: A Tale of Fantasy and Magic is an English children's fantasy novel written by Mary Stewart, and published in 1980. Stewart tells the story of a sister and brother in 20th-century ...

Overview: The Lion Wakes is the first novel of the Kingdom series by Scottish writer of historical fiction, Robert Low, released on 14 April 2011 through Harper. The novel was well received.