Historical Fiction


Henry VI & Margaret of Anjou

  • Appleyard, Susan, The Remorseless Queen (2015)
  • Higginbotham, Susan, The Queen of Last Hopes (2011)
  • King, Betty, Margaret of Anjou (1974)
  • Perot, Ruth S., The Red Queen (2000)
  • Plaidy, Jean, The Red Rose of Anjou (1982)
  • Ross, Barnaby, The Passionate Queen (1966)
  • Savage, Alan, Queen of Lions (1994)
  • Shakespeare, William, Henry VI, Parts I, II and III (1591)
  • Worth, Sandra, Lady of the Roses (2008)

Cecily Neville & Richard Duke of York

  • Greenwell McChesney, Dora, The Confession of Richard Plantagenet (2016)
  • Haggard, Cynthia, One Seed Sown (2011)
  • Haggard, Cynthia, The Bride Price (2011)
  • Haggard, Cynthia, Thwarted Queen (2011)
  • Haggard, Cynthia, Two Murders Reaped (2011)
  • Hickson, Joanna, Red Rose, White Rose (2014)
  • Smith, Anne Easter, Queen by Right (2011)

Elizabeth Woodville & Edward IV

  • Appleyard, Susan, Queen of Trial and Sorrow (2015)
  • Appleyard, Susan, This Sun of York (2015)
  • Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, The Last of the Barons (1843)
  • Darwin, Emma, A Secret Alchemy (2009)
  • Gregory, Philippa, The White Queen (2009)
  • Hawley Jarman, Rosemary, The King’s Grey Mare (1972)
  • Heywood, Thomas, King Edward IV Parts 1 & 2 (1599)
  • Penman, Sharon Kay, The Sunne in Splendour (1982)
  • Peters, Maureen, The Woodville Wench (1972)
  • Plaidy, Jean, The Sun in Splendour (1982)

Richard III & Anne Neville

  • Bowen, Marjorie, Dickon (2016)
  • Edwards, Rhoda, Fortune’s Wheel (1979)
  • Edwards, Rhoda, Some Touch of Pity (1977)
  • Edwards, Rhoda, The White Boar (1974)
  • Gregory, Philippa, The Kingmaker’s Daughter (2012)
  • Jarman, Rosemary Hawley, We Speak No Treason (1971)
  • Malvern, Gladys, The Queen’s Lady (1963)
  • Martyn, Isolde, The Devil in Ermine (2013)
  • O’Brien, Anne, Virgin Widow (2010)
  • Peters, Maureen, Beggar Maid Queen (1980)
  • Plaidy, Jean, The Reluctant Queen (1990)
  • Shakespeare, William, Richard III (1591)
  • Smee, Christina, The Rose of Middleham (2015)
  • Tey, Josephine, The Daughter of Time (1951)
  • Townsend, Guy, To Prove a Villain (1985)
  • Worth, Sandra, Crown of Destiny (2006)
  • Worth, Sandra, Fall from Grace (2007)
  • Worth, Sandra, Love of War (2003)

Wars of the Roses – Other

  • Campbell Barnes, Margaret, The King’s Bed (1961) (Set in the reign of Richard III)
  • Clements, Toby, Broken Faith (2015) (Covers whole of Wars of the Roses, #2)
  • Clements, Toby, Divided Souls (2016) (Covers whole of Wars of the Roses, #3)
  • Clements, Toby, Winter Pilgrims (2014) (Covers whole of Wars of the Roses, #1)
  • Ford, John M., The Dragon Waiting (1983) (Wars of the Roses alternative history)
  • Frazer, Margaret, A Play of Treachery (2009) (Jacquetta of Luxembourg)
  • Gregory, Philippa, The Lady of the Rivers (2011) (Jacquetta of Luxembourg)
  • Higginbotham, Susan, The Stolen Crown (2010) (Katherine Woodville)
  • Iggulden, Conn, Bloodline (2015) (Covers whole of Wars of the Roses, #3)
  • Iggulden, Conn, Ravenspur (2016) (Covers whole of Wars of the Roses, #4)
  • Iggulden, Conn, Stormbird (2013) (Covers whole of Wars of the Roses, #1)
  • Iggulden, Conn, Trinity (2014) (Covers whole of Wars of the Roses, #2)
  • Riches, Tony, The Secret Diary of Eleanor Cobham (2014) (Eleanor Cobham)
  • Worth, Sandra, Lady of the Roses (2008) (Set in the reign of Henry VI)