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While by no means complete, the lists that follow offer the interested Ricardian a wide selection of fiction and non-fiction books about King Richard III and the Wars of the Roses. These books do not necessarily support the Society's views, nor do we maintain that these authors are without their own personal bias or that their research is infallible. The discerning reader will weigh the evidence and form their own opinions! Please contact the webmaster if you would like to recommend other works to be added to our list.
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Arthurson, Ian |
The Perkin Warbeck Conspiracy |
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Ashdown-Hill, John (A Society member) |
Eleanor, The Secret Queen: The Woman Who Put Richard III on the Throne (2009) |
| Ashdown-Hill, John | Richard III's 'Beloved Cousyn': John Howard and the House of York (2009) |
| Baldwin, David | The Kingmaker's Sisters: Six Powerful Women in the Wars of the Roses |
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Bennett, Michael |
The Battle of Bosworth |
| Buck, Sir George | The History of King Richard III |
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Carson, Annette (A Society member) |
Richard III, The Maligned King (2008) |
| Cheetham, Anthony | The Life and Times of Richard III (1972) |
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Cole, Hubert |
The Wars of the Roses |
| Cunningham, Sean |
Richard III: A Royal Enigma ~ Illustrations of major Yorkist and Tudor documents, with interpretations |
| Dockray, Keith |
Richard III: A Sourcebook (1997) ~ Excerpts from important primary and secondary sources |
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Drewett, R. & Redhead, M. |
The Trial of Richard III |
| Edwards, Rhoda | The Itinerary of King Richard III 1483 - 85 (1983) |
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Fields, Bertram |
Royal Blood (1998) |
| Gillingham, John | Richard III: A Medieval Kingship (1993) |
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Goodman, Anthony |
The Wars of the Roses |
| Halstead, Caroline A. | Richard III (1844) |
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Hammond, P.W. (ed.) |
Richard III Loyalty, Lordship and Law |
| Hammond, P.W., and Sutton, A.F. | Richard III: The Road to Bosworth Field (1985) |
| Hancock, Peter A. | Richard III and the Murder in the Tower (2009) |
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Hicks, Michael |
Richard III |
| Hipshon, David | Richard III and the Death of Chivalry (2009) |
| Horrox, Rosemary | Richard III: A Study in Service |
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Jenkins, Elizabeth |
The Princes in the Tower (1978) |
| Jones, Michael K. | Bosworth 1485: Psychology of a Battle (2002) |
| Kendall, Paul Murray |
Richard the Third (1955) ~ A definitive biography of Richard III. Sympathetic and highly readable. |
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Lamb, V.B. |
The Betrayal of Richard III |
| More, Thomas |
The History
of King Richard III
~ Unfinished by More, loaded with hearsay, the gospel according to some traditionalist historians. Read it in it's original English, courtesy of Renascence Editions |
| Murph, Roxane C. |
Richard III: The Making of a Legend (1978) |
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Pollard, A.J. |
Richard
III and the Princes in the Tower (1991) |
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Potter, Jeremy |
Good King Richard? (1983) |
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Richardson, Geoffrey |
The Deceivers |
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Richardson, Geoffrey |
The Hollow Crowns |
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Ross, Charles Derek |
Richard
III (1981) |
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Seward, Desmond |
Richard
III, England's Black Legend (1983) |
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St Aubyn, Giles |
The Year of Three Kings, 1483 |
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Virgoe, Roger |
Private Life in the Fifteenth Century - Illustrated Letters of the Paston Family |
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Walpole,
Horace |
Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard III |
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Weir, Alison |
The
Princes in the Tower (1992) |
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Williamson, Audrey |
The Mystery of the Princes: An Investigation into a Supposed Murder (1978) |
| Wroe, Ann | The Perfect Prince: The Mystery of Perkin Warbeck and his Quest for the Throne of England |
Fiction |
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Anand, Valerie |
Crown of Roses |
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Carleton, Patrick |
Under the Hog |
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Edwards, Rhoda |
The Broken Sword |
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Edwards, Rhoda |
Some Touch of Pity |
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Edwards, Rhoda |
Fortune’s Wheel |
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Farrington, Robert |
The Killing of Richard the Third |
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Farrington, Robert |
The Traitors of Bosworth |
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Jarman, Rosemary Hawley |
We Speak No Treason |
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Martyn, Isolde |
The Maiden and the Unicorn |
| Palmer, Marian | The White Boar |
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Peters, Elizabeth |
The Murders of Richard III |
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Penman, Sharon Kay |
The Sunne in Splendour |
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Potter, Jeremy |
A Trail of Blood |
| Rabinowitz, Ann |
Knight on Horseback ~ A young reader's introduction to the story of King Richard |
| Sedley, Kate |
Roger
the Chapman series Richard III is a very minor but sympathetic character in some of the books. |
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Smith, Anne Easter (A Society member) |
A Rose for the Crown Daughter of York The King's Grace www.AnneEasterSmith.com |
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Tannahill, Reay |
The Seventh Son |
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Tey, Josephine |
The
Daughter of Time |
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Townsend, Guy M. |
To Prove a Villain |
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Worth, Sandra |
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