| Cacique Caribe | 28 Jan 2006 10:30 a.m. PST |
I just found this gem (thanks to "SecretAlias") as a FREE online novel: link If you can come up with titles/authors, I can try to dig up others for the benefit of all. Thanks. CC |
| major blunder | 28 Jan 2006 10:46 a.m. PST |
The Firedrake's Eye. About a plot to assassinate Liz I. Quite good, but I forget the author. |
| Cacique Caribe | 28 Jan 2006 11:10 a.m. PST |
I think that is Patricia Finney. No online texts come up with my searches. CC |
| Cacique Caribe | 28 Jan 2006 11:51 a.m. PST |
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| Cacique Caribe | 28 Jan 2006 12:06 p.m. PST |
Historical texts such as this can be "modified" for some campaigns as well: link CC |
| Huscarle | 28 Jan 2006 12:42 p.m. PST |
The Lymond series by Dorothy Dunnet. The 1st of 6 is the "Game of Kings". An excellent series of novels.
"The Mercenary Prince, The Fortunes of Gianpaolo Baglioni of Perugia" by Charles Durbin. (aka The Mercenary).
Patricia Finney Chisholm also wrote another Elizabethan series, starting with "A Famine of Horses". The "Firedrake's Eye" was also part of a trilogy?
Michael Clynes wrote a series of novels the 1st Journal of Sir Roger Shallot – "The White Rose Murders".
I know that there's more but that's all my poor wine fuddled memory can remember at the moment. |
| Frothers Did It Anyway | 28 Jan 2006 1:35 p.m. PST |
The Sea Hawk and Sword of Islam both by Rafael Sabatini and about Barbary Corsairs vs. Condotierri are both excellent and should be easy to find. |
| major blunder | 28 Jan 2006 4:47 p.m. PST |
AFAIK Firedrake's eye was a standalone. I won't reveal why I think that, it will wreck it for anyone reading it. Would make a good basis for a skirmish game. |
| RJT2003 | 28 Jan 2006 5:31 p.m. PST |
Firedrake's Eye is part of a trilogy (so far at least).
The other two volumes are Unicorn's Blood and Gloriana's Torch.
All good reads. |
| Tex Refund | 28 Jan 2006 9:36 p.m. PST |
The Finney books (espionage in Elizabethan high and low society) and her Chisholm nom de Plume bboks (Border reivers) are terrific. I intend to read Edward Marston's theatre troup mysteries, when I get the time. |
| Khazarmac | 29 Jan 2006 2:52 a.m. PST |
C C Humphreys, The French Executioner, Blood Ties – got both but haven't read yet. |
| Cacique Caribe | 29 Jan 2006 1:07 p.m. PST |
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| Cacique Caribe | 29 Jan 2006 5:53 p.m. PST |
On "The Secret Lion":
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link Other titles coming soon:
link CC |
| The Lost Soul | 09 Feb 2006 8:58 a.m. PST |
I like the Dunnett books as well. A lot of intrigue, tying together of all sorts of famous individuals in a very believeable web that's based on great research. She also produced a wonderful series – the House of Niccolo – on the late 15th century. Its the prequel to the Lymond Chronicles, and is in many ways even better than the original. |
| Lord Kalvan | 20 Feb 2006 1:06 p.m. PST |
On of the best alternate worlds novels, featuring a Renaissance era setting, is H. Beam Piper's "Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen." This has lots of period battles and descriptions of period weapons and firearms. It's a great read! |
| bulow1813 | 21 Feb 2006 10:48 a.m. PST |
Try *Castle Comedown* by Peck, set in Elizabethan England in the years prior to the Armada.
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