Susan Appleyard

• Aug-2025

• Apr-2023

Against his wishes, Grand Duke Michael Romanov was thrust into the role of tsar for one day when his brother, Tsar Nicholas II, abdicated. Little did he know, this betrayal would put him in grave danger at the hands of the Bolsheviks. When he di...

• May-2022

Born to privilege, Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria was given an extensive, liberal education, which he strove to us to bring the Habsburg Empire into the modern world. His was a struggle against his father Emperor Franz Josef, the conservative court, ...

• Apr-2020

Prompted by the murder of his legate, in 1209 Pope Innocent III launches a crusade – not against the infidels of the East, but against fellow Christians living peaceably in the south of France. They are the Cathars, regarded as heretics by the ...

• Jun-2018

For those who like their romance medieval and with humour. Robbie, Bastard of Ovedale, is a warden of the East March of Scotland. Chasing Scottish raiders across the border is his life’s work and his love. On one such jaunt, he goes after a youth w...

• Aug-2017

Isabella Queen of England, often called the ‘She-wolf of France’ has been compared to Cercei in Game of Thrones. Persecuted by her husband Edward II and his ‘favourite’ the infamous Hugh Despenser, she escaped only when she was sent to France...

• Apr-2017

A B.R.A.G Medallion winnerBorn into the royal Wittelsbach family of Bavaria, with its legacy of madness, depression and eccentricity, Ludwig II's extravagant and ruinously expensive building projects, coupled with increasingly aberrant behaviour caus...

• Jun-2016

Sisi enjoyed a carefree lifestyle in the hills of Bavaria until she was chosen by Franz Josef to be his wife. At the age of sixteen she became Elizabeth Empress of Austria and moved into the imperial palaces of Vienna, where a hostile court disdained...

• Jan-2016

A great deal has been written about Eleanor of Aquitaine, not so much about her husband. Ambitious, intelligent and energetic, Henry II was one of England’s most effective kings. Unfortunately, he did not do so well with personal relationships. His...

• Jun-2015

Margaret of Anjou was Queen of England during the period known as the War of the Roses. As a fifteen year-old bride she had many difficulties to face. She brought no dowry to her adopted land, which was still at war with her native land. Not least...

• Feb-2015

Love and strife in the struggle for the crown that came to be known as the War of the Roses. Feeble-minded King Henry VI falls into a catatonic state and doesn't emerge for sixteen months. His queen, Margaret of Anjou, will do anything to protect her...

• Jan-2015

Elizabeth Wydeville is an impoverished widow until she is wooed and won by the handsome young king Edward IV and believes her dreams have come true. But she is soon swept up in the War of the Roses, enduring hardship and danger as her husband strugg...

• Jan-1988

Jane Shore is only eighteen when her groom whisks her away from an impoverished life in London to a world of wealth and intrigue in the Royal Court. With her ravishing beauty, Jane soon captures the hearts of many noblemen including Lord Hastings and...

A great deal has been written about the fascinating Eleanor of Aquitaine, not so much about her husband. Ambitious, intelligent and energetic, Henry II was one of England's most effective kings. He brought order out of the chaos of civil war, imposed...