Recommended Reading

Fiction

  • We Speak No Treason – Rosemary Hawley Jarman
  • The Sunne in Splendour – Sharon Penman
  • The Daughter of Time – Josephine Tey
  • The Traitor’s Son – Wendy Johnson
  • Cecily + The King’s Mother – Annie Garthwaite
  • Some Touch of Pity – Rhoda Edwards
  • The Order of the White Boar series – Alex Marchant (The Order of the White Boar, The King’s Man, King in Waiting, Sons of York)
  • Maid of Middleham – Bridget Beauchamp
  • Cleave to the Crown – Bridget Beauchamp

Non-Fiction

  • Richard III: Fact and Fiction – Matthew Lewis
  • Richard III: A Small Guide to the Big Debate – Annette Carson
  • Richard III The Maligned King – Annette Carson
  • Good King Richard? An Account of Richard III and his Reputation, 1483-1983 – Jeremy Potter
  • Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me – Matthew Lewis
  • The Betrayal of Richard III – V B Lamb
  • Richard – the Young King to Be – Josephine Wilkinson,
  • The Wars of the Roses: the Key Players in the Struggle for Supremacy – Matthew Lewis
  • Richard Duke of Gloucester as Lord Protector and High Constable of England – Annette Carson
  • The Secret Queen, Eleanor Talbot: the Woman who put Richard III on the Throne – Dr John Ashdown-Hill
  • Richard III: The Road to Bosworth Field – PW Hammond & Anne Sutton
  • Richard III and the Battle of Bosworth – Mike Ingram
  • Solving History’s Greatest Cold Case: The Princes in the Tower – Philippa Langley
  • The Survival of the Princes in the Tower – Matthew Lewis
  • De occupatione regni Anglie – Dominico Mancini ed. Annette Carson
  • The Itinerary of King Richard III 1483–1485 – Rhoda Edwards
  • The Itinerary of Richard, Duke of Gloucester: 1452-1483 – Marie Barnfield
  • Margaret of York:  The Diabolical Duchess – Christine Weightman
  • Edward IV – Charles Ross
  • Perkin – Ann Wroe
  • North-eastern England During the Wars of the Roses: Lay Society, War and Politics, 1450-1500 – A.J. Pollard
  • The Hours of Richard III – Anne Sutton and Livia Visser-Fuchs
  • Richard III’s Books – Anne Sutton and Livia Visser-Fuchs
  • The Last Days of Richard III and the Fate of his DNA: The Book that Inspired the Dig  – Dr John Ashdown-Hill
  • The Lost King: The Search for Richard III – Philippa Langley and Michael K Jones
  • Finding Richard III: The Official Account – ed. Annette Carson; Philippa Langley; Dr John Ashdown-Hill; Dr David Johnson; Wendy Johnson

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