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 Corresponding Secretary if you would like to recommend other works to be added to our list.
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| Ashdown-Hill, John | Eleanor, The Secret Queen: The Woman Who Put Richard III on the Throne (2009) Richard III’s ‘Beloved Cousyn’: John Howard and the House of York(2009) The Last Days of Richard III (2010) UPDATED 2013 |
| Bennett, Michael | The Battle of Bosworth |
| Boardman, A.W. | Towton: The Bloodiest Battle (2009) |
| Buck, Sir George | The History of King Richard III |
| Carson, Annette | Richard III, The Maligned King (2008) ~ Highly recommended; scholarly and readable. |
| Cheetham, Anthony | The Life and Times of Richard III (1972) ~ Lavishly illustrated |
| Cox, Helen | The Battle of Wakefield Revisited: A Fresh Perspective on Richard of York’s Final Battle, December 1460 (2010) |
| 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 |
| Drewett, R. & Redhead, M. | The Trial of Richard III |
| Edwards, Rhoda | The Itinerary of King Richard III 1483 – 85 (1983) |
| Fields, Bertram | Royal Blood(1998) |
| Gillingham, John | Richard III: A Medieval Kingship (1993) |
| Goodman, Anthony | The Wars of the Roses |
| Halstead, Caroline A. | Richard III (1844) |
| Hammond, P.W. (ed.) | Richard III Loyalty, Lordship and Law (1986) |
| 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) |
| Hicks, Michael | Richard III |
| Hipshon, David | Richard III and the Death of Chivalry (2009) |
| Horrox, Rosemary | Richard III: A Study in Service (1989) |
| 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. |
| Lamb, V.B. | The Betrayal of Richard III |
| Langley, Philippa and Jones, Michael K. |
The King’s Grave (2013) aka The Lost King (2022) ~ The story of how King Richard was found under a car park in Leicester. |
| Lewis, Matt (Chair of the Society) |
Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me (2018) ~ Explores what is known of his childhood and the impacts it had on his personality and view of the world. |
| Lewis, Matt | The Survival of the Princes in the Tower (2017) ~ Looks at the cast of characters and examines the possibility that the Princes were not killed at all. |
| Markham, Sir Clements R. | Richard III: His Life & Character Reviewed in the Light of Recent Research (1906, 1968) |
| More, Thomas | The History of King Richard III ~ Unfinished by More, loaded with hearsay, the gospel according to some traditionalist historians. Read it in its original English, courtesy of Renascence Editions |
| Murph, Roxane C. | Richard III: The Making of a Legend (1978) |
| Okerlund, Dr. Arlene Naylor | Elizabeth of York (2009) |
| Pollard, A.J. | Richard III and the Princes in the Tower(1991) ~ Lavishly illustrated |
| Potter, Jeremy (Late former Chairman of the Society) |
Good King Richard?(1983) |
| Ross, Charles Derek | Richard III(1981) ~ Another definitive biography, impartial and not so sympathetic. |
| Santiuste, David | Edward IV and the Wars of the Roses (2010) |
| St Aubyn, Giles | The Year of Three Kings, 1483 |
| Virgoe, Roger | Private Life in the Fifteenth Century – Illustrated Letters of the Paston Family |
| Walpole, Horace | Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard III (1768) |
| Weir, Alison | The Princes in the Tower(1992) ~ Vehemently anti-Ricardian, the scholarship is highly suspect. |
| Wilkinson, Josephine | Richard: The Young King to Be (2009) |
| 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 |
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FICTION |
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| Anand, Valerie | Crown of Roses |
| Carleton, Patrick | Under the Hog |
| Edwards, Rhoda | The Broken Sword also known as Some Touch of Pity Fortune’s Wheel |
| Farrington, Robert | The Killing of Richard the Third The Traitors of Bosworth |
| Hocking, Mary | He Who Plays the King |
| Jarman, Rosemary Hawley | We Speak No Treason |
| MacLachlan, Donald | The Adventure of the Bloody Tower (2013) |
| Martyn, Isolde | The Maiden and the Unicorn |
| Palmer, Marian | The White Boar |
| Peters, Elizabeth | The Murders of Richard III |
| Penman, Sharon Kay | The Sunne in Splendour |
| Potter, Jeremy (Late former Chairman of the Society) |
A Trail of Blood |
| Rabinowitz, Ann | Knight on Horseback (Children’s) |
| Sedley, Kate | Roger the Chapman |
| Smith, Anne Easter | A Rose for the Crown Daughter of York The King’s Grace This Son of York |
| Szechtman, Joan | This Time (2009) Loyalty Binds Me (2011) |
| Tannahill, Reay | The Seventh Son |
| Tey, Josephine | The Daughter of Time ~ The book that launched a thousand Ricardians |
| Townsend, Guy M. | To Prove a Villain |
| Whitford, Meredith | Treason |
| Worth, Sandra | The Rose of York series: Love and War Crown of Destiny Fall from Grace |