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A Bone of Contention by Susanna Gregory
Category: No Category | Series: Chronicles of Matthew Bartholomew Ser.
For the twentieth anniversary of the Matthew Bartholomew series, Sphere is delighted to reissue the first three books with beautiful new series-style covers. Cambridge in 1352 is rife with terrible clashes between the fledgling University and the townspeople. Matthew Bartholomew, physician and teacher ...Show more
A Bone of Contention (#3) by Susanna Gregory
Category: Fiction | Series: Matthew Bartholomew
For the twentieth anniversary of the Matthew Bartholomew series, Sphere is delighted to reissue the first three books with beautiful new series-style covers. Cambridge in 1352 is rife with terrible clashes between the fledgling University and the townspeople. Matthew Bartholomew, physician and teacher ...Show more
A Deadly Brew by Susanna Gregory
Category: No Category | Series: Chronicles of Matthew Bartholomew Ser.
The winter of 1353 has been appallingly wet, there is a fever outbreak among the poorer townspeople and the country is not yet fully recovered from the aftermath of the plague. The increasing reputation and wealth of the Cambridge colleges are causing dangerous tensions between the town, Church and Univ ...Show more
A Masterly Murder: Bk 6 by Susanna Gregory
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Chronicles of Matthew Bartholomew Ser.
The Cambridge college of Michaelhouse is in uproar in the November of 1353: Kenyngham the saintly but ageing Master has announced his retirement and with unseemly haste a Michaelhouse Fellow named Runham arranges his own 'election' as his successor. Within days he has dismissed several members of staff, ...Show more
A Plague on Both Your Houses (#1) by Susanna Gregory
Category: Fiction | Series: Matthew Bartholomew
For the twentieth anniversary of the Matthew Bartholomew series, Sphere is delighted to reissue the first three books with beautiful new series-style covers. Matthew Bartholomew, unorthodox but effective physician to Michaelhouse college in medieval Cambridge, is as worried as anyone about the pestilen ...Show more
A Wicked Deed by Gregory Susanna
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Chronicles of Matthew Bartholomew Ser.
For the twentieth anniversary of the start of the Matthew Bartholomew series, Sphere is delighted to reissue all of the medieval monk's cases with beautiful new series-style covers.------------------------------------The winter of 1353 has been appallingly wet, there is a fever outbreak amongst the poor ...Show more
AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE by SUSANNA GREGORY
Category: No Category | Series: Chronicles of Matthew Bartholomew
In 1350 the people of Cambridge are struggling to overcome the effects of the Black Death. Bands of outlaws roam the land and the high death rate among priests and monks has left the people vulnerable to sinister cults that have grown up in the wake of the plague. At Michaelhouse Matthew Bartholomew is ...Show more
An Order for Death: Bk 7 by Susanna Gregory
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Chronicles of Matthew Bartholomew Ser.
In medieval Cambridge, believers in the theory of nominalism have set some colleges at the throats of those who believe them to be heretics, and Brother Michael, the Senior Proctor, has his work cut out to keep the peace. When a nominalist is murdered during a riot Michael is certain he will easily find ...Show more
An Unholy Alliance (#2) by Susanna Gregory
Category: Fiction | Series: Matthew Bartholomew
For the twentieth anniversary of the Matthew Bartholomew series, Sphere is delighted to reissue the first three books with beautiful new series-style covers. In 1350, the people of Cambridge are struggling to overcome the effects of the Black Death - and with a high mortality rate among priests and mon ...Show more
Death of a Scholar: The Twentieth Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew by Susanna Gregory
Category: Fiction | Series: The Chronicles of Matthew Bartholomew
In the summer of 1358 the physician Matthew Bartholomew returns to Cambridge to learn that his beloved sister is in mourning after the unexpected death of her husband, Oswald Stanmore. Aware that his son has no interest in the cloth trade that made his fortune and reputation, Oswald has left the busines ...Show more
Murder by the Book by Susanna Gregory
Category: Fiction | Series: Chronicles of Matthew Bartholomew
It is drawing near to the end of term, and the University at Cambridge is in turmoil over the opening of a new Common Library. There is an attack on one of the masters at a meeting to discuss the matter, and a body is found floating in the pond in the library's garden on the eve of its opening. Meanwhil ...Show more
Mystery in the Minster: The Seventeenth Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew by Susanna Gregory
Category: Fiction | Series: Chronicles of Matthew Bartholomew
In 1358 the fledging college of Michaelhouse in Cambridge is in need of extra funds. A legacy from the Archbishop of York of a parish close to that city promises a welcome source of income. However, there has been another claim to its ownership and it seems the only way to settle the dispute is for a de ...Show more