The Bookseller's Tale

By Ann Swinfen

Categories: Literature & Fiction

The Bookseller's Tale is the first novel in Ann Swinfen's Oxford Medieval Mysteries series, set in Oxford in 1353. Nicholas Elyot, a young widowed bookseller still recovering from the Black Death, finds the body of a student in the river and realizes the death was no accident. With help from his friend Jordain, he investigates among scholars, scribes and townsfolk, against a backdrop of medieval bookmaking, university rivalries and a town marked by plague.

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• John Green: “This book, "The Bookseller's Tale", is the first in my favorite series. It's set in Oxford in 1353 and the world of medieval bookmaking is just such a great backdrop.”