Ivan also runs a website on the same theme, well worth a read. Ivan Fowler's Towards Auramala, a very recent novel, which explores Edward II's survival past 1327 and his secret afterlife in Italy. I live in hope that they'll be reissued some day soon. Sadly, both novels are long out of print and extremely difficult to find these days. The first one especially is just gorgeous, the most beautiful, erotic and sympathetic telling of Edward II and Piers Gaveston's love story it's ever been my pleasure to read. Fantastic pair of novels about Edward and Isabella, full of insight and compassion, packing a lot of story, superb characterisation and good humour into a few pages. Brenda Honeyman's T he King's Minions (1974) and its sequel The Queen and Mortimer (also 1974). A brilliantly-researched, thorough and dramatic account of Edward's reign seen from the perspective of the woman who arguably was closest to him, by a writer who knows Edward's era inside out. Susan Higginbotham's The Traitor's Wife (2005), a novel about Edward II's niece Eleanor de Clare. See also the very full list of Edward II fiction on Susan Higginbotham's website. Here's a list of novels about Edward II and Isabella of France, and my (entirely subjective, of course) opinions of them.
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