The Sixth Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew.
Cambridge 1353. It is a damp, gloomy November day, and the body by the River Cam is just the beginning of the intrigue in store for Michaelhouse.
Physician Matthew Bartholomew...
The Fourteenth Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew
It is ten years since the Black Death reaped its harvest at Cambridge. Now, in the stifling summer of 1357, an even more sinister visitor is at large. He claims that when the plague comes...
The Seventh Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew.
Cambridge, March 1354, and the cause of murder is once more on the minds of physician Matthew Bartholomew and his colleague Brother Michael.
It is a time of division and...
The Eighth Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew.
Cambridgeshire, August 1354 – and the Bishop of Ely is accused of murder. Tom Glovere was steward to Lady Blanche de Wake, a close relative of the King. A nasty, malicious gossip, his body is...
The Twentieth Chronicle 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...
The Ninth Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew.
Christmas 1354, and in Cambridge the winter is as severe as anyone can remember. But however cold the weather gets, for two individuals it is about to get even colder.
A drunken attempt at...
The Sixteenth Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew
There is unease in the chill winter of Cambridge in 1358. A thief is at work in the houses of the wealthy, colleges are vying with each other for funds and academic recognition, and the...
The Eleventh Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew.
On St Scholastica’s Day in February 1355, Oxford explodes in one of the most serious riots in its turbulent history.
Fearing for their lives, the scholars flee the city, and some...