16th Century
A Man Against a Background of Flames
Appleby, a history lecturer, stumbles across records of a massacre in a Wiltshire village. His researches suggest that in 1594…
A Traitor’s Tears
A Traitor’s Tears is the twelfth installment in Fiona Buckley’s Ursula Blanchard mystery series. Ursula has been everywhere and seen…
Shakespeare’s Restless World
William Shakespeare’s world was in flux, and he embraced those rapid changes in his works. We can use contemporary histories…
Merchant Adventurers: The Voyage of Discovery That Transformed Tudor England
This is the extraordinary tale of a voyage of discovery every bit as epoch-making as those of Spain and Portugal.…
Namesake
When Canadian teenager Jane Grey is asked to choose a subject for her history assignment on the Tudors, she picks…
The Executioner’s Daughter
The Executioner’s Daughter follows the watery adventures of Moss and her rascally sidekick, Salter, as they face scary situations while…
The Dig: In Search of Coronado’s Treasure
Jim Hunt is desperate for a change. After losing his archeology scholarship, his girlfriend walks out on him and their…
The Medici Mirror
Sixteenth-century France, and the King’s unloved bride, Catherine de Medici, nourishes hatred, focusing on her husband’s mistress, Diane de Poitiers,…
Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I
In this, the second book in his history of England, Peter Ackroyd takes on the ever-popular Tudor family, from Henry…
The Boleyn Bride
Just when you think all Tudor characters have been unveiled, Purdy comes up with one lady most people know very…
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