16th Century
The Marriage Portrait
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Maggie O’Farrell follows her award-winning Hamnet with another touching tragedy of a young life cut short. Lucrezia de’ Medici is 15 when, upon ...Read Review
Of Blood Descended (The Anthony Blanke Mysteries)
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Located in the familiar territory of the reign of King Henry VIII, this is a notably brave attempt by a new novelist to ...Read Review
Twelve Nights (The Heavenly Charmers Book 1)
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As wardrobe mistress to Burbage’s Theatre in Shoreditch, Magdalen enjoys affection and a degree of protection from the players, Will Kempe, Henry ...Read Review
The Road to Murder (Tom Walsingham Mysteries)
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This is the first book in a new series, The Tom Walsingham Mysteries, taking place in 1581 England. Tom is a courier for his ...Read Review
The Witch and the Tsar
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In the vein of Madeline Miller’s Circe and other feminist takes on long-enduring myths, Gilmore’s debut novel takes a fresh look ...Read Review
Dangerous Lady (The Marwood Family Tudor Saga)
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Historian Amy Licence begins her first in the Marwood Family Tudor Saga in 1527, with the Marwoods travelling to court from their Suffolk country ...Read Review
Prize for the Fire
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During England’s Reformation, when Henry VIII breaks from Rome and Cromwell is closing monasteries, fear and unease take hold with each new ...Read Review
The Dark Lady
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AdventureChildren/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
The rapper Akala’s debut novel, a magical realist adventure set in Shakespearean London, is quite frankly, just magical. It features Henry, a ...Read Review
The Mapmaker’s Daughter
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Clare Marchant’s third novel returns once more to the Tudor period. The historical focus for this book is the Dutch Protestants who ...Read Review
The Winter Garden
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Nicola Cornick’s latest timeslip novel looks at the Gunpowder Plot and its leader, Robert Catesby, a Catholic who planned to blow up ...Read Review