16th Century
The Tudor Throne
Beginning with the two sisters sitting at King Henry VIII’s deathbed, Purdy writes a pas de deux between the maturing…
The Ground is Burning
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In the autumn of 1502, Cesare Borgia is at the height of his power and notoriety. Leonardo da Vinci works…
All the World’s a Stage: A Novel in Five Acts
When 12-year-old Kit is caught pick-pocketing at the Theatre playhouse in London, he is given a choice: he can go…
The Favourite: Sir Walter Ralegh in Elizabeth l’s Court
Lyons’ account of Ralegh, a “self-seeking, self-publicizing butterfly”, his early life and meteoric rise to become Elizabeth’s favourite also offers…
Young Henry: The Rise of Henry Vlll
This new biography concentrates on Henry VIII’s life up until the triumphant coronation of the pregnant Anne Boleyn in 1533.…
The School of Night
Discredited Elizabethan scholar Henry Cavendish is tasked by a ruthless antiquities collector to recover a missing letter which was stolen…
The Marlowe Conspiracy
Historical novelists would be lost without the dashing, mysterious figure of Christopher Marlowe, and they’d be equally lost if there…
Treason
1539, England. When William Montague’s elder brother is accidentally drowned, his life changes. His distraught father leaves, and his…
David
In 1501 Gabriele, a country boy, arrives in Florence and is immediately robbed. He believes that his older ‘milk’ brother,…
Prove a Villain
After two years spent away from Elizabethan London, young Hugh Seaton has returned to the Theatre in Shoreditch and to…
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