16th Century
The Queen’s Captive
The third installment of the Thornleigh Saga depicts the many conflicts of Mary Tudor’s reign, illustrated by family ambition as…
The Irish Princess
She says she is sometimes mistaken for the English princess, Anne Boleyn’s daughter Elizabeth, with whom she shares a given…
The Tudor Secret
Editors' choice
During the last days of King Edward VI, in the year 1553, Squire Brendan Prescott finds himself immersed in the…
By Royal Decree
By Royal Decree, the third novel in Kate Emerson’s Secrets of the Tudor Court series (The Pleasure Palace, Between Two…
The Princeling
This is book 3 of the Morland Dynasty series, in which Cynthia Harrod-Eagles traces 500 years of British history from…
Cate of the Lost Colony
Editors' choice
When her father is killed fighting in the Netherlands, young Catherine Archer is left alone and penniless – until Queen…
Elizabeth’s Women: Friends, Rivals, and Foes Who Shaped the Virgin Queen
Tracy Borman, chief executive of the Heritage Education Trust and a frequent contributor to BBC History Magazine, has taken on…
Mary Tudor: Princess, Bastard, Queen
Mary Tudor, known almost indelibly to history as “Bloody Mary” for her religious persecutions, has had the good fortune to…
Shadow of the Ninja
Japan 1575, a country ruled by feuding warlords. In his second adventure, the young Samurai Jimmu finds his old master,…
Cabinet of Curiosities
Lukas DeClerq is travelling to Prague to become an apprentice to his Uncle Anselmus, court physician to the Emperor Rudolph…
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