16th Century
The Jewel Trader of Pegu
In the 1590s, news reached Italy of the source of Asia’s outstanding jewels. Sailors’ tales were backed by samples, and…
Vendetta: The Runestone Saga, Book Two
Vendetta follows last year’s The Fetch which began the series, and which centers around the mystical properties of Nordic runestones.…
Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford
I’ve always been fascinated by the shadowy Jane Boleyn, a court intriguer who went so far as to provide the…
The Red Queen’s Daughter
Often a cover initially draws us to a book, but as we all know you “can’t judge a book by…
The Muscovy Chain
Can the modern genre of the detective story be transposed to cultural settings where there is no police force, no…
Mademoiselle Boleyn
Robin Maxwell returns to the subject of her debut (The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn) in this colorful and imaginative…
The Witch’s Trinity
Editors' choice
Mailman’s second historical novel, set in the small German town of Tierkinddorf between 1507 and 1510, explores the horror of…
The King’s Pleasure
Originally published in 1969, this reissued novel by one of the grande dames of 20th-century historical fiction tells the familiar…
The Concubine
The popularity of historical fiction about historical women in general and Boleyn women in particular has resulted in the republication…
Blood Rock
Summer 1565. The Knights of St John are under siege on the small island of Malta, facing the full might…
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