16th Century
Queen’s Bounty: An Ursula Blanchard Mystery
The latest installment in Buckley’s long-running Elizabethan mystery series featuring Ursula Blanchard finds Ursula in the midst of planning her…
I, Iago
Editors' choice
How do you take one of literature’s most vile villains and make your readers like him? Nicole Galland begins in…
The Divorce of Henry VIII: The Untold Story from Inside the Vatican
Dr. Catherine Fletcher, who teaches at Durham University, England, has researched an often overlooked piece of the puzzle to Henry…
Heretic Queen: Queen Elizabeth and the Wars of Religion
When Elizabeth I came to the throne, it was to reign over a country deeply divided by religion and still…
The Trip to Jerusalem
In Elizabethan London, theatre is booming. But then come rumours of plague, and Lord Westfield’s Men theatre company must seek…
Her Highness, The Traitor
This is not the story of the nine-day Queen, Lady Jane Grey, but of her family, her husband Guildford Dudley’s…
The Borgia Mistress
Rome, 1593. Francesca Giordano, a young woman of dark passions and even darker talents, is the court poisoner to Pope…
Equal of the Sun
Amirrezvani’s novel of 16th-century Iranian court politics centers on Princess Pari Khan Khanoom, favored daughter of the Shah, and her…
The Queen’s Lady
One struggle that historical writers must face is controlling the urge to modernize their characters. History can be an ugly…
Witchstruck
This novel for young adults follows the adventures of Meg Lytton, a young girl in the service of the Princess…
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