Romance
Delsie
Delsie Sommers reluctantly agrees to marry a dying man at the request of his family. In exchange for a home…
Nefertiti: A Novel
Nefertiti is chosen to marry Amunhotep IV, heir to the throne ofEgypt, and her future of power and wealth seems…
The Queen’s Secret
Telling the fascinating story of Katherine of Valois, the mother of England’s mighty Tudor dynasty, The Queen’s Secret opens with…
Daughters of the Doge: A novel of Renaissance Venice
This is the second in the Richard Stocker series, quickly following on from the first novel published in 2006, In…
The Huntress
It is the year 1585, and a prophecy has foretold the coming of a Daughter of the Earth, the soon-to-be…
Saint Thomas’s Eve
Plaidy’s sixth novel in her Tudor series is a compelling reconstruction of the life of Sir Thomas More. The novel…
Murder Most Royal
I first read Murder Most Royal as a teenager. On re-reading this spending looking reprint I found the writing still…
Portrait of an Unknown Woman
Editors' choice
In this, journalist Vanora Bennett’s first novel, Meg Giggs, adopted daughter of Sir Thomas More, springs brilliantly to life. Surrounded…
To Dance with Kings
To Dance with Kings is a lengthy, absorbing, and richly detailed family saga that follows the lives and passions of…
Highlander Untamed
From childhood, Isabel MacDonald has longed for the approval of her brothers and father. A deadly feud against the MacLeod…
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