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The Witch and her Soul
Editors' choice
There have been many novels about the Lancashire witch trials of 1612 but for many modern readers the tragedy and…
At Drake’s Command
This first installment in Hill’s adventures of young Peregrine James, set during the height of Elizabethan ‘sea-dog’ days, has a…
The Nine Day Queen
This is much more the story of all three Grey sisters – Lady Jane, Lady Katherine and Lady Mary –…
The Boleyn King
What if Anne Boleyn had not miscarried of her son and savior in the winter of 1536 and instead had…
Blood Between Queens
The Thornleigh series continues with this fifth installment in which Richard Thornleigh’s ward, Justine Grenville, is entrusted with a delicate…
To Tempt the Devil
London, 1598. Rafe Fletcher has come home after seven long years as a foreign mercenary. Forced to leave home as…
A Crown of Despair
I was rather surprised to find myself enjoying this novel, as it is written in the first-person present tense, with…
Roses Have Thorns
Elizabeth I is on the throne, and we see her from the point of view of young Elin von Snakenborg,…
His Dark Lady
Lucy Morgan, an exotic beauty of African descent and the ward of a spy in Sir Francis Walsingham’s employ, is…
Queen’s Gambit
1543. With her second husband Lord Latymer scarcely cold in his grave, Katherine Parr is summoned back to court by…
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