Tudor
The Tudor Throne
Beginning with the two sisters sitting at King Henry VIII’s deathbed, Purdy writes a pas de deux between the maturing…
All the World’s a Stage: A Novel in Five Acts
When 12-year-old Kit is caught pick-pocketing at the Theatre playhouse in London, he is given a choice: he can go…
The Favourite: Sir Walter Ralegh in Elizabeth l’s Court
Lyons’ account of Ralegh, a “self-seeking, self-publicizing butterfly”, his early life and meteoric rise to become Elizabeth’s favourite also offers…
Young Henry: The Rise of Henry Vlll
This new biography concentrates on Henry VIII’s life up until the triumphant coronation of the pregnant Anne Boleyn in 1533.…
The Marlowe Conspiracy
Historical novelists would be lost without the dashing, mysterious figure of Christopher Marlowe, and they’d be equally lost if there…
Treason
1539, England. When William Montague’s elder brother is accidentally drowned, his life changes. His distraught father leaves, and his…
Prove a Villain
After two years spent away from Elizabethan London, young Hugh Seaton has returned to the Theatre in Shoreditch and to…
Tom Fleck
In Northern England in the spring of 1513, a newly-orphaned teenager named Tom Fleck finds a golden ring in the…
Catherine of Aragon, Henry’s Spanish Queen
This major biography adds a refreshing new focus by using extensive material from Spanish sources. The picture that emerges of…
The Queen’s Lady
When Lady Jane Rievaulx is widowed at the age of 18, she becomes a Lady of the Privy Chamber at…
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