Tudor
Rivals in the Tudor Court
Bogdan’s second Tudor-era novel opens with an angry Thomas Howard bemoaning his imprisonment in the Tower of London, and the…
The Confession of Katherine Howard
At the opening of this novel, the fate of Henry VIII’s fifth queen has already been sealed, even though she…
Elizabeth I
Editors' choice
How can an historical novelist up the ante on the life of Elizabeth I when so much has been written…
Blood and Ink
On May 20th, 1593, incendiary playwright Christopher Marlowe came before Queen Elizabeth I’s Privy Council to answer pointed questions about…
The Queen’s Captive
The third installment of the Thornleigh Saga depicts the many conflicts of Mary Tudor’s reign, illustrated by family ambition as…
The Irish Princess
She says she is sometimes mistaken for the English princess, Anne Boleyn’s daughter Elizabeth, with whom she shares a given…
The Tudor Secret
Editors' choice
During the last days of King Edward VI, in the year 1553, Squire Brendan Prescott finds himself immersed in the…
By Royal Decree
By Royal Decree, the third novel in Kate Emerson’s Secrets of the Tudor Court series (The Pleasure Palace, Between Two…
The Princeling
This is book 3 of the Morland Dynasty series, in which Cynthia Harrod-Eagles traces 500 years of British history from…
Elizabeth’s Women: Friends, Rivals, and Foes Who Shaped the Virgin Queen
Tracy Borman, chief executive of the Heritage Education Trust and a frequent contributor to BBC History Magazine, has taken on…
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