Tudor
The Queen’s Mistake: In the Court of Henry Vlll
Catherine Howard is living as a poor relation in her grandmother’s house, passing the dull days in dalliance with Francis…
The Memoirs of Mary Queen of Scots
Historian and novelist Carolly Erickson takes another foray into fiction and delivers a sweeping tale spanning the life of Mary…
Royal Blood
Arriving at the court of King Henry VIII in the spring of 1518, within days of one another, in fact,…
The Virgin’s Daughters
Editors' choice
It seems as though everything that could be written about the Tudors has been done in recent years, with a…
The Daughters of the Doge
In this novel, the sequel to In the Shadow of Lady Jane, young Richard Stocker is still mourning his friend…
Martyr
Welcome another Tudor detective. This one is John Shakespeare, elder brother of the famous Will (who makes a cameo appearance…
The Last Divine Office: Henry Vlll and the Dissolution of the Monasteries
Beginning in 1536, claiming the loftiest motives, Henry VIII began the dissolution of the monasteries of England. As Geoffrey Moorhouse…
The Lady and the Poet
When passionate teenager Ann More is sent by her ambitious father to stay in London with her aunt, Lady…
Here Was a Man: A Novel of Sir Walter Raleigh and Elizabeth l
Here Was a Man, by bestselling author Norah Lofts, has been reissued, and like all of Lofts’s works, is…
The King’s Daughter
While Thomas Wyatt leads a rebellion against Queen Mary Tudor for marrying the Spanish Philip, spunky Isabel Thornleigh and…
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