Tudor
In the House of the Magician
(1) 1570s, Elizabethan England. When country girl Lucy flees from her drunken father and sets off to London to find…
The Lady Elizabeth
Editors' choice
How does a Princess Elizabeth become a Lady Elizabeth within a matter of days, the four-year-old wants to know? Her…
The Serpent Garden
Riley’s exquisite tale begins in England in 1514 and follows the life of Susanna Dallet, daughter of a Flemish artist.…
The Galliard
Young Mary, Queen of Scots, returns to Scotland after years of exile and is immediately caught up in the religious…
Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain
1554: At the court of Mary Tudor of England, a man and woman are joined in a battle of words…
Michaelmas Tribute
Editors' choice
The Brehon Judge, Mara, returns in this second historical murder mystery set in the Burren in north-west Ireland. It is…
The Secret Bride
Another episode in today’s Tudormania. The story of Mary Tudor, Henry VIII’s younger sister, is relatively unknown to the reading…
The Sixth Wife
Set during the reign of England’s Edward VI, Suzannah Dunn’s fictionalized account of the final two years of the life…
The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street
In 1612 Shakespeare gave evidence at the Court of Requests in Westminster. Eight years previously he had lodged with the…
The Principessa
Editors' choice
We first met the Firemaster, Francis Quoynt, embroiled in the Gunpowder Plot in the pages of The Firemaster’s Mistress. As…
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