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Keeper of the King’s Secrets
In her first book, In a Treacherous Court, Michelle Diener introduced Susanna Horenbout, court artist, and John Parker, dangerous courtier,…
The Queen’s Head
This paperback is a reissue of the first of the Bracewell Elizabethan mysteries originally published in 1988. Nicholas Bracewell is…
The Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England
‘Sometimes the past will inspire you and sometimes it will leave you weeping.’ This is history for everyone: the political…
The Wild Queen
The Wild Queen is Carolyn Meyer’s latest entry in her Young Royals series, and it’s truly a uniquely fictionalized account…
The Sun and Stars
Elizabeth Adair’s first novel, The Sun and Stars, is set in the court of Henry VIII, amid all the splendor…
The Merry Devils
Legend has it that once, during a performance of Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, a real devil appeared onstage, to the terror…
Spy for the Queen of Scots
Mary, Queen of Scots has sometimes been criticised as vain and foolish, but this fascinating account of her reign does…
The Sumerton Women
When her parents die of the sweating sickness, eight-year-old Cecily becomes the ward of the family living at Sumerton Castle,…
Bring Up the Bodies
Editors' choice
It is 1535, and Henry VIII has become bored with Anne Boleyn. After upheaving the country and the Church in…
Mistress of Mourning
It’s a daunting challenge: how to create a historical novel that accurately depicts a distant era without letting facts and…
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