Tudor
Traitor
This is the fourth in Clements’ John Shakespeare series. John is Will’s older brother and an ‘intelligencer’ in the Queen’s…
Zombie Island: A Shakespeare Undead Novel
Imagine that Shakespeare is a vampire, and that the Dark Lady he wrote about in his sonnets is a zombie-hunter…
The Secret Keeper
A connection to the Seymour family finds Juliana St. John in the household of Kateryn Parr, Lady Latimer. Juliana, as…
The Flower Reader
The turbulent court of Mary Queen of Scots is the backdrop of The Flower Reader, which tells the tale of…
The Knot
This is a perfect book for the green-fingered reader – and also for translators! Henry Lyte has made it his…
The Queen’s Secret
In 1575, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, drains his coffers to put on an Entertainment at Kenilworth Castle for Queen…
Sacrilege
S.J. Parris offers the reader a multisensory, cinematic experience surrounding the deadly black plague of London in 1584. Sacrilege, her…
Queen without a Crown: An Ursula Blanchard Mystery
In this ninth installment in the series, Ursula, now happily remarried and living a quiet existence as Elizabeth’s lady-in-waiting, seeks…
At the King’s Pleasure (Secrets of the Tudor Court)
The successful author of Pleasure Palace, Between Two Queens and By Royal Decree returns us to the ever-popular Tudor court…
The Queen’s Agent
In the time of Elizabeth I, 16th-century England was in turmoil – Protestants against Catholics, wars with Spain, and a…
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