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The Borgias: The Hidden History
As a follow-up to his previous book, The Tudors: A World Undone, Meyer brings his considerable skills to another infamous…
The Innkeeper’s Daughter
Val Wood is a Yorkshire woman who now lives in Beverley and certainly knows the region and history of which…
The Emperor of All Things
1758, London. Daniel Quare, bastard, and Journeyman of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers, is on a mission. His instructions are…
The Sweetest Dark
Lora Jones has always heard music that isn’t there and voices that don’t exist. She remembers nothing of her earliest…
His Dark Lady
Lucy Morgan, an exotic beauty of African descent and the ward of a spy in Sir Francis Walsingham’s employ, is…
Unholy Night
Many historical fiction authors take on the Big Stories, but Grahame-Smith has taken on one of the biggest of all:…
Avenger of Rome
Following on from Defender of Rome, Gaius Valerius Verrens, Hero of Rome in Avenger of Rome, is drawn further into…
Hereward: The Devil’s Army
The novel opens in 1069. William has England in an iron grasp, crushing all opposition to his bloody reign. In…
The King’s Spy
Even in a quiet backwater like Romsey, pacifist bookseller and mathematician Thomas Hill cannot entirely avoid the lawlessness and disruption of…
The Time of the Wolf: A Novel of Medieval England
The landmark year 1066 has given nourishment to many historical novelists, including now the first-time historical novel author James Wilde.…
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