Ebury
The Nine Day Queen
This is much more the story of all three Grey sisters – Lady Jane, Lady Katherine and Lady Mary –…
The Traitors’ Pit
Subdeacon Wulfgar “Soft Hands,” fortunate in his employment as Secretary to Fleda, Lady of the Mercians, suffers a dual disruption.…
The Queen’s Confidante
London 1501. Henry VII is on the English throne and has united the two houses of York and Lancaster after…
Mistress of the Sea
Editors' choice
It is 1570, and in the thriving port town of Plymouth, Ellyn Cooksley is a wealthy merchant’s only daughter, expected…
The Age of Desire
Editors' choice
It’s the winter of 1907. Edith Wharton, already famous for her fiction, attends Comtesse Rosa’s glamorous Paris salon, as she…
Mistress of Mourning
It’s a daunting challenge: how to create a historical novel that accurately depicts a distant era without letting facts and…
The Bone Thief
Anglo-Saxon England, 900 AD: Athelfled, the late King Alfred’s daughter, is married to the ailing Lord of Mercia, and she…
Shakespeare’s Mistress
We all know that William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, albeit unwillingly, because she was pregnant with their first child, a…
Don’t Forget to Write
This is a charming and intelligent account of one woman’s memories of being “relocated” as a child in Great Britain…
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