Jean Plaidy
Saint Thomas’s Eve
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Plaidy’s sixth novel in her Tudor series is a compelling reconstruction of the life of Sir Thomas More. The novel commences with ...Read Review
The Sixth Wife
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Plaidy’s retelling of the story of Katharine Parr is masterly. Those who know little more of Katharine than that she survived Henry ...Read Review
The Thistle and the Rose
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Plaidy’s eighth Tudor novel vividly reconstructs the dramatic life of Margaret Tudor, from the time of her early marriage to King James ...Read Review
Uneasy Lies The Head
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1486. The Wars of the Roses are over. The Lancastrian King Henry VII has married the Yorkist princess Elizabeth and united the two warring ...Read Review
The Sixth Wife
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Reviewing a Jean Plaidy (aka Victoria Holt/Philippa Carr) novel is rather like asking a teenager at a family barbecue how she likes ...Read Review
Katharine of Aragon
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If you have an interest in any particular period of British history, the odds are that Eleanor Hibbert wrote a novel about it, ...Read Review
In the Shadow of the Crown
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It’s nice to have books by the late lamented queen of women in history (she covered everyone who was anyone from William ...Read Review
Queen of the Realm
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This is a fictionalized account of King Henry VIII’s daughter, Elizabeth I. Jean Plaidy, the queen of royalty novels in her own ...Read Review
Mary, Queen of France
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Renowned historical fiction author Jean Plaidy has written numerous stories featuring the Plantagenets, Stuarts, and Tudors along with other royal families throughout history. ...Read Review
The Rose Without a Thorn
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Katherine Howard is beautiful but clueless. Her grandmother, the Duchess of Norfolk, who worships the memory of Katherine’s clever cousin Anne Boleyn, ...Read Review