Jean Plaidy
Murder Most Royal
I first read Murder Most Royal as a teenager. On re-reading this spending looking reprint I found the writing still…
The Thistle and the Rose
Plaidy’s eighth Tudor novel vividly reconstructs the dramatic life of Margaret Tudor, from the time of her early marriage to…
The Sixth Wife
Plaidy’s retelling of the story of Katharine Parr is masterly. Those who know little more of Katharine than that she…
Uneasy Lies The Head
1486. The Wars of the Roses are over. The Lancastrian King Henry VII has married the Yorkist princess Elizabeth and…
The Sixth Wife
Reviewing a Jean Plaidy (aka Victoria Holt/Philippa Carr) novel is rather like asking a teenager at a family barbecue how…
Katharine of Aragon
If you have an interest in any particular period of British history, the odds are that Eleanor Hibbert wrote a…
Queen of the Realm
This is a fictionalized account of King Henry VIII’s daughter, Elizabeth I. Jean Plaidy, the queen of royalty novels in…
In the Shadow of the Crown
It’s nice to have books by the late lamented queen of women in history (she covered everyone who was anyone…
The Rose Without a Thorn
Katherine Howard is beautiful but clueless. Her grandmother, the Duchess of Norfolk, who worships the memory of Katherine’s clever cousin…
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