Kate Williams
Rival Queens: The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots
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This very readable and fast-paced biography relates the story of Mary Stuart in a fresh and engaging way. As in any book on ...Read Review
The House of Shadows (UK) / Into the Darkness (US)
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This is the third part of the De Witt family saga, the previous two installments being The Storms of War and The Edge ...Read Review
Into the Darkness
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The third volume of the Storms of War trilogy is set in the1920s through the brink of World War II in both ...Read Review
The Edge of the Fall
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Kate Williams’ novel continues the saga of the de Witt family, in the aftermath of the Great War. The period covered is 1919-1926, ...Read Review
Ambition and Desire: The Dangerous Life of Josephine Bonaparte
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Kate Williams, royal correspondent for CNN, has followed up her 2008 biography of Queen Victoria with a well-researched, heavily detailed biography of Josephine Bonaparte, ...Read Review
The Storms of War
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The strapline of this WW1 saga, the first of a trilogy, announces: “Atonement meets Downton Abbey”. The book begins in July 1914. The de ...Read Review
Josephine: Desire, Ambition, Napoleon
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The endpapers of Kate Williams’ new biography of the Empress Josephine are decorated with cartoons in the style of Gilray showing the empress ...Read Review
Young Elizabeth: The Making of Our Queen
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This is a concise account that concentrates on Princess Elizabeth’s childhood and development into the young woman who would be thrust into ...Read Review
The Pleasures of Men
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The year is 1840, and London is in the grip of economic depression. There are riots in the streets, and a serial killer is ...Read Review
Becoming Queen Victoria: The Tragic Death of Princess Charlotte and the Unexpected Rise of Britain’s Greatest Monarch
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This is a fascinating and intimate picture of a girl becoming a queen, all because of a royal crisis before she was born. ...Read Review
