Philippa Gregory
Boleyn Traitor
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Philippa Gregory continues her fascination with the Boleyn women which began with Anne Boleyn’s sister, Mary, in The Other Boleyn Girl (2001). In ...Read Review
Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History
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“Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year?… Are you aware that you are ...Read Review
Dawnlands
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This third book in the Fairmile series returns us to the heart of the Reekie family via the enjoyable villainess, Livia da Ricci, ...Read Review
Dark Tides (The Fairmile Series 2)
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On Midsummer Eve, 1670, a beautiful young woman from Venice arrives at a ramshackle warehouse in London. Livia di Ricci clutches her infant son ...Read Review
Tidelands
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Danger fills England in 1648. King Charles I has been dethroned and is held captive by followers of Oliver Cromwell. Puritan Christians scour the ...Read Review
The Last Tudor
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The title of Gregory’s latest novel is intriguing, given that its plot revolves around a great irony of history: Elizabeth I’s ...Read Review
Three Sisters, Three Queens
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One of the less documented Tudor women is explored in Gregory’s latest 16th-century read. Margaret, elder sister of Henry VIII, was a ...Read Review
The Taming of the Queen
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The post-Pilgrimage of Grace religious upheaval late in Henry VIII’s reign finds credence in another of Philippa Gregory’s prolific Tudor series. ...Read Review
The King’s Curse
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Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, is an often mentioned background character in Tudor fiction. Though her name is well known, her life as ...Read Review
The White Princess
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In The White Princess, Gregory attempts to tell the story of Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville. Raised as ...Read Review
