16th Century
The Phantom Tree
Editors' choice
Filled with romance, drama, mystery and intrigue, The Phantom Tree is Nicola Cornick’s follow up to the hugely popular House of Shadows,…
For My Sins
For My Sins is a first-person fictional memoir of Mary, Queen of Scots, written whilst in captivity, and now awaiting…
Summon the Queen: The Revolutionary Series
On a quest from the goddess Brigid, Nora O’Reilly and the legendary Fionn mac Cumhaill travel back in time to…
The Queen’s Christmas Summons
Lady Alys Drury, raised in isolation on the Irish coast, has grown up hearing stories of Queen Elizabeth’s court in…
Titan’s Bowman
This book is a wonderful collection of chapters, all of them exquisitely crafted, most of them small—some very small, like…
The Second Blast of the Trumpet
John Knox, the 16th-century Protestant religious reformer, is the subject of this book, the second in a trilogy about his…
Margaret Pole: The Countess in the Tower
Higginbotham, a prolific author of English-focused historicals, gives us an excellent non-fiction retelling of the sad life and horrific death…
The Devil’s Chalice
In 1549 London, goldsmith Thomas Treviot is asked to look into the circumstances of a young man accused of attempted…
Jane the Quene
This first volume in Janet Wertman’s projected trilogy about the famous Seymour clan of Tudor times focuses on the most…
Incendium
Fire, fear, and rebellion—first in France, then in England, aimed at the deposition of Queen Elizabeth, and the restoration of…
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