16th Century
A Column of Fire
This engrossing book is the third novel in Ken Follett’s Kingsbridge series. The first two were worldwide best sellers and…
Witchborn
Editors' choice
1577. Elizabeth I has returned England to a moderate Protestantism. However, some think that her cousin, the Catholic Mary, Queen…
The Raven’s Widow
Jane Parker Boleyn has had a mixed reception throughout history; she is thought to have been a scheming, wily woman.…
Guns in the North
Guns in the North brings together the first three books (A Famine of Horses, A Season of Knives and A Surfeit of Guns)…
Eleventh Hour
Eleventh Hour is the 8th in the Kit Marlowe series. In this installment, Marlowe seeks to find the potential murderer…
Betrayal at Iga
In 1565 Japan, different clan groups are struggling with each other, while some are trying to rule the entire country.…
Bess
Elizabeth Cary (née Tanfield) was a 16th-century English writer, known for having an unusual aptitude for learning languages. While her…
Loving Luther
Sent by her impecunious father and hostile stepmother to a convent at age six, Katharina von Bora, whose noble family…
The Woman in the Shadows
This is the story of Elizabeth Cromwell, wife of Henry VIII’s minister, Thomas Cromwell, famous for dissolving the monasteries. But…
A Murder Too Soon
A Murder Too Soon is the second book of the Jack Blackjack mysteries set in 1554 London. Jack, a former…
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