16th Century
The Virgin’s War
Andersen brings her alternate history series (the linked Boleyn and Tudor Legacy trilogies) to a close in this exciting sixth…
Murder at Whitehall
Yuletide in 1559 gives Kate Hayward a chance to compose and play her music for Queen Elizabeth’s Twelve Days of…
The Virgin’s Spy
Laura Andersen continues to explore her alternative history of Elizabethan England, in which Queen Elizabeth I has a daughter with…
Left in the Wind: The Roanoke Journal of Emme Merrimoth
Emme Merrimoth sets out for the New World with no loyalties and few expectations. “I was twenty-five years old,” she…
The Relic Master
Dismas is a prominent and successful broker of religious relics in the year 1517. He secures the bones, hair, and…
Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen
Historian and biographer, Alison Weir, embarks on a new series of novels examining in turn the lives of each of…
Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo
1501: Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti return to their Florentine homeland in the opening years of the 16th century.…
Roebuck
Anthony Knivet is the illegitimate son of Sir Henry Knivet who barely recognises the boy’s existence. Anthony is working for…
Death of an Alchemist: A Bianca Goddard Mystery
The Rat Man lifted his nose, catching the essence of alchemy, and tasted it on his tongue. Someone had discovered…
The Spy of Venice
Editors' choice
It is 1585 and England’s spymasters want to forge an alliance with Venice. A mission is arranged, using a group…
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