16th Century
The Creation of Eve
The Creation of Eve is Cullen’s first foray into adult fiction, and it is quite a promising beginning. The story…
The Sonnets
In 1592, young playwright William Shakespeare was forced on hiatus out of London due to threats of the plague. Returning…
Secrets of the Tudor Court
This is another Tudor novel, this time seen from the perspective of Mary Howard, cousin and lady-in-waiting to Anne Boleyn,…
Till the Day Go Down
The border country between England and Scotland is a lawless and dangerous place in the mid-16th century, so when Harry…
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
The collections of Essays written by the Frenchman Michel de Montaigne in the latter years of the 16th century have…
Thief!
(1) Elizabethan England. In his latest Elizabethan Mysteries adventure, 14-year-old actor, Ben Button, is visiting his family in the village…
Her Highness’ First Murder
This mystery, set in 1546, features thirteen-year-old Princess Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII, as a detective out to find a…
The Queen’s Governess
Kat Ashley, who looked after Elizabeth I through much of her childhood and adolescence, and kept her love and loyalty…
The Betrayal
As the novel begins we are straight away in the world of Elizabethan London as Lucy waits with her two…
The Devil & Maria d’Avalos
The year is 1590; the setting rich with art, magnificent architecture, lavish costumes. Yet all is not right in Denmark……
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