Biographical Fiction
Bess
Elizabeth Cary (née Tanfield) was a 16th-century English writer, known for having an unusual aptitude for learning languages. While her…
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…
The Last Tudor
The title of Gregory’s latest novel is intriguing, given that its plot revolves around a great irony of history: Elizabeth…
The Shadow Queen
The Shadow Queen tells the story of Joan, Fair Maid of Kent, a Plantagenet princess who shocked medieval Europe with…
Raven’s Feast: Hakon’s Saga, Book 2
Very rarely does one come across a book written about the man remembered as Hakon the Good or Hakon Adalsteinsfostre.…
Sister of the Lionheart
Joanna is the youngest child of King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. We meet her at a young age…
Eadric and the Wolves
One of the many reasons I love historical novels is that they can throw light on a real historical person…
Dunstan
Editors' choice
Dunstan was an Abbot of Glastonbury, later Archbishop of Canterbury, and was probably born somewhere between AD 910 and AD…
Otho’s Regret
This is the third in a tetralogy set in the Year of the Four Emperors, 69 AD, and follows on…
The Drowning King
Book two of Holleman’s Fall of Egypt series (after Cleopatra’s Shadows) is told from the points of view of Cleopatra’s…
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