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The Queen’s Sword
David Glenn’s two new novels, both mysteries, take place in the later years of Queen Elizabeth I’s court as the…
The Queen’s Rival
Elizabeth “Bessie” Blount, through the connections of her uncle, Lord Mountjoy, is given the opportunity to serve Katherine of Aragon…
Lord James
This outstanding, enthralling biography of James Hepburn, fourth earl of Bothwell, lieutenant of Borders and keeper of Hermitage Castle, has…
Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain
Margaret Irwin’s third book in a trilogy about the young Elizabeth I was first published in the early 1950s. This…
Prophecy
Editors' choice
Take a devious plot, a clutch of spies, a dash of counterspies, and set the story in Elizabethan England where…
The Tudor Throne
Beginning with the two sisters sitting at King Henry VIII’s deathbed, Purdy writes a pas de deux between the maturing…
All the World’s a Stage: A Novel in Five Acts
When 12-year-old Kit is caught pick-pocketing at the Theatre playhouse in London, he is given a choice: he can go…
The Favourite: Sir Walter Ralegh in Elizabeth l’s Court
Lyons’ account of Ralegh, a “self-seeking, self-publicizing butterfly”, his early life and meteoric rise to become Elizabeth’s favourite also offers…
Young Henry: The Rise of Henry Vlll
This new biography concentrates on Henry VIII’s life up until the triumphant coronation of the pregnant Anne Boleyn in 1533.…
The Marlowe Conspiracy
Historical novelists would be lost without the dashing, mysterious figure of Christopher Marlowe, and they’d be equally lost if there…
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