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Tudor

The Knot

By Jane Borodale - Published 2012

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This is a perfect book for the green-fingered reader – and also for translators! Henry Lyte has made it his life’s work to ...Read Review

Queen without a Crown: An Ursula Blanchard Mystery

By Fiona Buckley - Published 2011

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Mystery/Crime

In this ninth installment in the series, Ursula, now happily remarried and living a quiet existence as Elizabeth’s lady-in-waiting, seeks to remain ...Read Review

The Queen’s Secret

By Victoria Lamb - Published 2012 Published 2013

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Biographical Fiction Thriller

In 1575, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, drains his coffers to put on an Entertainment at Kenilworth Castle for Queen Elizabeth I during her ...Read Review

Sacrilege

By S. J. Parris - Published 2012 Published 2013

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Mystery/Crime Thriller

S.J. Parris offers the reader a multisensory, cinematic experience surrounding the deadly black plague of London in 1584. Sacrilege, her the third novel ...Read Review

At the King’s Pleasure (Secrets of the Tudor Court)

By Kate Emerson - Published 2011

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Biographical Fiction Romance

The successful author of Pleasure Palace, Between Two Queens and By Royal Decree returns us to the ever-popular Tudor court and another real ...Read Review

At the Mercy of the Queen

By Anne Clinard Barnhill - Published 2012

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Biographical Fiction

Margaret “Madge” Shelton of Norfolk, Anne Boleyn’s pretty 14-year-old cousin, becomes lady-in-waiting to the new queen, accompanied to court by her nurse ...Read Review

The Crown

By Nancy Bilyeau - Published 2012

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Mystery/Crime Thriller

Nancy Bilyeau’s debut novel begins in London in 1537, where the narrator, Joanna Stafford, a novice nun, breaks the sacred rule of enclosure ...Read Review

Shakespeare’s Mistress

By Karen Harper - Published 2009 Published 2011

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Romance

We all know that William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, albeit unwillingly, because she was pregnant with their first child, a daughter, Susanna; but ...Read Review

Queen Elizabeth in the Garden: A Story of Love, Rivalry, and Spectacular Gardens

By Trea Martyn - Published 2012

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Nonfiction

In this book (previously published in the UK under the title Elizabeth in the Garden) garden historian Trea Martyn concentrates on a relatively ...Read Review

The Queen’s Agent

By John Cooper - Published 2011

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Nonfiction

In the time of Elizabeth I, 16th-century England was in turmoil – Protestants against Catholics, wars with Spain, and a further outbreak of the ...Read Review