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The Wives of Henry Oades
The Wives of Henry Oades is an engrossing late 19th-century tale of unwitting bigamy. Henry and Margaret Oades move from…
The Lady in the Tower
The demand for the Tudors seems inexorable. This is a detailed study of the closing days of the life of…
No Less Than Victory
The final novel in this three book series starts in November 1944 in the middle of a B-17 bombing mission…
Brigid of Kildare
Brigid is a king’s daughter and warrior-trained, but reading The Gospel of Mary the Mother influences her to reject the…
A Christmas Promise
This Dickensian tale begins in 1895 London, a poor young girl of eight anxiously searching for Charlie, her uncle’s donkey.…
The Sisters Who Would Be Queen
In The Sisters Who Would Be Queen, de Lisle tells the story of Lady Jane Grey and her lesser-known…
Twilight of a Queen
The titular queen in the fifth novel in Carroll’s 16th-century saga is Catherine de Medici, dowager queen of France, whose…
Goddess of the Hunt
Lucy Waltham grew up as one of the boys, tagging along with her brother Henry and his friends, and she…
In The Valley of the Kings
This is Howard Carter’s story, and how he, though not a gentleman, was able to work in Egyptian archeology during…
We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals
Gill, biographer of Florence Nightingale, turns her attention to one of the most famous marriages of 19th-century England, that of…
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