Ballantine
Amandine
Editors' choice
This first novel by bestselling author Marlena De Blasi takes us on a wondrous journey of love and longing and…
The Sheen on the Silk
“The character of eunuchs was like the sheen on the silk – fluid, unpredictable. A third gender, male and female,…
Captive Queen
This epic novel tells the story of the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine, beginning when she first meets the future…
Becoming Queen Victoria: The Tragic Death of Princess Charlotte and the Unexpected Rise of Britain’s Greatest Monarch
This is a fascinating and intimate picture of a girl becoming a queen, all because of a royal crisis before…
The Confessions of Catherine de Medici
Editors' choice
Catherine de Medici came to the French court as a reluctant princess: young and naive, and yet somehow she knew…
Letter to My Daughter
Laura and her teenage daughter Liz are fighting, and Liz has run away from the family home. While she waits…
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…
Letter to My Daughter
Laura and her teenage daughter Liz are fighting, and Liz has run away from the family home. While she waits…
Red Inferno: 1945
The many and varied “what ifs” of military history play a central role in many readers’ interest in the battles…
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…
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