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by Rebecca Lehmann
Published Mar 2026
Read ReviewsDisgraced. Beheaded. And out for revenge ...
We all know what happened to Henry VIII's second wife, Anne Boleyn. But what if she woke up the day after her execution and took it upon herself to seek justice?
by Lucy Jago
Published Nov 2022
Read ReviewsWolf Hall meets The Favourite in Lucy Jago's A Net For Small Fishes, a gripping dark novel based on the true scandal of two women determined to create their own fates in the Jacobean court.
by Daisy Goodwin
Published Sep 2017
Read ReviewsDrawing on Queen Victoria's diaries, which she first started reading when she was a student at Cambridge University, Daisy Goodwincreator and writer of the new PBS/Masterpiece drama Victoria and author of the bestselling novels The American Heiress and The Fortune Hunterbrings the young nineteenth-century ...
by Michael Ennis
Published Jun 2013
Read ReviewsAgainst a teeming canvas of Borgia politics, Niccolò Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci come together to unmask an enigmatic serial killer, as we learn the secret history behind one of the most controversial works in the western canon, The Prince.
by Hilary Mantel
Published May 2013
Read ReviewsThe sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Wolf Hall, delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn.
The Confessions of Catherine de Medici
by C.W. Gortner
Published May 2011
Read ReviewsFrom the fairy-tale châteaux of the Loire Valley to the battlefields of the wars of religion to the mob-filled streets of Paris, The Confessions of Catherine de Medici is the extraordinary untold journey of one of the most maligned and misunderstood women ever to be queen.
by Vanora Bennett
Published Mar 2011
Read ReviewsA fictionalized account of the life and loves of Catherine de Valois, a woman of enormous courage who became a great queen of two countries. Readers who enjoy top-quality historical fiction will be swept away by this epic love story set against the rich backdrop of 15th-century England and Franceand by this remarkable woman who triumphed ...
by Hilary Mantel
Published Sep 2010
Read ReviewsIn the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII's court, only one man dares to gamble his life to win the king's favor and ascend to the heights of political power.
by Kathleen Kent
Published Oct 2009
Read ReviewsMartha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. The Heretic's Daughter tells her story; a haunting portrait, not just of Puritan New England, but also of one family's deep and abiding love in the face of fear and persecution.
by Sena Jeter Naslund
Published May 2007
Read ReviewsFrom the lush gardens of Versailles to the lights and gaiety of Paris, the verdant countryside of France, and finally the stark and terrifying isolation of a prison cell, Naslund brings the 18th Century, and Marie Antoinette, vividly to life.
by Tracy Chevalier
Published Jan 2005
Read ReviewsChevalier weaves history and fiction into a beautiful, timeless, and intriguing literary tapestry - an extraordinary story exquisitely told.
by Sarah Dunant
Published Dec 2004
Read ReviewsA compulsively absorbing story of love, art, religion and power set in Florence during the Renaissance and told through the passionate voice of a heroine with the same vibrant spirit as her beloved city.
by Chantal Thomas
Published Jun 2004
Read ReviewsWith the skill of a consummate storyteller, Chantal Thomas meticulously re-creates the miniature universe of Versailles, brilliantly juxtaposing its beauty and its dawn-to-dusk ritual with the chaos that erupts.
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