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Wolf Hall Trilogy #2
by Hilary Mantel
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by Robert Harris
Published Jul 2017
Read ReviewsThe best-selling author of Enigma and Fatherland turns to today's Vatican in a ripped-from-the-headlines novel, and gives us his most ambitious, page-turning thriller yet - where the power of God is nearly equaled by the ambition of men.
by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Published May 2017
Read ReviewsThe Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all?
by Bruce Holsinger
Published Feb 2016
Read ReviewsFourteenth-century London comes alive in all its color and detail in this riveting thriller featuring medieval poet and fixer John Gowera twisty tale rife with intrigue, danger mystery, and murder.
by David I. Kertzer
Published Dec 2014
Read ReviewsThe gripping story of Pope Pius XI's secret relations with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. This groundbreaking work will forever change our understanding of the Vatican's role in the rise of Fascism in Europe.
by Fay Weldon
Published Oct 2013
Read ReviewsFrom the award-winning novelist and writer of Upstairs Downstairs, the launch of a brilliant new trilogy about what life was really like for masters and servants before the world of Downton Abbey.
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 Philippa Gregory
Published Aug 2007
Read ReviewsGregory vividly brings Henry VIII's court, with its intense intrigues, politics, and passions, to life though the lives, and deaths, of his fourth, fifth and sixth wives.
by Peter Ackroyd
Published Nov 2006
Read ReviewsShakespeare: The Biography is quite unlike other more analytic biographies that have been written. Ackroyd uses his skill, his extraordinary knowledge, and his historical intuition to craft this major full-scale book on one of the most towering figures of the English language.
by Bernard Cornwell
Published Jan 2006
Read ReviewsThe first volume in a new saga set in the 9th century. The Vikings are overwhelming the land later to be known as England, three out of the four kingdoms are already in their control, only Wessex, under the leadership of Alfred the Great, remains undefeated.
by Donna Woolfolk Cross
Published Aug 1997
Read ReviewsA masterwork of suspense and passion that has as its center an unforgettable woman, the 9th Century Pope Joan. An enthralling, scholarly historical novel.
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