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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe King's Curse
Philippa Gregory · 903 pages
Katharine of Aragon: The Wives of Henry VIII
Jean Plaidy · 643 pages
For the first time in paperback--all three of Jean Plaidy's Katharine of Aragon novels in one volume.Legendary historical novelist Jean Plaidy begins her tales of Henry VIII's queens with the story of his first wife, the Spanish princess Katharine of Aragon.As a teenager, Katharine leaves her beloved Spain, land of olive groves and soaring cathedrals, for the drab, rainy island of England. There s
Skye O'Malley
Bertrice Small · 480 pages
O'Malley Saga #1 There has never been a woman like luscious, raven-haired, hot-tempered Skye O'Malley. She is the courageous seafaring captain of her own mighty fleet, and intelligent enough to win a battle of wits with Queen Elizabeth herself. Follow along as Skye O'Malley is swept up in a journey filled with romance and passion that takes her from glittering Ireland, to lush Algeria, to the hea
Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession
Alison Weir
Green Darkness
Anya Seton · 599 pages
When Celia Marsdon and her husband Richard visit his family's hereditary manor of Medfield Place in Sussex, she begins to relive the experiences of an earlier Celia. In a parallel tale, Celia de Bohun has a love affair with Stephen Maisdon, a priest in 1552, that leads to heartbreak and tragedy.
Queen of Swords
Sara Donati · 570 pages
It is the late summer of 1814, and Hannah Bonner and her half brother Luke have spent more than a year searching the islands of the Caribbean for Luke's wife and the man who abducted her. But Jennet's rescue, so long in coming, is not the resolution they'd hoped for. In the spring she had given birth to Luke's son, and in the summer Jennet had found herself compelled to surrender the infant to a s
The Moon Sister
Lucinda Riley · 742 pages
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel · 653 pages
In 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 England is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years, and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him.
Lamentation
C.J. Sansom · 649 pages
Summer, 1546. King Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. His Protestant and Catholic councillors are engaged in a final and decisive power struggle; whoever wins will control the government of Henry's successor, eight-year-old Prince Edward. As heretics are hunted across London, and the radical Protestant Anne Askew is burned at the stake, the Catholic party focus their attack on Henry's sixth wi
Elizabeth I
Margaret George
**New York Times bestselling author Margaret George captures history's most enthralling queen-as she confronts rivals to her throne and to her heart.** One of today's premier historical novelists, Margaret George dazzles here as she tackles her most difficult subject yet: the legendary Elizabeth Tudor, queen of enigma-the Virgin Queen who had many suitors, the victor of the Armada who hated war
I, Elizabeth
Rosalind Miles · 618 pages
Publicly declared a bastard at the age of three, daughter of a disgraced and executed mother, last in the line of succession to the throne of England, Elizabeth I inherited an England ravaged by bloody religious conflict, at war with Spain and France, and badly in debt. When she died in 1603, after a forty-five year reign, her empire spanned two continents and was united under one church, victorie
Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone
Diana Gabaldon · 880 pages
A Column of Fire
Ken Follett · 928 pages
As Europe erupts, can one young spy protect his queen? International bestselling author Ken Follett takes us deep into the treacherous world of powerful monarchs, intrigue, murder, and treason with his magnificent new epic, A Column of Fire. In 1558, the ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn apart by religious conflict. As power in England shifts precariously between
The Black Moon
Winston Graham · 405 pages
The Furies
John Jakes · 480 pages
Patience, Princess Catherine
Carolyn Meyer · 198 pages
Daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, the famous catholic kings, Catherine of Aragon was a young Spanish princess known as Catalina when she left her home in the summer of 1501 to sail to England. Catherine had known since childhood that she was betrothed to Prince Arthur, heir to the throne of England, and that one day she would have to leave Spain to marry him. Now that she is fifteen, that day ha
The Queen's Captive
Barbara Kyle · 404 pages
In England, 1554, in the wake of the failed Wyatt Rebellion, a vengeful Queen Mary has ordered all conspirators to be captured and executed. Among the imprisoned is her own sister, twenty-one-year-old Princess Elizabeth, who longs to gain her liberty and her sister's crown.
By Royal Decree
Kate Emerson · 353 pages
Lady-in-waiting Bess must resist the handsome Will Parr, who is betrothed to another.
No Angel
Penny Vincenzi · 626 pages
Routinely making decisions that have dangerous consequences, strong-willed aristocrat's daughter Celia Lytton sets in motion a series of events during World War I that have a particular impact on her family, a destitute woman, and others. (from Amazon)
The Burning Shore
Wilbur Smith · 632 pages
The Secret Keeper: A Novel of Kateryn Parr
Sandra Byrd · 352 pages