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Morgan Rice
London in 1599 is a wild place, filled with paradoxes: while on the one hand it is an incredibly enlightened, sophisticated time, breeding playwrights like Shakespeare, on the other, it is also barbaric and cruel, with daily public executions, torture, and heads of prisoners impaled on spikes. It is also a time of superstition and grave public danger, with a lack of sanitation, and the Bubonic Pla
The All Souls Trilogy Boxed Set
Deborah Harkness · 1,760 pages
The Virgin's Lover
Philippa Gregory · 441 pages
As a new queen, Elizabeth I faces two great dangers. The French threaten to invade Scotland. But more perilous still is her passion for the convicted traitor, Robert Dudley. Dudley is already married. Amy, his wife, refuses to set her beloved husband free to marry the queen, but she cannot prevent him from becoming the favourite of the plotting, pleasure-seeking court. Yet the queen must marry.
Across a Moonlit Sea
Marsha Canham · 400 pages
Rescuing a man whose ship had been floundering at sea, Isabeau Spense takes aboard ruthless privateer Simon Dante, who promptly seizes command of Beau's ship and sets out to win the lovely maiden's heart and mind.
Interred with Their Bones
Jennifer Lee Carrell · 424 pages
A long-lost work of Shakespeare, newly found.A killer who stages the Bard's extravagant murders as flesh-and-blood realities.A desperate race to find literary gold, and just to stay alive. . . .On the eve of the Globe's production of Hamlet, Shakespeare scholar and theater director Kate Stanley's eccentric mentor Rosalind Howard gives her a mysterious box, claiming to have made a groundbreaking di
The Virgin in the Garden
A.S. Byatt · 428 pages
A new play, the highlight of a magnificent local festival celebrating the coronation of Elizabeth II, brings together the young playwright and a brilliant but eccentric family whose personal dramas soon eclipse the entire production.
At the Queen's Summons
Susan Wiggs · 384 pages
Feisty orphan Pippa de Lacey lives by wit and skill as a London street performer. But when her sharp tongue gets her into serious trouble, she throws herself upon the mercy of Irish chieftain Aidan O'Donoghue. Pippa provides a welcome diversion for Aidan as he awaits an audience with the queen, who holds his people's fate in her hands. Amused at first, he becomes obsessed with the audacious waif w
Losing the Plot
Annie Dalton · 149 pages
Second book in the Angels Unlimited fantasy series. Once Mel was just an ordinary teenager. Now she's a time-traveling angel. When the Agency sends her and her two best mates off to sixteenth-century London to rescue a troublesome teenage trio, Mel has to wonder if they're worth the effort. What's so special about these three? Then disaster strikes, and Mel had better act *fast.*
Watch the Lady
Elizabeth Fremantle · 503 pages
"From "a brilliant new player in the court of royal fiction" (People), comes the mesmerizing story of Lady Penelope Devereux--the daring young beauty in the Tudor court, who inspired Sir Philip Sidney's famous sonnets even while she plotted against Queen Elizabeth. Penelope Devereux arrives at Queen Elizabeth's court where she and her brother, the Earl of Essex, are drawn into the aging Queen's f
The Heiress
Jude Deveraux · 375 pages
Jamie Montgomery, an impoverished Elizabethan knight, is elated when he is assigned to escort Axia, the Lancaster heiress, to the castle of her betrothed. If only she will fall in love with Jamie — as Jamie’s devoted older sister predicts — the family’s financial woes will be solved. But Axia, who has spent her life closely guarded by her father’s servants, is not the shy, cossetted flower Jamie e
Maid of Deception
Jennifer McGowan · 416 pages
In 1559 England, Beatrice and her fellow Maids of Honor, Queen Elizabeth I's secret all-female guard, must rely on their charm and deadly spying skills to investigate a brewing Scottish rebellion.
Stage Fright on a Summer Night
Mary Pope Osborne · 70 pages
Jack and Annie travel in their magic tree house to Elizabethan London, where they become actors in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and try to rescue a tame bear.
By Royal Command
Mary Hooper · 239 pages
Lucy has become a firm fixture in the household of Dr Dee, a real-life figure who was court magician to Queen Elizabeth 1. Lucy, in return for saving the queen's life, has been told that she is to work as a spy for Her Grace and that she is to remain with the Dee family and await further instruction ... And then Lucy hears unexplained cries in the Dee house, and finds a young girl imprisoned there
The Royal Road to Fotheringhay
Jean Plaidy · 349 pages
"Her novels are still very much to be enjoyed ... Any writer who can both educate and thrill a reader of any age deserves to be remembered and find new fans ... One only has to look at the TV/Media to see that the appetite for this kind of writing is still very much there" -- Matt Bates WH Smith Travel "Jean Plaidy doesn't just write the history, she makes it come alive." -- Julia Moffat, RNA "Thi
Midnight Never Come
Marie Brennan · 400 pages
England flourishes under the hand of its Virgin Queen: Elizabeth, Gloriana, last and most powerful of the Tudor monarchs. But a great light casts a great shadow.In hidden catacombs beneath London , a second Queen holds court: Invidiana, ruler of faerie England , and a dark mirror to the glory above. In the thirty years since Elizabeth ascended her throne, fae and mortal politics have become inext
The Rose Labyrinth
Titania Hardie · 390 pages
Beyond the adventure in The Rose Labyrinth, more is revealed through the riddles hidden within the book's case.
Roses Have Thorns: A Novel of Elizabeth I
Sandra Byrd · 415 pages