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Arbella: England's Lost Queenby Sarah GristwoodISBN 0618341331 (0-618-34133-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arbella: England's Lost Queen'Book summary:In this U.K. bestseller, Lady Arbella Stuart emerges as a most contemporary royal, a young woman determined to shape her own destiny in the midst of her plot-ridden world.[via]
Arbella was niece to Mary Queen of Scots and cousin to Elizabeth I who indicated that the teenage Arbella was to be heir to her throne. A critical pawn in the struggle for succession, particularly during the long, tense period when Elizabeth lay dying, the young Arbella endured twenty-seven years of isolation at the grand Hardwick Hall, held by her scheming and powerful grandmother.
The accession of James I, Arbellas first cousin, ended the young womans royal aspirations but thrust her into Jamess licentious court. Then, at age thirty-five, she risked everything to make a forbidden marriage. An escape in disguise, a wild flight abroad, and capture at sea led in the end to an agonizing death in the Tower. Yet nothing is as remarkable as the almost modern freedom with which, in a series of extraordinary letters more passionate and extensive than those of any other woman of this suffocating age Arbella Stuart revealed her own compelling personality.More editions of Arbella: England's Lost Queen:
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Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in Americaby Giles MiltonISBN 0312420188 (0-312-42018-8)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America'Book summary:The follow up to his best-selling Nathaniel's Nutmeg, Giles Milton's Big Chief Elizabeth is a sprawling, ambitious tale of how the aristocrats and privateers of Elizabethan England reached and colonized the "wild and barbarous shores" of the New World. Milton's story ranges from John Cabot's voyage to America in 1497 to the painful but ultimately successful foundation of the English colony at Jamestown by 1611. However, the main focus of the book is Sir Walter Raleigh's elaborate and tortuous attempts to establish an English settlement on Roanoke Island, in present-day North Carolina, following the first English voyage there in 1584. Scouring contemporary travel accounts of the period, Milton creates a colorful and entertaining account of the greed, confusion, and misunderstanding that characterized English relations with the Native Americans, and the violent and tragic conflict that often ensued.
Milton has a good eye for a surreal or comical story, such as the colony's first encounter with Big Chief--or Weroanza Wingina, whose exotic title "quickly captured the imagination of the English colonists, and they began referring to their own queen as Weroanza Elizabeth." The Elizabethan cast is also dazzling: the flamboyant and ambitious Walter Raleigh, who provided the money behind the Roanoke ventures; the "sober" ascetic scholar Thomas Hariot, who provided the brains; and hardened adventurers, like Arthur Barlowe and Ralph Lane, who provided the muscle. The myths and stories also come thick and fast, from John Smith and Pocahontas, to the importation of the fashion of "drinking tobacco," but the problem with Big Chief Elizabeth is that it lacks a central driving story. In the end, it reads like an entertaining, but rather labored jog through early Anglo-American history, something that has been done with greater skill and originality by, for one, Charles Nicholl in his fascinating book The Creature in the Map. Those who enjoyed Nathaniel's Nutmeg will probably like Big Chief Elizabeth, but with some reservations. --Jerry Brotton, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Boadicea's Chariot: The Warrior Queensby Antonia FraserISBN 0297794868 (0-297-79486-8)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Boadicea's Chariot: The Warrior Queens'Book summary:The classic study of women leaders in war. [via]
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Death at Buckingham Palaceby C. C. BenisonISBN 0553574760 (0-553-57476-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Death at Sandringham Houseby C. C. BenisonISBN 0553574779 (0-553-57477-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death at Sandringham House'Book summary:Jane Bee, a housemaid to Her Majesty the Queen, accompanies the Royal family on their annual Christmas jaunt to Sandringham and turns sleuth when the dead body of a woman bearing a striking resemblance to the queen is discovered. [via]
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Death at Windsor Castleby C. C. BenisonISBN 0553574787 (0-553-57478-7)
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Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queensby Jane DunnISBN 0375708200 (0-375-70820-0)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens'Book summary:Jane Dunns Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens offers a blend of history and biography that traces the "dynamic interaction" between two of the most powerful women in Western history. Dunn remains ever aware of the uniqueness of her two central figures: both women ruled as divinely ordained monarchs in a male dominated power structure; and both women were from the same family (Elizabeth I was the granddaughter of Henry VII, and Mary Queen of Scots the great-granddaughter of King Henry).
By focusing not on pure biography but instead on relationships, Dunn is able to narrow her book (still mammoth in scope) to the most salient and interesting events in the two queens lives. The book begins in 1558, the year in which Mary first wed and Elizabeth assumed the throne of England. Almost immediately the cousins were embroiled in a conflict that would endure for the remainder of Marys life. A restless, sexually-active Catholic, and leader of the Scottish people in alliance with France, Mary was ever a conduit for rumors of rebellion. The "Virgin Queen" Elizabeth used Mary as a dark reflection to underline her own celibate constancy as a ruler of law and order.
The pair never met face to face, but as Dunn reveals, their lives were closely intertwined. After holding Mary in Fotheringhay prison for nearly two decades, Elizabeth ordered her cousin executed in 1587. Mary had chosen martyrdom in favor of a confession to complicity in the Babington assassination plot. In court, she declared: "I would never make Shipwreck of my Soul by conspiring the Destruction of my dearest Sister." Though the ostensible victor, Elizabeth (who had struggled to find a way to release her cousin while still upholding her own power as queen) confessed, "I am not free, but a captive." In Elizabeth and Mary, Dunn has built a rich world that underlines the tragic struggle between private emotions and the public faces history puts on them. --Patrick OKelley [via]
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- Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens: ISBN 0375408983 (0-375-40898-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens: ISBN 0002571501 (0-00-257150-1)
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- Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens: ISBN 0375408983 (0-375-40898-3)
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Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life In Elizabethan Londonby Liza PicardISBN 0312325665 (0-312-32566-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life In Elizabethan London'Book summary:Liza Picard's Elizabeth's London completes a trilogy of books on London throughout history, starting with Restoration London and followed by Dr Johnson's London. From the outset, Picard admits that Elizabethan London proved an even greater challenge to reconstruct, as "few buildings survive", and "artefacts and clothes from the time are rare". Nevertheless, through painstaking detail, Picard wonderfully recreates the crowded chaotic sights and smells of everyday life in late 16th-century London.
Her journey starts, like so many admirers of the city from Chaucer to Ackroyd, on the river Thames, "a uniform opaque grey" in Elizabeth's time, but "fairly unpolluted, judging from all the fish in it," and "a superb processional route between the royal palaces." From here Picard surveys London life, from its main streets, its water supply and its civic buildings of timber and stone, to the houses, people, clothes, food, drink and entertainment that defined one of the most prosperous cities in 16th-century Europe.
Everything is told in all its raw, sensual detail, from the ways in which "the butcher's professional skills" were used to disembowel those unfortunate enough to be convicted of capital offences, to the cost of pins for dressmaking--one shilling and eight pence per thousand. At times, the sheer detail of Picard's book can be overwhelming, and there is no specific argument that unites her observations, but the sheer scale of information is extremely impressive. -Jerry Brotton [via]
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- Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life In Elizabethan London: ISBN 0312325657 (0-312-32565-7)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr - Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life In Elizabethan London: ISBN 0297607294 (0-297-60729-4)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson - Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life In Elizabethan London: ISBN 0312325665 (0-312-32566-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
- Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life In Elizabethan London: ISBN 0312325657 (0-312-32565-7)
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Elizabethan World Pictureby TillyardISBN 0394701623 (0-394-70162-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elizabethan World Picture'Book summary:This brief and illuminating account of the ideas of world order prevalent in the Elizabethan age and later is an indispensable companion for readers of the great writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries-Shakespeare and the Elizabethan dramatists, Donne and Milton, among many others. The basic medieval idea of an ordered Chain of Being is studied by Professor Tillyard in the process of its various transformations by the dynamic spirit of the Renaissance. Among his topics are: Angels; the Stars and Fortunes; the Analogy between Macrocosm and Microcosm; the Four Elements; the Four Humours; Sympathies; Correspondences; and the Cosmic Dance-ideas and symbols which inspirited the minds and imaginations not only of the Elizabethans but of all men of the Renaissance. [via]
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Gloriana: The Years of Elizabeth Iby Mary M. LukeISBN 0698105435 (0-698-10543-5)
Hardcover, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
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Legacyby Susan KayISBN 038070322X (0-380-70322-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Legacy'Book summary:A Spellbinding Tale of England's Most Passionate Queen-and the Three Men Whose Destinies Belonged to Her Alone.
"Fast-paced...one of the most fascinating monarchs in history."
-New York Times Book Review"A stupendous achievement...a book that captures
Queen Elizabeth I completely."
-Mainstream HistoricalBeloved for its stunning storytelling, Legacy offers an exquisite portrait of the queen who defined an era. Tracing the unlikely path from her tragic childhood to her ruthless confrontations with Mary, Queen of Scots, and capturing in all its glory her brilliant reign as Europe's most celebrated queen, Legacy peels back the layers from a mysterious monarch and satisfies the questions of history.
Winner of the Georgette Heyer Historical Novel Prize and the Betty Trask Award, Legacy gives us Elizabeth the woman: proud, passionate, and captivating in her intensity. She inspired men to love her with bewitching devotion, no matter what the cost, but the depth of her love for England required a sacrifice that would haunt her to the grave.
"Full of dramatic twists and turns, not to mention a scintillating central character and colorful supporting cast. Readers will lose themselves for hours in this richly entertaining novel."
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Linnet.by Sally WatsonISBN 0525336958 (0-525-33695-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Lion and the Throne: The Life and Times of Sir Edward Coke 1552-1634by Catherine Drinker BowenISBN 0316103934 (0-316-10393-4)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Living Biographies of Famous Rulersby Henry ThomasISBN 0836926714 (0-8369-2671-4)
Hardcover, Books for Libraries
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The Other Boleyn Girlby Philippa GregoryISBN 0743227441 (0-7432-2744-1)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Other Boleyn Girl'Book summary:Everyone knows the fate of Anne Boleyn, but not many know the story of her rise to majesty and the part played by her rival and sister, Mary, who was Henry's mistress and mother to two of his bastard children before the dazzling older Boleyn girl even caught his eye. Philippa Gregory, whose own role as the Queen of historical romance grows more secure with each new novel, has surpassed her self with this epic tale of lust, jealousy and betrayal. The Other Boleyn Girl charts the lives of both Boleyns--each in their turn "the other Boleyn Girl"--and their fiercely ambitious, conniving family who used the girls as pawns to advance their own positions at the court of Henry VIII. At 13, Mary is little more than a child when she is presented to Henry, ordered by her scheming family to serve her King and country by opening her legs whenever commanded, or doing anything else the great monarch desires. And while his loins are satisfied, life at court is sweet for the unofficial Queen and her pushy coterie. Inevitably though, the King's eyes soon begin to wander and Mary is overlooked, helpless to do anything but aid her family's plot to advance their fortunes, replace her with Anne and give Henry the greatest gift of all: a son and heir.
So good a job has Ms Gregory done at portraying the Boleyns and Howards as selfish, scheming, treacherous manipulators however, that it becomes increasingly hard to feel empathy for any of them. While Mary is merely hapless, Anne is the most ruthless of them all, so that instead of feeling cheated by knowing the outcome of her story, it only serves to help digest her unpalatable rise. Such a gruesome destiny was never more deserved. Ms Gregory has worked hard at researching her historical references. Daily life at court is described in fascinating detail--from the relentless leisure pursuits, masques and banquets laid on for the easily bored King to the complex hierarchies and machinations of the courtiers. However, the fall of Queen Katherine of Aragon and her only child, the Princess Mary, and the politics of the competing European courts and the break with Rome are seen only as a backdrop to the bawdy goings-on of the Boleyns and their fateful race for the crown. --Carey Green [via]
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A Pawn for a Queen : An Ursula Blanchard Mystery at Queen Elizabeth I's Courtby Fiona BuckleyISBN 0743410319 (0-7434-1031-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Pawn for a Queen : An Ursula Blanchard Mystery at Queen Elizabeth I's Court'Book summary:A quiet life at Withysham with her young daughter is all that widowed Ursula Blanchard desires. But as the waiting woman and spy for Queen Elizabeth I, she forfeits her needs for the sake of those she is pledged to protect -- even at her own peril....
Ursula's relatives enlist her help when her cousin, Edward Faldene, heads to Scotland carrying a dangerous weapon: a secret list of families loyal to Elizabeth's rival, Mary, Queen of Scots. Desperate to stop the treasonous mission, Ursula rides north in haste to intercept her cousin. It is a journey made without royal permission, and one made in vain....Ursula arrives in Edinburgh too late -- and finds herself tracking a killer inside the Scottish queen's court. Whom can she trust? Mary, the enemy, who is in fact kind and charming? Her genial courtiers? The aristocrat who vies for Ursula's heart? Every player falls under suspicion in a sinister game in which, for a queen, everyone is a pawn. [via]
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The Perilous Gardby Elizabeth Marie Pope, Richard CuffariISBN 0618150730 (0-618-15073-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Perilous Gard'Book summary:In 1558, while exiled by Queen Mary Tudor to a remote castle known as Perilous Gard, young Kate Sutton becomes involved in a series of mysterious events that lead her to an underground world peopled by Fairy Folkwhose customs are even older than the Druids and include human sacrifice.[via]More editions of The Perilous Gard:
- The Perilous Gard: ISBN 0618177361 (0-618-17736-1)
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Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - The Perilous Gard: ISBN 0816163537 (0-8161-6353-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - The Perilous Gard: ISBN 0618150730 (0-618-15073-0)
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The Perilous Gardby Elizabeth M. Pope, Richard CuffariISBN 014034912X (0-14-034912-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Perilous Gard'Book summary:In Tudor England a young lady-in-waiting is exiled to an isolated castle. There she encounters the legendary Fairy Folk, who have chosen a strange and silent young man as a sacrifice. Is it her destiny to save him? A Newbery Honor Book. [via]
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The Pirate Meets The Queenby Matt FaulknerISBN 0399240381 (0-399-24038-1)
Hardcover, Philomel Books
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The Poyson Gardenby Karen HarperISBN 0440225922 (0-440-22592-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Poyson Garden'Book summary:Imagine a cross between the films Elizabeth and Shakespeare in Love (without the latter's jokes) and you'll get some idea of this first entry in Karen Harper's Bess Tudor series of historical mysteries. It's 1558, and the 25-year-old Elizabeth, her life and family threatened by the dying, jealous Queen Mary, actually dresses up like a boy and slips off to Hever Castle. There she bonds with the spirit of her mother, Anne Boleyn, and solves several murders.
In lesser hands, such a plot might seem unlikely. But, as she has done in such previous books as Black Orchid, Dark Road Home, and Empty Cradle, Harper stills disbelief and quickens interest with her impeccable research and competent prose. The former high school English teacher knows how to create characters that leap to life despite the accumulated weight of previous books and films: her Elizabeth is a smart, sad, tough, and feisty original, fully worthy of both her mother and her father's heritage. It should be great fun to watch her grow and solve future mysteries. --Dick Adler [via]
Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabethby John NicholsISBN 040404770X (0-404-04770-X)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc
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Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd : The Inventories of the Wardrobe of Robes Prepared in July 1600, Edited from Stowe MS 557 in the British Library, MS LR 2/121 in the Public Record Office, London, and MS V. B. 72 in the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DCby Janet ArnoldISBN 0901286206 (0-901286-20-6)
Hardcover, Maney Publishing
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The Queen's Bastardby Robin MaxwellISBN 1559704756 (1-55970-475-6)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Queen's Bastard'Book summary:Historians have long whispered that Elizabeth "the Virgin Queen's" passionate, lifelong affair with Robin Dudley, Earl of Leicester, may have led to the birth of a son, Arthur Dudley. In this exquisite sequel to The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn, Robin Maxwell fashions a stunning fictional account of the child switched at birth by a lady-in-waiting who foresaw the deleterious political consequences of a royal bastard.
Set against the sweeping, meticulously rendered backdrop of court intrigues, international scandals, and England's battle against the Spanish Armada, The Queen's Bastard deftly juxtaposes Elizabeth and Leicester's tumultuous relationship with the memoirs of the adventurous son lost to them -- yet ultimately discovered. [via]
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The Queen's Foolby Philippa GregoryISBN 0743246071 (0-7432-4607-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Queen's Fool'Book summary:The bitter enmity between Elizabeth the First and Mary Tudor, the daughters of Henry VIII (not to mention the conflict between their mothers Anne Boleyn and Katherine of Aragon) makes the squabbles between modern-day royals seem small beer indeed. This is particularly clear after reading something as enjoyable as Philippa Gregory's The Queen's Fool, which treats the period and its turbulent sweep with an almost operatic grandeur. In The Other Boleyn Girl, Gregory delivered a tremendous popular success and lifted this kind of popular historical writing from the realms of romantic fiction to something rich in authentic drama and convincing historical verisimilitude.
Mary and Elizabeth, the two young princesses, have a common goal: to be Queen of England. To achieve this, they need both to win the love of the people and learn how to negotiate dangerous political pitfalls. Gregory recreates this era with tremendous colour, and she makes the court an enticing but danger-fraught place. Into this setting comes the eponymous fool, the youthful Hannah, who (despite her air of guileless religiousness) is not naive. She soon finds herself having to deal with the beguiling but treacherous Robert Dudley. Dispatched to report on Princess Mary, Hannah discovers in her a passionate religious conviction (to return England to the rule of Rome and its pope) that will have fatal consequences.
From Tolstoy's War and Peace onwards, historical novelists have set fictitious characters among real-life personages with mixed success; the author's creations can often pale beside the historical figures. That is emphatically not the case here, and Gregory ensures that all her characters have a full and teeming life. Expect a major movie: something as colourful and exuberant as The Queen's Fool is a natural for screen adaptation. --Barry Forshaw [via]
The Queen's Slave Trader: Jack Hawkyns, Elizabeth I, and the Trafficking in Human Soulsby Nick HazlewoodISBN 0060935693 (0-06-093569-3)
Softcover, Perennial
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The Secret Diary of Anne Boleynby Robin MaxwellISBN 155970375X (1-55970-375-X)
Hardcover, Arcade Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn'Book summary:In this "energetic" (Kirkus Reviews) re-creation of Anne Boleyn's tragic life -- and death -- Robin Maxwell offers a pitch-perfect version of a bawdy and exuberant time filled with lust, betrayal, love, and murder.
When the young Queen Elizabeth I is entrusted with Anne Boleyn's secret diary, she discovers a great deal about the much-maligned mother she never knew. And on learning the truth about her lascivious and despotic father, Henry VIII, she vows never to relinquish control to any man. But this avowal doesn't prevent Elizabeth from pursuing a torrid love affair with her horsemaster, Robin Dudley -- described with near-shocking candor -- as too are Anne's graphic trysts with a very persistent and lustful Henry. Blending a historian's attention to accuracy with a novelist's artful rendering, Maxwell weaves compelling descriptions of court life and devastating portraits of actual people into her naughty, page-turning tale. The result is a masterpiece of historical fiction -- so prophetic of our time that one would think it were ripped from today's headlines. [via]
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The Tidal Pooleby Karen HarperISBN 1568958943 (1-56895-894-3)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tidal Poole'Book summary:January 13, 1559, London. On the eve of the celebrations heralding her coronation as Queen of England, twenty-five-year-old Elizabeth Tudor kneels alone, inside the haunted walls of the Tower of London. Here, beneath the cold paving stones of the Tower's chapel, lie the bones of her mother, Anne Boleyn, and of otbhers, long lost in the deadly conspiracies surrounding the crown. Now the power will be Elizabeth's, to hold or to lose. Solitary, rapt, she dedicates herself to the memory of her mother and to the future of England.
Then, in the shadows behind her, something stirs...
Karen Harper's enthralling Elizabeth I mystery series, which debuted to widespread critical and popular acclaim with The Poyson Garden, moves into high gear with The Tidal Poole, as Bess Tudor comes into her own as Queen of England. The Tidal Poole opens as Elizabeth's triumphant procession to Westminster Palace is marred by the brutal murder of a high-born, high-living lady of the court. Abetted by her irresistible band of loyal retainers, the young queen is soon spearheading a sub rosa investigation of the crime--an investigation that leads inexorably to a sinister plot against Elizabeth herself.
Populated with fascinating historical figures, rich in the details of a vibrant, violent era, The Tidal Poole is an intoxicating Elizabethan brew of high drama and deadly intrigue played out as the fate of a realm hangs in the balance. Climaxing in a midnight voyage through the murderous tidal pools swirling under London Bridge and highlighting a magnificent queen in the first full flush of her power, it is essential reading for lovers of romantic mystery, history, and regal adventure. [via]
The Tudor Courtby D. M. LoadesISBN 1873041381 (1-873041-38-1)
Hardcover, Headstart History
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Unicorn's Bloodby Patricia FinneyISBN 0312200390 (0-312-20039-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Unicorn's Blood'Book summary:From the author of "Firedrake's Eye" comes a masterpiece of voice, historical detail, and psychological insight to rival Peter Ackroyd and A.S. Byatt. Narrated by a defrocked nun, a poignant victim of Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries, "Unicorn's Blood" tells of the existence of a secret diary kept by Queen Elizabeth I as a young princess National print ads Buyer's Choice . [via]
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The Virgin's Loverby Philippa GregoryISBN 0743269268 (0-7432-6926-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Virgin's Lover'Book summary:The National Bestseller In the autumn of 1558, church bells across England ring out the joyous news that Elizabeth I is the new queen. One woman hears the tidings with utter dread. She is Amy Dudley, wife of Sir Robert, and she knows that Elizabeth's ambitious leap to the throne will draw her husband back to the center of the glamorous Tudor court, where he was born to be. Elizabeth's excited triumph is short-lived. She has inherited a bankrupt country where treason is rampant and foreign war a certainty. Her faithful advisor William Cecil warns her that she will survive only if she marries a strong prince to govern the rebellious country, but the one man Elizabeth desires is her childhood friend, the ambitious Robert Dudley. As the young couple falls in love, a question hangs in the air: can he really set aside his wife and marry the queen? When Amy is found dead, Elizabeth and Dudley are suddenly plunged into a struggle for survival. Philippa Gregory's The Virgin's Lover answers the question about an unsolved crime that has fascinated detectives and historians for centuries. Intelligent, romantic, and compelling, The Virgin's Lover presents a young woman on the brink of greatness, a young man whose ambition exceeds his means, and the wife who cannot forgive them. [via]
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The Warrior Queensby Antonia FraserISBN 0679728163 (0-679-72816-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Warrior Queens'Book summary:In this panoramic work of history, Lady Antonia Fraser looks at women who led armies and empires: Cleopatra, Isabella of Spain, Jinga Mbandi, Margaret Thatcher, and Indira Gandhi, among others. [via]
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Willby Grace TiffanyISBN 0425198715 (0-425-19871-5)
Softcover, Berkley Signature
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Will'Book summary:From novelist Grace Tiffany, whose debut novel, My Father Had a Daughter, was hailed as "richly detailed" and "enthralling" (Library Journal), comes the compelling narrative of the life of the most revered playwright in history.
Will Shakespeare has left Stratford for London and pitched himself headlong into the chaotic, perilous world of the theater. Through raw will-and an amazing gift for words-he raises himself from poor player to master playwright. But as his success earns him great pleasure and adoration from others, it also draws the jealous wrath of Christopher Marlowe, a baby-faced genius whose anger is as punishing as his poetry is sweet... [via] -
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599by James ShapiroISBN 0060088745 (0-06-008874-5)
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Shakespeare wrote four of his most famous plays: Henry the Fifth, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and, most remarkably, Hamlet; Elizabethans sent off an army to crush an Irish rebellion, weathered an Armada threat from Spain, gambled on a fledgling East India Company, and waited to see who would succeed their aging and childless queen.
James Shapiro illuminates both Shakespeares staggering achievement and what Elizabethans experienced in the course of 1599, bringing together the news and the intrigue of the times with a wonderful evocation of how Shakespeare worked as an actor, businessman, and playwright. The result is an exceptionally immediate and gripping account of an inspiring moment in history.
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