Philippa Gregory

Set in the poverty and glamour of Restoration London, in the golden streets of Venice, and on the tensely contested frontier of early America, this is a novel of greed and desire: for love, for wealth, for a child, and for home.

It is 1685, England is on the brink of a renewed civil war against the Stuart kings and many families are bitterly divided. Ned Ferryman cannot persuade his sister Alinor that he is right to return from America with his Pokanoket servant Rowan to join the rebel army. Instead, Alinor has been coaxed by the manipulative Livia to save the queen from the coming siege. The rewards are life-changing: the family could return to their beloved Tidelands, and...

An historical novel from the author of 'The Other Boleyn Girl' and 'The Boleyn Inheritance', in which Mary, Queen of Scots, is placed under house arrest with the newly-married Bess of Hardwick and the Earl of Shrewsbury, but fights to regain her kingdom and more.

The year is 1539 and the court of Henry VIII is increasingly fearful at the moods of the ageing sick king. With only a baby in the cradle for an heir, Henry has to take another wife and the dangerous prize of the crown of England is won by Anne of Cleves. She has her own good reasons for agreeing to marry a man old enough to be her father, in a country where to her both language and habits are foreign. Although fascinated by the glamour of her new...

When Katherine of Aragon is brought to the Tudor court as a young bride, the oldest princess, Margaret, takes her measure. With one look, each knows the other for a rival, an ally, a pawn, destined - with Margaret's younger sister Mary - to a sisterhood unique in all the world. The three sisters will become the queens of England, Scotland and France. United by family loyalties and affections, the three queens find themselves set against each other....

'Virgin Earth' is the story of John, son of John Tradescant the great gardener, botanist and adventurer. John is in every way as fascinating and wilful a character as his father, and a man who lived through even more extraordinary times.

Princess Florizella may live in a classic fairy-tale world, but she?s no ordinary princess... This two book collection is made up of: The Princess Rules (volume 1) The Princess Rules: It?s a Prince Thing (volume 2) Book 1: ?Princess Florizella was friends with some of the princesses who had studied the Princess Rules, and behaved just as the Rules said they should. Florizella thought their hair was lovely: so golden and so very long. And their clothes...

THE CONSTANT PRINCESS Tells the story of Henry VIII?s first wife, Katherine of Aragon, the Spanish princess raised to be Queen of England and first brought to England to marry Henry?s older brother, Prince Arthur. But when her new husband dies, she must fight for her birthright - and in marrying the now heir to the throne, she must tell the greatest lie? and hold to it. THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL Made famous by the film adaptation, tells the story of the...

It was easy for Elizabeth. She married the man she loved, bore him two children and made a home for him which was the envy of their friends. It was harder for Ruth. She married Elizabeth's son and then found that, somehow, she could never quite measure up ... Isolation, deceit and betrayal fill the gaps between the two individual women and between their different worlds. In this complex thriller, Philippa Gregory deploys all her insight into what...

1558. After years of waiting, Princess Elizabeth accedes to the throne of England.For many, Elizabeth?s ascension is a glorious new dawn. Not so for Amy Dudley, whose ambitious husband, Sir Robert, is the acknowledged favourite of the new queen - a queen who must marry to secure her survival.But Robert Dudley has many powerful enemies. And although she is clearly besotted with him, the virgin queen will not risk her hold on the throne.Desire and ambition...