Book Review: The Lost Tudor Princess
/The little-known matriarch of modern British monarchy, the headstrong niece of King Henry VIII, is the subject of an absorbing new biography
Read MoreBook Review: The Rise of Thomas Cromwell
/Hilary Mantel's two famous novels have fueled the centuries-old curiosity about King Henry VIII's notorious minister Thomas Cromwell: was he a saint, Satan, or a civil servant? A magnificent new study attempts to sift fact from fiction
Read MoreBook Review: Watch the Lady
/Penelope Devereux inspired a poet and may well have inspired a failed coup in Elizabethan England - and now she inspires a richly-detailed novel
Read MoreBook Review: The Tapestry
/Joanna Stafford - niece of an executed man and distant cousin to King Henry VIII - is called to court, where she immediately becomes the focal point of deadly intrigues
Read MoreKeeping Up with the Tudors: We Seymours
/Suzannah Dunn's new novel takes readers inside the lives and tensions of the Tudor era's Seymour clan - including the timid, practical daughter who will become Queen of England
Read MoreBook Review: Tudor Adventurers
/In 1553, an audacious expedition set sail from England headed east in search of a passage to China - a young historians debut work tells the story of that expedition in all its high drama
Read MoreBook Review: The Spanish Armada
/In 1588 the greatest war-fleet since the Trojan War was launched against the England of Elizabeth I. A gripping new history tells the familiar story for a new generation
Read MoreBook Review: Sisters of Treason
/Lady Jane Grey was famously Queen of England for less than a fortnight before being executed by Queen Mary I; Elizabeth Fremantle's new book takes us into the world of Lady Jane's two sisters, adrift in a royal court that can't afford to trust them.
Read MoreBook Review: My Lady Viper
/King Henry VIII's last wife referred to her as "Hell," and the Court universally despised her coarse ambition - she was Anne Seymour, and she's the unlikely subject of a nifty new novel
Read MoreBook Review: Queen Elizabeth's Daughter
/Idealistic young Mary Shelton finds love at the Tudor Court - but it's not the love her Queen has chosen for her
Read MoreBook Review: The Spanish Queen
/King Henry VIII's first wife, Catherine of Aragon, takes center stage in a new novel by Tudor historian Carolly Erickson
Read MoreBook Review: Henry VIII - The Life and Rule of England's Nero
/England's 'bluff king Hal' is put under the microscope in a scathing new biography
Read MoreBook Review: Tudors
/Our reigning master of vigorous popular history takes on the most vigorous, popular English dynasty of them all
Read MoreBook Review: Shakespeare's Prince
/An exhaustive - and immensely enjoyable - line-by-line examination of Shakespeare's final play
Read MoreBook Review: Fatal Rivalry
/While Henry VIII was away fighting the French, his kingdom was invaded from the north by James of Scotland. It was defended by thousands of brave soldiers, a handful of ambitious courtiers - and one remarkable woman.
Read MoreBook Review: Royal Inheritance
/Pretty young Audrey has grown up in the Tudor court thinking she's the daughter of King Henry VIII's tailor - but what if her real father is the king himself?
Read MoreBook Review: The White Princess
/"The Cousins' War" - Philippa Gregory's ongoing novelization of the Wars of the Roses - reaches an epic turning point in her latest book, about the precarious founding of the Tudor dynasty
Read MoreKeeping Up with the Tudors: Him Again
/In the famous jingle 'divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived,' Katherine Parr comes last - the sixth wife of King Henry VIII. But she was far more than that - scholar, regent, and passionate young woman - as a new Tudor historical novel attempts to portray
Read MoreKeeping Up With The Tudors: Peace, Plenty, Love, Truth, Terror
/A debut novel of alternate history spins out one of the most tantalizing hypotheticals of the past: what if Anne Boleyn had managed to give King Henry VIII a healthy male heir? Some of the answers - and some of the resulting mysteries - may surprise you.
Read MoreBook Review: Roses Have Thorns
/A young Swedish girl travels to England and becomes a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth I herself
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