The Tapestry by Nancy Bilyeau
The Tapestry is the final book in Nancy Bilyeau’s Joanna Stafford trilogy and it is a fitting end…
August 2023
The Dragon of Handale by Cassandra Clark
Thank you to Penelope Wright for reviewing this historical novel for us. Over to Penny… This is the…
#WednesdayFact – Anne Boleyn survived sweating sickness in 1528
Did you know that Anne Boleyn survived sweating sickness? In June 1528, Anne Boleyn fled from court to…
A Queen of a New Invention: Portraits of Lady Jane Grey Dudley, England’s Nine Days Queen by J. Stephan Edwards
There are twenty-nine surviving portraits which have, at one time or another, been said to depict the ill-fated…
#PortraitTuesday – A 17th-century engraving of Anne Boleyn by Renold Elstrack
This week's #PortraitTuesday treat is a 17th-century engraving of Queen Anne Boleyn by Renold (Reginold) Elstrack (1570-c.1625). Elstrack…
The Tutor by Andrea Chapin
I’ve been having a bit of a historical fiction fest recently and I have to say that there…
Watch the Lady by Elizabeth Fremantle
I loved Elizabeth Fremantle’s previous Tudor novels, Queen’s Gambit and Sisters of Treason, so was over the moon…