Best Tudor Historical Fiction - April 2024

The Postwoman

Based on the story of WWII Resistance fighter Andrée De Jongh, The Postwoman recounts the gripping story of one woman’s courageous actions and sacrifices in the face of great peril.In 1940, Andrée “Dedee” de Jongh, a twenty-four-year-old Belgian nurse, is horrified by her country’s quick surrender to Nazi Germany. Every week she observes Germans inspecting the infirmary for injured Allied soldiers to ship off to work camps. Every day she witnesses new atrocities in the streets, such as Jewish countrymen being brutally beaten.Outraged at the injustice, Dedee devises a strategy with he... [Read More]

• ASIN: B079P515F5
• ASIN: B079P515F5

Tudor: Passion. Manipulation. Murder. The Story of England's Most Notorious Royal Family

The Tudors are England's most dramatic royal family-Henry VIII notoriously divorced his queen and broke with the church of Rome, and Elizabeth I became the greatest English queen in history. But they are a dynasty still more extraordinary than the one we thought we knew.In an epic narrative sweeping from 1437 to the first decade of the seventeenth century, Tudor traces the rise and rule of the dynasty. Brutal political instability dominated England, and Leanda de Lisle reveals the personalities, passions, and obsessions of the men and women at its epicenter.This groundbreaking story opens at t... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00E257TBW
• ASIN: B00E257TBW
• Manufacturer: PublicAffairs

MacFarland's Lass (Scottish Lasses Book 1)

"A rich, sensual, pull-at-the-heartstrings romance"–Monica McCarty, NYT bestselling authorFrom USA Today bestselling author Glynnis Campbell...A young jeweler to Queen Mary becomes a fugitive for a crime she didn't commit and must rely on the mercy of a heroic huntsman who steals her heart, but who could betray her at any moment.A woman on the run…a man on the hunt. He has forty days to earn her trust. She has forty days to win his heart. They have forty days to outwit their enemies.When Florie Gilder, the once-respected jeweler to Queen Mary, claims sanctuary in an abandoned church for a ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00JRFGFKI
• ASIN: B00JRFGFKI
• Manufacturer: Glynnis Campbell

The Hamilton Affair: A Novel

A New York Times Bestseller and one of the best historical fiction books of 2016 and 2017!“A juicy answer to Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton…” --CosmopolitanSet against the dramatic backdrop of the American Revolution, and featuring a cast of legendary characters, The Hamilton Affair tells the sweeping, tumultuous, true story of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler, from passionate and tender beginnings of their romance to his fateful duel on the banks of the Hudson River.Hamilton was a bastard and orphan, raised in the Caribbean and desperate for legitimacy, who became one of the ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01H0825PW
• ASIN: B01H0825PW
• Manufacturer: Arcade

Confessions of a Courtesan

“A captivating true story that explores the passionate life of a brave and extraordinary woman who was ahead of her time.” ~ USA Today bestselling author Julianne MacLeanThis historical novel is based on the improbable but true rags to riches story that culminated in the greatest romance of the Georgian era…Left without the protection of family or fortune at a young age, Lizzie Cane learns the hungry, brutal reality of life on the streets of 18th century London. She is rescued by a handsome young man and loses her heart to him, only to discover he is not what he appears. This experience ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B005UNWLSQ
• ASIN: B005UNWLSQ

A Column of Fire: A Novel (Kingsbridge Book 3)

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Absorbing . . . impossible to resist.” —The Washington PostAs Europe erupts, can one young spy protect his queen? #1 New York Times bestselling author Ken Follett takes us deep into the treacherous world of powerful monarchs, intrigue, murder, and treason with his magnificent new epic, A Column of Fire. A thrilling read that makes the perfect gift for the holidays.  In 1558, the ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn apart by religious conflict. As power in England shifts precariously between Catholics and Protestants, royalty a... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01N1U8IB3
• ASIN: B01N1U8IB3
• Brand: Viking
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

Queen Hereafter: A Novel of Margaret of Scotland

Refugee. Queen. Saint. Based on the lives of Saint Margaret of Scotland and her husband, King Malcolm III, in eleventh-century Scotland, a young woman strives to fulfill her destiny despite the risks... Shipwrecked on the Scottish coast, a young Saxon princess and her family—including the outlawed Edgar of England—ask sanctuary of the warrior-king Malcolm Canmore, who shrewdly sees the political advantage. He promises to aid Edgar and the Saxon cause in return for the hand of Edgar’s sister, Margaret, in marriage.A foreign queen in a strange land, Margaret adapts to life among the barba... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307452808
• ASIN: 0307452808
• ISBN: 0307452808
• Manufacturer: Broadway Books

The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels Book 1)

• ASIN: B000FC2MDG
• ASIN: B000FC2MDG
• Manufacturer: Atria Books

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia)

Don’t miss one of America’s top 100 most-loved novels, selected by PBS’s The Great American Read.A beautiful paperback edition of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, book two in the classic fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia. This edition features cover art by three-time Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator David Wiesner and interior black-and-white illustrations by the series' original illustrator, Pauline Baynes. Four adventurous siblings—Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie—step through a wardrobe door and into the land of Narnia, a land frozen in eternal winter and ensla... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0064404994
• UPC: 038332928570
• ASIN: 0064404994
• ISBN: 9780064404990
• Brand: HarperTrophy
• Manufacturer: HarperCollins

The Laird Of Blackloch (Highland Rogue Book 2)

Revenge might be sweet, but love is far sweeter…Following the Battle of Culloden, Alexander MacIvor returns to his ancestral home, Blackloch Castle, only to find the Earl of Tay, chief of the rival Clan Campbell, has laid waste to everything he holds dear. In the face of such devastation, Alex seems doomed to live the life of a fugitive Jacobite...until a stroke of good luck allows him to escape the Highlands and begin again. Years later, styling himself as a wealthy Englishman, Alexander reclaims his forfeited estate, becoming the new Laird of Blackloch. But it's not nearly enough to quell ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B0794XLD9B
• ASIN: B0794XLD9B
• Manufacturer: Escape Publishing

The Price of Happiness: A Strong Woman in the Middle Ages (A Medieval Tale Book 5)

The royal court has always been a realm of intrigue, conspiracy, death and sorrow. You didn’t expect to be spared, did you Lilian?A sinister conspiracy against the King is gaining momentum, with Lilian and her family in the epicenter of this deadly game. Meanwhile Count Jess Earton himself, vigilant and dissatisfied, has arrived at the royal palace. The family reunion Lillian has been dreading has finally arrived. She has had enough time to prepare, to plan and consider all her options. King Edward is on her side, as are the Khangans and the Virmans… So why is her stomach in knots, why are... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07H3XRVML
• ASIN: B07H3XRVML
• Manufacturer: LitHuntets Ltd.

Palace Intrigue: A Strong Woman in the Middle Ages (A Medieval Tale Book 3)

She suddenly wished that her medical school had offered a course on the art of intrigue… What seemed to be just an accident now carries an ugly and poisonous truth inside. Time to lift the veil. Aliya, now Countess Lilian Elizabeth Mariella Earton and wife to the Earl of Earton, is trying to uncover the truth behind Lillian’s miscarriage and the unhappy course of her marriage. How many enemies does Lilian have? And what do they want of her? King Edward’s interest in the estate of Earton – once collapsing, now prospering – has sparked. He invited Lilian to come to the Royal Palace in ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07DGHYP9X
• ASIN: B07DGHYP9X
• Manufacturer: LitHunters Ltd.

Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Bestselling historian Alison Weir tells the poignant, suspenseful and sometimes tragic story of Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the Yorkist King Edward IV and sister of the Princes in the Tower, a woman whose life was inextricably caught up in the turmoil of the Wars of the Roses and the establishment of the usurping Tudor dynasty. She was the wife of Henry VII and mother of Henry VIII. Many are familiar with the story of the much-married King Henry VIII of England and the celebrated reign of his daughter, Elizabeth I. But it is often forgotten that the life of the... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00CQZ657O
• ASIN: B00CQZ657O
• Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

A Respectable Trade (Historical Novels)

• ASIN: B000NY12S2
• ASIN: B000NY12S2
• Manufacturer: Atria Books

The Royal Court: A Strong Woman in the Middle Ages (A Medieval Tale Book 4)

The capital. It's the quiet before the storm. Countess Lilian Earton is now on the threshold of the royal palace, ready for a diplomatic and eloquent fight. A fight which will decide her destiny in a world she’s sacrificed so much for.The royals and noblemen are far more sophisticated in matters of intrigue, gossip, and slander than anyone she has dealt with before. Lilian steps up to another level of negotiation and intricacy in her relationships: much deeper and more dangerous than in her native Earton Castle. Everyone in the capital of Ativerna has sharp teeth and are not afraid to use th... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07FKVPTS3
• ASIN: B07FKVPTS3
• Manufacturer: LitHunters Ltd.

War of the Roses: Ravenspur : Rise of the Tudors Book Four

Originally published: London: Michael Joseph,

• UPC: 55461710
• Rating: 4.0

Dissolution : A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery

Having worked to establish laws that protect the interests of the crown in 1537, Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII's feared vicar-general, enlists fellow reformer and lawyer Matthew Shardlake to investigate a commissioner's murder, which may be

• UPC: 2512879
• Rating: 4.169

Ravenspur : Rise of the Tudors

Witness the rise of the Tudor dynasty--in this concluding volume to Conn Iggulden's vigorous and commanding retelling of the Wars of the

• UPC: 152149635
• Rating: 4.0

Tudor Rose, The

When her uncle Richard imprisons her two brothers after the death of her father, King Edward IV, Elizabeth of York weds Henry VII with the hope that he will force combat and avenge her brothers

• UPC: 11025415
• Rating: 3.571

The Secret Sense of Wildflower - Southern Historical Fiction, Best Book of 2012

The story of Louisa May "Wildflower" McAllister whose life has been shaped around the recent death of her beloved father in a sawmill accident. While her mother hardens in her grief, Wildflower and her three

• UPC: 53392142
• Rating: 4.25

Tudor Hugger-Mugger - eBook

Tudor Hugger-Mugger is a book of death, deceit and love. A tale of passion and peril...1515 - King Henry VIII's Tudor England is enjoying a period of relative peace but the lives of the King's

• UPC: 947452662
• Rating: 4.0

The Virgin's Spy : A Tudor Legacy Novel

Queen Elizabeth I finds her reign threatened by unrest in Ireland, while her daughter, Anabel, looks to play a greater role in her nation, but wonders how she can one day rule a country when

• UPC: 45761867
• Rating: 3.5

The Tudor Vendetta

"London, 1558. Queen Mary is dead, and 25-year old Elizabeth ascends the throne. Summoned to court from exile abroad, Elizabeth's intimate spy, Brendan Prescott, is reunited with the young queen, as well as his beloved

• UPC: 38311780
• Rating: 4.4

A Perilous Alliance : A Tudor Mystery

January, 1576. Widow Ursula Blanchard is in no position to refuse when Sir Francis Walsingham decides she must wed Count Gilbert Renard in order to build a strategic alliance with the French. Soon after the

• UPC: 46127348
• Rating: 2.5

The Virgin's Daughter : A Tudor Legacy Novel

"Andersen explores the thrilling possibility of a Tudor heir, the daughter of Elizabeth I, in her new trilogy, a captivating continuation of the alternate history of the Tudors launched in the award-winning Boleyn King trilogy.

• UPC: 42416257
• Rating: 4.0