Philippa Gregory 3-Book Tudor Collection 2: The Queen’s Fool, The Virgin’s Lover, The Other Queen

Philippa Gregory 3-Book Tudor Collection 2: The Queen’s Fool, The Virgin’s Lover, The Other Queen
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Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Total Pages : 1114
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ISBN-10 : 9780007536269
ISBN-13 : 0007536267
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Philippa Gregory 3-Book Tudor Collection 2: The Queen’s Fool, The Virgin’s Lover, The Other Queen by : Philippa Gregory

From the bestselling author of THE WHITE QUEEN, now a hit BBC TV production – the last three novels of her Tudor Court series: THE QUEEN’S FOOL, THE VIRGIN’S LOVER and THE OTHER QUEEN

The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)

The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 678
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ISBN-10 : 9781416560609
ISBN-13 : 1416560602
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In) by : Philippa Gregory

The daughters of a ruthlessly ambitious family, Mary and Anne Boleyn are sent to the court of Henry VIII to attract the attention of the king, who first takes Mary as his mistress, in which role she bears him an illegitimate son, and then Anne as his wife. Reprint. 250,000 first printing. (A Columbia Pictures film, written by Peter Morgan, directed by Justin Chadwick, releasing Fall 2007, starring Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Eric Bana, and others) (Historical Fiction)

The Virgin's Lover

The Virgin's Lover
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 452
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ISBN-10 : 9780743275347
ISBN-13 : 0743275349
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis The Virgin's Lover by : Philippa Gregory

From #1 New York Times bestselling author and “queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) comes a riveting and scandalous love triangle between a young woman on the brink of greatness, a young man whose ambition far exceeds his means, and the wife who cannot forgive them. In the autumn of 1558, church bells across England ring out the joyous news that Elizabeth I is the new queen, yet 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 advisors 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 back 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.

The Other Queen

The Other Queen
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 451
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ISBN-10 : 9781416549123
ISBN-13 : 1416549129
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis The Other Queen by : Philippa Gregory

Presents a tale inspired by the story of Mary, Queen of Scots, in a work that follows the doomed monarch's long imprisonment in the household of the Earl of Shrewsbury and his spying wife, Bess.

The Boleyn Inheritance

The Boleyn Inheritance
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 596
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ISBN-10 : 9781439124673
ISBN-13 : 1439124671
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis The Boleyn Inheritance by : Philippa Gregory

THREE WOMEN WHO SHARE ONE FATE: THE BOLEYN INHERITANCE ANNE OF CLEVES She runs from her tiny country, her hateful mother, and her abusive brother to a throne whose last three occupants are dead. King Henry VIII, her new husband, instantly dislikes her. Without friends, family, or even an understanding of the language being spoken around her, she must literally save her neck in a court ruled by a deadly game of politics and the terror of an unpredictable and vengeful king. Her Boleyn Inheritance: accusations and false witnesses. KATHERINE HOWARD She catches the king's eye within moments of arriving at court, setting in motion the dreadful machine of politics, intrigue, and treason that she does not understand. She only knows that she is beautiful, that men desire her, that she is young and in love -- but not with the diseased old man who made her queen, beds her night after night, and killed her cousin Anne. Her Boleyn Inheritance: the threat of the axe. JANE ROCHFORD She is the Boleyn girl whose testimony sent her husband and sister-in-law to their deaths. She is the trusted friend of two threatened queens, the perfectly loyal spy for her uncle, the Duke of Norfolk, and a canny survivor in the murderous court of a most dangerous king. Throughout Europe, her name is a byword for malice, jealousy, and twisted lust. Her Boleyn Inheritance: a fortune and a title, in exchange for her soul. The Boleyn Inheritance is a novel drawn tight as a lute string about a court ruled by the gallows and three women whose positions brought them wealth, admiration, and power as well as deceit, betrayal, and terror. Once again, Philippa Gregory has brought a vanished world to life -- the whisper of a silk skirt on a stone stair, the yellow glow of candlelight illuminating a hastily written note, the murmurs of the crowd gathering on Tower Green below the newly built scaffold. In The Boleyn Inheritance Gregory is at her intelligent and page-turning best.

The Constant Princess

The Constant Princess
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 432
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ISBN-10 : 9780743272490
ISBN-13 : 0743272498
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis The Constant Princess by : Philippa Gregory

A fictional portrait of Henry VIII's first wife, Katherine of Aragon, follows her through her youthful marriage to Henry's older brother, Arthur, her widowhood, her marriage to Henry, and the divorce that led to Henry's marriage to Anne Boleyn.

The Queen's Fool

The Queen's Fool
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Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Total Pages : 501
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ISBN-10 : 9780007147298
ISBN-13 : 0007147295
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis The Queen's Fool by : Philippa Gregory

A novel set in the Tudor court, as the rivalry between Queen Mary and her half-sister Elizabeth is played out against a background of betrayal, conflict and passion.

Tidelands

Tidelands
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 480
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ISBN-10 : 9781501187179
ISBN-13 : 1501187171
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Tidelands by : Philippa Gregory

This New York Times bestseller from “one of the great storytellers of our time” (San Francisco Book Review) turns from the glamour of the royal courts to tell the story of an ordinary woman, Alinor, living in a dangerous time for a woman to be different. A country at war A king beheaded A woman with a dangerous secret On Midsummer’s Eve, Alinor waits in the church graveyard, hoping to encounter the ghost of her missing husband and thus confirm his death. Until she can, she is neither maiden nor wife nor widow, living in a perilous limbo. Instead she meets James, a young man on the run. She shows him the secret ways across the treacherous marshy landscape of the Tidelands, not knowing she is leading a spy and an enemy into her life. England is in the grip of a bloody civil war that reaches into the most remote parts of the kingdom. Alinor’s suspicious neighbors are watching each other for any sign that someone might be disloyal to the new parliament, and Alinor’s ambition and determination mark her as a woman who doesn’t follow the rules. They have always whispered about the sinister power of Alinor’s beauty, but the secrets they don’t know about her and James are far more damning. This is the time of witch-mania, and if the villagers discover the truth, they could take matters into their own hands. “This is Gregory par excellence” (Kirkus Reviews). “Fans of Gregory’s works and of historicals in general will delight in this page-turning tale” (Library Journal, starred review) that is “superb… A searing portrait of a woman that resonates across the ages” (People).

A Respectable Trade

A Respectable Trade
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 512
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ISBN-10 : 9780743272544
ISBN-13 : 0743272544
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis A Respectable Trade by : Philippa Gregory

Entering into an arranged marriage with an aspiring merchant in 1787 Bristol, Frances Scott is discouraged by her slavery-dependent lifestyle and unexpectedly falls for African slave and former Yoruba priest Mehuru. By the author of The Other Boleyn Girl. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.

The White Queen

The White Queen
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 464
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ISBN-10 : 9781476735481
ISBN-13 : 1476735484
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis The White Queen by : Philippa Gregory

A tale of the Wars of the Roses follows Elizabeth Woodville, who ascends to royalty and fights for the well-being of her family, including two sons whose imprisonment in the Tower of London precedes a devastating unsolved mystery.