Category Archives: Books 2022

Books 2022 – on sale today – Henrietta Maria: Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen by Leanda de Lisle

Posted on 4th August 2022 by Tamise

‘A myth-busting biography of Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I, which retells the dramatic story of the civil war from her perspective Henrietta Maria is one of British history’s most reviled queen consorts. Condemned in her lifetime as that ‘Popish … Continue reading →

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Books 2022 – on sale today – Two Houses, Two Kingdoms: A History of France and England, 1100–1300 by Catherine Hanley

Posted on 12th July 2022 by Tamise

‘An exhilarating, accessible chronicle of the ruling families of France and England, showing how two dynasties formed one extraordinary story The twelfth and thirteenth centuries were a time of personal monarchy, when the close friendship or petty feuding between kings … Continue reading →

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Books 2022 – on sale now – Writing Mary I

Posted on 9th July 2022 by Tamise

Writing Mary I: History, Historiography, and Fiction edited by Valerie Schutte and Jessica S Hower ‘This book―along with its companion volume Mary I in Writing: Letters, Literature, and Representations―centers on representations of Queen Mary I in writing, broadly construed, and … Continue reading →

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Books 2022 – on sale today – Blood, Fire and Gold: The story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici by Estelle Paranque

Posted on 30th June 2022 by Tamise

‘In sixteenth-century Europe, two women came to hold all the power, against all the odds. They were Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici. One a Virgin Queen who ruled her kingdom alone, and the other a clandestine leader who used … Continue reading →

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Books 2022 – on sale today – The Siege of Loyalty House by Jessie Childs

Posted on 19th May 2022 by Tamise

‘A greater proportion of the British population died in the civil wars of the seventeenth century than in the world wars of the twentieth. Jessie Childs recovers the shock of this conflict by plunging us into one of its most … Continue reading →