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  2nd November 2023

  Secret Voices: A Year of Women’s Diaries

  A captivating collection of daily extracts from women’s diaries, looking back over four centuries to discover how women’s experience – of men and children, sex... more »

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  29th April 2021

  The Tudors in Love: The Courtly Code Behind the Last Medieval Dynasty

  Why did Henry VIII marry six times? Why did Anne Boleyn have to die? Why did Elizabeth I’s courtiers hail her as a goddess come... more »

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  26th September 2019

  Oneworld and St Martin’s Press acquire Sarah Gristwood’s new book THE TUDORS IN LOVE

  Oneworld and St Martin’s Press have acquired the new book from Tudor historian Sarah Gristwood, The Tudors in Love: How Romance Made and Marred the... more »

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  20th July 2018

  Vita & Virginia: A Double Life

  A double biography of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, their friendship and love affair. Virginia Woolf is one of the world’s most famous writers –... more »

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  20th July 2018

  The Queen’s Marys

  Mary Seton is lady-in-waiting to the legendary Mary Queen of Scots. Torn between her own desires and her duty to serve her mistress, she is... more »

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  20th July 2018

  The Girl in the Mirror

  Jeanne, a young French exile orphaned by the wars of religion on the continent, is brought to London as a young girl disguised as a... more »

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  20th July 2018

  Elizabeth: The Queen and Crown

  An internationally admired figure Queen Elizabeth II is the most high-profile monarch in the world, and her enduring popularity is tantamount to her wide-ranging supporters.... more »

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  20th July 2018

  Elizabeth & Leicester

  Few relationships fire our imagination like that of Elizabeth I and her ‘bonnie sweet Robin’ – the Earl of Leicester, Robert Dudley. Almost immediately after... more »

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  20th July 2018

  Blood Sisters: The Women Behind the War of the Roses

  The true story of the White Queen and more, this is a thrilling history of the extraordinary noblewomen who lived through the Wars of the... more »

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  20th July 2018

  Bird of Paradise: The Colourful Career of the First Mrs Robinson

  Few women’s lives have described such an arc as that of Mary Robinson. She began her career as an actress, became a royal mistress and... more »

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  20th July 2018

  Arbella: England’s Lost Queen

  ‘It is Arbella they would proclaim Queen if her mistress should happen to die’ Sir William Stanley, 1592 Niece to Mary, Queen of Scots, granddaughter... more »

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  20th July 2018

  Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe

  A BBC History magazine Book of the Year and an amazon.com Best Book of the Month As religion divided sixteenth-century Europe, an extraordinary group of women rose... more »