Series
Series about Tudor & Stuart Britain (5 series)
The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels in Order
The Plantagenet and Tudor novels form a chronological sequence of connected but independently readable stories about women near the English throne. They move from the Lancastrian court and the Wars of the Roses through the rise of the Tudors, Henry VIII’s marriages, the mid-Tudor religious crisis and the…
Periods
1. Royal Witch
2. The Lady of the Rivers
3. The White Queen
4. The Red Queen
5. The Kingmaker’s Daughter
6. The White Princess
7. The Constant Princess
8. The King’s Curse
9. Three Sisters, Three Queens
10. The Other Boleyn Girl
11. The Boleyn Inheritance
12. The Taming of the Queen
13. The Queen’s Fool
14. The Virgin’s Lover
15. The Last Tudor
16. The Other Queen
Marbeck Mysteries in Order
The Marbeck Mysteries follow Martin Marbeck, an English intelligencer working through the last years of Elizabeth I and the first years of James I. His assignments move from the unresolved war with Spain to the succession crisis of 1603, the peace negotiations of 1604 and the Gunpowder Plot…
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Mary Stuart in Order
The Mary Stuart novels follow Mary, Queen of Scots from her childhood in France and brief reign as queen consort to her return to Scotland, deposition and long English captivity. Plaidy presents a ruler caught between personal attachment, religious conflict and the competing ambitions of Scottish, French and…
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A Queens of England Novel in Order
The Queens of England novels dramatise the lives of royal women from Eleanor of Aquitaine to Queen Victoria. Each volume concentrates on a queen, consort or claimant whose marriages, loyalties and private ambitions were inseparable from dynastic politics, religious conflict and the exercise of monarchy.
Periods
1. Myself, My Enemy
2. Queen of This Realm
3. Victoria Victorious
4. The Lady in the Tower
5. The Courts of Love
6. In the Shadow of the Crown
7. The Queen’s Secret
8. The Reluctant Queen
9. The Merry Monarch’s Wife
10. The Queen’s Devotion
11. The Rose without a Thorn
English Commonwealth Sequence in Order
The English Commonwealth Sequence follows connected lives across the upheavals that began with civil war and continued through the Restoration and the succession crisis of 1685. Silver Guard opens amid the First English Civil War, Grey Adventurer follows the consequences of the Stuart return in London and colonial…
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