Series
Series about Reign of Henry VIII (5 series)
Sir Roger Shallot Tudor Mysteries in Order
The Sir Roger Shallot Tudor Mysteries are presented as the recollections of an elderly rogue who once served Benjamin Daunbey, nephew of Cardinal Wolsey. During the early reign of Henry VIII, Roger and Benjamin are sent to investigate murders, stolen relics, espionage and threats to the Tudor dynasty.…
The Anne Boleyn Chronicles in Order
The Anne Boleyn Chronicles reconstruct Anne Boleyn’s formative continental years before her emergence at the English court. Beginning in 1513 in Margaret of Austria’s household at Mechelen, the sequence follows Anne through the courts of Louis XII, Claude of France and Francis I, where language, ceremony, patronage and…
The Marwood Family Tudor Saga in Order
Beginning in 1527, the Marwood Family Tudor Saga follows the fictional Thomasin Marwood as she enters the court of Henry VIII during the king’s attempt to end his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. Service to Catherine brings Thomasin close to the centre of royal politics, while her family…
The Shardlake Series in Order
The Shardlake Series follows Matthew Shardlake, a London barrister with scoliosis whose legal work repeatedly draws him into murder investigations and affairs of state between 1537 and 1549. He begins as an idealistic supporter of religious reform and an agent of Thomas Cromwell, but the violence of the…
The Wolf Hall Trilogy in Order
The Wolf Hall Trilogy follows Thomas Cromwell from his early service to Cardinal Wolsey through his rise as Henry VIII’s most effective minister and his fall in 1540. Told largely through Cromwell’s perspective, the series reinterprets the Tudor court as a working political system shaped by patronage, law,…