by NRB | 13 Mar 2024 | Fiction |
Tracy Ryan’s latest novel evokes the social divisions of sixteenth-century France and the stories of two independent-minded women. In The Queen’s Apprenticeship, Tracy Ryan tells the stories of two women. One, Jehane/Josse, the daughter of a journeyman printer who...
by NRB | 11 Oct 2016 | Fiction |
In her new novel Philippa Gregory envisages the Tudor era from the perspective of three powerful women. The celebrity status of the Tudors has lasted for over 500 years. Philippa Gregory has written of them in several popular novels, and in Three Sisters she turns her...
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