Philippa Gregory
Author
Language
English
Description
Philippa Gregory draws on an enormous archive of primary and secondary sources to rewrite British history, focusing on the agency, persistence, and effectiveness of everyday women throughout periods of social and cultural transition. She sweeps from the making of the Bayeux tapestry in the eleventh century to the Black Death in 1348, after which women were briefly paid the same wages as men, the last time for seven centuries, to the 1992 ordination...
62) Czerwona królowa
Author
Language
Polish
Description
Determined to see her son Henry on the throne of England, pious Margaret Beaufort arranges politically advantageous marriages, sends her son out of the country for his safety, and lays secret plans for a battle between the houses of York and Lancaster.
Author
Language
Polish
Description
"Kingmaker" Richard, Earl of Warwick, uses his daughters as political pawns before their strategic marriages place them on opposing sides in a royal war that will cost them everyone they love.
"The Kingmaker's Daughter is the gripping story of the daughters of the man known as the 'Kingmaker, ' Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: the most powerful magnate in fifteenth-century England. Without a son and heir, he uses his daughters Anne and Isabel as...
Author
Language
Polish
Description
"Zdumiewający portret młodej Elżbiety I, kobiety porywczej, siejącej strach, niezrównoważonej emocjonalnie i zaborczej, która nie powstrzyma się przed niczym, nawet przed morderstwem, byle tylko zaspokoić swoje żądze. Jako świeżo koronowana królowa Anglii Elżbieta musi stawić czoło dwóm niebezpieczeństwom: francuskiej inwazji na Szkocję, zagrażającej całemu krajowi, oraz swemu uczuciu do Roberta Dudleya, zagrażającemu jej...
66) Biała królowa
Author
Series
Cousins' war volume 1
Language
Polish
Description
"Mistrzyni powieści historycznej sięga do czasów bratobójczych walk zwanych w historii Anglii Wojną Dwu Róż. Owe czasy zaciętych bojów o władzę pomiędzy dwoma zwaśnionymi rodami Yorków i Lancasterów poprzedzają epokę Tudorów. Król Edward IV York zakochuje się w pięknej wdowie, Elżbiecie Woodville, i przed upływem miesiąca bierze ją w sekrecie za żonę. Gdy ich małżeństwo wychodzi na jaw, dostają się w sam środek walk...
Author
Language
Polish
Description
A richly detailed fictional portrait of Henry VIII's first wife, Katherine of Aragon, the daughter of Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain, follows her from her passionate youthful marriage to Henry's older brother, Arthur, her widowhood, her marriage to Henry and her denial of her true love for Arthur, and the divorce that led to Henry's second marriage to Anne Boleyn.
Author
Series
Summer novels (Jenny Han) volume 1
Cousins' war volume 1
Summer I turned pretty volume v 1
Summer I turned pretty volume 1
Cousins' war volume 1
Summer I turned pretty volume v 1
Summer I turned pretty volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer of her life, but this time things are very different.
Language
English
Description
The six wives of Henry VIII: A six-part chronicle of England's early 16th century, recounting the turbulent life and times of King Henry VIII through the eyes and travails of his wives.
The Other Boleyn Girl: A modernized, dramatized retelling of Anne Bolyn's marriage and life with Henry the VIII, mixing traditional costuming and settings with contemporary language and idioms.
Language
English
Description
A riveting portrayal of one of the most dramatic and turbulent times in English history. A story of love and lust, seduction and deception, betrayal and murder, it is uniquely told through the perspective of three different, yet equally relentless women - Elizabeth Woodville, Margaret Beaufort and Anne Neville. In their quest for power, they will scheme, manipulate and seduce their way onto the English throne.
74) The anniversary
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Language
English
Description
Ten tempting stories from ten bestselling authors.