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A Dangerous Inheritance by Alison Weir
$38.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
The year is 1562. Lady Catherine Grey, cousin of Elizabeth I, has just been arrested along with her husband Edward. Their crime is to have secretly married and produced a child who might threaten the Queen's title. Alone in her chamber at the Tower of London, Catherine hears ghostly voices, echoes, she ...Show more
A Tudor Christmas by Alison Weir; Siobhan Clarke
$35.00 NZD
Category: World History
Christmas in Tudor times was a period of feasting, revelry and merrymaking 'to drive the cold winter away?. A carnival atmosphere presided at court, with a twelve-day-long festival of entertainments, pageants, theatre productions and 'disguisings?, when even the king and queen dressed up in costume to f ...Show more
Elizabeth of York - The First Tudor Queen by Alison Weir
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
Elizabeth of York would have ruled England, but for the fact that she was a woman. The eldest daughter of Edward IV, at seventeen she was relegated from pampered princess to bastard fugitive, but the probable murders of her brothers, the Princes in the Tower, left Elizabeth heiress to the royal House of ...Show more
Elizabeth, the Queen by Alison Weir
$30.00 NZD
Category: No Category
In her highly praised "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" and its sequel, "Children of England", Alison Weir examined the private lives of the early Tudor kings and queens, and chronicled the childhood and youth of one of England's most successful monarchs, Elizabeth I. This book begins as the young Elizabeth ...Show more
Henry VIII: King and Court by Alison Weir
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History
This magnificent new book is Alison Weir's greatest achievement: a detailed biography of Henry VIII, set against the cultural, social and political background of his court - the most magnificent court ever seen in England - and the splendour of his many sumptuous palaces. Seen from this new perspective, ...Show more
Henry VIII: The Heart and the Crown by Alison Weir
$37.99 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
The magnificent new Tudor novel from Alison Weir, author of the Sunday Times-bestselling Six Tudor Queens series. This is Henry VIII - his side of the story.A young boy grows up dreaming of knights and chivalry.Harry is the second son. He is never meant to rule.But the death of his brother changes every ...Show more
Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Travel | Reading Level: good
At last, a rival for Philippa Gregory: 'Alison Weir?s hugely popular history books are as gripping as novels, and now she has stepped effortlessly over the boundary. This true story cries out for a novelist?s imagination ? the heartbreaking history of Lady Jane Grey, a teenage victim of parental ambitio ...Show more
Isabella: She-Wolf of France, Queen of England by Alison Weir
$27.00 NZD
Category: World History
In Newgate Street, in the city of London, stand the meagre ruins of Christ Church. On the same site once stood a royal mausoleum set to rival Westminster Abbey in the fourteenth century. Among the many crowned heads buried there was Isabella of France, Edward II's queen - one of the most notorious femme ...Show more
Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen (#3 Six Tudor Queens) by Alison Weir
$35.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: Six Tudor Queens Ser. | Reading Level: very good
NEW Acclaimed author and historian Alison Weir continues her epic Six Tudor Queens series with this third captivating novel, which brings to life Jane Seymour, King Henry VIII's most cherished bride and mother of his only legitimate male heir. Ever since she was a child, Jane has longed for a cloi ...Show more
Katharine Parr, the Sixth Wife (Six Tudor Queens #6) by Alison Weir
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: Six Tudor Queens Ser.
A WOMAN TORN BETWEEN LOVE AND DUTY. Two husbands dead, a boy and a sick man. And now Katharine is free to make her own choice. The ageing King's eye falls upon her. She cannot refuse him... or betray that she wanted another. She becomes the sixth wife - a queen and a friend. Henry loves and trusts he ...Show more
Katheryn Howard, the Tainted Queen by Alison Weir
$35.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: Six Tudor Queens | Reading Level: very good
The fifth spectacular novel in the highly acclaimed SIX TUDOR QUEENS series by historian and Sunday Times bestselling author, Alison Weir. 'This six-book series looks likely to become a landmark in historical fiction' The TimesAlison Weir, historian and author of the Sunday Times-bestselling SIX TUDOR Q ...Show more
Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox by Alison Weir
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
'Alison Weir's sound scholarship and storyteller's gift for rich, telling detail constantly engages and enthrals the reader' The Times The captivating life of Margaret Douglas - a life of scandal, political intrigue and royal romance that spanned five Tudor reigns. Royal Tudor blood ran in her veins. S ...Show more