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/Penelope Devereux inspired a poet and may well have inspired a failed coup in Elizabethan England - and now she inspires a richly-detailed novel
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Penelope Devereux inspired a poet and may well have inspired a failed coup in Elizabethan England - and now she inspires a richly-detailed novel
Read MoreLady Jane Grey was famously Queen of England for less than a fortnight before being executed by Queen Mary I; Elizabeth Fremantle's new book takes us into the world of Lady Jane's two sisters, adrift in a royal court that can't afford to trust them.
Read MoreIn the famous jingle 'divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived,' Katherine Parr comes last - the sixth wife of King Henry VIII. But she was far more than that - scholar, regent, and passionate young woman - as a new Tudor historical novel attempts to portray
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