Philippa Gregory. Simon Pulse, $18.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4424-5344-9
Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl) makes a hypnotic YA debut with the first book in her planned Order of Darkness series. Set in 15th-century Italy after the Ottoman Empire captured the city of Constantinople, this historical fantasy follows two...
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Philippa Gregory, Author Simon & Schuster $18.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-63462-9
Gregory's full-blown first novel is a marvelously assured period piece, an English gothic with narrative verve. Beatrice Lacey loves nothing more than the family estate, Wideacrenot her bluff, hearty father, her weak brother, Harry, or her mother,...
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Philippa Gregory, Author Pocket Books $5.99 (528p) ISBN 978-0-671-79275-6
The author of the Wideacre trilogy presents a historical romance about a 16th-century English witch. (Dec.)
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Philippa Gregory, Author HarperCollins Publishers $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-017670-9
Gregory's sixth novel moves from her usual historical fiction (A Respectable Trade, etc.) to a contemporary tale that treats familiar, middle-class domestic ground with a horrific tilt. Every Sunday, Ruth and Patrick Cleary, a young English couple...
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Philippa Gregory, Author St. Martin's Press $25.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-312-19262-4
The order of a 17th-century English garden stands in contradiction to the dissolution of a plague- and hunger-ridden land ruled by greedy Stuart kings and immoral courtiers. Gregory's (Wideacre) latest historical novel follows gardener John...
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Philippa Gregory, Author St. Martin's Press $26.95 (576p) ISBN 978-0-312-20617-8
In the stand-alone sequel to her Earthly Joys, Gregory follows royal gardener John Tradescant the Younger back and forth across the Atlantic between colonial Virginia and war-torn England. When John first travels to Virginia to collect exotic plants
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Philippa Gregory, Author St. Martin's Press $25.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-312-26704-9
Masquerading as a trashy novelist may solve English writer Isobel Latimer's financial problems, but it also plunges her into a full-fledged identity crisis in Gregory's flighty, overplotted novel. Isobel needs money to support her ailing husband,...
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Philippa Gregory. Touchstone, $27.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-4165-6370-9
Wielding magic again in her latest War of the Roses novel (after The Red Queen), Gregory demonstrates the passion and skill that has made her the queen of English historical fiction. Her heroine-narrator, Jacquetta of Luxembourg, who possesses...
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Philippa Gregory, Author . Touchstone $24.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-7432-5615-5
Bestseller Gregory captivates again with this expertly crafted historical about the beautiful young Virgin Queen, portrayed as a narcissistic, neurotic home-wrecker. As in her previous novels about Tudor England (The Queen's Fool
, etc.),...
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Philippa Gregory. Touchstone, $26.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-4516-2607-0
The bonds of sisterhood infuse Gregory’s latest in the Cousin’s War series (after The Lady of the Rivers). The stakes are high as Anne and Isabel Neville, daughters of the earl of Warwick (“The Kingmaker”), vie for their father’s favor and a chance...
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Philippa Gregory. S&S/Touchstone, $26.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-4516-2609-4
In Gregory’s fifth entry in the Cousins’ War series, marriage unites the upstart House of Tudor with its long-time enemies, the declining House of York, to rule over volatile 1485 England. As Gregory envisions her, narrator Elizabeth of York—sister...
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Philippa Gregory. S&S/Touchstone, $27.99 (688p) ISBN 978-1-4516-2611-7
Gregory adds to her Cousins’ War series (after The White Princess) an illuminating portrait of historical figure Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, whose royal Plantagenet lineage was both a blessing and a curse. Gregory’s carefully researched...
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Philippa Gregory. S&S/Touchstone, $27.99 (464p) ISBN 978-1-4767-5879-4
In this absorbing Tudor historical, Gregory (The White Queen) traces the relationship between Henry VIII and Kateryn Parr, his sixth wife, from the time of the king's marriage proposal in 1543 until his death four years later. Kateryn is a beauty:...
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Philippa Gregory, Author . Touchstone $26.99 (415p) ISBN 978-1-4165-6368-6
The queen of British historical fiction (The Other Boleyn Girl
) kicks off a new series with the story of Elizabeth Woodville Grey, whose shifting alliances helped the War of the Roses take root. The marriage of 22-year-old Yorkist King Edward IV to
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Philippa Gregory, Author Touchstone $25.95 (528p) ISBN 978-0-7432-7250-6
Returning to the scene of The Other Boleyn Girl, historical powerhouse Gregory again brings the women of Henry VIII's court vividly to life. Among the cast, who alternately narrate: Henry's fourth wife, Bavarian-born Anne of Cleves; his fifth wife,...
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Philippa Gregory, Author Touchstone Books $16 (488p) ISBN 978-0-7432-7254-4
This moral spellbinder, set in Bristol, England, in the slave-trading 1780s, is being freshly issued a decade after publication Although the sentences are not as fine as in Gregory's current work (The Other Boleyn Girl etc.), and the plot takes some
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Philippa Gregory, Author . Touchstone $16 (509p) ISBN 978-1-4165-9314-0
After losing her father in the Great War, working-class girl Lily Pears becomes chorus girl Lily Valance to help support her widowed mother in Gregory's moody 1920s historical. When her dreams of being a featured singer in a dance-hall revue...
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Philippa Gregory, Touchstone, $25.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-4165-6372-3
Nobody does the Tudors better than Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl), so it should come as no surprise that her latest—the War of the Roses as seen through the eyes of Henry VII’s mother —is confident, colorful, convincing, and full of conflict,...
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Philippa Gregory, Author . Touchstone $25.95 (448p) ISBN 978-1-4165-4912-3
In her latest foray into the lives and minds of Elizabethan shakers and movers, Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl
) takes on Mary Queen of Scots during her 16-year house arrest. By the secret order of her cousin, Elizabeth I, Mary is held at the estate
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Philippa Gregory, Author . Touchstone $24.95 (393p) ISBN 978-0-7432-7248-3
As youngest daughter to the Spanish monarchs and crusaders King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, Catalina, princess of Wales and of Spain, was promised to the English Prince Arthur when she was three. She leaves Spain at 15 to fulfill her destiny as...
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Philippa Gregory, Author . Touchstone $16 (528p) ISBN 978-0-7432-7252-0
Seventeenth-century England is the setting for this engaging historical novel based on the life of John Tradescant, a gardener of common birth who transforms plain plots of land into slices of heaven on earth. As vassal to the secretary of state,...
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Philippa Gregory, Author . Scribner $15 (672p) ISBN 978-0-7432-2744-5
Sisterly rivalry is the basis of this fresh, wonderfully vivid retelling of the story of Anne Boleyn. Anne, her sister Mary and their brother George are all brought to the king's court at a young age, as players in their uncle's plans to...
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Philippa Gregory, Author, Book Three of the Trilogy, Author Fireside Books $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-70151-2
With this elaborate tapestry of a young woman's life, the Lacey family trilogy ( Wideacre and The Favored Child ) comes to a satisfying conclusion. Meridon is the lost child whose legacy is the estate of Wideacre. She and her very different sister,...
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Philippa Gregory, David Baldwin, and Michael Jones. Touchstone, $26 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4516-2954-5
This tripartite account treats three formidable women for their roles in the dynastic civil wars known as the Wars of the Roses. Bestselling historical novelist Gregory tells the story of Jacquetta of Luxembourg, Henry VIII's great-grandmother. The...
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Philippa Gregory, read by Charlie Cox. Simon & Schuster Audio, 6.75 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-4423-5023-6
After being accused of heresy and booted from his religious sect for questioning the authenticity of a religious artifact, 17-year-old Luca De Vere is recruited by the Order of the Dragon, a unit commissioned by Pope Nicholas V to investigate...
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Philippa Gregory, Author, Claire Zion, Editor Pocket Books $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-79274-9
The author of the Wideacre trilogy offers another intense, absorbing tale, a grisly drama of passion and witchcraft in 16th-century England. Growing up as an ill-used apprentice to Morach, the much-feared wise woman of the moors, Alys finds respite...
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Philippa Gregory, Author, Claire Zion, Editor Pocket Books $5.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-67911-8
This impassioned sequel to the page-turning Wideacre carries the fortunes of the Lacey family, now decaying country gentry, into the late 18th century. ``Gregory's galloping plot leads to a savage but satisfying conclusion that piques anticipation...
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Philippa Gregory, read by Bianca Amato, Simon and Schuster Audio, unabridged, 11 CDs, 13 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4423-0488-8
While Gregory's The White Queen told a story of the War of the Roses from the viewpoint of the House of York, her latest takes the perspective from the House of Lancaster, where Margaret Beaufort, a descendant of King Edward III, accepts her duty to
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Philippa Gregory, read by Bianca Amato. S&S Audio, , unabridged, 17 CDs, 21 hrs., $49.99 ISBN 978-1-5082-1156-3
Actor Amato, who has read three of Gregory’s previous titles as audio editions, is terrific in Gregory’s latest historical novel set in Tudor England. She deftly portrays the passions, ambitions, and catastrophes of three sisters from childhood...
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Philippa Gregory, Author, Bianca Amato, Read by Simon & Schuster Audio $29.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7435-8229-2
Gregory applies her romantically written fictionalization of history to the powerful story of Elizabeth Woodville, the first English born commoner to become Queen of England. Her marriage to King Edward IV became part of the aristocratic battle of...
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Philippa Gregory, Author, Book Two of the Trilogy, Author Pocket Books $18.95 (472p) ISBN 978-0-671-67910-1
This impassioned sequel to the page-turning Wideacre carries the fortunes of the Lacey family, now decaying country gentry, into the late 18th century. The great house lies in ruins, after a calamity that also destroyed beautiful, vicious Beatrice...
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Philippa Gregory. Atria, $28 (480p) ISBN 978-1-50118-715-5
Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl) deviates from her usual focus on historical figures to shine a light on the plight of common women in 1640s England in the dynamic first book of her new Fairmile series. Alinor, a midwife with knowledge of herbal...
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Philippa Gregory. Atria, $28 (480p) ISBN 978-1-5011-8718-6
A mother and daughter’s lives are disrupted by two visitors in the plodding second volume of Gregory’s Fairmile series (after Tidelands). Alinor Reekie and her daughter, Alys Stoney, live quietly as wharf owners in 1670 London. Alinor refuses to...
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Philippa Gregory. Atria, $28.99 (480p) ISBN 978-1-5011-8721-6
Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl) delivers an engrossing if scattered third installment to her Fairmile Series. In 1685, England’s Stuart James II is king. But for how long? His second wife, Mary Beatrice of Modena, is openly Roman Catholic. Some...
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