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History

1066-1416

The Women of the Cousins' War

A non-fiction companion to The White QueenThe Red Queen, and The Lady of the Rivers. Philippa Gregory and two historians, leading experts in their field, tell the extraordinary 'true' stories of the lives of these women who until now have been largely forgotten by history, their background and times, highlighting questions which are raised in the fiction and illuminating the novels.

Released 2011

Set In 1416

Normal Women - 900 Years of Making History

Normal Women is a radical reframing of our nation’s story, the history of women in England for nine centuries.  From the Norman invasion in 1066 to the ordination of women into the Church of England in 1994. 

Released 2023

Set In 1066

The Fairmile Series

1648-1685

Tidelands

England 1648. A dangerous time for a woman to be different . . . Midsummer’s Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even to the remote Tidelands – the marshy landscape of the south coast.  

Tidelands was released on 20 August 2019. 

Released 2019

Set In 1648

Dark Tides

Dark Tides is the sequel to Tidelands, and the second book of my Fairmile series. We pick up the family’s story in England, Italy and America, and discover if their fortunes have changed. It will be released in November 2020. 

Released 2020

Set In 1670

Dawnlands

It is 1685, England is on the brink of a renewed civil war against the Stuart kings and many families are bitterly divided. 

Released 2022

Set In 1685

The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels

1430-1568

The Lady of the Rivers

Descended from Melusina, the river goddess, Jacquetta has always had the gift of second sight. As a child visiting her uncle, she meets his prisoner, Joan of Arc, and sees her own power reflected in the young woman accused of witchcraft, before Joan is taken to a horrific death at the hands of the English rulers of France. 

Released 2008

Set In 1430

The Red Queen

Heiress to the red rose of Lancaster, Margaret Beaufort fervently believes that her house is the true ruler of England. Ignored by her sainted cousin Henry VI, mocked by her mother, married at age twelve, and endangered by childbirth, she vows to put her son on the throne. Naming him Henry, she sends him into exile and pledges him in marriage to the daughter of her sworn enemy.

Released 2010

Set In 1453

The White Queen

The first in a stunning new series, The Cousins’ War, is set amid the tumult and intrigue of the Wars of the Roses. Internationally bestselling author Philippa Gregory brings this extraordinary family drama to vivid life through its women – beginning with Elizabeth Woodville, the White Queen.

Released 2009

Set In 1464

The White Princess

Somewhere beyond the shores of England, a Pretender is mustering an army. He claims to be brother to the queen, and the true heir to the throne. But is he the lost boy sent into the unknown by his mother, the White Queen?  Or a counterfeit prince – a low-born enemy to Henry Tudor and his York princess wife?

Released 2013

Set In 1485

The Kingmaker's Daughter

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 pawns in his political games, and they grow up to be influential players in their own right. In this novel, her first sister story since The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory explores the lives of two fascinating young women. 

Released 2012

Set In 1465

The Constant Princess

Splendid and sumptuous historical novel from this internationally bestselling author, telling of the early life of Katherine of Aragon.

Released 2005

Set In 1491

The King's Curse

This is the story of deposed royal Margaret Pole, and her unique view of King Henry VIII’s stratospheric rise to power in Tudor England.

Released 2014

Set In 1499

Three Sisters, Three Queens

'There is only one bond that I trust and that is between a woman and her sisters. Only the three of us are indissoluble. We never take our eyes off each other. In love and rivalry, we always think of each other.'

Released 2016

Set In 1501

The Other Boleyn Girl

Mary Boleyn catches the eye of Henry VIII when she comes to court as a girl of fourteen. Dazzled by the golden prince, Mary’s joy is cut short when she discovers that she is a pawn in the dynastic plots of her family. When the capricious king’s interest wanes, Mary is ordered to pass on her knowledge of how to please him to her friend and rival: her sister Anne.

Released 2001

Set In 1521

Boleyn Traitor

COMING AUTUMN 2025

 

Spy. Pawn. Liar. Traitor.

Her words sent two queens to the scaffold.

Her secrets shaped a kingdom.

But her true story was buried

Until now.

Philippa Gregory brings the Boleyn Traitor out of the shadows in a groundbreaking tale of love, betrayal — and survival.

 

COMING AUTUMN 2025

 

 

Released 2024

Set In 1534

The Boleyn Inheritance

The year is 1539 and the court of Henry VIII is increasingly fearful of the moods of the ageing sick king. With only a baby in the cradle for an heir, Henry has to take another wife and the dangerous prize of the crown of England is won by Anne of Cleves.

Released 2006

Set In 1539

The Taming of the Queen

Why would a woman marry a serial killer?

Because she cannot refuse...

Kateryn Parr, a thirty-year-old widow in a secret affair with a new lover, has no choice when a man old enough to be her father who has buried four wives – King Henry VIII – commands her to marry him.

Released 2015

Set In 1543

The Queen's Fool

At a time when an innocent woman could be burned for heresy or strangled for witchcraft, to spy on the queen for the love of a traitor was the most dangerous choice of all. Into a Tudor court on the brink of treason comes Hannah, a young Jewish girl on the run from the Inquisition.

Released 2003

Set In 1548

The Virgin's Lover

As a new queen, Elizabeth I faces two great dangers. The French threaten to invade Scotland. But more perilous still is her passion for the convicted traitor, Robert Dudley. Dudley is already married. Amy, his wife, refuses to set her beloved husband free to marry the queen, but she cannot prevent him from becoming the favourite of the plotting, pleasure-seeking court. Yet the queen must marry.

Released 2004

Set In 1558

The Last Tudor

‘How long do you have?’ I force a laugh.

‘Not long,’ he says very quietly. ‘They have confirmed your sentence of death. I am so sorry. You are to be beheaded tomorrow. We don’t have long at all.’

Released 2017

Set In 1550

The Other Queen

Two women competing for a man’s heart. Two queens fighting to the death for dominance. The untold story of Mary Queen of Scots

Released 2008

Set In 1568

The Wideacre Trilogy

1772-1805

Wideacre

Beatrice Lacey, as strong-minded as she is beautiful, refuses to conform to the social customs of her time. Destined to lose her family name and beloved Wideacre estate once she is wed, Beatrice will use any means necessary to protect her ancestral heritage. Seduction, betrayal, even murder – Beatrice's passion is without apology or conscience. 

Released 1987

Set In 1772

The Favoured Child

The Wideacre estate is bankrupt. The villagers are living in poverty and Wideacre Hall is a smoke-blackened ruin. But in the Dower House two children are being raised in protected innocence. Equal claimants to the inheritance of Wideacre, rivals for the love of the village, they are tied by a secret childhood betrothal but forbidden to marry. Only one can be the favoured child.

Released 1989

Set In 1790

Meridon

Meridon, a desolate Romany girl, is determined to escape the hard poverty of her childhood. Riding bareback in a travelling show, while her sister Dandy risks her life on the trapeze, Meridon dedicates herself to freeing them both from danger and want. But Dandy, beautiful, impatient, thieving, grabs too much, too quickly.

Released 1990

Set In 1805

The Order of Darkness Series

1460-1461

Order of Darkness Volumes I – III

The is 1460 and all signs point to it being the end of the world.

Accused of heresy and expelled from his monastery, Luca Vero is recruited by a mysterious stranger to record the end of the days. His first mission takes him to a nunnery where the women are showing terrible signs of possession under an imprisoned Lady Abbess – Isolde.

 

 

Released 2017

Set In 1460

Order of Darkness Volume IV: Dark Tracks

Luca Vero is a member of the secret Order of Darkness, tasked by his master to uncover the truth behind strange happenings. Together with Lady Isolde, her friend and confidant Ishraq, Luca’s manservant Freize, and Brother Peter, Luca travels across medieval Europe – seeking out the signs of the end of days, judging the supernatural and testing the new science.

Released 2018

Set In 1461

The Tradescant Series

1603-1638

Earthly Joys

He is a traveller in a time of discovery, and the greatest gardening pioneer of his day. Yet John Tradescant is a man of humble birth, trusted by the kingdom’s greatest leaders: politicians, aristocrats, even royalty. Surrounded by luxury and intrigue, Tradescant gives all his attention to his magnificent gardens, in the midst of a society on the brink of upheaval.

Released 1998

Set In 1603

Virgin Earth

Virgin Earth is a tour-de-force of powerful politics, personal discovery and glorious gardening details from one of our most acclaimed novelists. John Tradescant the younger has inherited his father’s unique collection of plants along with his unerring ability to be able to nurture them. But as gardener to Charles I, he confronts an unbearable dilemma when England descends into Civil War. Fleeing from the chaos, John travels to the Royalist colony of Virginia in America. 

Released 1999

Set In 1638

Other Historical Novels

1535-1920

The Wise Woman

This is a haunting story of a woman’s desire in a time of turbulence. Alys joins the nunnery to escape hardship and poverty but finds herself thrown back into the outside world when Henry VIII’s wreckers destroy her sanctuary.

Released 1992

Set In 1535

A Respectable Trade

The devastating consequences of the slave trade in 18th century Bristol are explored through the powerful but impossible attraction of well-born Frances and her Yoruban slave, Mehuru.

Released 1995

Set In 1787

Fallen Skies

Fallen Skies is an extraordinary story of the turmoil and ugly legacy of the First World War from the bestselling author of Wideacre. 

Lily Valance wants to forget the war; her father has been killed in France and several friends are dead or maimed beyond recognition. She wants to enjoy the world of the 1920s, a world of music, singing, laughter and pleasure. So when she meets dashing Stephen Winters, a decorated hero back from the front, she is drawn to his wealth and status. But Stephen is a man deeply scarred, still troubled by nightmares of the fighting on the plains of Flanders, alienated from his comfortable home, his family firm of solicitors, and close to no-one but his shell shocked mute batman, Coventry.

Released 1993

Set In 1920

Modern Novels

1980-2000

Alice Hartley's Happiness

Alice Hartley is a woman in her prime. Yet she's not happy.

Her husband refuses to respond to her mature delights, leaving her powerless as his interest strays elsewhere. But a chance encounter brings her the opportunity to escape and embrace the taste of freedom.

Released 1992

Set In 1980

Perfectly Correct

Dr Louise Case has the right career, the right country cottage and a commitment-free relationship with a fellow academic. According to contemporary codes, it’s all very correct – except that Louise begins to suspect it’s far from perfect.

Released 1996

Set In 1996

The Little House

It was easy for Elizabeth. She married the man she loved, bore him two children and made a home for him which was the envy of their friends. It was harder for Ruth.

Released 1997

Set In 1997

Zelda's Cut

For years, Isobel Latimer has composed serious novels for serious people, but to dwindling acclaim and ever-more dwindling gain. Now her husband is ill and she must carry their financial burden alone, and in secret. But if the public don’t want careful moral fables any longer, why not provide an outrageous tale of sex and satanism, and an author to match.

Released 2000

Set In 2000

Short Stories

2000

Bread and Chocolate

My first, and to date my only, book of collected short stories where I worked on the idea of describing as little as possible, so the short story is filled with emotion but very little action. The story of the title Bread and Chocolate was inspired by a baking Jesuit. (yes, really).

Released 2000

Set In 2000

The Princess Rules

The Princess Rules

These three stories were originally published under the titles Princess FlorizellaPrincess Florizella and the Wolves and Princess Florizella and the Giant.

Released 2019

It's a Prince Thing

The sequel to The Princess Rules sees rebel princess, Princess Florizella, going on even more adventures, but this time, she also has a little brother in tow...

Released 2020

The Mammoth Adventure

This third volume in The Princess Rules series sees the feisty princess take her baby brother and best friend, Bennett, on another round of adventures together.

Released 2021