Tudor Fiction

In 1837, Briarwood Plantation was abandoned when Ezra Woodbine slaughtered his fiancee's entire family. After nearly two centuries, life returns to Briarwood. But for how long? Serena Decatur is a thirty-year-old Black woman trapped in a life she never asked for. Widowed, underemployed, drowning in debt, she is living with her in-laws in the small town where she grew up. Bestselling horror author Jacob McGinnas wants to dig into the secrets of Briarwood and write a new book, perhaps the literary masterwork that will etch his name in the lists of great authors.

The Hickory Creek Community Centre is a lifeline for new mums. So when a bad case of black mould threatens to end the only women's services available in their small town, a new mothers' group bands together to save it. Their plan? Create a fundraiser calendar featuring themselves ... in the nude. As the mothers bare all, it doesn't take long for them to start baring their secrets too.

One tiny discovery can have enormous consequences.... Almost 10-year-old Octavia Bloom is looking for adventure, but when it comes, it's in the shape of a tiny fairy door. Dragging her reluctant sister and cousins into the mystery, Octavia discovers her family are hiding not one but two life-changing secrets.

Ein kleines Dorf in Sussex. Eine unheilvolle Legende. Und eine Pfarrerin, die die Ruhe der Geister stört. Vor 500 Jahren: Acht Märtyrer wurden bei lebendigem Leib verbrannt. Vor 30 Jahren: Zwei Mädchen verschwanden für immer. Vor zwei Monaten: Ein Pfarrer hat sich in der Kapelle erhängt. Willkommen in Chapel Croft. Für die Pfarrerin Jack Brooks und ihre Tochter Flo sollte es ein Neustart sein: neuer Job, neues Zuhause. Aber Jack stößt auf eine eingeschworene Dorfgemeinschaft, in der Misstrauen gegenüber Fremden tief verwurzelt ist.

Ein kleines Dorf in Sussex. Eine unheilvolle Legende. Und eine Pfarrerin, die die Ruhe der Geister stört. Vor 500 Jahren: Acht Märtyrer wurden bei lebendigem Leib verbrannt. Vor 30 Jahren: Zwei Mädchen verschwanden für immer. Vor zwei Monaten: Ein Pfarrer hat sich in der Kapelle erhängt. Willkommen in Chapel Croft. Für die Pfarrerin Jack Brooks und ihre Tochter Flo sollte es ein Neustart sein: neuer Job, neues Zuhause. Aber Jack stößt auf eine eingeschworene Dorfgemeinschaft, in der Misstrauen gegenüber Fremden tief verwurzelt ist.

Elizabeth's reign is reaching its winter and England's old adversaries are fading. But in a world on the brink of change, showing any weakness can be fatal. 1598. Nicholas Shelby, physician and reluctant spy for Robert Cecil, has brought his wife and their child home from exile. But he has returned to a dangerous world. Two old enemies are approaching their final reckoning. England and Spain are exhausted by war. In London, Elizabeth is entering the twilight of her reign. In Madrid, King Philip of Spain is dying. Perhaps now is the time for one last throw of the dice.

Spanish Netherlands, 1620s: raised by her father Lucas to know her mind, Antonia Vorsterman sees everything that goes on in her world - all the rivalries and jealousies that course through the artists' studios and workshops of Antwerp. Drawn into the lively household of the artist Peter Paul Rubens, whose work her father engraves for a living, Antonia begins to see a life of colour and possibility for herself - until Lucas entrusts her with a terrible secret that will alter the course of their family's future.

Im Jahr 1546 ruft Sultan Süleyman der Prächtige alle Könige Europas auf, an einem nie dagewesenen Wettstreit teilzunehmen: In einem großen Turnier soll der beste Schachspieler der Welt gefunden werden... Unter den Tausenden Reisenden, die in Konstantinopel eintreffen, reihen sich auch der Gelehrte Roger Ascham und seine Schülerin Elisabeth ein, Tochter von Heinrich VIII. Bald überschlagen sich die Ereignisse.

When Greer MacKenzie's despised husband dies, she and her young daughter Fen find themselves in a remote whisky smuggling community in the heart of the Highlands. Here, illicit whisky making is a means of survival in a Scotland under occupation by the British, decades after the disastrous Battle of Culloden. The villagers are suspicious of the widow, but when Greer tricks British excise officers away from their illegal stills with a courageous and daring act, they warm to her.

When a thin, pale boy called Lambert claims he’s the rightful heir to the throne, King Henry VII is furious in 'The Prince, The Cook and the Cunning King'.

Called up in 1940, Reg expected to be fighting Germans. Instead, he found himself caught up in the fall of Singapore to the Japanese. What followed were three years of hell, moving from one camp to another along the Kwai river, building the infamous Burma railway. Reg made the deadly jungle work for him. With an ingenuity that is astonishing, he trapped and ate lizards, harvested pumpkins from the canteen rubbish heap and with his homemade razor became camp barber.

En liten by. Ett mörkt förflutet. En farlig nuti... För 500 år sedan brändes åtta martyrer på bål. För 30 år sedan försvann två tonåringar spårlöst. För två månader sedan begick kyrkoherden självmord. Ett mörkt förflutet dröjer sig kvar i Chapel Croft. För femhundra år sedan blev protestanter i byn förrådda och sedan brända på bål. För trettio år sedan försvann två tonårsflickor spårlöst. Och för några veckor sedan hängde sig församlingens kyrkoherde i kyrkans mittskepp.

Das Mädchen sagt nur ein Wort: "Daddy". Sie blickt Gabe von der Rückbank des Autos vor ihm an. Dann ist der fremde Wagen verschwunden und mit ihm Gabes fünfjährige Tochter Izzy. Er wird sie nie mehr wiedersehen. Drei Jahre später verbringt Gabe seine Tage und Nächte noch immer damit, die Autobahn abzufahren, besessen von der Hoffnung, sie zu finden. Auch Fran und ihre Tochter Alice sind unterwegs auf den Straßen Englands. Aber sie sind nicht auf der Suche, sie sind auf der Flucht. Denn Fran kennt die Wahrheit. Sie weiß, was damals mit Izzy geschah.

Apothecary John Rawlings has travelled to Devon to be by the side of his mistress, Elizabeth di Lorenzi, who is due to give birth to their child. Leaving his shop and his new carbonated water business in good hands, John is presented with a surprise on his arrival at Sidmouth House. While Elizabeth is recuperating, he learns that Lady Sidmouth's daughter, Miranda, is to marry the elderly Earl of St. Austell, who is 54 years her senior and has a cruel reputation.

Meanwhile, Mohammed Sharif is finding it difficult to keep his balance on the tightrope he walks between his family's traditional Muslim beliefs and his job as a policeman. When his young, newly married cousin Faria Aziz disappears, Mohammed tries to trace her to ease the worry of his family. But as this unofficial inquiry soon becomes a police matter, DCI Thackeray must tread carefully in his investigations.

Ka the time-travelling cat has disappeared again, and Topher knows that she is in terrible danger. For Ka has gone to Tudor England, a time when cats were tortured. Topher must try to find her, and in doing so, meets up with Doctor Dee - magician and astronomer to Queen Elizabeth I. But Doctor Dee is searching for something far more important than a cat. He must satisfy the Queen by finding the elusive Philosopher’s Stone...Another amazing adventure with Ka and Topher from Julia Jarman.

Maitland, 1889. When nineteen-year-old Constance Montague wakes one Wednesday she expects the day to unfold like any other. Breakfast with her grandmother Nell and her mother Faith, a meeting in Maitland with the ladies of the Benevolent Society, perhaps a gentle stroll along the banks of the Hunter River. But this Wednesday is different. Nell has vanished. Concerned, Connie determines to track Nell down and follows a lead to Old Government House in Parramatta, now a guest house. There, to her astonishment she finds her grandmother holding court.

Robert Cecil, chief secretary to the king, summons the gentleman spy, Henry Gresham, to his death bed to give his arch enemy one final, deadly case. An unknown Cambridge bookseller has obtained devastating correspondence between King James I and Robert Carr, and Gresham is the one man who can return the letters, saving the monarch from a potentially scandalous downfall.

Apothecary John Rawlings is intrigued when a letter arrives asking him to investigate an impostor claiming to be the long-lost step-son of a wealthy Bristol merchant in possession of his dead wife's diamond inheritance. John Rawlings' father, Sir Gabriel Kent joins him on the trip to take the healing waters at Hotwell where they socialize with the crème of Bristol society. But Rawlings is compelled to try and solve the mystery and so he must trawl through the underbelly of 18th-century society.

1850 Sarah Hallow is orphaned, penniless and alone, with only the skills learned from her midwife mother to guide her. Passage on a ship bound for the new settlement of Brisbane, Australia, is her last option. Though her skills are quickly dismissed by the ship's doctor, Sarah is pleased to find instant friendship with her cabin mate, Bridie, a fiery Irish girl with a sharp tongue and midwifery skills of her own. When the two women come to the aid of a labouring woman onboard, Sarah's dreams of opening her own midwifery practice in Brisbane don't seem so impossible.