Gregory, Philippa

The other Boleyn girl : a novel by Philippa Gregory ( Book )
72 editions published between 2001 and 2008 in English and held by 4,461 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The daughters of a ruthlessly ambitious family, Mary and Anne Boleyn are sent to the court of Henry VIII to attract the attention of the king, who first takes Mary as his mistress, in which role she bears him an illegitimate son, and then Anne as his wife

The white queen by Philippa Gregory ( Book )
59 editions published between 2001 and 2013 in English and Danish and held by 4,084 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In this account of the wars of the Plantagenets, a woman of extraordinary beauty and ambition, Elizabeth Woodville, catches the eye of the newly crowned boy king, marries him in secret and ascends to royalty. While Elizabeth rises to the demands of her exalted position and fights for the success of her family, her two sons become central figures in a mystery that has confounded historians for centuries: the missing princes in the Tower of London whose fate is still unknown

The other queen by Philippa Gregory ( Book )
52 editions published between 2008 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 3,895 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This dazzling novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory presents a new and unique view of one of history's most intriguing, romantic, and maddening heroines. Biographers often neglect the captive years of Mary, Queen of Scots, who trusted Queen Elizabeth's promise of sanctuary when she fled from rebels in Scotland and then found herself imprisoned as the guest of George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, and his indomitable wife, Bess of Hardwick. The newly married couple welcome the doomed queen into their home, certain that serving as her hosts and jailers will bring them an advantage in the cutthroat world of the Elizabethan court. To their horror, they find that the task will bankrupt them, and as their home becomes the epicenter of intrigue and rebellion against Elizabeth, their loyalty to each other and to their sovereign comes into question. If Mary succeeds in seducing the earl into her own web of treachery and treason, or if the great spymaster William Cecil links them to the growing conspiracy to free Mary from her illegal imprisonment, they will all face the headsman

The Boleyn inheritance by Philippa Gregory ( Book )
41 editions published between 2001 and 2011 in English and Danish and held by 3,885 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Three women who share one fate: The Boleyn Inheritance: Anne of Cleves: She runs from her tiny country, her hateful mother, and her abusive brother to a throne whose last three occupants are dead. King Henry VIII, her new husband, instantly dislikes her. Without friends, family, or even an understanding of the language being spoken around her, she must literally save her neck in a court ruled by a deadly game of politics and the terror of an unpredictable and vengeful king. Her Boleyn Inheritance: accusations and false witnesses. Katherine Howard: She catches the king's eye within moments of arriving at court, setting in motion the dreadful machine of politics, intrigue, and treason that she does not understand. She only knows that she is beautiful, that men desire her, that she is young and in love -- but not with the diseased old man who made her queen, beds her night after night, and killed her cousin Anne. Her Boleyn Inheritance: the threat of the axe. Jane Rochford: She is the Boleyn girl whose testimony sent her husband and sister-in-law to their deaths. She is the trusted friend of two threatened queens, the perfectly loyal spy for her uncle, the Duke of Norfolk, and a canny survivor in the murderous court of a most dangerous king. Throughout Europe, her name is a byword for malice, jealousy, and twisted lust. Her Boleyn Inheritance: a fortune and a title, in exchange for her soul. The Boleyn Inheritance is a novel drawn tight as a lute string about a court ruled by the gallows and three women whose positions brought them wealth, admiration, and power as well as deceit, betrayal, and terror. Once again, Philippa Gregory has brought a vanished world to life -- the whisper of a silk skirt on a stone stair, the yellow glow of candlelight illuminating a hastily written note, the murmurs of the crowd gathering on Tower Green below the newly built scaffold. In The Boleyn Inheritance Gregory is at her intelligent and page-turning best

The constant princess by Philippa Gregory ( Book )
45 editions published between 2001 and 2011 in English and Danish and held by 3,211 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A fictional portrait of Henry VIII's first wife, Katherine of Aragon, follows her through her youthful marriage to Henry's older brother, Arthur, her widowhood, her marriage to Henry, and the divorce that led to Henry's marriage to Anne Boleyn

Lady of the rivers by Philippa Gregory ( Book )
44 editions published between 2001 and 2013 in English and Italian and held by 3,177 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
When the death of Joan of Arc shows her the dangers faced by strong women, Jacquetta, a psychic descendant of a river goddess, studies alchemy and becomes the secret wife of Richard Woodville before returning to the court of Henry VI

The queen's fool : a novel by Philippa Gregory ( Book )
46 editions published between 1984 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,958 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In 1553, Hannah Green, a young Jewish girl, flees to London to escape the Spanish Inquisition and catches the attention of Robert Dudley, who plans to use her talents for observation and second sight

The red queen by Philippa Gregory ( Book )
40 editions published between 2001 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,878 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Determined to see her son Henry on the throne of England, pious Margaret Beaufort arranges politically advantageous marriages, sends her son out of the country for his safety, and lays secret plans for a battle between the houses of York and Lancaster

The kingmaker's daughter by Philippa Gregory ( Book )
32 editions published between 2012 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 2,856 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Kingmaker" Richard, Earl of Warwick, uses his daughters as political pawns before their strategic marriages place them on opposing sides in a royal war that will cost them everyone they love

Wideacre by Philippa Gregory ( Book )
31 editions published between 1986 and 2008 in English and held by 2,734 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
As an eighteenth-century Englishwoman without property rights, Beatrice is destined to lose what she loves most--her fammily's ancestral estate, Wideacre--unless her ambitious schemes succeed