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Elizabeth Woodville é filha de uma família nobre do campo e se vê desamparada quando o marido é morto no campo de batalha. Com dois filhos pequenos, ela decide recorrer ao jovem rei para reaver suas propriedades, usurpadas pela família do marido. Porém, após despertar a atenção do monarca, os dois apaixonam-se e casam-se em segredo, e Elizabeth ascende à realeza. E perigo, morte e perfídia passam a ser constantes em sua vida.

No verão de 1543, a Inglaterra celebra a ascensão de uma nova rainha. Depois de se tornar viúva de seu segundo marido, Catarina Parr recebe com hesitação o pedido de casamento do rei Henrique VIII. Contudo, ela sabe que não tem escolha e se vê obrigada a abandonar seus planos de finalmente se casar por amor para subir ao trono. Catarina não tem dúvidas do perigo que está prestes a enfrentar; afinal, vai se casar com um rei que matou duas de suas ex-esposas. Mas Henrique a adora, e ela aos poucos conquista sua confiança.

A Inglaterra está prestes a enfrentar uma guerra civil. O rei, Henrique VI de Lancaster, apresenta os primeiros sinais de loucura, e a linhagem dos duques de York assume o trono. Herdeira da antiga casa real, cujo símbolo é uma rosa vermelha, Margaret Beaufort acredita que um grande destino a aguarda. Viúva aos 15 anos, ela decide dedicar sua vida solitária a pôr o filho, Henrique Tudor, no trono, e para isso estabelece alianças perigosas e lidera uma das maiores rebeliões de seu tempo.

Margaret Tudor sabe que está destinada à grandeza. Mas, quando Catarina de Aragão chega à corte para se casar com seu irmão mais velho, a jovem princesa se sente igualmente ameaçada e admirada. Sua maior preocupação é ser rebaixada pelo poder da cunhada, a futura rainha da Inglaterra, e pela beleza da irmã mais nova, Maria. Mas a chegada de Catarina acarreta mais do que uma simples rivalidade.

Richard Neville, conde de Warwick, é conhecido como “Fazedor de Reis”, o homem mais poderoso da Inglaterra no século XV. Sem filhos nem herdeiros, ele usa suas filhas, Anne e Isabel, como peões em seus jogos políticos. No entanto, apesar de seus esforços, vê sua influência reduzida na corte de seu antigo amigo e aliado, Eduardo IV.

Join multi-award-winning author Philippa Gregory as she tells the story of English women over 900 years. There are plenty of books profiling exceptional women – this book is DIFFERENT. It’s about ordinary, everyday women – erased from history for centuries. Meet highway women and blacksmiths, pirates and ‘female husbands’. Meet women who went to war, ploughed the fields, campaigned, wrote, rode in jousts, issued their own currency, built ships, invented things and rioted – a LOT! Their story is one of ingenuity, diversity, rebellion, survival – and sisterhood.

Her words sent two queens to the scaffold. Her secrets shaped a kingdom. But her true story was hidden. Until now.

Sister. Pawn. Liar. Traitor. Her words sent two queens to the scaffold. Her secrets shaped a kingdom. But her true story was hidden. Until now. Philippa Gregory brings the Boleyn traitor out of the shadows in a groundbreaking tale of love, betrayal — and survival.

Der Nummer-1-Bestseller aus England: Die Flut an einem neuen Morgen ist der dritte Band von Philippa Gregorys fesselnder historischer Familiensaga Die Gezeiten-Saga. 1685 droht England erneut ein Bürgerkrieg, der diesmal auch Alinors Familie spaltet: Ihr Bruder Ned kehrt aus Amerika zurück, um sich der Rebellion gegen den katholischen König anzuschließen. Alinor dagegen wird von der manipulativen Livia überredet, die Königin vor der bevorstehenden Belagerung zu retten. Ihre Belohnung würde alles verändern: Alinor könnte dort herrschen, wo sie einst weniger als eine Dienerin war.

Lily Valance wants to forget the war. She's determined to enjoy the world of the 1920s, with its music, singing, laughter and pleasure. When she meets Captain Stephen Winters, a decorated hero back from the Front, she's drawn to his wealth and status. The hidden tensions of the respectable facade of the Winters household come to a head. Stephen's nightmares merge ever closer with reality and the truth of what took place in the mud and darkness brings him and all who loves him to a terrible reckoning ...

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? The incomparable, uncontrollable Zelda de Vere is born.

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. She married Elizabeth’s son and then found that, somehow, she could never quite measure up. Isolation, deceit and betrayal fill the gaps between the two individual women and between their different worlds. In this complex thriller, Philippa Gregory deploys all her insight into what women want and what women fear, as Ruth confronts the shifting borders of her own sanity.

Nesse último volume da aclamada série Guerra dos Primos, Philippa Gregory conta a história de Margaret, prima da Princesa Branca e filha do duque de Clarence. Por ser uma Plantageneta, ela é vista como mais uma ameaça ao instável trono do rei Henrique VII, então é prometida em casamento a um Lancaster que segue fielmente as ordens dos Tudor. Essa é a única maneira de manter a casa de Plantageneta longe do trono.

Em 10 de julho de 1553, Joana Grey foi coroada rainha da Inglaterra. Em 19 de julho do mesmo ano, foi deposta. Seu pai e seus aliados a coroaram, mas Maria Tudor, meia-irmã do falecido rei, prontamente reuniu um exército, reivindicou o trono e mandou encarcerar Joana na Torre de Londres. Quando a jovem Grey se recusou a negar a fé protestante, Maria a enviou ao cepo do carrasco, onde Joana transformou em trágico martírio a ganância do pai pelo poder.

In einer Mittsommernacht des Jahres 1648 hofft die junge Alinor, auf dem Friedhof dem Geist ihres Mannes zu begegnen, der auf See verschollen ist. Stattdessen trifft sie auf einen Flüchtenden: James wird als Ketzer gejagt. Alinor zeigt dem verzweifelten jungen Mann die geheimen Pfade durch den Sumpf - und ahnt nicht, dass sie damit eine Katastrophe heraufbeschwört. Längst schon wurde sie im Dorf wegen ihres Kräuterwissen und ihrer Entschlossenheit misstrauisch beäugt.

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. Can they rescue their new-found friend, the sea serpent, from a travelling circus? And hold back the pirate, Five-fathom Freida. Or will Florizella’s worst fairy godmother prove that in a fairytale world, you really do have to be careful what you wish for?

London 1670. Zwei Besucher treffen kurz nacheinander in einem kleinen Warenhaus am Südufer der Themse ein. Der erste ist ein wohlhabender Mann, der hofft, die Frau zu finden, die er einundzwanzig Jahre zuvor verlassen musste - Alinor, die damals nur knapp der Hexenverfolgung entgangen ist, und mit ihren Kindern nach London ging. James Avery hat inzwischen seinen Weg in der Welt gemacht und ist zu einem Günstling von Charles II. aufgestiegen. Doch nun ist James auf der Suche nach jemand, den er lange verloren glaubte - seinem Sohn und Erben.

When Princess Florizella finds a baby boy delivered by stork to her parents’ palace, she is shocked to discover that he will one day be king and inherit her kingdom! For every prince is given a permit which allows them to do whatever they like in the same way that every princess is given a set of rules that they have to live by. As soon as Princess Florizella’s brother is big enough to have adventures, she takes him all over the land. Can she prove that girls having rules and boys having permits isn’t right?

Midsummer’s Eve, 1670. A wealthy man waits outside a poor London warehouse to meet with Alinor, the woman he failed 21 years before. He has everything to offer: money, land, status - and he believes she has the only thing he cannot buy: his son and heir. Meanwhile in New England, Alinor’s brother, Ned, cannot find justice in the New World, as the king’s revenge stretches across the Atlantic and turns the pioneers against each other and against the American Indians.

Dive deep into the world of medieval legends and disentangle reality from fear in this powerful series from the internationally renowned author of historical fiction Philippa Gregory. 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.