Royal witch
1420: Eleanor Cobham arrives at the court of Henry V. Pretty but not highborn, she hopes for nothing more than to marry well. It is a golden age for England, its royal family's dynasty stretching across Europe. But ancient rivalries and restless ambition mean chaos waits in the shadows. Working in t...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2026]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Gregory, Philippa. Plantagenet and Tudor novels ;
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| Summary: | 1420: Eleanor Cobham arrives at the court of Henry V. Pretty but not highborn, she hopes for nothing more than to marry well. It is a golden age for England, its royal family's dynasty stretching across Europe. But ancient rivalries and restless ambition mean chaos waits in the shadows. Working in the household of a countess who commands her own army, Eleanor begins to see what a woman is capable of ... and what men's promises are truly worth. For the first time, she dares to dream of rising further. Perhaps further than any woman before. And for that she will need to turn to darker arts ... They say she summoned the devil himself. They say she plotted to murder a king. This is the tale of the woman they called witch. Who would have called herself queen. |
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| Physical Description: | 425 pages : genealogical table ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 424-425). |
| ISBN: | 9781460767856 1460767853 9780063439801 0063439808 |
| Author Notes: | Her historical novels include: Wideacre, The Queen's Fool, The Virgin's Lover, The Constant Princess, The Boleyn Inheritance, The Other Queen, The White Queen, The Red Queen, The Lady of the Rivers and The White Princess. She has also written several contemporary fiction works including Perfectly Correct, The Little House and Zelda's Cut. She adapted her novel A Respectable Trade, about the slave trade in England, into a four-part series for BBC television. Her script won an award from the Committee for Racial Equality. She won the Feminist Book Fortnight Award in 1990 and the Romantic Novelist of the Year Award in 2002. Her book, The Other Boleyn Girl, won the Parker Romantic Novel of the Year award and was adapted into a major feature film in 2008 starring Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson. The White Queen was adapted into an original cable series on the Starz nertwork in 2013 starring Max Irons and Rebecca Ferguson. Her title The Kings Curse made the New York Times bestseller list in 2014. Her title, The Taming of the Queen, made the New York Times bestseller list in 2015. Her latest bestseller is Three Sisters, Three Queens. Gregory also writes children's books, is a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines, a frequent broadcaster for radio and television, and runs a small charity that builds wells in schoolyards in Gambia. (Bowker Author Biography) |
