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The third volume in the best-selling Wideacre trilogy. Set in the 18th century, they launched the career of Philippa Gregory, the best-selling author of The Other Boleyn Girl and Three Sisters, Three Queens. 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.

Philippa Gregory's first story in the best-selling Wideacre trilogy. A compelling tale of passion and intrigue set in the 18th century. From the author of The Other Boleyn Girl and The Virgin's Lover. Wideacre Hall, set in the heart of the English countryside, is the ancestral home that Beatrice Lacey loves. But as a woman of the 18th century, she has no right of inheritance. Corrupted by a world that mistreats women, she sets out to corrupt others.

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.

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.

Philippa Gregory’s Normal Women is a new podcast from HarperCollins, launched to coincide with the publication of this landmark work of scholarship and storytelling, from celebrated novelist and historian Philippa Gregory. Normal Women is a radical retelling of our nation’s story – not of the rise and fall of kings and the occasional queen – but of social and cultural change, powered by the determination, persistence and effectiveness of women– from 1066 to modern times. This is not another book or podcast about three or four well-known heroines; it is a story about millions of ...

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.

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.

Princess Florizella was friends with some of the princesses who had studied the Princess Rules, and behaved just as the Rules said they should. Florizella thought their hair was lovely: so golden and so very long. And their clothes were nice: so richly embroidered. And their shoes were delightful: so tiny and handmade in silk. But their days bored her to death....

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?

Det anspændte forhold mellem Maria og Elizabeth, døtre af Henrik VIII, er efterhånden velkendt stof. Kampen om tronen, om troen, om folkets kærlighed, om den spanske prins Filips kærlighed, ja om så mange ting, forpestede stemningen ved det engelske hof og fik alle hoffolk til at krybe langs væggene af skræk. Hannah har en evne: Hun ser ting, eller rettere en gang imellem tager tungen magten over hende, og hun siger ting, taler om noget, der endnu ikke er sket, advarer om endnu ikke erkendte farer.

Tre unge kvinder, tre skrækkelige skæbner. Henrik VIII's ulykkelige ægteskab med Anne Boleyn gav langvarige efterdønninger. Efter dronning Janes død i barselsseng skal kongen have en ny dronning, og valget falder på Anne af Cleeves fra et lille hertugdømme i Tyskland. Maleren Holbein sendes af sted for at lave et portræt af den unge pige, og kongen er godt tilfreds, da han ser det. Det er han imidlertid ikke, da han og Anne møder hinanden første gang. Mødet er en katastrofe, og ægteskabet er kuldsejlet på forhånd.

Hvad de færreste ved, er at kongen først var forelsket i Annes søster Mary og faktisk fik to børn med hende. I Kongens Frille hører vi om denne historie, om en purung pige belastet med en familie, så ambitiøs at de sendte først Mary og dernæst Anne af sted til kongens seng i håb om vinde magtkampen blandt Englands allerfornemmeste familier. Da kampen var forbi, havde Anne mistet sit hoved, Henrik var blevet bandlyst af paven, familien Boleyn havde tabt al magt, og kimen var lagt til arvefølgestridigheder og voldsom religiøs uro i landet i mange år derefter.

Elizabeth den Første krones i 1558 og følges tæt af sin barndomsven og tilbeder Sir Robert Dudley. Mens hans søger magten ved hoffet, lever hans hustru en trist og forsømt tilværelse, og dronningens nærmeste begynder at se skævt til ham.

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.

Das ergreifende Schicksal dreier Tudor-Schwestern zwischen Herrschaftspflicht und Selbstbestimmung. Den Tudors mangelt es an männlichen Erben. Ohne es zu wollen, geraten so die drei Schwestern Jane, Katherine und Mary Grey in die Auseinandersetzungen um die Thronfolge. Zwar fügt sich Jane in ihr Schicksal und ergreift die Krone. Doch die Spiele der Macht beherrscht sie nicht: Mary, Halbschwester des verstorbenen Königs, sammelt eine Allianz hinter sich und begehrt auf. Auch das Leben von Katherine und der klugen, kleinwüchsigen Mary scheint von da an vorgezeichnet - den Kämpfen am Hof können sie nicht entrinnen.