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  • The Tudor Court
    Laura Dowers
    Three novels in one omnibus edition!THE QUEEN’S FAVOURITERobert Dudley’s charm and cunning enable him to navigate the treacherous waters of courtly intrigue and become the favoured courtier of Queen Elizabeth. But the bond they share becomes increasingly complicated as Robert’s personal and political ambitions start to drive a wedge between them. And yet, even as he schemes to ...
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  • The Thomas Wolsey Trilogy
    Laura Dowers
    The entire Thomas Wolsey trilogy in one edition!Master WolseyThe rise of England’s most notorious priest, from his days as an Oxford scholar to his becoming Cardinal.Power & GloryThomas Wolsey is at the pinnacle of his career and has great ambitions for the economic and political stability of Europe. He stages the most spectacular event of the Tudor Age, the international summi...
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  • The Last King of Rome
    Laura Dowers
    Rome, 6th Century BC, is a brutal place.Battles with neighbouring tribes are common and kings can be easily thrust from their thrones, through diplomacy or at the point of a sword, it doesn’t really matter.When Lucomo, first of the Tarquins, is brutally murdered by hired assassins, his adopted son Servius takes the throne without the approval of the senate. Over time, he earns ...
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  • The Eagle in the Dovecote
    Laura Dowers
    Rome’s new hero may prove to be her greatest enemy yet!The tyrant king, Lucius Tarquinius, is banished from Rome and the republic is born. But Rome is still a divided nation and it’s not long before tensions between the classes begin to rise.Into this turbulent arena strides Caius Marcius, a young patrician who despises the plebeians. His mother, Volumnia, consulted the Sibyl b...
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  • The Queen’s Spymaster
    Laura Dowers
    England in the sixteenth century is a country in turmoil.King Henry VIII’s Reformation has left England divided between Catholics and Protestants. Most of the those who cling to the Old Faith are content to conform to the laws of the land. But there are some Catholics who wonder where their allegiance lies - to England’s heretic queen or to the Pope? Francis Walsingham has no s...
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  • The Queen’s Rebel
    Laura Dowers
    1588. The Spanish Armada has been defeated, but Elizabeth Tudor is grief-stricken.The Earl of Leicester has died and Elizabeth feels entirely alone. But at her court there is a young man who will chase her nightmares away and, she hopes, will be her adoring slave. Enter Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex.But Elizabeth is no longer young and doesn’t command the affection she onc...
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  • The Queen’s Favourite
    Laura Dowers
    Robert Dudley is born into a family tainted by treason but one that is determined to rise high once more. Placed by his ambitious father, the duke of Northumberland, in the royal household, Robert spends his childhood years as playmate to the children of Henry VIII: Edward and Elizabeth Tudor. Robert watches as his father grows in both power and influence and is determined to b...
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  • Forsaken
    Laura Dowers
    When Cardinal Wolsey rises to the top, there’s only one way he can fall!England, 1520. Thomas Wolsey has just staged the most magnificent event of the century and his reputation as a statesman has never been greater. He has kings and emperors hanging on his every word and can be forgiven for believing the world is his for the asking.But this is an illusion soon shattered. The E...
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  • Master Wolsey
    Laura Dowers
    1485. The world has changed.Henry VII sits on England’s throne following his defeat of King Richard III at Bosworth Field.Enter Thomas Wolsey, a young man with a great deal of brains and even greater ambition. Despite his reputation for brilliance at Magdalen College, Thomas cannot help feeling he deserves more than Oxford can offer and leaves to seek new challenges elsewhere.M...
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  • The Woman in Room Three
    Laura Dowers
    A WOMAN WRONGFULLY INCARCERATEDA DOCTOR FIGHTING TO FREE HER London, 1864. Dr Felix Cowdrey is working in a London free hospital, and hating every minute of it. So many of his patients have illnesses and injuries that cannot be treated, and his inability to help them pains him deeply.Then he meets Dr Miles Wakefield who offers him a position at his private lunatic asylum in Ess...
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  • Power & Glory
    Laura Dowers
    A CARDINAL MADE. A STATESMAN BORN.England. 1515. Thomas Wolsey has risen higher than anyone thought possible, but he’s keen on rising even higher. If he could only become Lord Chancellor, Thomas knows he can change England forever.The nobles have been abusing their position for years, while the Church has become openly corrupt. As Thomas works to right these wrongs at home, his...
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