Philippa Gregory is one of the world’s foremost historical novelists. Author of bestselling novels such as The Other Boleyn Girl (2001) and The White Queen (2009), recently she has been working on The Fairmile Series, a trilogy which includes Tidelands (2019), Dark Tides (2020), and the upcoming Dawnlands (2022). Her work has been adapted for TV and cinema. She is a recognised authority on women’s history.
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Dark Tides
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Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir
Rediscovering Women In History at Chalke Valley Festival
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On Dark Tides
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On 1670
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On Alys And Alinor
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On Geography in Dark Tides
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On Ned and New England
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We Are Still Here
Four Hundred Years of Wampanoag History
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Leader of the Pokanoket
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On the Pokanoket
Venice
The Origins of Quarantine
Denunciation Box
Bocche di Leone
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On Venice
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Dark Tides
The second volume in the trilogy of The Fairmile Series, Dark Tides continues the sweeping saga of the Tidelands family. When two unexpected visitors show up at a shabby warehouse on the south side of the river Thames, Alinor finds herself suddenly under threat. While her antagonists deceive and betray, she embarks on a mission to find the truth. Meanwhile, her brother Ned, a Cromwellian who fled after the restoration of Charles II, is trying to make a new life for himself between the worlds of the English newcomers and the Native Americans, as war is imminent. Set in late 17th century, the novel follows the rise of the Tidelands between London, New England and Venice, as they fight sinister forces hellbent against them.
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Middlemarch
By Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot)
Recommended by: Philippa Gregory
Publish Date: 1871-1872
In this novel set in the fictitious town of Middlemarch in the Midlands between 1829 and 1832, George Eliot follows the lives of four fascinating characters and their fortunes and misfortunes. A meticulous portrait of provincial life punctuated by brilliant…
Simple Gifts
By Joanne Greenberg
Recommended by: Philippa Gregory
Publish Date: 1986
Set in a back-country ranch in Colorado, this novel tells the story of the Fleuris family, who is persuaded by a government agent to turn their farm into a 1880s pioneer homestead for visitors. Funny and poignant, Simple Gifts explores…
History Play: The Lives And Afterlife Of Christopher Marlowe
By Rodney Bolt
Recommended by: Philippa Gregory
Publish Date: 2004
What if Christopher Marlowe staged his own death, fled to the Continent and went on to write the works we now attribute to Shakespeare? Starting from this controversial assumption, Rodney Bolt playfully imagines a different version of history, one which…