Books like Bring Up the Bodies
Cromwell engineers the downfall of Anne Boleyn, and the machinery of Tudor power reveals itself as both brutal and exquisitely human.
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The Other Boleyn Girl
At fourteen, Mary Boleyn catches the eye of Henry VIII and is pushed by her ambitious family into becoming his mistress, until her sister Anne sets her sights on the king and the crown itself.
The Fraud
The housekeeper and cousin-in-law of a fading Victorian novelist becomes obsessed with the Tichborne trial, where a butcher claims to be a lost aristocrat and a formerly enslaved man testifies for him.
A Maggot
In 1736, a group of travellers in the English countryside encounters something inexplicable, and the investigation that follows questions the nature of truth, faith, and evidence.
I, Claudius
A stammering historian narrates the blood-soaked reigns of Rome's first emperors from the inside, having survived by being too foolish to kill.
Warlock
A mining town hires a legendary gunman to restore order, but his presence unravels the community's fragile moral fabric.
The Spire
Dean Jocelin, convinced he has been chosen by God, drives his medieval cathedral to build a four-hundred-foot spire on foundations that cannot bear it.
Matrix
Marie de France, seventeen and judged unfit for court, is sent to run a poor English abbey, and over the decades she turns it into a powerful, defiant community of women.
Omer Pasha Latas
In 1850 Omer Pasha Latas, a Serb convert who has risen to Ottoman general, rides into Sarajevo to crush the rebellious Bosnian beys, and the city waits to see what he will do.
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth
In a Nigeria lightly fictionalised, a surgeon and his oldest friend, an engineer about to take up a post at the United Nations, discover that someone is trafficking in body parts from the hospital.
In America
In 1876 Maryna Zalezowska, Poland's greatest actress, leaves the stage and sails with her husband, her son and a few friends to found a utopian farm in California.
My Name Is Red
In Istanbul in 1591, the sultan has secretly commissioned an illuminated book in the European style, and one of the miniaturists working on it is murdered.
The Nix
A satirical family epic spanning from the 1968 Chicago riots to the present, connecting a mother's secret past to her son's public disgrace.