Prophecy
by S. J. Parris |
Unicorn's Blood
by Patricia Finney | 
The Heresy of Dr Dee
by Phil Rickman | 
The Forgotten Seamstress
by Liz Trenow | 
Young Bess
by Margaret Irwin |
House of Shadows
by Nicola Cornick | 
Lamentation
by C. J. Sansom | 
A Burnable Book
by Bruce Holsinger |
Amy Snow
by Tracy Rees | 
The Flame Bearer
by Bernard Cornwell | 
Gallows Thief
by Bernard Cornwell |
The House at Old Vine
by Norah Lofts | 
The Queen's Bastard
by Robin Maxwell | 
Legacy
by Susan Kay | 
The Last English King
by Julian Rathbone | 
The Raven's Head
by Karen Maitland | 
The Beggar King
by Oliver Potzsch | 
Ghost on Black Mountain
by Ann Hite | 
The Story Keeper
by Anna Mazzola | 
Thieftaker
by D. B. Jackson |
Religious strife, Glastonbury legends, the bones of King Arthur and the curse of the Tudors...can Renaissance man John Dee help the young Queen Elizabeth to avoid it? It is 1560. Elizabeth Tudor has been on the throne for a year, the date for her coronation having been chosen by her astrologer, Dr John Dee, at just 32 already famous throughout Europe as a mathematician and expert in the hidden arts. But neither Elizabeth nor Dee feel entirely secure. Both have known imprisonment for political reasons. The Queen is unpopular with both Roman Catholics and the new breed of puritanical protestant. Dee is regarded with suspicion in an era where the dividing line between science and sorcery is, at best, indistinct. And the assignment he's been given by the Queen's chief minister, Sir William Cecil, will blur it further: ride to the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey, bring back King Arthur's bones. The mission takes the mild, bookish Dee to the tangled roots of English magic and the Arthurian legacy so important to the Tudors. Into unexpected violence, spiritual darkness, the breathless stirring of first love...and the cold heart of a complex plot against Elizabeth. With him is his friend and former student, Robert Dudley, a risk-taker, a wild card...and possibly the Queen's secret lover. Dee is Elizabethan England's forgotten hero. A man for whom this world - even the rapidly-expanding world of the Renaissance - was never enough.