Drawing inspiration from Japan and using Shakespeare's original texts, this series brings to life the Bard's words.

Alison Weir was already one of Britain's most popular historians when she wrote her first novel, 'Innocent Traitor', which stormed into the Sunday Times best-seller list. Now, in her second novel, Alison Weir goes to the heart of Tudor England at its most dangerous in telling the story of Elizabeth I before she became queen.

Hal is a poor stable boy, who has a dream - to work for King Henry at his palace in Whitehall. But when he chances upon the royal party, it's not the meeting he was hoping for. He's accused of being a spy and his fate now rests in the King's hands. Will Henry live up to his fierce reputation, or will Hal live another day?

Looming out of the encroaching darkness of the February evening was London Bridge, still ornamented with the severed heads of Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham; the terrible price they had paid for suspected intimacy with the queen. Katherine now reached the Tower of London, her final destination. Katherine Howard was the fifth wife of Henry VIII and cousin to the executed Anne Boleyn. She first came to court as a young girl of fourteen, but even...

Written by Lacey Baldwin Smith, this is a biography of Henry VIII's fifth wife, Catherine Howard, who was beheaded for playing Henry at his own game - adultery.

Based on fascinating new material, this title provides a riveting account of Catherine Howard's tragic marriage to one of history's most powerful and endlessly fascinating rulers - Henry VIII.