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Evelyn Anthony Books in Order

Explore Evelyn Anthony's books in order, with short summaries, series guides, and tips on where to start with her historical novels and spy thrillers.

Last updated: June 11, 2026

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39 books

Imperial Highness

by Evelyn Anthony

1953

Born in obscurity, young Augusta Fredericka is sent to Russia and transformed into Catherine the Great. Court plotting, a disastrous marriage, and her own hunger for power drive this opening chapter of Anthony's Romanov saga.

Curse Not the King

by Evelyn Anthony

1954

Years after taking the throne, Catherine the Great finds her fiercest enemy may be her own son, Paul. This second Romanov novel is a tense family struggle over inheritance, memory, and the meaning of power.

Far Fly the Eagles

by Evelyn Anthony

1955

As Napoleon turns toward Russia, Tsar Alexander I faces danger abroad and treachery at court. Anthony blends dynastic tension, imperial politics, and personal conflict into a vivid historical novel of the Romanov world.

Anne Boleyn

by Evelyn Anthony

1957

Henry VIII's pursuit of Anne Boleyn becomes a story of ambition, desire, and ruin on a national scale. Anthony keeps the court glittering, but never lets us forget how quickly favor can turn into catastrophe.

Victoria

by Evelyn Anthony

1958

Teenage Victoria becomes queen and then learns what it means to build a marriage and a monarchy with Albert under constant scrutiny. Anthony keeps the focus on love, duty, ego, and the cost of growing up on the throne.

All the Queens Men

by Evelyn Anthony

1960

Anthony follows Elizabeth I through the early years of her reign, where statecraft, desire, and danger are impossible to separate. Mary, Queen of Scots, Robert Dudley, and rival factions keep the crown under relentless pressure.

Elizabeth

by Evelyn Anthony

1960

From uneasy accession to long struggle with Mary, Queen of Scots, Elizabeth I must rule a divided realm while guarding her heart. Court politics and her bond with Robert Dudley make power painfully personal.

Charles The King

by Evelyn Anthony

1961

Anthony turns royal history into intimate drama, following a king hemmed in by faction, family pressure, and the politics of marriage. Court loyalty is never simple, and private weakness can reshape an entire realm.

Clandara

by Evelyn Anthony

1962

Katharine Fraser and James Macdonald fall in love across an old family feud just as the Jacobite rising tears Scotland apart. Revenge, war, and divided loyalties drive them far from the life they imagined.

The French Bride

by Evelyn Anthony

1964

Rich young Anne de Bernard is forced into marriage with the debt-ridden Charles Macdonald and swept into the glittering cruelty of Versailles. Court intrigue and a dangerous rival make survival, and love, far from certain.

The Heiress

by Evelyn Anthony

1964

At Louis XV's court, wealthy Anne is pushed into marriage with reckless exile Charles Macdonald, who remains bound to his mistress. As humiliation turns dangerous, both must decide what loyalty and love are really worth.

Valentina

by Evelyn Anthony

1966

Set against Napoleon's drive across Europe, this historical novel follows Valentina on a mission to seduce Marshal Joachim Murat and uncover French plans. Love and patriotism pull her in opposite directions, with danger close behind.

The Rendezvous / No Resistance

by Evelyn Anthony

1967

Twenty years after the war, former Resistance courier Terese meets the man who once questioned her as an SS officer. Their unexpected connection becomes a tense love story shadowed by memory, guilt, and the hunt for justice.

Anne of Austria

by Evelyn Anthony

1968

Young Anne of Austria enters the French court through a loveless royal marriage and finds herself isolated at its center. Passion, religion, and the politics of power make every alliance dangerous, and every weakness costly.

Cardinal and the Queen

by Evelyn Anthony

1968

At the court of Louis XIII, Queen Anne is trapped in a cold marriage and drawn into a perilous bond with Cardinal Richelieu. Anthony turns rumor, desire, and high politics into a tight, dramatic historical romance.

The Legacy

by Evelyn Anthony

1969

After Richard's death, his second wife Christina and their daughter are trapped in a vicious inheritance fight. Hostile stepsons, a great estate, and a coldly watchful lawyer make grief only the beginning of their trouble.

The Legend

by Evelyn Anthony

1969

Anthony's move into espionage begins with a tense story about wartime myths, buried loyalties, and truths powerful people would rather keep hidden. What starts as legend slowly unravels into conspiracy, danger, and emotional risk.

The Assassin

by Evelyn Anthony

1970

Elizabeth Cameron is drawn into a Middle Eastern conspiracy with White House ambitions and global consequences. On the run from multiple intelligence services, she has only one guide, a professional killer she may be unable to trust.

The Poellenberg Inheritance / Dubious Legacy

by Evelyn Anthony

1970

Paula Stanley learns that the father she believed dead was a former SS commander living in exile. His last gift, a priceless treasure with a tainted past, brings danger, family reckoning, and a fierce battle over ownership.

The Tamarind Seed

by Evelyn Anthony

1971

Judith Farrow meets Soviet military attaché Feodor Sverdlov on what should have been a quiet Caribbean holiday. Their growing connection pulls her into Cold War intrigue, surveillance, and a desperate hunt for a Western mole.

OCCUPYING POWER / Stranger at the Gates / Sleeping with the Enemy

by Evelyn Anthony

1973

In occupied France, Louise de Bernard is forced to share her home with a German officer while an Allied mission unfolds nearby. Wartime compromise, courage, and later reckoning drive this tense story of resistance and survival.

The Malaspiga Exit / Mission to Malaspiga

by Evelyn Anthony

1974

What looks like elegance and privilege hides a far darker network of crime and betrayal. Anthony wraps espionage, old loyalties, and mortal danger into a taut European thriller with trouble waiting behind every polished door.

The Rebel Princess

by Evelyn Anthony

1974

An obscure German princess is sent to Russia and remade into Catherine the Great. Anthony turns court intrigue, a disastrous marriage, and raw ambition into a fast-moving portrait of power won at terrible cost.

The Persian Ransom / The Persian Price

by Evelyn Anthony

1975

Eileen Field, glamorous wife of an oil tycoon, is kidnapped in the middle of a high-stakes Persian deal. What begins as sabotage grows stranger and more dangerous as captivity, politics, and desire start to blur.

The Silver Falcon

by Evelyn Anthony

1977

Young widow Isabel Cunningham sets out to honor her husband's dying wish and race his magnificent horse in the Derby. Instead she finds blackmail, family hatred, and murder waiting behind the grandeur of his estate.

The Return

by Evelyn Anthony

1978

Anna Martin thinks she is starting over with the enigmatic Nicholas Yurovsky. Then she learns he may be part of a long-brewing plot to avenge Soviet crimes, with a powerful visitor to Paris caught in the center.

The Grave Of Truth/The Janus Imperative / Codeword Janus

by Evelyn Anthony

1979

Haunted by what he saw in Hitler's bunker, Max hears the same desperate words years later from another dying man. Suddenly he is pulled into a ruthless hunt for the Führer's final, and possibly devastating, legacy.

The Avenue of the Dead/The Plumed Serpent

by Evelyn Anthony

1981

Still shaken by personal loss, Davina Graham is sent to investigate claims that a powerful American official is feeding secrets to the Russians. The case leads from Washington to Mexico City, where murder and treachery finally connect.

The Defector / Betrayal

by Evelyn Anthony

1981

Davina Graham is assigned to debrief KGB defector Ivan Sasanov, but professional distance does not last long. To save the family he left behind, she must risk everything while Moscow closes in.

Albatross

by Evelyn Anthony

1982

Davina Graham goes undercover to find a mole inside Britain's Secret Intelligence Service. With suspicion falling on colleagues, friends, and family connections, the hunt becomes a tense battle of deception, loyalty, and time.

The Company of Saints /Mind Games

by Evelyn Anthony

1983

Now head of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, Davina Graham faces a string of shocking political murders across Europe. The trail points toward old enemies, hired killers, and a deadly plan that could reshape international politics.

Voices on the Wind

by Evelyn Anthony

1985

Forty years after serving in the Resistance, Katharine is asked to revisit occupied France and a betrayal she has never escaped. A war crimes case opens old wounds and forces a hard choice between truth and mercy.

No Enemy But Time / A Place to Hide

by Evelyn Anthony

1987

Claire Fraser, wife of a British cabinet minister, returns to Ireland when her beloved half-brother disappears. The search pulls her into political violence, old memories, and a past that never really let her go.

House of Vandekar

by Evelyn Anthony

1988

An English country house holds decades of bitterness, bad marriages, and hidden paternity. As the Vandekar family history unfolds across generations, one woman is forced to confront the secrets behind her mother's death.

The Scarlet Thread

by Evelyn Anthony

1989

In wartime Palermo, English nurse Angela Drummond marries wounded Sicilian-American soldier Steven Falconi, then vanishes from his life. What follows is a sweeping story of love, family power, and the violence that shadows a Mafia dynasty.

The Relic

by Evelyn Anthony

1991

After her father's death, Lucy Warren inherits a jeweled cross and a dangerous errand. Carrying the relic to an exiled Soviet dissident draws her into revolution, romance, and a struggle over the future of a collapsing empire.

The Doll's House

by Evelyn Anthony

1992

Foreign Service agent Rosa Bennett is sent to a luxury hotel outside London to find out whether its manager is a spy. The case widens into an international terrorism plot, and her worst mistake may be falling in love.

Exposure

by Evelyn Anthony

1993

Reporter Julia Hamilton is sent to investigate a ruthless media tycoon and quickly finds a past built on lies. Her search links modern corruption to a buried World War II atrocity, and powerful men want the story stopped.

Bloodstones

by Evelyn Anthony

1994

A cache of flawless red diamonds discovered in Russia threatens to upend the global trade. Inside a London diamond empire, greed, betrayal, and corporate espionage turn a business crisis into something far more dangerous.

Where should I start?

If you want classic Cold War suspense: The Tamarind SeedThe Defector / BetrayalThe Company of Saints /Mind Games
If you like wartime secrets that refuse to stay buried: The Poellenberg Inheritance / Dubious LegacyVoices on the WindThe Return
If you want a sweeping royal saga: The Rebel PrincessCurse Not the KingFar Fly the Eagles
If you prefer Tudor and Victorian court drama: Anne BoleynElizabethVictoria

Author bio

Evelyn Anthony was born Evelyn Bridget Patricia Stephens in Lambeth, London, on July 3, 1926. She grew up in a family that mixed old money, invention, and strain. Her father, Henry Christian Stephens, served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and later invented the dome trainer used to teach anti-aircraft gunners.

Books got to her early.

She was sent to the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Roehampton as a boarder, and during the Second World War she was evacuated to the West Country. Her parents divorced when she was still young, and when her father's health failed she helped care for him at home. That mix of discipline, upheaval, and responsibility stayed with her, and you can feel it in the pressure-cooker worlds she later wrote.

Anthony started out by selling short stories to women's magazines while still young, then moved into novels in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The pen name was practical. Evelyn could read as male or female on a cover, and Anthony came from St. Anthony of Padua, the saint she turned to when things were lost.

She wrote through family life, deadlines, and the plain noise of the everyday.

Her early success came through historical fiction, and those books helped define the first half of her career. In The Rebel Princess, later reissued as Imperial Highness, she turned Catherine the Great into a young woman fighting bad luck, a bad marriage, and a dangerous court. Far Fly the Eagles and Valentina use the Napoleonic era for romance, intrigue, and divided loyalties. In Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth, and Victoria and Albert, she took famous royal lives and made them feel immediate, emotional, and messy in a very human way.

Then she changed lanes. In the late 1960s she moved toward suspense and espionage after getting to know people who had worked in wartime intelligence, including veterans of the Special Operations Executive and MI5. That shift suited her. She liked secrets, compromised loyalties, and the way old wars keep shaping the present. The Tamarind Seed became her best-known thriller and was adapted for film in 1974. Later books like The Defector, The Poellenberg Inheritance, Voices on the Wind, and Exposure kept that same mix of pace and feeling. Readers often come for the spy plot, but stay because Anthony's characters still want ordinary things, safety, love, forgiveness, and one clean chance to start again.

Her home life was full as well. She married Michael Ward-Thomas in 1955, and they had six children between 1957 and 1965. The family moved to Horham Hall in Essex, later had to sell it because the place was so expensive to keep up, and then bought it back after her writing career grew. In 1994 she became the first female High Sheriff of Essex. The next year her daughter Kitty died, a loss that stopped her writing for several years. Her husband died in 2004, and her final novel, Mind Games, appeared in 2005.

She died at Horham Hall on September 25, 2018. By then she had written across royal courts, occupied Europe, London newsrooms, and the hidden rooms of the Cold War. What links the books is easy to see, she liked big stakes, but she never forgot the private cost.

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All 39 Evelyn Anthony Books in Order (Complete List 2026)