Judith Arnopp Books in Order

Eadgyth, daughter of Ælfgar of Mercia, is pushed into a harsh marriage with Gruffydd of Wales and later drawn into Harold Godwinson's world. Her life becomes a front-row seat to love, betrayal, and the gathering storm of 1066.

This slim poetry collection looks back at the London suburbs of the 1960s and the people who shaped a childhood. Memory, loss, and the wish to be remembered give the poems their quiet pull.

Twelve years after the Norman Conquest, dispossessed Saxons fight to survive in the New Forest. When Leo intervenes to save a girl from three soldiers, the violence sets off a reckoning that reaches all the way to a king.

Anne Neville, daughter of the Earl of Warwick, is swept through the Wars of the Roses with little control over her fate. Exile, marriage, captivity, and Richard of Gloucester all shape a hard, intimate portrait of a reluctant queen.

In seventh-century Pengwern, Princess Heledd's reckless attachment to a travelling minstrel helps set disaster in motion. Against a backdrop of rival kingdoms and pagan-Christian conflict, she struggles to shape her own fate.

In Tudor London, Joanie Toogood survives Southwark's brutal streets until a link to Cromwell's spy pulls her toward court intrigue. Her story intertwines with women at Henry VIII's court, showing power from both the palace and the gutter.

Anne Boleyn speaks from the long shadow of Henry VIII's last night, revisiting the passion, ambition, and danger that remade England. Arnopp gives Anne a vivid first-person voice as courtship turns to queenship and mortal peril.

As rebellion and religious upheaval spread across England, Katheryn Parr's life changes under siege at Snape Castle. From that crisis to Henry VIII's court, Arnopp traces the intelligence and nerve of the king's sixth and final wife.

After Bosworth, Elizabeth of York is queen to Henry Tudor, but the return of Perkin Warbeck stirs old loyalties and dangerous doubts. Torn between duty and family, Elizabeth must navigate the last sharp aftershocks of the Wars of the Roses.

As England slides toward civil war, child bride Margaret Beaufort is sent into a troubled Wales and forced to grow up fast. This first chronicle follows her early marriages, widowhood, and the birth of the son she is determined to protect.

Margaret Beaufort fights for a place at Edward IV's court while her exiled son remains a distant hope. Surrounded by shifting loyalties, she must use patience, piety, and sharp political instinct to keep Henry Tudor's claim alive.

Raised in Arden Priory after being left at its gate, Margery has always known the rhythms of convent life. When Henry VIII's reforms threaten the monasteries, she and her sisters are swept into faith, rebellion, and dangerous change.

After Bosworth, Margaret Beaufort finally sees her son crowned Henry VII, but victory brings little peace. Pretenders, uprisings, and court rivalry test the new Tudor dynasty and the mother's iron resolve.

From cherished princess to embattled queen, Mary Tudor fights to defend her mother, her faith, and eventually her crown. Arnopp follows Mary's long struggle against humiliation, rebellion, and the brutal cost of ruling a divided kingdom.

When Prince Arthur dies, Henry Tudor becomes heir to England and grows into a king obsessed with glory, sons, and Catherine of Aragon. This opening Henrician novel follows the early marriage that curdles into the crisis that brings Anne Boleyn into view.

Henry VIII believes Anne Boleyn will give him the son he has staked everything on, but the court is already fracturing around them. This middle volume follows disappointment, factional struggle, and the hardening of a king who will not be denied.

Ageing, ailing, and still hungry for glory, Henry VIII moves through the marriages and betrayals of his later reign. Cromwell, Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard, and Katheryn Parr all stand in the path of a king growing more dangerous.

Eight linked stories follow an illuminated manuscript from the eighth century to the present day. As the book passes through Viking violence, plague, war, and family secrets, it also charts the long life of Thornhold and those who guard it.

A practical beginner's guide to Tudor clothing, this book covers court fashion, everyday dress, fabrics, status, and simple sewing advice. Arnopp makes sixteenth-century style feel approachable for reenactors and curious readers alike.

Despised as a foreign queen and blocked at every turn, Marguerite of Anjou fights for her husband's crown and her son's future. Henry VI's weakness and Richard of York's ambition push her into the bitter opening years of the Wars of the Roses.