Margaret Irwin Books in Order

In 1920s London, reckless Dicky tries to break through the social barriers of Kensington and Mayfair. Celia, determined to escape her own enclosed life, finds that romance and ambition can open doors, and create new complications.

A sharp, lightly comic novel of 1920s London, where young people negotiate small flats, shifting friendships, and romantic complications. Irwin turns the city's Bohemian social world into a lively setting for satire and self-discovery.

Princess Henrietta Anne, known as Minette, grows up in exile after the fall of her father's throne. At the French court, marriage, family loyalty, and diplomacy draw her into dangerous royal intrigues between England and France.

A young woman in modern London becomes linked to Juliana Clare, an eighteenth-century girl caught in a strange and troubling past. This eerie time-slip novel blends loneliness, romance, and the unsettling pull of another life.

Seven stories and a play explore the supernatural side of Margaret Irwin's fiction. Evil books, black magic, old memories, and troubled households create a collection where the ordinary world slowly gives way to dread.

Prince Rupert of the Rhine arrives in England as a brilliant, impulsive royalist commander during the Civil War. Torn between family loyalty, military ambition, and the chaos around Charles I, he becomes a symbol of the Cavaliers' lost cause.

Mary, Queen of Scots returns to a divided Scotland after her years in France. Amid religious conflict and English pressure, she finds a fierce ally in James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell, the daring man called the Galliard.

Princess Elizabeth grows up under Henry VIII's shifting favor, marked by her mother's fate and her own uncertain status. After the king's death, her closeness to Katherine Parr and Thomas Seymour places the spirited young princess in fresh danger.

Princess Louise of Bohemia meets James Graham, Marquis of Montrose, while the royalist cause struggles in exile. Their romance unfolds against a tense background of divided loyalties, scarce money, and the looming violence of the Civil War.

After Edward VI dies, Elizabeth is caught between rival claims to England's crown and her sister Mary's growing suspicion. Court intrigue, rebellion, and imprisonment test the young princess's nerve as she learns how dangerous popularity can be.

James Graham, Marquis of Montrose, pledges himself to Charles I and sets out to raise Scotland for the king. The novel follows his passionate loyalty through political betrayal, military risk, and the personal costs of a doomed cause.

Princess Elizabeth faces peril under Queen Mary's rule as Philip of Spain arrives to marry her half-sister. Mary's jealousy and Philip's uneasy interest force Elizabeth to move carefully through a court where every alliance carries a cost.

Nan is married off to a drunken country squire and left painfully alone in an unhappy household. In Restoration England, her search for affection brings her into the orbit of Mr. Cork, a troubled Puritan clergyman with secrets of his own.

This nonfiction portrait follows Sir Walter Raleigh through the hazards of Elizabethan favor and the darker years under James I. Soldier, courtier, explorer, and writer, Raleigh emerges as an ambitious man whose enemies never disappear.

Melusine, the daughter of the enchanter Aldebaran, leaves her magical home to see the mortal world. In a flawed human court, she encounters love, jealousy, and power, and learns that magic cannot solve every emotional problem.

This varied story collection moves from Ireland's troubled past to witchcraft, black magic, historical figures, and eighteenth-century comedy. Several tales revisit Irwin's quieter brand of supernatural horror, where imagination becomes a dangerous companion.

A family-history compilation drawn from old letters and manuscripts connected with the Featherstone and Hall families. The volume traces family relationships, religious life, and social history across several generations through surviving documents.

An eighteenth-century French nobleman visits a remote château to choose a bride from three sisters. What begins as a family arrangement becomes an unsettling tale of desire, inheritance, and a presence that seems determined to shape the match.

An anthology of strange fiction by women writing between 1890 and 1940, spanning ghosts, Gothic unease, fantasy, and horror. Margaret Irwin appears with "The Book," a disturbing tale of a man's growing obsession with a sinister manuscript.