Philippa Gregory Books in Order

Jane Boleyn, long vilified for giving evidence against Anne and George Boleyn, finally tells her own story. Moving through the lethal politics of Henry VIII’s court, she weighs survival against truth as she serves queens whose fates are written in blood.

Spanning nine centuries, this sweeping history foregrounds ordinary English women as workers, rebels, thinkers and carers. From farmers and traders to pilots and campaigners, Gregory shows how women have always helped build the country, even when the records ignored them.

In 1685 England faces renewed rebellion as James II takes the throne. The Reekie family are pulled between sedition and service, from Ned’s return from America to plots involving a false heir and the brutal realities of plantation slavery in Barbados.

Princess Florizella, her friend Prince Bennett and baby brother Courier set off on two linked quests, freeing a lonely sea serpent from a travelling show and rescuing a kidnapped bear from pirates, while learning hard lessons about wishes, fairness and friendship.

In this sequel to The Princess Rules, Florizella gains a baby brother, Prince Courier, and discovers that princes have a special permit to do whatever they like. Together with Prince Bennett, she sets out to prove that rules and freedoms should be shared fairly.

Princess Florizella lives in a storybook kingdom but refuses to follow the silly rules that say princesses must sit still and wait to be rescued. With her horse Jellybean and friend Prince Bennett, she charges into dragons, balls and giants on her own terms.

More than twenty years after Tidelands, Alinor runs a wharfside warehouse in Restoration London when former lover James Avery and a beguiling widow from Venice arrive at her door. Their stories about her son and promised wealth hide motives that could destroy the fragile business.

In 1648, midwife and herbalist Alinor Reekie scrapes a living in the tidal marshes while her missing husband brands her suspect. One moonlit night she guides a stranger across the mudflats, drawing her family into royalist plots and the villagers’ whispers of witchcraft.

In an Austrian village struck by a mysterious dancing plague, Luca’s band finds crowds whirling themselves to exhaustion and death. When Isolde is seized by the madness and local hatred turns on a nearby Jewish community, they confront fear that is all too human.

The Grey sisters, Jane, Katherine and Mary, are heirs of royal blood in a court that fears rivals. Jane’s nine days on the throne end on the scaffold, while Katherine and Mary must decide how far they will risk their lives for love and autonomy under two suspicious queens.

Told from Margaret Tudor’s perspective, this novel follows her, her sister Mary and their sister in law Katherine of Aragon as they become queens of Scotland, France and England. Rivalry, marriage bargains and shifting fortunes test the bonds of their uneasy sisterhood.

Widowed twice, learned Kateryn Parr is shocked to be chosen as Henry VIII’s sixth wife. She tries to use her position to promote religious reform and education, even as she lives with the knowledge of what happened to the queens who came before her.

Born a Plantagenet, Margaret Pole learns to survive under Tudor suspicion. As lady-in-waiting and governess to royal children she watches Henry VIII’s transformation from charming prince to ruthless king, until old loyalties and new faith make her a target.

Sent to Venice to investigate a counterfeiting ring, Luca and his companions uncover a scheme built around the legendary Philosopher’s Stone. As alchemists, charlatans and desperate investors circle, they must separate true learning from dangerous greed.

After Richard III’s defeat at Bosworth, Elizabeth of York must marry Henry Tudor to unite warring houses. She becomes queen to the man who overthrew her family while rumours about the missing princes and a possible surviving brother haunt her new marriage.

Luca, Isolde, Ishraq and Freize reach a seaside town gripped by a children’s crusade led by a boy who claims to hear God. When the sea first parts then delivers a deadly wave, the girls are branded witchlike “stormbringers” and must fight to clear their names.

Anne Neville grows up as a pawn in the hands of her father, Warwick the Kingmaker, who will change sides and husbands for his daughters to keep his grip on power. Widowed young and nearly powerless, Anne seizes one last risky chance with Richard, Duke of Gloucester.

Accused of heresy and expelled from his monastery, seventeen year old Luca Vero is recruited to investigate reports of the uncanny as possible signs of the end times. His first case leads him to Isolde, a dispossessed noblewoman in charge of a troubled nunnery.

In this non fiction companion to her Wars of the Roses novels, Philippa Gregory and two historians reconstruct the real lives of Jacquetta of Luxembourg, Elizabeth Woodville and Margaret Beaufort, filling in the archival gaps behind the fictional queens and king’s mother.

Jacquetta of Luxembourg marries into England’s royal circle and learns to survive shifting allegiances from the last days of the Hundred Years’ War into the Wars of the Roses. As confidante to queens and mother to Elizabeth Woodville, she witnesses a dynasty’s rise and fall.

From childhood, devout and stubborn Margaret Beaufort believes her son Henry Tudor is destined to be king. Married off for politics and often separated from him, she spends years scheming, praying and risking everything to put him on England’s throne.

Widowed commoner Elizabeth Woodville stops a king on the road to beg for her sons’ inheritance and captures his heart instead. As Queen to Edward IV she must protect her vast family, navigate Warwick the Kingmaker’s anger and face the mystery of her lost princes.

Fleeing rebellion in Scotland, Mary Queen of Scots arrives in England expecting safety and instead becomes the long term “guest” of the Earl of Shrewsbury and his formidable wife, Bess of Hardwick. Their household turns into a nest of plots and divided loyalties.

Told by Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Jane Boleyn, this novel follows Henry VIII’s fourth and fifth marriages. As the ageing king’s temper worsens, each woman must read the shifting winds of favour to avoid the fate that claimed Anne Boleyn.

Raised to be Queen of England, Spanish infanta Catalina marries Prince Arthur and unexpectedly finds real love. When he dies, she clings to his deathbed wish and a dangerous lie so she can wed his brother Harry and claim the crown she was promised.

Newly crowned Elizabeth I inherits a fractured kingdom and a chorus of advisers urging her to marry. She instead leans on childhood friend Robert Dudley, whose neglected wife Amy Robsart watches their intimacy grow until scandal and tragedy close in.

Hannah Green, a young Jewish refugee with the gift of the Sight, is taken into the Tudor court as a “holy fool.” Serving Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I in turn, she spies, survives persecutions and learns where her true loyalties lie.

Mary Boleyn is pushed to court to charm King Henry VIII and finds herself competing with her sister Anne for his favour. As passion turns to politics, she must choose between family ambition, her own conscience and a safer life beyond the court.

Literary novelist Isobel Latimer invents outrageous alter ego Zelda Vere to write a racy bestseller and pay her bills. As Zelda’s fame explodes, Isobel is pulled into a whirl of sex, money and deception that blurs the line between the woman and her creation.

This collection of contemporary short stories looks at modern love, faith and temptation in tightly focused snapshots. Gregory pares back action to concentrate on the emotions and small choices that can quietly tilt a life onto a new path.

John Tradescant the Younger inherits his father’s plant collection and court connections but chafes under the tensions around Charles I. Seeking new species and breathing space, he travels to Virginia, where he builds a life among the Powhatan people as England slides into civil war.

The crew of the pirate ship Midnight Belle are the messiest terrors on the Seven Seas. Faced with the threat of inspection, they must finally scrub, swab and sort themselves out, turning a riot of dirt and blunders into something fit to sail.

Previously published as Alice Hartley’s story, this edition follows a middle aged woman who breaks out of a stale marriage and reinvents herself as the outrageous owner of a New Age retreat, with comic, romantic and criminal consequences.

Gifted gardener John Tradescant rises from modest roots to serve great men such as Robert Cecil, King James I and the dazzling Duke of Buckingham. As he designs magnificent gardens and hunts rare plants across Europe, he is drawn into court intrigue and a dangerous loyalty.

James dreams of owning a champion greyhound that will run his family out of poverty. Instead he finds a small dragon that needs care, forcing him and his parents to decide whether they value money, status or the strange new friend in their kitchen most.

Ruth Cleary reluctantly swaps her beloved city flat for a picture perfect cottage bought by her husband next to his parents’ country home. After job loss and an unplanned pregnancy, she slowly realises her charming in laws may be trying to take over her child and her life.

Dr Louise Case has the right career, a pretty cottage and a no-strings relationship that seems suitably modern. The arrival of outspoken eighty year old Rose blows apart her careful balance and forces Louise to rethink feminism, love and what a good life really looks like.

Diggory is an ordinary boy who keeps tumbling into extraordinary events, from meeting a musical boa constrictor on the train to discovering a desk that is not quite a desk and a very unusual babysitter. These three linked tales hint that there may be magic everywhere.

In 1920s England, music hall singer Lily Valance marries decorated officer Stephen Winters, hoping for glamour and security. Instead she finds a house ruled by his rigid mother, a husband broken by the trenches and a buried wartime secret that could destroy them all.

Alys, raised by a village wise woman then sheltered in a convent, is thrown back into a dangerous world when Henry VIII’s commissioners close the monasteries. Using her beauty and forbidden knowledge, she reaches for love and security with a local lord, risking accusation as a witch.

Alice Hartley, trapped in a stale marriage and ignored by her academic husband, seizes a reckless chance to start over after a shocking incident. In a rambling old house she builds an offbeat “growth centre” that reshapes her life and unsettles everyone who walks in.

Bristol merchant Josiah Cole marries gentle Frances Scott to gain social polish for his growing business in sugar, rum and slaves. When Yoruban priest Mehuru is captured and brought into their household, an impossible attraction exposes the human cost of the “respectable” trade.

Circus rider Meridon performs daring tricks on horseback yet dreams of another life in a grand house she has never seen. Drawn by half remembered visions, she is pulled toward the Lacey inheritance and must decide whether claiming it will free her or destroy her.

On the ruined Wideacre estate, cousins Julia and Richard grow up as beloved heirs who might restore the land. As enclosure, poverty and buried secrets tighten around them, their bond twists into rivalry and obsession that threatens everyone in the village.

Beatrice Lacey loves her family estate with a fierce obsession and refuses to accept that inheritance laws will force her to leave it. In Georgian Sussex she uses charm, sex and violence to keep control of Wideacre, with devastating costs for her family and tenants.