Kings and Queens

Playing Books & Bites Bingo? Here are some suggestions for the books with a king or queen prompt.

Updated September 4, 2024
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The tsarina's daughter : a novel
Alpsten, Ellen
Paper Book
Discover the highly acclaimed historical fiction series set within the glittering and ruthless House of Romanov. 'Gripping ... Who would not want to spend more time in the mad, bad world of the Romanovs?' The Times 'A delicious hotbed of greed, lust...
The tower : a novel
Carr, Flora
Paper Book
'Richly detailed' THE NEW YORKER 'Carr has taken an often overly romanticised historical figure and given her new life and originality.' THE TIMES 'A vivid, visceral read' TRACY CHEVALIER 'Bold and immediate' TLS...
Young queens : three Renaissance women and the price of power
Chang, Leah L.
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION WATERSTONES' BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: HISTORY The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots - three queens exercising power in a world...
The last kingdom : a novel
Cornwell, Bernard.
Paper Book
The first book in a brand new series, The Last Kingdom is set in England during the reign of King Alfred. Uhtred is an English boy, born into the aristocracy of ninth-century Northumbria. Orphaned at ten, he is captured and adopted by a Dane and taught the Viking ways. Yet Uhtred's fate is...
You dreamed of empires
Enrigue, Alvaro
Paper Book
A hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story in sixteenth-century Mexico, from the visionary author of Sudden Death 'Glorious' i-D One morning in 1519, conquistador Hernan Cortes rode into the floating city of Tenoxtitlan - today's Mexico...
The other Boleyn girl : a novel
Gregory, Philippa.
Paper Book
The acclaimed international bestseller of the Tudor court, during the years of Henry VIII's pursuit of Anne Boleyn - and the revolutionary sequence of events that followed. This chance for us Howards comes once in a century... 1521. Henry VIII rules over a...
Matrix
Groff, Lauren
Paper Book
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS AN OBAMA'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Gorgeous, sensual, addictive' SARA COLLINS 'Brightly lit' NAOMI ALDERMAN Born from a long line of female warriors and crusaders, yet...
Magna Carta : the birth of liberty
Jones, Dan
Paper Book
A beautifully produced account of the signing, impact and legacy of Magna Carta, a document that became one of the most influential statements in the history of democracy, as part of the stunning landmark library series. On a summer's day in 1215 a beleaguered English monarch met a group of...
The Plantagenets : the warrior kings and queens who made England
Jones, Dan
Paper Book
Eight generations of the greatest and worst kings and queens that this country has ever seen - from the White Ship to the Lionheart, bad King John to the Black Prince and John of Gaunt - this is the dynasty that invented England as we still know it today - great history to appeal to readers of...
The Wars of the Roses : the fall of the Plantagenets and the rise of the Tudors
Jones, Dan
Paper Book
The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses and the Rise of the Tudors, from Dan Jones - the celebrated author of The Plantagenets - is an exciting, fast-paced history of the Wars of the Roses.
Bring up the bodies : a novel
Mantel, Hilary
Paper Book
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012, the 2012 Costa Book of the Year and shortlisted for the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction. With this historic win for Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel becomes the first British author and the first woman to be awarded two Man Booker Prizes.
A game of thrones
Martin, George R. R.
Paper Book
HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R. R. Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A GAME OF THRONES is the first volume in the series. Kings and queens, knights and renegades, liars, lords and...
The shadow king : a novel
Mengiste, Maaza
Paper Book
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020, this is an utterly captivating novel about female strength. Set during Mussolini's 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, The Shadow King casts a light on the women soldiers written out of African history.
The king's pleasure : a novel of Henry VIII
Weir, Alison
Paper Book
The Sunday Times top 10 bestseller 'Alison Weir makes Henry VIII's story feel like it has never been told before... This novel will open your eyes and, at times, break your heart. By the end of it, I felt like I had met Henry for the first time' Tracy Borman

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