A witty contemporary satire on the pitfalls of political correctness. From New Men and earnest academics to New Age Travellers and pig farmers, nobody emerges unscathed.

 Dr Louise Case has the right career, the right country cottage and a commitment-free relationship with a fellow academic. According to contemporary codes, it's all very correct - except that Louise begins to suspect that it's far from perfect.

 Then along comes Rose, eighty if she's a day, who effortlessly disrupts everything. Soon both campus and cottage are in chaos, while the old lady commences to set her own house - a decrepit old van - in order. And this includes an unthinkably traditional role for Louise.

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From the bestselling author of 'The Other Boleyn Girl', Philippa Gregory, comes a wonderfully atmospheric evocation of the court of Henry VIII and his final queens.The year is 1539 and the court of Henry VIII is increasingly fearful at the moods of the ageing sick king. With only a baby in the cradle for an heir, Henry has to take another wife and the dangerous prize of the crown of England is won by Anne of Cleves.She has her own good reasons for agreeing to marry a man old enough to be her father, in a country where to her both language and habits are foreign. Although fascinated by the glamour of her new surroundings, she senses a trap closing around her. Katherine is confident that she can follow in the steps of her cousin Anne Boleyn to dazzle her way to the throne but her kinswoman Jane Boleyn, haunted by the past, knows that Anne's path led to Tower Green and to an adulterer's death.The story of these three young women, trying to make their own way through the most volatile court in Europe at a time of religious upheaval and political uncertainty, is Philippa Gregory's most compelling novel yet.

The Boleyn Inheritance

« Le suspense emporte le lecteur même si celui-ci connaît déjà la fin. » Publishers Weekly« Je suis Catalina, princesse d'Espagne, fille des deux plus grands monarques que cette terre ait portés : Isabelle de Castille et Ferdinand d'Aragon. Je suis leur plus jeune fille, la princesse de Galles, et je deviendrai reine d'Angleterre. »D'abord épouse du frère aîné de Henri VIII, l'infante d'Espagne a su transformer un mariage d'intérêt en passion amoureuse ; mais à la mort de l'héritier du trône, l'impitoyable Cour d'Angleterre et les ambitieux parents de la jeune femme doivent trouver un nouveau rôle pour la jeune veuve. Catherine décide alors de prendre sa vie en main prête à tout pour pouvoir accomplir son destin. Dotée d'une détermination hors du commun, la princesse d'Aragon survit à la trahison, à la pauvreté et au désespoir avant de devenir l'épouse de Henri VIII, et de commander avec lui les forces anglaises dans leur plus grande victoire contre l'Écosse.« Les faits sont connus, mais la façon dont Philippa Gregory raconte l'histoire est merveilleuse. » Historical Novel Society« Philippa Gregory comble les manques de l'histoire avec une maîtrise du romanesque. Elle nous fait véritablement revivre cette période historique - et elle pimente cela avec un peu d'amour. » Kirkus Reviews« Le roman historique de Philippa Gregory est tout aussi ambitieux que son personnage principal. » Entertainment Weekly

La Princesse d'Aragon

Bristol in 1787 is booming, a city where power beckons those who dare to take risks. Josiah Cole, a small dockside trader, is prepared to gamble everything to join the big players of the city. But he needs capital and a well-connected wife.Marriage to Frances Scott is a mutually convenient solution. Trading her social contacts for Josiah's protection, Frances finds her life and fortune dependent on the respectable trade of sugar, rum, and slaves.Into her new world comes Mehuru, once a priest in the ancient African kingdom of Yoruba, now a slave in England. From opposite ends of the earth, despite the difference in status, Mehuru and Frances confront each other and their need for love and liberty.

Les enchaînés

Alys joins a nunnery to escape the poverty of her life on the moor with her foster mother, Morach, the local wise woman with whom she lives as an outcast, but she soon finds herself thrown back into the world when Henry VIII's wreckers destroy her sanctuary. Summoned to the castle as the old lord's scribe, she falls obsessively in love with his son Hugo, who is married to Catherine. Driven to desperation by her desire, she summons the most dangerous powers Morach has taught her, but soon the passionate triangle of Alys, Hugo, and Catherine begins to explode, launching them into uncharted sexual waters. The magic Alys has conjured now has a life of its own -- a life that is horrifyingly and disastrously out of control. Is she a witch? Since heresy means the stake, and witchcraft the rope, Alys is in mortal danger, treading a perilous path between her faith and her own female power. Synopsis from Barnes & Noble.

Sous le signe du feu

1471. Mariée à 14 ans, Anne Neville - la fille du comte de Warwick, surnommé le «faiseur de rois» - perd succes- sivement son époux et son père. Elle ne doit son salut qu'au futur Richard III, le frère du roi, qu'elle épouse deux ans plus tard, même si elle devra pour cela affronter la puissante famille royale... dont la reine. Cet épisode de la Guerre des Deux-Roses est ici raconté avec brio par l'une des plus talentueuses romancières du genre, qui choisit de faire parler les femmes que l'Histoire a trop souvent tendance à oublier.

La fille du faiseur de rois

A stunning novel set in the Tudor court, from the Sunday Times No.1 bestseller Philippa Gregory.

 I would have been a fool indeed to tell the truth in this court of liars.

 1553. King Edward is on his deathbed, and the future of the Tudor dynasty swings perilously.

 Forced out of Spain by the Inquisition, Hannah Green arrives in a volatile kingdom. She is identified as a seer and sworn into the service of Robert Dudley, the son of King Edward's protector and a key player at court. Her task: to keep watch on Princess Mary, the forgotten heir.

 Mary's grip on the Crown is fragile. Elizabeth, Mary's half-sister, is ready to take England's throne. Caught in the rivalry between the daughters of Henry VIII, Hannah must navigate her way through a treacherous court if she is to survive.

The Queen’s Fool

" À travers le regard de Margaret, Philippa Gregory nous montre la transformation d'Henri VIII en un tyran despotique. Une héroi?ne d'exception. Une autrice au sommet de sa forme. " Sunday Express Angleterre, 1499. Après la décapitation de son frère sur ordre d'Henri VII, Margaret Plantagenêt se retrouve l'une des dernières héritières de la maison d'York. Un nom dangereux à porter depuis que les Tudors se sont emparés du trône...

Pour assurer sa sécurité, elle épouse Richard Pole, un cousin du roi. À la mort de celui-ci, veuve et sans ressources, elle ne doit son salut qu'à l'arrivée à la cour de la future souveraine, Catherine d'Aragon.

Désormais comtesse de Salisbury, Margaret devient première dame de compagnie de la reine. Au point de susciter des jalousies.

Philippa Gregory ressuscite avec maestria les heures les plus sombres de la royauté anglaise, où complots et trahisons se règlent souvent dans le sang...

La malédiction du roi

Terrific novel set in the Roaring Twenties, reissued to accompany Philippa Gregory's bestselling novel, The Other Boleyn Girl

 Lily Valance wants to forget the war. She's determined to enjoy the world of the 1920s, with its music, singing, laughter and pleasure. When she meets Captain Stephen Winters, a decorated hero back from the Front, she's drawn to his wealth and status. In Lily he sees his salvation - from the past, from the nightmare, from the guilt at surviving the Flanders plains where so many were lost.

 But it's a dream that cannot last. Lily has no intention of leaving her singing career. The hidden tensions of the respectable facade of the Winters household come to a head. Stephen's nightmares merge ever closer with reality and the truth of what took place in the mud and darkness brings him and all who loves him to a terrible reckoning.

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