Princess Florizella may live in a classic fairy-tale world, but she's no ordinary princess.

 This third volume in THE PRINCESS RULES series sees the feisty princess take her baby brother and best friend, Bennett, on another round of adventures together.

 Can they rescue their new-found friend the sea serpent from a travelling circus? And hold back the pirate, Five-fathom Freida. Or will Florizella's worst fairygodmother prove that in a fairytale world, you really do have to be careful what you wish for?.

The Mammoth Adventure

1453. Il se passe des choses étranges dans un couvent proche de Rome. Les sours semblent frappées de folie. Isolde, la jeune et belle abbesse, est accusée d'hérésie et risque le bûcher ! Luca Vero, un novice, est envoyé par le pape en mission secrète pour enquêter. Il a dix-sept ans, il est brillant, séduisant, il n'a pas les yeux dans sa poche. Et le charme de la belle Isolde ne le laisse pas indifférent... Saura-t-il dénouer les peurs et les supersitions ? Pourra-t-il sauver Isolde ?

Hérétiques Tome 1

A sumptuous historical novel from author of "The Other Boleyn Girl" and "The Queen's Fool".

The Virgin's Lover

Princess Florizella may live in a classic fairy-tale world, but she's no ordinary princess.

 This two-book collection is made up of:# The Princess Rules# The Princess Rules: It's a Prince Thing

 Book 1:

 "Princess Florizella was friends with some of the princesses who had studied the Princess Rules, and behaved just as the Rules said they should. Florizella thought their hair was lovely: so golden and so very long. And their clothes were nice: so richly embroidered. And their shoes were delightful: so tiny and handmade in silk. But their days bored her to death."

 Instead, Princess Florizella rides her horse, Jellybean, all over the kingdom, having adventures of her own.

 Book 2:

 Once upon a time, there was a princess who broke all the rules, and dared to be different. So when that same princess - Florizella - finds a baby boy delivered by stork to her parents' palace, she is shocked to discover that he will one day be king and inherit her kingdom! For every prince is given a permit which allow them to do whatever they like in the same way that every princess is given a set of rules that they have to live by. As soon as Princess Florizella's brother is big enough to have adventures, she takes him all over the land, fighting pirates, wrestling with a sea serpent and rehoming a woolly mammoth. Can Florizella prove that girls having rules and boys having permits isn't right? And that princes and princesses, and girls and boys, should be anything that they want to be.

The Princess Rules 2-Book Collection

Entre espions, poison et malédiction, il n'est pas évident d'être une femme à la cour d'Angleterre. Y a-t-il quelqu'un en qui Anne Neville pourra avoir confiance ? Angleterre, 1465, les grandes familles de Lancastre et York se disputent depuis plus de 10 ans le trône.À cette époque un homme oeuvre dans l'ombre pour faire et défaire les dynasties, au gré de ses intérêts personnels : Richard Neville, comte de Warwick, surnommé le « faiseur de rois ». Celui- ci, sans héritier homme, s'est servi de ses deux filles, Isabelle et Anne, comme des pions sur l'échiquier politique. L'histoire est racontée ici par Anne Neville. Mariée très jeune, Anne perd très vite son époux, ainsi que son père en 1471. Sa mère est enfermée au sanctuaire et sa soeur mariée à l'ennemi. Elle s'en sort en épousant Richard, le frère du roi, mais doit affronter la puissante famille royale, notamment la reine. Après la mort de sa soeur et de son seul fils, Anne finira par réaliser le rêve de son père en montant sur le trône aux côtés de Richard. Malheureusement, celui-ci s'éprend de sa nièce Élisabeth (future reine et femme d'Henri VII, la Princesse Blanche)... La Guerre des Deux-Roses, souvent considérée en Angleterre comme le passage entre le Moyen Âge et l'époque moderne, moment fondateur pour l'État anglais, est ici racontée avec brio par l'une des plus talentueuse romancière du genre, qui choisit de faire parler les femmes que l'Histoire a trop souvent tendance à oublier.

La fille du faiseur de rois - Tome 2

Angleterre, 1499. Margaret Pole, fille de Georges, duc de Clarence, et d'Isabelle Neville, devient après l'assassinat de son frère Edouard Plantagenêt, sur ordre du roi Henri VII, la seule survivante de la dynastie des Plantagenêt. Marié à Sir Pole, cousin du roi, elle sera veuve en 1505, avec cinq enfants. Destituée de ses terres et de ses titres, elle tombe dans la pauvreté. Sa vie change avec l'arrivée de la princesse espagnole Catherine d'Aragon et son mariage avec Henri VIII. Margaret est alors restaurée : elle obtient de titre de comtesse de Salisbury, devient première dame de compagnie de la reine et gouvernante de la princesse Marie. Mais il s'avère que le roi n'a pas de fils et donc pas d'héritier. On parlera alors de la "malédiction du roi", qui aurait été jetée par Elisabeth Woodville et sa fille La Princesse Blanche contre les Tudors. Malédiction ou pas, cette question provoquera la rupture d'Henri VIII avec l'Église de Rome, celui-ci souhaitant divorcer de Catherine et épouser Anne Boleyn. Notre héroine Margaret devra choisir entre son allégeance au roi et sa loyauté envers la reine et la princesse. Du fait de ses liens avec la famille royale, elle se retrouvera avec ses fils au centre des intrigues, au point que sa liberté et sa vie seront menacées...

La Malédiction du Roi (The Cousins' War, #6)

Beatrice Lacey, daughter of Wideacre Hall, will not accept society's rules that women cannot inherit.The internationally bestselling debut from the author of The Other Boleyn Girl and Three Sisters, Three Queens.

 Wideacre Hall, set in the heart of the English countryside, is the ancestral home that Beatrice Lacey loves. Built from yellow stone, facing due south and surrounded by the rich woodlands and rolling downs of Sussex, it has been in her family for generations. But as a woman in England in the 1770s she has no right of inheritance; only a loveless arranged marriage lies ahead. Beautiful, sensual and passionate, Beatrice sets out to pursue her own goal: control over Wideacre - at any cost.

 Yet even as her scheming succeeds, Beatrice is haunted by the one person alive who fully understands her obsession and knows her capacity to let nothing - and no-one - stand in her way.

 The 30th anniversary edition, with new foreword by the author.

Wideacre

The acclaimed international bestseller set around the Tudor court during the years when Henry VIII traded his mistress Mary Boleyn for courtship of her sister Anne - and the revolutionary sequence of events that followed. 
           When Henry VIII tires of pretty young Mary Boleyn, her powerful family instructs her to promote her sister, Anne, as a replacement. But Anne Boleyn, newly returned from the French court, intelligent and spirited, doesn''t agree to be Henry''s mistress - only his wife. PItting the king''s desperation for an heir against his powerful advisors - Wolsey, Cromwell and Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk - what Anne brings about will change the course of a country''s history. 
           Told with all of Philippa Gregory''s characteristic perceptiveness, backed by meticulous historical research and superb storytelling skills, The Other Boleyn Girl brings a legendary court, its politics, personalities and scheming vividly to life.

The Other Boleyn Girl ; film tie-in

Sumptuous historical novel set in the court of Elizabeth I, from Sunday Times No.1 bestseller Philippa Gregory, the author of The Other Boleyn Girl.Elizabeth I has acceded to the throne of England, a position she has waited and schemed for all her life. She is surrounded by advisers, all convinced that a young woman cannot form political judgements. Elizabeth feels that she can rely on just one man: her oldest friend, Robert Dudley. It is soon plain that he is more than merely a friend.In a house in the countryside waits a very different woman, Amy Robsart - Robert's wife. She has no taste for life at court and longs for the day when her husband will return home. She has loved him since she was a girl, but now they are adults she hardly sees him.Meanwhile, the pressure grows for Elizabeth to marry, for it is unthinkable that a queen should rule on her own. Elizabeth's preference is clear, but he is unavailable. But what if the unthinkable were to happen...Philippa Gregory blends passion, personalities and politics in this stunning novel of the Tudor court and a country divided.

The Mammoth Adventure

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