Stuart England

AN ECONOMIST AND NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A fresh, exciting, “readable and informative” history (The New York Times) of seventeenth-century England, a time of revolution when society was on fire and simultaneously forging the modern world. “Recapture[s] a lost moment when a...

Cyril Robinson's magnificent history continues with volume two in this four-part series. We now follow the fortunes of two great royal dynasties: Tudor and Stuart. Great names from England's past tumble out one after the other. Henry VIII takes the English out of the Catholic fold. His daughter, Elizabeth, defeats the Spanish Armada of 1588. The arrogance of Charles I leads him to the scaffold. Civil War and Puritanism follow, led by the intrepid Oliver Cromwell.

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER now in a 7 1/2 anniversary edition with new work from Stuart Turton outlining how he wrote one of the most mind-bending mysteries of all time. The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle is a breathlessly addictive mystery that follows one man's race to find a killer, with an...

In the seventh book in the New York Times bestselling Spy School series, Ben Ripley is finally going to take SPYDER down, once and for all. Stranded in Mexico after nearly capturing the leaders of SPYDER, thirteen-year-old Ben Ripley desperately needs a shower. But even more so, he and his spy...

"Many books claim to be a new way of looking at history, but this book truly is." ―Financial Times "A thoughtful and thorough history." ―The Times (UK) The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries forged a powerful image of England―Shakespeare's "scepter'd isle," proud and apart, defined by...

From the New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the tragic story of Charles I, his warrior queen, Britain's civil wars and the trial for his life. Less than forty years after England's golden age under Elizabeth I, the country was at war with itself. Split...

Stone Barrington is back, in fine form, in the newest thriller from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author. After a series of nonstop adventures, Stone Barrington is eager for some peace and quiet in a rustic British setting. But no sooner does he land in England than he’s beset by an...

Was James I in love with the men he raised to power? And how far does the evidence really allow us to go? James VI of Scotland and I of England was one of Britain’s most fascinating monarchs: scholar, political survivor, husband, father and king for almost his entire life. Yet throughout his reign, one aspect of his private world repeatedly became a matter of public concern, his intense relationships with male favourites. From the young James’s attachment to the sophisticated Esmé Stewart, Duke of Lennox, to the spectacular rise and scandalous fall of Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset, and...

In this new adventure in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, Stone Barrington finds himself lured in by a deadly, decades-old secret. When Stone Barrington is asked to represent a client interested in buying Ben Bacchetti’s ranch property, Stone declines, citing a conflict of interest...

Stone Barrington gets caught up in a matter of international intrigue in this explosive thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. In London to locate the niece of his enigmatic client, Stone Barrington soon finds himself out of his territory and out of his depth. Baffled as he is by...

Kit Adderley is the worst man in England, a bored libertine who’ll do anything to entertain himself, including kidnapping the strong-minded, freckled dab of a girl promised to his partner in crime. Bryony Marton is trapped in a quiet life and looking for escape, when her awful fiancé’s best...

A nineteenth-century novel about a bisexual, biracial vampire, written by a forgotten legend of Victorian horror A Penguin Classic Published the same year as Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Florence Marryat’s The Blood of the Vampire introduced readers to one of the most revolutionary protagonists of...

A king who would not yield. A Parliament that would not surrender. A country that tore itself apart to decide who held sovereignty in England. From the breakdown of trust under Charles I to the rise of Parliament’s war state and the creation of the New Model Army, The English Civil War follows the conflict as a political and constitutional collapse as much as a military one. This is not a battle-only retelling. It is a study of how authority shifted (step by step) from sacred monarchy toward a new claim of national power, and why settlement failed when fear made compromise impossible. ...

1603. Former ship's surgeon Gabriel Taverner is attempting to re-establish himself as a physician in rural Devon but it's not easy to gain the locals' trust and a series of disturbing incidents convinces him that at least one person does not welcome his presence. Called out to examine a partially decomposed body found beside the river, Gabriel discovers he has a personal connection to the dead man.

Sir Walter Ralegh’s life is romantic, irresistible, and of central importance to our island story. His death is a convoluted and contested tale of bargaining, failure and betrayal. Through the Elizabethan golden age and Ralegh’s famous adventures to the final act, Anna Beer presents his...

Longlisted for the Booker Prize, this “cinematically plotted...radiant” (The New York Times) novel follows shanker Thomas Flett as his quiet life in a small English coastal town is forever changed over the course of one fateful day. Twenty-year-old Thomas Flett lives a slow, deliberate life...

“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.” David Hume published it at twenty-eight, in a book that, in his own words, fell “dead-born from the press.” Then he spent much of his life writing the book that made his name and his money: a history of England. This edition prints both Humes in one volume, with the philosophy that still sets the agenda for epistemology, ethics and the philosophy of religion, and the six-part History that carried his name in his own lifetime. What is inside Philosophy: A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–40); An Enquiry Concerning Human ...

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Shortlisted for the 2026 Booker Prize Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Fiction An Oprah's Book Club Pick One of Indigo's Top 10 Books of 2026 A New York Times' 'Best Book of the Year (So Far) One of Ann Patchett's 'Top Novels of the Year So...

From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, an extraordinary history of the meteoric rise and fall of George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham. As King James I’s favourite, Buckingham was also his confidant, gatekeeper, advisor and lover. When Charles I succeeded his father, he was...

From rumors of lost Amazonian cities of gold to the silver running through the mountains of Bolivia, hopes for dazzling wealth fueled the imperial fantasies of the Tudors and Stuarts. Stories of treasure ships and the feats of privateers from Francis Drake to Walter Raleigh have become...