To Be A Queen

In 1464, widowed Lancastrian Elizabeth Woodville marries Yorkist King Edward IV in secret and steps into the Wars of the Roses as queen, mother, and survivor. Gregory’s opening Cousins’ War novel is late-medieval biographical historical fiction of a commoner queen, the Woodville rise, and the mystery of the princes in the Tower.

Marie de France is sent to a failing English abbey—and remakes it into a kingdom of women.

In the ninth century, a canon’s daughter hides her sex, takes her dead brother’s name, and rises from a Fulda monastery to Rome as scholar, healer, and—according to the legend—pope. Donna Woolfolk Cross’s international bestseller is medieval biographical historical fiction of learning, disguise, and a woman the church spent a thousand years denying.

A painter’s life in Yuan-dynasty China—landscape, politics, and the “ten thousand things” (Walter Scott Prize 2015).

A Highland glen’s stories across centuries of saints, strangers, and secrets (Walter Scott Prize 2022).

Cathedral-building, civil war, and intertwined lives in twelfth-century England.