Elizabeth I in Fiction
Explore the best Elizabeth I fiction books, featuring novels about Queen Elizabeth I's life, reign, and legacy. Discover historical fiction, drama, and intrigue inspired by the iconic Tudor monarch.
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The Virgin's Lover
by Philippa Gregory
From #1 New York Times bestselling author and “queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) comes a riveting and scandalous love triangle between a young woman …
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The Queen's Fool
by Philippa Gregory
A young woman caught in the rivalry between Queen Mary and her half sister, Elizabeth must find her true destiny amid treason, poisonous rivalries, loss …
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Virgin and the Crab
by Robert Parry
12 years, 2 kings, 3 queens - 'The Ultimate Tudor Novel.' England 1550s. The brilliant young mathematician and astronomer John Dee has one overwhelming obsession: …
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I, Elizabeth
by Rosalind Miles
A spellbinding novel about Elizabeth I from the internationally bestselling author of the Guenevere and Tristan and Isolde trilogies. Publicly declared a bastard at the …
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Elizabeth I, Red Rose of the House of Tudor
by Kathryn Lasky
In a series of diary entries, Princess Elizabeth, the eleven-year-old daughter of King Henry VIII, celebrates holidays and birthdays, relives her mother's execution, revels in …
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Legacy
by Susan Kay
Chronicles the story of England's Queen Elizabeth the First, a woman of intense passions and very human desires, and of the three men whose passionate …
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Young Bess
by Margaret Irwin
'I doubt if anyone could create more perfectly than Miss Irwin, the illusion of a vanished age.' - Observer
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The Lady Elizabeth
by Alison Weir
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A masterful novel exploring the early life of young Elizabeth Tudor, who would become England’s most intriguing and powerful queen, from acclaimed …
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The Fyre Mirror
by Karen Harper
Working to establish her image through a series of carefully censored portraits, the young queen Elizabeth I finds her efforts thwarted by a pyromaniac who …
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The Poyson Garden
by Karen Harper
The letter came in secret, with a pearl eardrop from an aunt long thought dead, resurrecting the forbidden past. Banished by her spiteful half sister, …