Elizabeth Fremantle

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Historical Fiction, Fiction, Thriller

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Elizabeth Fremantle is the critically acclaimed author of Tudor and Elizabethan set novels: Queen's Gambit, Sisters of Treason, Watch the Lady and Times Books of the Year: The Girl in the Glass Tower and The Poison Bed, a historical thriller written under the name EC Fremantle described as 'a Jacobean Gone Girl.'

Her latest novel is The Honey and the Sting, published August 6th 2020 as EC Fremantle

She lives in London ...more

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ON CROSSING TO THE DARK SIDE

Sometimes a story insists on being told in a particular way. When I started work on The Poison BedI had published four novels about historical women embroiled in the dangerous power play of the Tudor and Elizabethan courts. The place and time of their setting was defined by jeopardy, when those who stepped out of lived under the threat of execution. These novels certainly had elements of the poli Read more of this blog post »

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Average rating: 3.77 · 8,786 ratings · 1,483 reviews · 12 distinct works • Similar authors

	Queen's Gambit (The Tudor Trilogy, #1) 3.78 avg rating — 4,011 ratings — published 2012 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sisters of Treason (The Tudor Trilogy, #2) 3.81 avg rating — 2,201 ratings — published 2014 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Watch the Lady (The Tudor Trilogy, #3) 3.89 avg rating — 836 ratings — published 2015 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Girl in the Glass Tower 3.71 avg rating — 655 ratings — published 2016 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Queen's Gambit Free 1st Chapter 3.91 avg rating — 76 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Poison Bed by E.C. Fremantle, Elizabeth Fremantle 3.59 avg rating — 1,002 ratings — published 2018 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Im Schatten der Königin: Ein Tudor-Roman 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Die Rivalin der Königin: Ein Tudor-Roman liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Intrigas da corte: O jogo de poder e traição de duas irmãs na corte Tudor (Xeque-mate da rainha Livro 2) by Elizabeth Fremantle, André Fontenelle (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Xeque-mate da rainha: A história de um amor proibido dentro da perigosa corte de Henrique VIII by Elizabeth Fremantle, Maria Alice Stock (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Tudor Trilogy (3 books)
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Quotes by Elizabeth Fremantle

“There are events in life from which we learn our most profound lessons and sometimes those events are the ones of which we are most ashamed.”
― Elizabeth Fremantle, Queen's Gambit

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“I remember Maman once saying of the old Queen that power corrupts. I have thought much on it and it seems to me that it is not power that corrupts, but the fear of its loss," she pauses with a sigh. After all Mary and Elizabeth Tudor were just girls once, not so different from my sisters, or any other girls, for the that matter. It is fear that changed them.”
― Elizabeth Fremantle, Sisters of Treason

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“What are we if we are not words?”
― Elizabeth Fremantle, Queen's Gambit

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Polls

Which book about the Tudors or Tudor England would you like as our Group Read in May, 2016?

In the Footsteps of the Six Wives of Henry VIII: The Visitor's Companion to the Palaces, Castles & Houses Associated with Henry VIII's Iconic Queens by Sarah Morris

18 votes, 23.7%

The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir

12 votes, 15.8%

The Tudor Bride by Joanna Hickson

8 votes, 10.5%

Royal Inheritance by Kate Emerson

7 votes, 9.2%

I, Jane by Diane Haeger

5 votes, 6.6%

Legacy by Susan Kay

5 votes, 6.6%

Charles Brandon: Henry VIII's Closest Friend by Steven Gunn

5 votes, 6.6%

Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince by Lisa Hilton

5 votes, 6.6%

Watch the Lady by Elizabeth Fremantle

3 votes, 3.9%

Brief Gaudy Hour: A Novel of Anne Boleyn by Margaret Campbell Barnes

2 votes, 2.6%

John Dudley: The Life of Lady Jane Grey's Father-in-Law by Christine Hartweg

2 votes, 2.6%

The Light in the Labyrinth by Wendy J. Dunn

2 votes, 2.6%

The Colours of Our Petals by Aled Davies

1 vote, 1.3%

Cor Rotto: A Novel of Catherine Carey by Adrienne Dillard

1 vote, 1.3%

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