Lily Lindon’s My Own Worst Enemy (Aria, out now) may be for you. Emmy Clooney is a recent drama school graduate and excels at overthinking. Emmy, when she meets fellow rising star Mae Jones, realises they’ll both always be fighting for the same parts. But Mae is not just Emmy’s casting type, but also her romantic type. Cue a competition to win the best roles but will both act nicely?
‘There would be a bloodbath if I died without an heir.’ When tall, handsome teenager King Henry VIII inherits the throne and heralds a new Golden Age in 1509, he is crowned with the words of his royal father ringing loudly in his ears.
Two years on from the treasonous Gunpowder Plot of 1605, and amidst the floods left by England’s notorious Great Frost, unrepentant Catholics are still ready to defy the laws and power of the State to kill for their forbidden beliefs.
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